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"Millennial Reign" |
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08 Mar 2006 03:57:25 AM |
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Entering the PROMISED LAND |
Consider Galatians 3:21-24;
Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there
had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would
have been by the law. But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that
the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the
faith which would afterward be revealed. Therefore the law was our tutor
to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. (NKJV)
Let us look at a symbolic allegory.
Moses (here symbolic of the Law) leading the Israelites out of slavery in
Egypt (symbolic of repentance from sin).
Joshua (here symbolic of Faith) leading the Israelites across the Jordan
into the Promised Land.
Now let us move forward to John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.
As it is written in the Prophets:
"Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way
before You."
"The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the LORD;
Make His paths straight.'"
John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance
for the remission of sins.
[Mark 1:2-4 NKJV]
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after
me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will
baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
[Matthew 3:11 NKJV]
"Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" So they said to him,
"We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit." And he said
to them, "Into what then were you baptized?" So they said, "Into John's
baptism." Then Paul said, "John indeed baptized with a baptism of
repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would
come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus." When they heard this, they were
baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid hands on
them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and
prophesied.
[Acts 19:2-6 NKJV]
Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the
promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the
law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father
of us all
He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was
strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that
what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore "it was
accounted to him for righteousness."
Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but
also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up
Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses,
and was raised because of our justification.
[Romans 4:16,20-25 NKJV]
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φασκοντες ειναι σοφοι εμωρανθησαν
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| Title: Entering the Promised Land |
08 Mar 2006 04:36:52 AM |
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I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye
once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the
people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed
them that believed not. Jude 1:5
Christ as a son over his own house, whose house are
we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing
of the hope firm unto the end. Wherefore, as the Holy
Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden
not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of
temptation in the wilderness, when your fathers
tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and
said, They do alway err in their heart, and they have
not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall
not enter into my rest. Take heed, brethren, lest
there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in
departing from the living God. But exhort one another
daily, while it is called To day, lest any of you be
hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are
made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of
our confidence stedfast unto the end; while it is
said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not
your hearts, as in the provocation.
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For some, when they had heard, did provoke. Howbeit
not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with
whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them
that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the
wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not
enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
So we see that they could not enter in because of
unbelief. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise
being left us of entering into his rest, any of you
should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the
gospel preached, as well as unto them, but the word
preached did not profit them, not being mixed with
faith in them that heard it. For we which have
believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have
sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest;
although the works were finished from the foundation
of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the
seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the
seventh day from all his works. And in this place
again, If they shall enter into my rest.
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Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter
therein, and they to whom it was first preached
entered not in because of unbelief; again, he
limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day,
after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye
will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if
Jesus (Greek for Joshua) had given them rest, then
would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of
God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also
hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest
any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Hebrews 3:6-4:11
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting
them to continue in the faith, and that we must
through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of
God. Acts 14:22
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The kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a
far country, who called his own servants, and
delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave
five talents, to another two, and to another one; to
every man according to his several ability; and
straightway took his journey. Then he that had
received the five talents went and traded with the
same, and made them other five talents. And likewise
he that had received two, he also gained other two.
But he that had received one went and digged in the
earth, and hid his lord's money. After a long time
the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with
them. And so he that had received five talents came
and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou
deliveredst unto me five talents; behold, I have
gained beside them five talents more. His lord said
unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant;
thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will
make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the
joy of thy lord.
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He also that had received two talents came and said,
Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents; behold, I
have gained two other talents beside them. His lord
said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant;
thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will
make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the
joy of thy lord. Then he which had received the one
talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art
an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and
gathering where thou hast not strawed; and I was
afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth. Lo,
there thou hast that is thine. His lord answered and
said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou
knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather
where I have not strawed; thou oughtest therefore to
have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my
coming I should have received mine own with usury.
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Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto
him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that
hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance, but
from him that hath not shall be taken away even that
which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant
into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth. Matthew 25:14-30
Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and
to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and
to temperance patience, and to patience godliness,
and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly
kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and
abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren
nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind,
and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he
was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather,
brethren, give diligence to make your calling and
election sure, for if ye do these things, ye shall
never fall, for so an entrance shall be ministered
unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-11
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I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be
saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
John 10:9
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is
born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of
the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto
thee, Ye must be born again. John 3:5-7
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Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be
saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at
the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek
to enter in, and shall not be able. When once the
master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the
door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at
the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us. And he
shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence
ye are. Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and
drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our
streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not
whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of
iniquity. Luke 13:23-27
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