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Sunday Feb 04, 2018
Christ became for us prayer
Sunday Feb 04, 2018
Sunday Feb 04, 2018
Jesus came to not only bring forgiveness once and for all, but to be always, every day in every way a saviour for us who believe, uniting his strength to our every weakness and our falling short of his glory, and he ever lives now to be doing that for each believer individually.
Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost (in every way, for his perfect result) those who come to God through Him…
But further to our individual salvation there is a corporate outworking for us together (with Jesus and one another) living out from and strengthening the gift of salvation that we already have, that bonds us to God and to one another through faith that works by love.
Philippians 2:12 work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your salvation (together) with reverence and awe and timidly quivering with apprehension from whatever might offend God and (discredit the name of Christ).
Philippians 2:1 If there is therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfill my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through ambition or self-conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own things, but also for the things of others.
Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost (in every way, for his perfect result) those who come to God through Him…since He always lives to make intercession for them. (Intercession is a third party meeting)
Someone is interceding for you now individually. That someone is Jesus, in partnership with The Holy Spirit and The Father. His perfect prayer is always being offered to The Father. (Romans 8:26,34.)
We can join him together for one another. Each one has ‘things’ to face and to live with. We are told that we don’t know or even have to know what to pray for but The Holy Spirit bears the burden of the pain of that with us and Jesus then prays for us. Our Communion today can be a time of standing with one another and with God for the ‘things’ of one another, fears, griefs, sufferings, pain and perplexities. Our ‘thing’ today may be the carrying of ‘things’ for someone else.
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