isohmaine - 2008-06-25 09:47:42

The Ashes of the Red Heifer - Christ's Eternal Redemption (1)

Bible Verses:
John 1:29 The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

                   Words of Ministry

Numbers 19 is a very
 special chapter in the Old Testament. We have a picture of the Lord's vicarious death for our sins in the type of the ashes
of the red heifer. After the red heifer was killed, it was burned. The skin, the 
flesh, the blood, and the dung were all burned. The whole red heifer was burned. As it was being burned, the priest cast cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet into the midst of the fire. 
What do cedar wood and hyssop signify? First Kings 4:33 said that Solomon discoursed about trees, from the cedar to the hyssop.
Cedar wood and hyssop therefore signify all the trees. In other words, they signify the whole world.What does scarlet signify?
This word is also translated scarlet in Isaiah 1:18,which says, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They will be as white as snow." 
scarlet, therefore, signifies our sins. For the cedar wood,
hyssop,and scarlet to be burned together means that the sins of the whole world were 
gathered together
 with the red heifer when it was offered up to God; they 
were all burned together.
Here, we see a picture of the cross. The Lord Jesus offered Himself up to God. He embraced all our sins. The gross sins were there as well as the lesser 
sins. The sins of the past, the present, and the future were also there. The sins 
for which man feels the need of forgiveness, as well as the sins for which man does not feel the need of forgiveness, were there. All sins were upon the 
heifer, and they were all burned with it.

isohmaine - 2008-06-25 09:46:15

The Ashes of the Red Heifer - Christ's Eternal Redemption (2)

Bible Verses
Hebrews 10:10 By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (12) 
But this One, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat  down forever on the right hand of God,

             Words of Ministry 

This is what makes the red heifer so distinct [in Numbers 19]. After the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet were 
burned with the heifer, the ashes were gathered up
 and kept in a clean place. Thereafter, if any of the Israelites 
touched something unclean and became unclean before God, another clean person could mix the water for impurity with 
the ashes and sprinkle it on the unclean person. This would remove the person's uncleanness. In other words, the ashes 
were used to remove uncleanness. They were prepared for the future. They would be used when uncleanness was detected at a 
later time.The burning of the red heifer was not for past sins but for future transgressions.
This shows us another aspect of the Lord Jesus' work. One aspect of the Lord's work is like that of
the ashes of the red heifer. The efficacy of redemption is signified by the 
ashes. The sins of the whole world are in it, and the blood is also in it. Whenever a man becomes unclean or has touched 
some unclean things, he does not need to kill another red heifer and offer it to God. He only needs to take the ashes 
of
 the red heifer that was offered once and mix them with water and sprinkle them on the body. In other words, there is 
no need for the Lord to do anything a second time. His redemption accomplished everything. He made provision for all 
of our future uncleanness and future sins. Everything has been fully accomplished by His redemption.

isohmaine - 2008-06-25 09:02:33

The Ashes of the Red Heifer - Christ's Eternal Redemption (3)

Bible Verses
Hebrews 9:12 And not through the blood of goats and calves but through His own blood...obtaining an eternal redemption. 
(13) For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who are defiled sanctifies to the 
purity of the flesh, (14) How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself 
without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

                           Words of Ministry 

In the Bible, ashes signify something in its final form.Whether a bull or a lamb, its final form after being burned 
is ashes. Ashes are very stable; they do not corrupt into something else. We cannot corrupt or destroy ashes. The ashes 
of the red heifer signify the eternal and unchanging efficacy of the Lord's redemption. 
The redemption which our Lord accomplished for us is most stable. The ashes of the red heifer signify the Lord's 
redemption which He has prepared for us. It is forever unchanging and incorruptible. We may apply it any time. If a
 Christian touches something unclean by accident and there is uncleanness in him, he does not have to ask the Lord to die 
for him again. He only needs to trust in the eternal and incorruptible efficacy of the ashes and to sprinkle his body 
with the water of life, and he will be clean. In other words, the ashes of the red heifer tell us that the past work of the 
cross is applicable for our use today. We also can say that the effectiveness of the cross covers all the needs we will 
ever have in the future. These ashes are specifically for the future. Only one red heifer needs to be burned, and it only 
needs to be burned once. Its ashes are enough to cover one's whole life. Thank the Lord that His redemption is sufficient 
for our whole life. His death has taken away all our sins

isohmaine - 2008-06-25 08:55:00

Standing on God's Side by Confessing Our Sins

Bible Verses
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all 
unrighteousness.

