Verse of the Day 11/9

Through the Bible - Lamentations 2-4, Hebrews 8

 

Good morning,

The thought from this weekend was that Christ reaches down to us, He is the anchor and the holder.

Today's verse comes from Hebrews chapter 7 and tells us that Christ is able to save "to the uttermost".  He reaches us in the depths and brings us to uppermost heights in relationship to Him, for eternity.

Heb 7:24 But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.   NKJV
or from the Amplified Bible -

Hebrews 7:24 But He holds His priesthood unchangeably, because He lives on forever.

25 Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them.

 

When you read the words from the Amplified version about your salvation, how do you feel?  What does it mean to you to be saved "competely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity.  Do you realize how this was accomplished?

 

Helmut Thielicke wrote, "I see that he, whom "all the universe cannot contain", comes down into the world of little things, the little things of my life, into the world of homelessness and refugees, a world where there are lepers, lost sons, poor old ladies, and men and women who are afraid, a world in which men cheat and are cheated, in which men die and are killed.  Crib and cross; these are the nethermost extreme's of life's curve; no man can go any deeper than this; an he traversed it all.  I do not need first to become godly and noble before I can have part in him.  For there are no depths in my life where he has not already come to meet me, no depths to which he has not been able to give meaning by surrounding them with love and making them the place where he visits me and brings me back home."

 

Other religions stress the heights that their followers must achieve through works.  Christ came down into our world (read Philippians 2), humbled Himself in order to reach us.  Other religions stress the heights that their followers must achieve to reach their god before he would accept them.  Our God proves that He is a living God by proving His love for us through the depths to which He descended.

He saves to the uttermost by living in us.

 

Rom 8:9-11  But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells — even though you still experience all the limitations of sin — you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's!    from THE MESSAGE

Christ lives in us to reach those in our world where there are lepers, lost sons, poor old ladies, and men and women who are afraid.

 

In Christ,
Mike
mikevw@bellsouth.net
http://mikesvotd.blogspot.com
Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace  NIV
Heb 7:20-8:1

 

Greatness of the New Priest

 

20 And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath 21 (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him:

 

"The Lord has sworn
And will not relent,
'You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek'"),

 

22 by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.

 

23 Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing. 24 But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

 

26 For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; 27 who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.   NKJV