Hebrews 9:8-17 ~ By this, the Holy Spirit indicates the way

Holy Saturday

Hebrews 9:8-17

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8 By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened
 as long as the first section is still standing 9 (which is symbolic for the present age).

 According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, 10 but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

11 Yet when Christ appeared
 as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification 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.

15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, 
so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. 16 For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. 17 For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.

Holy Saturday.
On earth as it is in Heaven, Thy Will be done. Is there a DAY where this change was more auspicious?

We are so familiar with the Disciples part of Holy Saturday. Holy Saturday has an odd and yet searingly true portion of Mary and Martha. The Disciples had chosen to be busy with the details to live a life they imagined they needed. Even more than Jesus. Huddled in fear.

Mary had chosen the Better Portion. To sit with Jesus.





Judea had portions of 3 Legions. And in the portions, an equivalency of one and a half Legions of the Roman Empire. This meant they had 3 Tribunes and 6 Centurions. We know the names of two of the Tribunes thanks to the details of the Roman Empire.  Never did God make the soldiers famous to earn them a death. The unnamed soldiers on Good Friday were placed oddly in Scripture as men, signing on for 20 years as military to the Roman Empire, who obey orders. And then ... gave witness to their prisoner, condemned to die, as the Son of God.

Luke 19:40

And He answered and said unto them, 

“I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”

Jesus told us if we did not give praise, the rocks would cry out.

And the earthquake ripped rocks apart.
And the witness came not from infants, but from men dressed and armed, who were guarded heavily against death. Men who knew, well, how men die in bloody violence.



We call History, according to Believers, His Story.
We Believe the Book of Life has every day of our lives written until God hears prayer and interweaves The Book of Life. God arranges History and these men are placed to guard duty for God's Only Son after their Bold and Brave Witness.

Power.
On Holy Saturday, God The Father, Gave His Beloved Son a guard detail. Now we could say Pontius Pilate gave the orders. However God said. Jesus told Pilate he had no power, no power, but what God had Placed into the hands of Pilate.

Were you there when they Crucified My Lord?
If you had to endure witnessing the Suffering of Jesus Christ, Messiah, and then God was going to ask you where you'd spend Holy Saturday. At home or near the body of God's Only Son. Can we imagine Jesus' body would not be 'Of God'. Holy Saturday has the Holiness, as always, centered upon Jesus.

Immediately
The New Covenant is God saving the world. So many times in the Gospels, Jesus is part of "Immediately,"  Jesus begins the New Covenant; Good Friday doesn't have the praise of His Chosen Disciples, but of Legions we know knew bloody and violent battle and violent death. Immediately - the weakened and broken body of Jesus has the strong and the militant living in a sudden understanding and becoming bold, past the fear of the Roman Empire, to be in awe and proclaim Jesus as Pilate said, "Jesus the King of the Jews, Messiah."


Were you there when they Crucified My Lord?

What would it look like to be at the Tomb on Holy Saturday?

We probably know the conversations of the soldiers standing at the Tomb of Jesus Christ, God's Son:

the first section is still standing...

of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect

Jesus, not of this creation.

He entered once for all into the holy places, 
not by means of the blood of goats and calves 
but by means of his own blood

securing an eternal redemption

and

regulations for the body imposed 
until the time of reformation

Do we know if they knew the Next was going to happen?

Something was in God's Plan. These Soldiers were not killed for suddenly abandoning the Tomb.

With the Letter History records Pilate wrote to Emperor Claudius (it's a lost letter, the one floating around is a fake now), with tombs opening up, with "all of Israel knows", with multitudes and multitudes showing up after Easter Sunday at the Temple - God was in His Glory!

Psalm 8
Psalm of David
1 Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
in the heavens.
2 Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.

And God places His Plan to make sure His Word is fulfilled.
The Sign of Pilate on the Cross of our wonderful Jesus. The placing of the Soldiers at the Tomb. The worthiness the Body of Jesus wasn't stolen. God interweaves all things to work for Good.

On Holy Saturday, God was "Working"!!!
Faith is unseen, and yet we see the Mercy of God on these Roman men. An incredible Mercy.


Abba,

This time has been so unbelievable. 
And the mercy mankind has shown to one another.

 Our Holy Week has seen Hope.
It's no coincidence Holy Week is the first week Hope has been glimpsed.

God is still at work. Love your elderly parents. Love your elderly aunts and uncles. Use the phone in your hand, uplinking to satellites, to phone those who are living alone. 

Tell of the Good News of Holy Week - we see Glimpses of Hope. God is Working. Speak of the Hospital beds that are empty. Tell of the doctors, nurses, hospital staff, EMT, Schools providing food to the students. Police. USPS, Amazon, Grocery who would risk their lives to provide for us all.

