When our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ died His perfect death on the Cross, the Word of God says that the Vail in the Temple was torn from top to bottom. This was the physical sign that the barrier between man and God was once and for all taken away and we were now allowed to enter the Holy of Holies to have relationship with the Spirit of God. We no longer needed human Priest to go and make sacrifices for us. Now the one and only way to the Father is through our High Priest Jesus Christ. Sadly many brothers and sisters are still to this day not experiencing the full beauty of a relationship with the Father because they have chosen to live it through another. In other words they want the Pastor to read the Word and bring it to them. They want the bible school teacher to teach and bring it to them. The want the evangelism to take place through those who have those gifts. Yet we are all called to do these things and even greater than that have relationship with the Father every day. Many Christians are living out their Christianity through their parents, husbands, wives, children, and other saints. They believe, because they are with other Christians and doing “Christian things” and even may have been baptized, that they will enter the heavenly gates. The tragedy that will take place is on the day of their judgment the Lord will say “Depart from Me, I never knew you”!!! Christ went through so much on our behalf dying for our sins, let us not be like the Chosen people of God in Moses day who wanted Moses to go himself up to the mountain and bring everything back to them. Let us partake in this intimate relationship ourselves!!! Have a wonderful life of intimacy on purposeJ!!!!!
Exodus 20
The Ten Commandments
1 And God spoke all these words:
2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
3 “You shall have no other gods before[a] me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
7 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
18 When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance 19 and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.”
20 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”
21 The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
Matthew 7
True and False Disciples
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
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