And Let Us Consider How We May Spur One Another On Toward love & Good Deeds

HEBREWS 10:19-25
“Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
”‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:19-25‬ ‭NKJV‬
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Only the high priest could enter the Most Holy Place in the Temple which was concealed from view by a curtain. He did this just once a year on the day of Atonement, offering a sacrifice for the sin of the nations.
When entering the holy of holies, the priest would have a line attached to him because if he entered soiled by sin, he would surely die and he would be pulled out by the line.
But Jesus death paid the debt of sin and removed the curtain. Therefore, all Spirit filled believers may enter into God’s presence at any time (see 6:19-20).
We can draw near to God with a true heart, in full assurance of our faith. God sprinkled our evil conscience and washed our bodies in pure water, that we may enter into God’s presence with a clean conscience through the blood of Jesus Christ that was spilled for the atonement of all sin, past, present, and future.
As Christians, we have significant privileges associated with our new life in Christ. We have immediate personal access to God through Jesus, and we can draw close to Him without any elaborate religious procedure or system, for Christ blood fulfilled every religious requirement.
We can have a personal relationship with God, grow in faith, and overcome our doubts and questions. Indeed, only through relationship can you truly know anyone. Without a personal relationship with God, you cannot know Him.
We can strengthen and motivate our faith by fellowship with other Christians, socialising and eating together, joining together in worship, studying God’s word and sharing testimonies.
Neglecting Christian meetings, is not only waisting good opportunity to receive encouragement and help from others, but also deprives others of the help and support God may have brought to others through you.
As we grow closer to God day by day, we Christians will face many struggles and even persecution.
As we draw nearer to the day of the Lord anti-Christian force’s will grow in strength to come against us. But these difficulties should never be an excuse for failing to assemble together, but rather, should make us more determined to make even greater efforts to be faithful to attend and serve.
But their are many ministries claiming to be Christian, but not all of them are of Christ. I tell you the truth, if it’s not Jesus five fold ministry, it shall profit you nothing.
“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭11‬-‭16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
Love is more than a feeling, it is a duty of care toward all others, especially those of the faith.
To love others is a decision and an action to make others troubles as important as one’s own and help them by the Spirit’s leading. Freely you receive, freely you give (MATHEW 10:8). It is totally inappropriate to profit from others through ministry.
God’s kind of love is selfless and expects nothing back in return.
Furthermore, when God’s love is put into practice within the ministry, it becomes a weapon of mass destruction against the enemy.
Paul gave us a wonderful picture of love that we can only receive from God (1 JOHN 4:19).
He put it like this:
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
‭‭I Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭1‬-‭13‬ NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.