Speak of the Nation led to be empowered to Hope Health to us all. Speak of a jaded world providing such Bravery.

And realize like the oil absorbed in the BP Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we have seen a wonder of God from prayers of worried people.

Easter is almost Here! Encourage the people you know are sad. You have Good News.
 Jesus is alive and Working with His Father.

To the Glory of God, in Jesus Christ, Our Wonderful Jesus, Amen!

Matins (during the night, at about 2 a.m.); also called Vigil

The Nature of our Father God is Vast.

We all have a different seat at His Table.

Abba,

We Pray for The Heart of Valor, with so much on the Plate.

We Pray for the Nurturer, who is filled in filling others,

We Pray for the Brave, who is really quite worried.

We Pray for the Angry, who would really like to weep.

We pray for the Young, trying to figure this out.

We pray for the Unconcerned, we don't envy them too much.

We pray for the Lonely, to rest in Jesus Christ.

We pray for the Filled, to actually overflow.

We pray for those who have Years in them, they will not be discouraged!

We pray for us all, to Have Love in us

and be Hopeful and Loved in Jesus Christ Wonderful.

Because

Jesus is the Light of mankind.

Live in us, Father God, and Shine.

Amen.

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Hebrews 7:21-28 ~ He always Lives

Hebrews 7:21-28

“The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
‘You are a priest forever.’”

22 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.

23 The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, 24 but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.

25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost
those who draw near to God through Him

Since he always lives to make intercession for us.

For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

27 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.


28 For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, 

appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

Mount of Beatitudes 

What I find about Good Friday, holding my heart, in any-and-all-manner of remembrance of our Jesus, is the acute desire to have seen one full day of the ministry of Jesus Himself. I do not want to know of the sufferings of Jesus after making the blind see, Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus), Zaccheaus is loved, Matthew gives Jesus a party to include all the needy thugs, Mary and Martha are loved and comforted by Jesus. Lazarus comes forth to be called a Friend of Jesus for Millenniums.

I don't want to spend a day thinking of Jesus as gone. I don't want Jesus to suffer. But I want to be counted as Righteous in the sight of God as the Gift of Jesus Christ. And in remembering Jesus saying a Sparrow doesn't fall that the Creator of All Things doesn't know and hold as memorable, then I remember again, how I want to see a day of Jesus walking as Truth and Grace. Grace upon Grace. Choosing to live in Beautiful Capernaum.


And I give to you this sermon of a summer day, when today someone I've never met, we spoke on the phone- we thought together  the only gift of Pandemic is to remember what we have temporarily lost and never held up as possible, as this Blessing was uncounted.

We Will Reclaim All of What our Gracious Father has Given to us.
He has daily Loaded us with Benefits.

Dr. Ed Robb
The Woodlands United Methodist Church
4th Largest Methodist Church in the United States of America

A Beautiful Sunday Afternoon, November 4, 2018
We find so many references to our events today. Don't miss this one.

We Will Reclaim All of What our Gracious Father has Given to us.
He has DAILY Loaded us with Benefits.

The Sermon Begins 29:00, if you must miss this entire Service blending with us, today.

Isaiah 53

View of the Temple from Golgotha

Earthquake, records in seismic history Good Friday.

The Service includes reading of the Names from the Saints of God passing into His Kingdom. Alive in Heaven.

Isaiah 53 

Who has believed what he has heard from us?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,

and like a root out of dry ground;

he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,

and no beauty that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

and as one from whom men hide their faces

he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows;

yet we esteemed him stricken,

smitten by God, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;

he was crushed for our iniquities;

upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,

and with his wounds we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned—every one—to his own way;

and the Lord has laid on him

the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

yet he opened not his mouth;

like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,

so he opened not his mouth.

8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;

and as for his generation, who considered

that he was cut off out of the land of the living,

stricken for the transgression of my people?

9 And they made his grave with the wicked

and with a rich man in his death,

although he had done no violence,

and there was no deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;

he has put him to grief;

when his soul makes an offering for guilt,

he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;

the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;

by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,

make many to be accounted righteous,

and he shall bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,

and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,

because he poured out his soul to death

and was numbered with the transgressors;

yet he bore the sin of many,

and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Scripture for Today Blogspot always uses English Standard Version. JI Packer, alive today, and born 22 July, 1926. JI Packer went to Oxford and took classes from CS Lewis. He was part of the team assembling the English Standard Version of the Bible. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is considered one of the most influential evangelicals in North America. He has been the theologian emeritus of the Anglican Church in North America since its inception in 2009.

When Rev. JI Packer was 89 years old, he was defrocked. Eighty nine years old. Student of CS Lewis. Eighty nine years old. Priest. Ji Packer refused to remove and replace words in the Bible. Revise the Bible to gender neutral terms. Mercy. Blessed to have Freedom of Speech. We are so Blessed to be free. Free to be merciful. Free to worship God as we believe. Free to have ideas. Blessed in Jesus to be Merciful.

