SUFFERING SAVIOR - SUFFERING SAINTS
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Apostle Paul tells us that the highest form of worship is pouring out our lives in sacrifice and service with utmost gratitude to our Savior who poured out His life to redeem us from our sins and save us from the forthcoming horrifying “wrath of God”.”
- Romans 1:18, 12:1 -
The “born again” children of God cling to and follow their beloved Redeemer. He is the utmost desire and love of their hearts and they do not look back because they are looking heavenward for the “blessed hope”. (Titus 2:13) “For the joy set before them” they desire “to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.” (Philippians 3:10) Those who walk in surrendered loving obedience to Yahveh’s word and will are the true saints. They are wholeheartedly indebted to their Savior and heed Apostle Paul’s admonition, “… I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.” (Romans 12:1) Yahshua (Jesus) said, "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24) So what is worship? Is it singing? Is it praising? Yes, but Paul tells us that the highest form of worship is pouring out our lives in sacrifice and service with utmost gratitude to our Savior who poured out His life to redeem us from our sins and save us from the forthcoming horrifying “wrath of God”. (Romans 1:18) To all the saints who by “perseverance in doing good, seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life; but to those who are self-serving and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, He will give wrath and indignation —for the Jew first and also for the Gentile.” (Romans 2:8-9)
The redeemed remnant are suffering servants as Messiah was a suffering Savior who “did not come to be served, but to serve.” (Matthew 20:28). They bear His identity as children of Yahveh and that identity is brought about by the suffering. As it is written, “Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.” (Hebrews 5:8) “For to you it has been granted for Messiah’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf…” (Philippians 1:29) “It is through trials and tribulations that one enters the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Acts 14:22) The true saints attain to that title as children of the Living God, they are the godly ones left here on earth as they are being perfected through suffering. The bright light of Yahshua (Jesus) is exalted in and through them as a testimony to the world (that lives for self), while the true sons and daughters of Yahveh are dying to themselves and pouring out their lives for the glory of God and the salvation of souls!
The true gospel message requires suffering and this is the primary reason, for centuries, that much of Christianity has been filled with apostate counterfeit believers who have chosen an easy cheap grace gospel message, which is nothing less than a counterfeit deception of Satan that most people prefer."
Yahshua (Jesus) said, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.” (John 15:18) “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.” (John 15:20) Our Savior spoke these words to protect His treasured possessions with His love that will not fail and for faith in that unfailing love. So if you discredit this foundational requirement as important and pertinent to your walk, then you are following a counterfeit Yahshua (Jesus) and a counterfeit gospel message and it is the “broad path that leads to destruction.” (Matthew 7:13) The path of our Savior is narrow, the other path, indulging the flesh is the broad path that the people of the world take and the counterfeit believers are filling this path up. The true gospel message requires suffering and this is the primary reason, for centuries, that much of Christianity has been filled with apostate counterfeit believers who have chosen an easy cheap grace gospel message, which is nothing less than a counterfeit deception of Satan that most people prefer. It allows the self pleasing flesh to remain in dominion over their lives.
A righteous redeemed son or daughter is on that altar continually repenting, being transformed into a holy sacrifice, which is acceptable to Yahveh, this is the least they can do for what He has done by giving His life for them."
Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) beloved redeemed are “the called and chosen and faithful.” (Revelation 17:14) The faithful ones are the ones who are faithfully upholding the Messiah’s blood. When Paul says to present yourselves as a living sacrifice made holy, he is saying,”Come, present your bodies continually through repentance and surrender in order to be washed in the blood, the only way by which we can be holy and acceptable to Yahveh. Yahshua (Jesus) said, “those who have been forgiven much love much.” (see Luke 7:47) A righteous redeemed son or daughter is on that altar continually repenting, being transformed into a holy sacrifice, which is acceptable to Yahveh, this is the least they can do for what He has done by giving His life for them. Simply put, the life of Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) saints is as a poured out offering on the altar of service and sacrifice, which is seen as spiritual worship in the eyes of our Heavenly Father and Savior. HalleluYAH! They live by this simple Scripture, “He must increase, but I must decrease” and “may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross [crucifixion stake] of my Master Yahshua Messiah [Lord Jesus Christ], through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” (John 3:30, Galatians 6:14) The truly redeemed righteous remnant have hearts and lips that overflow with continual prayer and praises, always delighting to do the will of the Father bringing Him great glory. They do not want to be seen, heard, or acknowledged. Through their humility and loyalty, their motivation through every word and deed is that Messiah would be “lifted up and would draw all peoples to Himself.” (see John 12:32) Yahshua (Jesus) rejoices over those who, like Himself, lived and died to glorify the Father. He proclaimed, "… He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.” (John 7:18)
Yahveh has a holy heavenly altar where His fiery presence is burning to consume as a holy sacrifice everyone who comes with true godly sorrow producing true repentance. Our God and Savior want this altar to be the nucleus, as it was in the temple. Yahshua (Jesus) in essence is saying, “All who are thirsty let them come, come and repent, come and bring your sins and put them on the altar with your life. Your flesh nature will be as a sacrifice that is burned up because you are cleansed of your sins through the power of My blood that will wash you clean and adorn you in My righteousness. You are to continue to keep pure and spotless by coming to the altar of repentance for My blood to cleanse you and for My Spirit to rule and reign in righteousness in and through your dedicated, consecrated, set apart lives.”
The born again saints are the only ones who will not be under the wrath of the Lamb, because they have upheld with a guardianship the holiness of Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) life poured out."
It is a gift beyond measure that we can get cleansed of our sin as “the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, Yahveh’s righteousness, and judgment to come.” (John 16:8) Sin is under the wrath of the Lamb because His blood was not upheld. The born again saints are the only ones who will not be under the wrath of the Lamb, because they have upheld with a guardianship the holiness of Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) life poured out. They upheld it with reverential awe by continually being covered in the blood that their sins not separate them from Him or defame Him. There is mounting fury unto the wrath of the Lamb to avenge His outpoured blood that was lightly esteemed. This “judgment will begin on those of the household of God”, who “trampled” it by continuing to live in the flesh, for the flesh, and in the world, and for the things of this world, completely as an “adulteress” rather than a bride ready, waiting, and prepared for Yahshua (Jesus) the Bridegroom. (1 Peter 4:17, Hebrews 10:29, James 4:4, Revelation 19:7)
Prayer to count the cost to follow yahshua (Jesus):
Heavenly Father,
I come to You and pray, that as your born again child, that I am no longer timid, but become a valiant soldier courageously following You my beloved Savior, willing to share in Your sufferings. I understand well that it is through hardships and many tribulations that I will enter Your kingdom. By the power of Your grace I am counting and will continue to “count the cost” to follow You on the straight and narrowing path that You made clear, “very few will enter”. Please help me, so that nothing competes or hinders my love relationship with You so that You truly becomes my “first and utmost love, the fullness of my all in all. I pray that everyone and everything else would pale in comparison so that I can always say, “no price would be too high to follow You Yahshua (Jesus), regardless of any persecution or suffering that would come against me.”
May my love for You continually grow deeper into a more spiritually passionate relationship. It is my prayer that You will purify and sanctify the desires of my heart I want to make every effort to be found by You in peace, spotless and blameless, perfecting holiness in the reverential fear of You. Yahshua (Jesus) please Help me by Your Spirit’s power to deny myself and reject all competing affections that rise up from my flesh and are of this world. I praise You that You are not finished with me yet and I surrender my entire life on Your heavenly altar once and for all. I seek to obey Your every word and commandment. I thank You for Your Holy Spirit who will teach me all things because I have much to learn and get in order through repentance for the ways I fall so short by living in my flesh and doing my own will. Yahshua (Jesus) thank you for the mercy and power of Your sacrificial blood to cleanse and prepare me to spend eternity in perfect bonds of love together with You forever. Amen