                 Words of Ministry

In this verse the word we  refers to believers, not to sinners. When a believer sins, he must confess his sins. Only 
after he has confessed his sins will he be forgiven. When a believer sins, he should not ignore it or cover it up. 
Proverbs 28:13 says, "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have 
mercy." Do not give sin a nice name. Do not excuse yourself.Lying is a sin. When you lie, you should confess that you 
have sinned. You should not say, "I have said a little more (or less) than I should have." You should say, "I have 
sinned." You should not explain it away or cover it up. You should confess that you have committed the sin of lying. You 
must condemn lying as sin.
Once we sin, we are away from God. Once we join ourselves to sins, we cannot be together with God. As soon as Adam sinned, 
he hid from God and dared not meet Him (Gen. 3:8). Colossians 1:21 says,
 "And you, though once alienated and enemies in your mind because of your evil works." Sin alienates us from 
God. What does it mean to confess our sins? It means to come back to God's side and to acknowledge that what we have done 
is sin. We have come back to God. We are no longer with sin. We are standing opposite of sin and calling sin a sin. This 
is confession. Only those who walk in the light and who have deep feelings and a repulsion for sin can have genuine 
confession. Those who are callous to sin, who consider it natural to sin, are not making any confession when they 
merely acknowledge something with their lips in a

isohmaine - 2008-06-25 08:28:52

An Advocate with the Father (1) 

Bible Verses:
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate 
with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous; (2) And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours 
only but also for those of the whole world. 

                  Words of Ministry


"These things" [vs. 1 above] refer to the forgiveness and cleansing from our sins through God's promise and work. John 
wrote these things to us so that we may not sin. It shows us that the Lord has forgiven our many sins and that, as a 
result, we do not sin. When we find out that we are forgiven, we do not become free to sin; rather, we will not sin.
Following this it says, "And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous." "With 
the Father"--this is a family affair; it is something that happens after we are saved. We have already believed and have 
become one of God's many children. Now we have an Advocate with the Father, who is Jesus Christ the Righteous. Through 
the Lord Jesus' death and by His becoming the propitiation for our sins, He has become our Advocate with the Father. 
Based on His blood, the Lord Jesus Christ has become our Advocate. He has
 accomplished redemption on the cross. Based on His accomplished work, we can be cleansed. If we sin by 
accident, we should not be disheartened by our sin; we should not wallow in it or remain in it. When we sin, the first 
thing we should do is confess our sin to the Lord. When we ask God to forgive our sin, He forgives our sin, and our 
fellowship with Him is restored immediately.

isohmaine - 2008-06-25 08:28:22

An Advocate with the Father (2)
Bible Verses:

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all 
unrighteousness.

                  Words of Ministry 

In the eyes of God, no brother or sister should sin. However, if anyone sins by accident, the first thing to do is deal 
with it immediately before God. Never  delay. You must confess immediately. Tell God, "I have sinned!" Our confession is our 
judgment of ourselves. If we confess our sins, God is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse 
us from all unrighteousness.
When a child of God sins and does not confess his sin but instead remains in his sin, he loses his fellowship with God. 
There will be no further fellowship between him and God. He may still have a little fellowship with God, but that 
fellowship will not be pleasant. This is the pain that results from a loss of fellowship.
There is only one way to recovery--it is to go to God and confess our sins. We have to believe that the Lord Jesus 
Christ has become our Advocate and has borne all our sins. We have to confess our failures and shortcomings before God in a 
humble way. We have to look to Him so that we will no longer be proud or loose when we set out on our
 journey again. We have to realize that we are no better than anyone else, and 
that it is possible for us to fall at any time. We have to ask God for mercy and strength to go on step by step. Once we 
confess this way, we will immediately recover our fellowship with God, and the joy and peace that were lost will come 
back.

isohmaine - 2008-06-21 21:01:30

Confessing to Both God and Men
Bible Verses:
Acts 24:16 Because of this I [Paul] also exercise myself to always have a conscience without offense toward God and men. 
1 Timothy 1:5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and out of a good conscience and out of unfeigned 
faith; 
                                                 
                                                                             Words of Ministry 
After we have believed in the Lord, we must  build up a habit of confessing and recompensing. If we have offended anyone or 
have come short of anyone, we should learn to confess or to recompense. On the one hand, we have to confess to God, and 
on the other hand, we have to confess to and recompense man. If a man does not confess to God nor apologize or recompense 
man, his conscience will easily become hardened. Once the conscience becomes hardened, a serious and fundamental 
problem develops: It becomes difficult for God's light to shine into a man. A person must build up a habit of 
confessing and making recompense so that he can maintain a sensitive and keen conscience before the Lord. 
 
We often offend others. If a person has offended someone yet has no feeling about it, his conscience must be sick or 
abnormal. The length of time since your last confession is an indication of whether or not there is a problem between you 
and God. If the period of time is long, it proves that there is a lack of light in your spirit. If the time is short, that 
is, if you recently have made a confession to others, it proves that the feeling of your conscience is still 
sensitive. In order to live under God's light, we need a sensitive conscience, and in order for our conscience to 

remain sensitive, we need to continually condemn sin as sin. We need to confess to God, and we also need to make confessions and recompenses to man.

 
If a brother or sister's sins are unrelated to man, having only offended God, he or she only needs to confess to God; there is absolutely no need to confess to man. I hope that we will pay attention to this principle.

razr - 2008-06-19 06:52:59
There is no spiritual Israel ONLY the one that is physiscal.let no man lie to you that there is a spiritual Jew.Jews are those born Jews and Gentiles will remain Gentiles.Read the bible where Paul xplains in Romans chapter 9 to 11.pliz read and you will understand

otuonick - 2008-06-18 01:58:25

otuonick - 2008-06-18 01:57:40
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