John found God to be Love. Love covers a multitude of sins. Blessed are the merciful they shall obtain mercy.



If we learn nothing more in this Pandemic, let us remember how merciful we have behaved.

Let us always remember Mercy.

Let's ask from our Jesus for His Mercy going forth. And remember again how beautiful is the Life God has given to us we almost passed by without realizing all the riches He has really given us.



Abba,

We have been Blessed in so many ways we never even considered the richness of Life.

You have given us Jesus, our Wonderful Jesus.

In the Mercy of God Everlasting, we ask to live again in these Blessings.

Covered in the Love of Jesus Christ, we Bless You we have been Blessed
to Seek You First. To Live Life in Love, Peace and Joy.

You are not a God Who is small. Your Desire is to Save the world in Jesus Christ.
Your Good Creation You Proclaim yesterday, today and tomorrow.

In the Name of Jesus, we ask Your Love cover a multitude of sins. Including not even realizing
the richness You have given us in Abundant Life.

Today we stop to say to You, Thank You for Jesus Christ for ourselves, the ones we Love
and the Hope and Future we say bless those in the generation ahead. In Jesus, Amen.

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Psalm 110 ~ The Lord is at your right hand

Psalm 110

A Psalm of David.

The Lord says to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”

In the Supper of the New Covenant, Jesus has placed (as John and James asked) His Disciples to His Right and Left side.

John's Gospel Chapter 13, we are able to see the reclining seating method positions of the four people involved in one of the conversations mentioned in the Last Supper: Jesus, John, Peter and Judas. Jesus Hosts the Last Supper, so reclined at the head of the table, in the middle of the centre couch. John, the Beloved Disciple, immediately to the right of Jesus, so his head would be level with the chest of Jesus. John would then be able to lean back and whisper to Jesus without the others hearing. Verse 23, the Greek text: “Falling back on the breast of Jesus."

The seating arrangement of the People, is the same.

The shape of the table could be arranged several ways.

In Formal State Dinners, the Head of Table is the Center of the Table.

Head of Table Roman Meal

Jesus felt Psalm 110 was so important, He mentioned this.

Mark 12
35 While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, “Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David? 36 David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared:

“‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
under your feet.”’

37 David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?”

The large crowd listened to him with delight.

We can answer why this Plan of God's is so unanswered. The eyes seeing Jesus understood very well:

This Bulla is found exactly where Jeremiah 36 wrote in 596 B.C.. In the House of David. The bulla is identified as Baruch, son of Neriah. Found in late twentieth century A.D. and housed in the Museum of Israel, today.

Jeremiah 36:4
So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and while Jeremiah dictated all the words the Lord had spoken to him, Baruch wrote them on the scroll.

John 18:40 
They cried out again, “Not this man, but Bar Abbas!” Now Bar Abbas was a robber."

The Talmud recording the Sanhedrin at the Time of Jesus is in Scotland. The Talmud identifies the recorded discussion by Bar - Son of. If they had discussed Baruch ' Baruch Bar Neriah'. Thousands traveled to see Jesus. The crowds knew Jesus the Carpenter's Son. Jesus of Nazareth. The Sanhedrin discuss Jesus by calling Mary daughter of Heli. Luke 3. Joseph is Bar Jacob. Matthew 1.

The crowd listened in Delight because Jesus was teaching Jesus is the Son of Kings of David's Line. And Son of David, Non-royal. God has made provisions of Jesus as David's Line to the right and to the Left. The Peace in this delight of the crowd is the Abundant Life in God's Provision. The Plan of God has been fulfilled in all expectation.

John and James wanted Abundant Life to sit right and left. God provides as God Plans.

In the glimpse of the Hope of Holy Week, the first glimpse of Hope, we find God is putting us at His Right Hand. We are part of His Plans.

Peace. God's Plan is sufficient. His Plans will have a Hope and Future. 

God's Timing will occur. Peace.

God is Giving us help to rule over our fears.

2 The Lord sends forth from Zion
your mighty scepter.
Rule in the midst of your enemies!

3 Your people will offer themselves freely
on the day of your power,
in holy garments;
from the womb of the morning,
the dew of your youth will be yours.

4 The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
“You are a priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek.”

5 The Lord is at your right hand

He has shattered kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will execute judgment among the nations,
filling them with corpses;
he will shatter chiefs
over the wide earth.

