STUDIES FROM BRETHREN IN CHRIST

4/25/2021 ~ Raised Up

🌌   RaisedUpAM.mp3 (38m 57s)   RaisedUp.pptx Darkness sacrifices the loss of light. What holds all is that which comes from above lifting below. To gaze upon the heavens touches a call to come home. ... So the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. ~ Numbers 21:5-6 The fire of sin bites all that sink to its’ darkness. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; ... ~ Numbers 21:7 Tragedies onslaught often reveals the fear of evils done. ... So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. ~ Numbers 21:8-9 To live, one must look up to God and what He has begun in Christ, our once eternal propitiation. ... broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, ... ~ 2nd Kings 18:4 Physical desires can blur the truth of what is not seen. ... as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him ... ~ John 3:13-16 Eternal love calls for our return to the heights of forever. "... He who comes from heaven is above all." ~ John 3:31 God has spoken to the entire world of what is from above. ... "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; ..." ~ John 8:28 No doubt is left for those that believe in what God no longer needs to do; a call to come. "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself." ... ~ John 12:32-33 The proof is in the sacrifice and the truth it delivered. People of the earth need to be lifted up to find salvation. "... the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me." ~ Matthew 11:5-6 Extreme mercy in love preceded Christ’s murder    THE    ● Blind see  ● Lame walk  ● Lepers are cleansed  ● Deaf hear  ● Dead are raised up  ● Poor have the gospel     Miraculous wonderments followed truths announcement by God Himself. ... "The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up." ... ~ Matthew 17:22-23 It is natural to have sorrow in our separation from God’s immediate personal presence. ... and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, ... ~ Matthew 27:51-54 Witnesses aboundingly sail the echoes of time that heal as many souls who hear. ... For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection - and no angel or spirit; but the Pharisees confess both. ~ Acts 23:8 Confusion has no shortage when men are involved in explaining what they do not know. In the light of Jesus Christ, His truth of resurrection now remains. "He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay." ~ Matthew 28:6 Truth cannot be covered by lies of what God has commanded. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, ... ~ 1st Corinthians 15:6 God’s reassurance through resurrection gave an undeniable eternal foundation for all to see and remember. "This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses." ~ Acts 2:32 What a wonder to see God ascend before mere mortals. ... God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, ... ~ Philippians 2:8-11 How can anyone of true enlightenment not bow in worship for what God has done for all to know. "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." ~ Acts 4:12 From days of old, His call is to come near, away from leaving His heart, of life’s truth. ... looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, ... ~ Hebrews 12:2 To look to God through Jesus Christ saves the soul and inspires the beginning of life forever. To see Him one has to rise through the heart. ... knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. ... ~ Romans 6:9-12 To be free of death, one has to realize He died for all, conditionally upon all who would believe, and obey. If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. ... ~ Colossians 3:1-3 No one in mortal flesh can see into the bottom of another's heart; each of us is hidden in the confines of our own being. Life is either plain and honest or deceptive and corrupt. To seek things above clears a heart to know what is of all higher truths. Focused on earth below involves material self-seeking, frozen away from any true empathy. Selfish hearts are wells of darkness. Unambiguously, love renders life where hate delivers death. We must die to our hate, for self and others, to see God’s mercy under His grace. Alone, all come to judgment. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. ... ~ Colossians 3:4-5 An event comes to all oceans in life’s game, a rendering of truth upon His judgment of light. Unto You I lift up my eyes, O You who dwell in the heavens. ~ Psalms 123:1 When our longing hearts call as equally for His return, we have arrived. To be lifted on high Jesus is of the sweetest ● People complain even when God supplies ● Moses made a bronze serpent for healing the bitten ● The people turned the bronze serpent into an idol ● We must look up to the truth of Jesus to be saved ● From heaven, Jesus is above all ● Jesus offends many for His miraculous powers ● Many dead came forth after Christ’s crucifixion ● Jesus humbled Himself in the face of evil ● There is no other salvation than through Jesus ● Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith ● Exercise self-control over lusts of the flesh ● Seek those spiritual things from above ● The faithful will appear with Christ in glory To each soul’s hope for love’s return cannot be hushed. Darkness hurts for the music it cannot hear.