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Forever Perfect?

February 17, 2010 by Jason DeMars  
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The pastor at my church has off and on for the last few years brought this verse up and its a huge encouragement to me in my life.

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. Hebrews 10:14 ESV

By the offering that Jesus Christ gave of himself unto God on the cross he has perfected us forever. It is a one time act. His life for my life, God’s wrath was poured out on the body of Jesus instead of my body. He took my punishment so that I would have eternal life. Its nothing that I could do in my life to earn that perfection. That perfection is given as a gift. Bro. Branham said, “Every man and woman that’s born of the Spirit of God, and washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and believes every Word of God, stands as though you never sinned at the first place. You’re perfect.”


According to this verse who are the ones that are perfected for all time? It’s the people that “are being sanctified.” Notice, it does not say those who were sanctified. As in they were already sanctified in the past tense. No, it tells us they are BEING sanctified. They are going through the process of sanctification. It is not a one time event, its a continuous process that we go through all of life.
What encouragement! If we are in the process of God cleansing our lives and making us more set apart for his purposes we are PERFECT for all time through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ. If sanctification is taking place in your life, if God is working with you to change you and change your desires over time you are showing forth that you are perfect and sinless in the eyes of God through the blood.


That encourages me because I have so many things in my life that I need to have the Holy Spirit work out of me through that process of being sanctified. My desire is for more of His love in my life for everyone; for the people at my church, my neighbors and my enemies. I need more of Him every minute, every day, every hour. I fall short in so many ways, but my life purpose is ALWAYS to be open to whatever the Spirit wants to speak to me, correct me in and direct me to. I miss what He is saying sometimes, but I always want to move closer to being able to hear and respond immediately.


If you are born of the Spirit and believe every word of God then you are going through the process of sanctification. We make mistakes, we stumble, we fall, but the Lord is working, he’s teaching us and working with us to be more and more in the image of his Son. “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son…” Romans 8:29

God bless,

Jason


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Preach the Gospel

July 3, 2009 by Jason DeMars  
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I have a deep burden in my heart to see the gospel preached here in America amongst and through believers of the end-time message. Here is the reason I have this burden.

I have seen and heard of many people being so disturbed because someone presented them with William Branham and his ministry. They say something like, “the worship William Branham” or “they are exalting a man.” What a reproach this brings upon the word of God!

What happened to following William Branham’s example and preaching the same gospel that he did. Not just a powerless presentation of the powerful ministry of William Branham, but preaching the gospel with signs following. When I say the gospel I mean, the apostolic fathers’ faith, the original faith preached by the apostle Paul. I’m talking about water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, the oneness of the Godhead, the work of the Holy Spirit, the blood of Christ, sanctification of the Spirit, holiness living and salvation by faith alone. The mysteries of the scriptures are important, but people need to hear the original faith and gospel. I am seriously in prayer that the Lord would raise up a generation of brothers that would preach the word and not preach quotes of God’s servant or about the miracles of God’s servant.

As glorious and wonderful as the ministry of brother Branham was we are never called to lift up a man. We are called testify of God’s work, but not before we testify of the real true gospel of the bible and Jesus Christ. My hope is there would be a group of men raised up to preach out of the scriptures and not a bunch of quotes and statements piecemealed together. The gospel (that is the good news that Jesus is Lord and Christ, that he has raised from the dead and that through his name there is remission of sins) comes not in word only but in power and demonstration of the Spirit that faith might be in God and not in the words of men.

My hope is that the saints in America would be revived to this and would go out in our local areas and present the truth we have been restored to in a scriptural means and not as the seven sons of Sceva who said, “we adjure thee in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Many times that is what we do as we preach, “bro. Branham said this out of the bible and bro. Branham taught that out of the bible.” PREACH THE WORD!

I pray the Lord helps us all!

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