2Chr 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.

The Passover to the LORD God of Israel (Continued)

The lintel and doorposts were the place of sprinkling. By This is meant that Christ and the Gospel should be prominently displayed in and through the life of the Church to all.

"Instead of a part only being eaten and the rest burnt, as in other sacrifices, the whole except the blood sprinkled was eaten when roast; typifying Christ's blood shed as a propitiation, but His whole man hood transfused spiritually into His church who feed on Him by faith, of which the Lord's supper is a sensible pledge. Eaten with unleavened bread (1Co 5:7-8) and bitter herbs (repentance Zec 12:10)." (The Fausset's Bible Dictionary)

1Cor 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

1Cor 10:17 For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread
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The Flesh Was Divided Among the Partakers

John 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

John 6:5 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?

John 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

John 6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

John 6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

The Passover Lamb was roasted whole, representing Jesus' complete sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar. 

2Chr 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.

God sent a message and a messenger redeemer with an invitation to come and have everlasting fellowship with the LORD.

By now we have seen that a message and a messenger have been sent. We looked at "sent", we saw also that the messenger is Jesus Christ, the greatest "living epistle" ever sent as He is the WORD of GOD in the flesh. We saw how we, in Him and by Him are also "living epistles", holding forth the WORD of GOD in earthen vessels, sent with a message to "come" to the "house of the Lord at Jerusalem" to "keep the passover to the Lord God of Israel".

We looked at who and what the House of the LORD is, we looked at New Jerusalem which comes down from God out of heaven, the true place of our citizenship. We looked at some of the things which are there for us and which come forth from the House of the Lord and Jerusalem. 

Now, we will look at the keeping of the Passover which is divine and holy fellowship with Jesus Christ and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which He has made possible by the taking away of our sins through the shedding of His blood on the cross and by His resurrection from the dead. 

In the next few days, we will look at the passover and our fellowship with Christ and His body which is the Church. 

Devotional Reading

I pray the Lord feed you by His Spirit as you read the following passages. 

Set your ears upon Him as you read. 

1John 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

1John 1:4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

1John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

1John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

1John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.


Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah 2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

2Chr 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.

Out Of Zion From Jerusalem Goes Forth The Word of Life 


Brethren you are that City. The City of the LORD. You are the Heavenly citizens who are called and empowered to walk as such. God has chosen you to hold forth the Word of life for out of Zion the City of the Lord The Word Of God Shall go forth From Jerusalem. You have come to Heavenly Jerusalem by Jesus Christ.

Hezekiah King of Judah, a man whose name means "Helped of JAH" brought forth the Word of Life with the commandment of the King, by the Word of the Lord, out of Zion from Jerusalem. Now hear your call, saint of God. You are now one with a kingly and priestly call to do as Hezekiah did. Walk as the citizen of heaven that Christ has brought you into by the shedding of His blood and the resurrection from the dead which is the object and source of your faith for the same Spirit which raised Christ from the dead dwells in you.  

The wrath of God is coming upon this nation of the children of disobedience. Prepare your hearts before God to be the Hezekiah's He is raising up to speak the commandment of the King by the Word of the Lord with the same Grace that was upon Hezekiah, the same Grace that came with Jesus Christ, the same Grace with which the Apostle Paul carried out his service to God and the Church, the same Grace that has been bestowed upon You. Look to Jesus Christ and set your faith upon His ability to do His will in and through you. Be the workmanship of Christ that He is making you. 

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [which is] new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my new name.

Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Isaiah 60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.


Heb 11:16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.


Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,


Phil 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

Phil 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:

Phil 3:19 Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

Phil 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Phil 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.



Phil 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Phil 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Devotional Reading

I pray the Lord feed you by His Spirit as you read the following passages. 

Set your ears upon Him as you read. 

Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.

Heb 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape], if we turn away from him that [speaketh] from heaven:

Heb 12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

Heb 12:27 And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Heb 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

Heb 12:29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.


Additional Devotion for the Zealous

Ps 48:1 { A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah. } Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.

Ps 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Ps 48:3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

Ps 48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

Ps 48:5 They saw [it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and] hasted away.

Ps 48:6 Fear took hold upon them there, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.

Ps 48:7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Ps 48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.


Ps 101:1 { A Psalm of David. } I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

Ps 101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

Ps 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.

Ps 101:4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked [person].

Ps 101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Ps 101:6 Mine eyes [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

Ps 101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

Ps 101:8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

2Chr 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.

