The reason why this offering is so vitally important when having a holy convocation it is because, “If we say that we have fellowship with Him (God the Father), and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness: If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us” (1John 1:6-10).
Please
not carefully that it is while we are having fellowship with one another and
walking in the light and partaking of the blood of the covenant that, the blood
of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. This cleansing is current, something
which takes place whilst having the fellowship service and it is made possible
through the cup of the New Covenant which Jesus blessed and gave to His
disciples saying; “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new
covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:27-28).
Therefore,
in order to fulfill the Apostle Paul’s urgent and fervent plea to present our
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service;
one must avoid defiling his /her body which is the temple of the Holy Spirit
and cleanse one’s self from all unrighteousness because, God the Father chose
us in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy
and without blame before Him in love. In Jesus Christ we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His
grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence
The
earnest plea from the apostle Paul to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service is not a yearly, quarterly,
monthly, or weekly phenomenon as practiced by some but one that is required on
a daily basis, because God’s desire is to grant us that we, being delivered
from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and
righteousness before Him all the days of our life (Luke 1:74-75).
To
serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness necessitates that we
follow and practice the formula or the protocol which produces holiness and
righteousness on a daily basis because, nature teaches us that in order to
maintain the state of beauty, pristine and cleanliness of any physical object
it must be cleaned on a regular basis and the spiritual aspect of things are no
different: For since the creation of the world God’s invisible attributes are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal
power and Godhead, so that we are without excuse.
To be continued
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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