7 He will drink from the brook by the way;
therefore he will lift up his head.


During the Middle Ages, the Bubonic Plague was widely considered to be the wrath of God. This thought isn't to be rethought as modern man looks down on the history of mankind. The beginning of the Renaissance was enlightened. The most common death before the Plague was starvation. One in three died of starvation. A complete lack of mercy. Serfs were owned and would die of malnourishment and overwork. Half of the women were prostitutes and money was arranged by family or husband. The priesthood was celibate since the 1200s; and the priests had one or two wives, concubines and plenty of children without marriage. After the plagues, mankind was freed and the Renaissance began. The Age of Enlightenment.

What would Pandemic bring mankind? According to Jeremiah in 590 B.C., The New Covenant would tell us God Himself lives in us and we wouldn't need preaching to explain His Holy Spirit dwelling in us. God Himself tells us of His Holiness. We have been asked by a repeating message as we listen online to the Ministers, we Love. Pastors we lean in to. And Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Catholic Church, NYC. The message we hear asks us to find God leading us from dark into the Light of Christ. We will have memories of this time and be asked to explain this for generations to yet be born. In His Holiness, what will this time bring to us to favorably Changed? Even sorrow produces maturity. For many, we won't have the answer... yet.


Romans 5

1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

In His Time.

2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoiced in hope of the glory of God.

Faith is our assurance, this time will have Hope in His Glory, we have not seen yet. During the years I lived in Pennsylvania, my friend's father, Jim, spoke of the Spanish Flu influencing the life of his mother in Philadelphia. All her life she said, "If you can survive Spanish Flu, you can survive anything." This gave her bravery. She spoke often of the two baby twins in the news of 1918. One lived and one died and both were in God's Plan. The living twin lived to be 83 and often thought of her twin. The other twin would not forget her sister on earth.

Romans 5
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, 
knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame,
 because God’s love has been poured into our hearts
 through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

We would honestly mutter rejoicing in our sufferings draws away from the strength of the Verses. God's Timing. We remember surviving 9-11 and the horror of learning the details. News seeking as we do - today. These sufferings will never be placed in the category of finding the missing sock. Because understanding required feasting. The Book of Revelation is the sadness in the Holiness oF God ending the life of mass murderers, Hitler, Stalin to protect the Beloved of God. Revelation has a glory in understanding the old order passes on and we find His Plan for His Heaven. Rejoice? Can be understood as "Astonished Care". We are cut to the very quick and find we have, "Astonished Care" as united to support the precious Rejoicing of Life.

Jesus tells us He gives Abundant Life. As we are thrust into, "Astonished Care", we find the every day is mundane in this Complete Awareness.

We in Astonished Care, are thrust into Great Shared sufferings, knowing  suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

In God's Time, we will find what His Holy Spirit has placed in us to Love those we Love more clearly and value Life Abundant. Our God would have other portions of our time on earth to understand personal messages of God. In large medical trauma, healing has phases. We will know more as the days unfold.  Faith is our assurance God has a Hope and Future for you.

7 He will drink from the brook by the way;

therefore He will lift up His Head.

Bethesda Fountain in New York City

Abba,

Even in Crisis we can have Beauty.

I dreamed of my mother's mother, my Grandmother Anita. She said to me, as a glimpse of her, from her Heavenly Home: "Each day is quiet at times and filled with quiet. Each day just put our hopes in Jesus. And as time progresses - we have done Exactly what Jesus has asked. The Plan of God we will not hurt, or impede or cause to be dismissed - as we believe Jesus is working today. Because Jesus is, of course, working today. With us. Around us. In us. Jesus is God. Jesus is King. We will believe Jesus today."

Anita prayed and even after her death, we saw her prayers answered, even more than a decade later. I dreamed of my grandmother twenty years after she passed on and felt her lovely spirit.

Because Jesus is Emmanuel - God the Father, God the King, God the Holy Spirit with us.

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Father Almighty,

God in Three Places Blessed Trinity.
Father God, You are in our Thoughts, in our past, in our present and in our future.
You are part of our wonderful memories, You are part of our tarnished Blessings, You are part of the Building of Blessings and You will provide amazing days ahead.

God of the Impossible. God of the Eternal. God You own time itself. And John found You to be God of Love who appears to John one Sunday Afternoons saying - "Do not be afraid! This is Jesus!" Revelation 1.

We trust You Abba, with our Lives. With our Brokenness. We trust You with our Forgiveness. We trust You and take the right path. We trust You to work the Plan You have Given. We Trust You with the People we Love. We Trust You with the People we need to pray for more - You have given us. We trust You with the arrow prayers of the people we see in need of Prayer. In fact we trust You dearly with these Prayers. Father God - You are saving the world in Jesus.

In our Freedom, we want to seek God first, to find Your Heaven upon earth. Glimpsing Your Heavenly Kingdom. To Live Love, Peace and Joy. 

Thank You. Blessings Upon You, Father God in Jesus.Life, Eternal Blessings. Amen.

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