Heb_11:13 These all died in faith, not having received
the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and
embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the
earth.
1Pe_2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers
and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul
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Strangers and
pilgrims.
The promises.
Persuaded of the promises. Embraced the promises.
What promises?
1Jn 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised
us, even eternal life.
2Pe_1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Heb 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being
left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent
ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was
established upon better promises.
Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been
faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith,
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made
with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of
the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded
them not, saith the Lord.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws
into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God,
and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his
neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know
me, from the least to the greatest.
Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
We've been promised
eternal life.
Yesterday we talked
about the fact we gave up our rights to this world making all who would belong
to God and the Savior God, strangers and pilgrims upon the earth. Every stranger and every pilgrim has received
a promise of eternal life, the very thing that was given up upon sinning. Eternal life.
There is NO greater promise.
Do we embrace the
promises, are we persuaded of the promises? Truly are we seeking our eternal
home? Is our eternal reward a reality to us.
We are told to store
our treasures in heaven, not upon earth. What treasure but those that are
eternal can be stored in heaven? No temporal treasure can reside in heaven, not
a single one. Yet our treasures are supposed
to be kept there. So tell me right now…
please… what treasures of yours are stored in heaven, and please, if the first
thing you think of is your loved ones then you haven't been reading my blogs or
visited the website or anything because the truth is, our loved ones are
sleeping the long sleep in death and will NOT rise to meet the Lord in the air
until He returns for us all, this is Biblical truth. No one has a loved one,
other than their SAVIOR and the FATHER GOD, in heaven. So again, I ask, what treasures do you have
in heaven?
More on this
tomorrow by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!
Amen.
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