This account of Hezekiah's call to come to the House of the LORD points and speaks to the last days; it speaks to us now. The Spirit of God in Hezekiah ushers the call to come to the House of the LORD and the Spirit of God in His last days saints ushers the same. We not only call people out of; out of sin, out of the dead church of man, out of Babylon etc but into; into Christ and into His body the Church.

See the spirit of the call to come to the house of the LORD in Isaiah's prophecy.

1) Isaiah 2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.


2) Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

Isaiah 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

Isaiah 60:3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Isaiah 60:4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.

Isaiah 60:5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

Read Isaiah 2, Read Isaiah 60

Come to the House of the LORD

In the next few days we will be looking at the relation between the coming to the House of the LORD/the Temple of God/the Body of Christ/the Church/City of the Lord and keeping the Passover/Fellowship/Communion. It is a vast and deep subject. We will but scratch the surface. 

Today we will begin to establish the New Covenant understanding of the House of the Lord. In short, if you are a regenerated saint of God through faith in Jesus Christ, born not of man, nor of the flesh, but of God, then you are the House of the LORD along with your brothers and sisters. Today's devotional reading will be passages showing us this truth.  

Devotional Reading

I pray the Lord feed you by His Spirit as you read the following passages. 

Set your ears upon Him as you read. 

1) Colossians 1:18 And he [Jesus Christ] is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence.

Colossians 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Read the full Chapter of Colossians 1


2) 1Cor 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1Cor 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.

Read the full Chapter of  1 Corinthians 3 

Here is an example of why the King James bible is so valuable. It says,""YE" are the temple God". "Ye" is plural. Other translation say "you". It is not grammatically clear who the "you" is whether it be plural or singular. When the King James Bible uses the word "ye" you can be absolutely sure that it is plural. 


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3) 2Cor 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?


2Cor 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?


2Cor 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.


2Cor 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,


2Cor 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Read the full Chapter of 2 Corinthians 6 



4) Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone];

Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

Eph 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Read the full Chapter of Ephesians 2


5) Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.

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Rev 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.

Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

Rev 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light [was] like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

Read the full Chapter of Revelation 21  


5) Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?

Isaiah 66:2 For all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Read the full Chapter of Isaiah 66

2Chr 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.

Come 

The invitation from God is to come. The call of the hour is to come. Come to the ark which is Christ and save yourself from the destruction of the Lord which is coming upon the earth and all the wicked within it. The messengers of the Lord all extend this invitation to come to the fountain of the cleansing blood of the Lamb of God, the crucified and risen Christ. As messengers who are helped of Jehovah, strengthened of God as Hezekiah was, by the Spirit of the Lord, they will always first hold forth the blessed invitation to come to the mercy of God and be spared of the impending wrath. Servant of God will you carry forth this invitation to come? You who have yet to know the Lord your God and to you who have been called but are not serving as you know you should or perhaps as you have in the past, will you come? 

2Chr 30:9
For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children [shall find] compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God [is] gracious and merciful, and will not turn away [his] face from you, if ye return unto him.


Devotional Reading

I pray the Lord feed you by His Spirit as you read the following passages. 

Set your ears upon Him as you read. 

Gen 7:1 And the LORD said to Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Gen 7:2 Of every clean beast you shall take to you by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1:19 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
Isaiah 1:20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Isaiah 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsts, come you to the waters, and he that has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Matt 11:28 Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matt 11:29 Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest to your souls.
Matt 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

1213. Prophecy given to Raymond Aguilera on 1 November 1998 at 8:43 AM

2Chr 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.

Message from Vs 1
God sent a message and a messenger redeemer with an invitation to come and have everlasting fellowship with the LORD.

Today we are still focussing on being "Sent" or God "Sending". Remember Hezekiah means "Helped of Jah" or "Helped of Jehovah". We want to see the pattern and the message of God sending His Son, Jesus Christ to a lost World. Hezekiah, the true servant of the Lord sent to the people an invitation, even a commandment to return to the Lord, to come to the house of the Lord, to keep that passover of the Lord. Jehovah sent His Son Jesus Christ to redeem a people unto Himself. We too are sent by God in Christ to bring people to the Lord. It is a mark of those who are "Helped of Jah" to be sent out as ones holding forth the Words of Life to a backslidden and fallen people. Allow the passages below to speak to you, the message and ways of God. 

Devotional Reading

I pray the Lord feed you by His Spirit as you read the following passages. 

Set your ears upon Him as you read. 
 

1) Nah 1:15 Behold on the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off.

2) Isa 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation; that said to Zion, Your God reigns!


3) Isa 52:8 Your watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

Isa 52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

Isa 52:10 The LORD has made bore his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.



4) Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Isa 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Isa 61:3 To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

Isa 61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Isa 61:5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

Isa 61:6 But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.

