WEDNESDAY, March 4th, 2009

Hey guys! Great thoughts yesterday! I wish more of us were on here! But I am thankful for the faithful!!

A Few Thoughts From Yesterday:
Michael: I love that question: Is it possible to live without sinning? Here is how I answer it: Is it possible to go one second without sinning? Yes? What about 2 second? Yes? What about 10 seconds? 30 Seconds? 1 minute? 10 minutes? 1 hour? 24 hours? I believe the answer is yes to all of them, God would not call us to do something that is not possible! God has called us to live holy (seperate from sin) and that is what we should strive for every day!
Victoria: Glad you are on here! Are you coming to church tonight? (you better if you know what is good for you :)

Hebrews 5

1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

This is deep! If you are like me, you probably read quite a bit of this and did not understand it... I can explain part of it, but I want us to place our main focus on the last 3 verses... At the beginnind of this chapter it is explaining the position of the High Priest, the High Priest is the man in the old testament who went to God on behald of the people... The high priest went in to make the sacrifices for everyone elses sins, but the ironic part of that (what is also mentioned in verse 2) is that it says: "he himself also is compassed with infirmity". In other words, HOW CAN HE PAY FOR OUR SINS, IF HE IS COVERED IN SIN HIMSELF!!!!!

That is an absolute logical question, how can someone pay to get me out of debt, if they are in just as much debt as I am?? THEY CANNOT!!! In the same way, A Priest is a sinner just like me! Therefore He cannot pay for my sin! No, only a perfect high priest can pay for our sins, only a sinless sacrifice can cover our sins... Aren't you so thankful for Jesus!! He is the perfect High Priest! He could/ and did pay for our sins, when no one else could!!

That is cool, but lets jump to the end of this chapter! Look at verses 12 - 14
It makes it clear that there ar etwo kinds of truth, truth that is easy to digest (like milk) and truth that is much deeper (like meat)... The idea here is an illustration: You do not give a newborn baby a new york strip steak!! That would be crazy, and irresponsible! He might choke on it! His body cannot handle it! In the same way, you must start out as a young believer, or a new believer on the milk of the word...

It can be tempting to run straight to revelation, or some other prophetic book whenever you first get saved, but this passage makes it clear that we need to take our learning process in order! I was just talking with someone last night about the rapture and I thought to myself, if someone was not a believer, they would think that I am a nut for telling them that one day All Christians are going to vanish into thin air... We must take Gods truth in time, and in a process!

What stage in the process are you at? Time to start growing?