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Too Many Incompletes in Our Lives

James 1:1-20, 2 Corinthians 8:10-20, John 19:30

How many things have we started and left unfinished? “I’ll get to it later, I’ll do it tomorrow,” yet later and tomorrow for those things never comes. Time can be your best friend or your worst enemy.

Complete means to bring to an end, fully carry out, to make full. The greek word for complete is epiteleo or exartizo; to fit out or make exact. When Jesus looked up and said it is finished, He didn’t wait for the next day to say it; he didn’t hesitate. He came and completed what He was tasked to do by God.

So, as in the natural, is in the spiritual. When you wait until the last minute, you rush, and when you rush, your work is not done properly. 2 Corinthians 8:10-20, is an example of Paul trying to tell a group who had started a task a year prior to continue on in what they started to “perform the doing of it.” When you fail to complete a project in your life, it affects the outcome of other things in your life. Tomorrow may be too late, we know not the day or hour the Son of Man comes. How would you like Jesus to come in the middle of your incompleteness?

If your tasked to go 100 miles to pick up a very important supply shipment for people who are in need and you say I’ll do it tomorrow, instead of right then and there, what do you think the outcome will be? When you start out, you find you only make it 50 miles because the road that you normally travel on, is under construction. Now, those people in need, aren’t helped and harm befalls them, simply due to your incompleteness. You’ve not completed your task. If the Lord has given you a gift to restore and bring health back to people, and you put off using it, you yourself may fall ill and end up not utilizing your gift. So it behooves us not to procrastinate, but COMPLETE it, with the utmost urgency. The same in the natural, is the same in the spiritual.

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Who is Christ?

Its February 21, 2015, and another week has come to a close. Its the sabbath and our day for rest, and devotion to our God in fellowship with Him and in fellowship with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

This week, we are looking into Isaiah chapters 52-53. These chapters are a depiction of Jesus. Isaiah seems to describe in detail about Jesus as if he were actually at the cross. Although the scripture doesn’t indicate who Isaiah saw, it was revealed to him that someone would take away sins.

53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

This “servant” was not that of a beautiful individual. He was a common man. We’ve been lulled to sleep by the books and media that Christ was a handsome, tall stature of a man, with long blond hair and blue eyes. This just isn’t biblical.

One of the questions that was asked about these chapters is based on the description of “the servant,” in the eyes of Isaiah, could attributes of the servant be comparable to attributes of God Himself? Although, we can’t speak for Isaiah, based on the knowledge that he had about God’s attributes from the law and other old testament writings during his time, it is very likely that this servant could be compared to God.

This was a very interesting study and worth taking a good look at as it is one of the passages in scripture that describe our Messiah in detail concerning what He accomplished for us at cavalry.

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Happy Sabbath Friends

If ever there was a time for rest it is now! This week has been long, and its refreshing to take some time and slow down. We honor the Father this Sabbath in resting and we honor Him in our service today, giving Him the praise and glory through His son and our Savior Jesus.

The scripture reading today is Daniel chapter 12 and Isaiah 57.

Isaiah 57 is referring to the healing of the backslider. To correlate to everyday life, we have to be very careful about what we are putting our attention into on a daily bases. Anything that removes your mind from loving God is dangerous. That “anything” can become your God. You need to forsake and move away from those things. We try to justify our sins, and make God out to be a “loving” God who forgives no matter what. However, our hearts need to change.

Moving onto Daniel 12, we as believers are suppose to support and encourage one another in the last days. In the sales word there is a selling tactic know as the “Law of Average.” You talk to 75 people. Out of the 75 you may get 25 that consider; out of the 25 You may get 10 who seriously consider; out of the 10 you may get 5 who Are serious to commit. This is the same sort of tactic we as believers need to utilize to win souls. Daniel 12:2 says that some will awake to everlasting contempt and shame. How would you like to awake to shame because you didn’t do anything for Christ; if you let something else distract you from your walk in Him?

Lets get back to fellowship with Him; lets get back to doing what He has give us as individuals do in in Him. Lets get back to Christ.

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Shabbat Shalom

This past Shabbat was intimate and cozy, and a much needed day of rest for us all!

The scripture reading was in 2 Kings 22-23. A very interesting story about a one of the kings who’d come to rein at the age of 8, who was reported to do all that was right in the eyes of the Lord. During his rein the book of the Law was found, and this king did everything in his power to take the children of Israel back to following God by doing his law. He took down everything abominable and rededicate the nation back to its God.