Isa 61:7 For your shame you shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be to them.



5) Matt 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness to all nations; and then shall the end come.



6) Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come on you: and you shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.


7) Rom 10:13 For whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

Rom 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

Rom 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias said, Lord, who has believed our report?

Rom 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

2Chr 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters, also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.

One mark of a true servant of God is his prolific reference to the written Word. God Himself has left us the greatest written letter of all, the bible. Hezekiah, the man helped of Jehovah, sent letters. These were letters from the King with the authority of the King, which if heeded had the power of everlasting life for they called men back to God.  

"2Chr 29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

These letters from Hezekiah, calling men back to God, to the house of the Lord and to the passover were a picture of God Himself calling men to Himself through Jesus Christ that they may be saved. God calls men to Himself by the Word of God, by His servants and by His Spirit which dwells in His servants and which teaches us as we read the bible, God's written letter to man.  God calls men to Himself through no other than His Son Jesus Christ. As christ was the greatest living Epistle, so too, His servants are living epistles from God to man calling man to God through Jesus Christ.  

God has sent the written Word and the Living Word which is His Son.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

In the same way, He sends us who have the Spirit of His Son in us; in us, who are in His Son. We are the letters sent out with an excellent Glory, a greater glory than that which even Moses knew. Jesus Christ the Living Epistle has called you to be the same, a living epistle, an ambassador of the King.

We are the living epistles sent out bearing the nature of Christ to call men back to God, to the House of the Lord, to keep the passover to the Lord God of Israel. 

This is our calling brethren and it is the call placed upon all who have ears to hear the Spirit of the Lord. 

Today's Devotional Reading

I pray the Lord feed you by His Spirit as you read the following passages. As we feed on God's written Word, the bible, we come to deeper and deeper knowledge of the living Word Jesus Christ.

Heb 10:7 Then said I, [Jesus Christ] Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. (Jesus Christ)


Set your ears upon Him as you read. 

1) 2Co 3:1  Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 

2Co 3:2  Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: 

2Co 3:3  Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 

2Co 3:4  And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 

2Co 3:5  Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 

2Co 3:6  Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 

2Co 3:7  But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 

2Co 3:8  How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? (Even much more glorious)

2Co 3:9  For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 

2Co 3:10  For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 

2Co 3:11  For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. 

2Co 3:12  Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 

2Co 3:13  And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 

2Co 3:14  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. 

2Co 3:15  But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 

2Co 3:16  Nevertheless when it (the heart) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. 

2Co 3:17  Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 

2Co 3:18  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.


2) John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

John 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] John.

John 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all [men] through him might believe.

John 1:8 He was not that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that Light.

John 1:9 [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:

John 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.


3) 2Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2Cor 5:18 And all things [are] of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

2Cor 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

2Cor 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

2Cor 5:21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

2Chr 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters, also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover to the LORD God of Israel.Where was he from?

Gen 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelled there.

Abram was called out of and sent into...... He was called out of his kindred, his country and his Father's house. Abram was sent into a land God would show him. 

Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:

We like Abram our called out of all we have ever known and into a life that God will show us, will reveal to us as we continue in Him by the Spirit, in faith and obedience. 

We like Abram are sent out of and into, yet Christ, like Adam was sent out of and into as well. Adam was sent out of the Garden of Communion with God to till the ground from which he came.

Gen 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from from where he was taken.

So Christ left the Glory of eternal communion with the Father and came into the earth to till the hearts of men. We also are called out of the world and into Christ. From in Christ, we are sent  back into the world, but this time as light. This time we are sent as vessels/epistles of Christ holding forth the words of life. 

John 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Matt 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Phil 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Phil 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.

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Phil 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Phil 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.


Devotional Reading

I pray the Lord feed you by His Spirit as you read the following passages. 

Set your ears upon Him as you read. 

1Cor 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

1Cor 15:46 However, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

1Cor 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

1Cor 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

1Cor 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

1Cor 15:50 Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

1Cor 15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

1Cor 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

1Cor 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

1Cor 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

1Cor 15:55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?

1Cor 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

1Cor 15:57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1Cor 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.


John 3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

John 3:2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that you do, except God be with him.

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

John 3:4 Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

John 3:5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 3:7 Marvel not that I said to you, You must be born again.

John 3:8 The wind blows where it wants, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell from where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

John 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?

John 3:10 Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a master of Israel, and know not these things?

John 3:11 Truly, truly, I say to you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness.

John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

John 3:13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

John 3:15 That whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

John 3:18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

John 3:20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

John 3:21 But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are worked in God.