Saturday 7/26/14 The Old Road Map 3

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You, and I ask forgiveness of my sins.  Thanks for all You do for me each day.  Please help me now with the daily message, Lord, for as You know right now I am struggling some.  In fact, a lot.  Lord, please help me with the message and then please help me to dispatch it.  Please keep watch over those we have been praying for.  In the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.

Brothers and sisters, I want to get right to the message today.  We need to see where this old road  map is going to take us this day.

Saturday:  July 26, 2014, The Old Road Map (Day Three)

John 17:17 - "Sanctify them by the truth, Your word is truth.  18 As You sent Me into the world, I have sent them into the world.  19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified."  (NIV)

Hebrews 10:10 - And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.  (NIV)

In John 17:17/19, we see Jesus praying for His disciples and of course we are the disciples of today.  You can see we are sanctified by the Truth and of course the word of God is the truth.  So to Sanctify we who are working for Him and all others who accept to be sanctified by the blood of Jesus.  Before Jesus there were lots of sacrifices made unto the Lord, burnt offerings, sin offerings.  Lambs were sacrificed on the altar, but that was before Jesus.  Jesus became the Lamb who was sacrificed for the sins of the world.  I want you to take a good look at the wording of:

Hebrews 10:10 - And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.  (NIV)

It is not a mistake that the wording in our Bible when talking about the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus on the cross, says, "Sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all," when one might think it should be once and for all.  What this means is that Jesus Christ went to the cross one time for all of us, one time for everyone.  So in short, Jesus went to the cross, killed, sacrificed for all of our sins, even for the sins of those who do not believe in Jesus.

Now I want to get a little deeper into this.  Once Jesus died for us, we were made clean, if we indeed accepted what He did for us.  Once we asked Jesus into our hearts, once we become "Born Again," then our body becomes a Sanctuary.  We become the place where Jesus can come and dwell.  I don't remember all the words, but we at one time would sing a song that went like this:

"Lord, prepare me to be a Sanctuary."  And we just need to be cleaned up by the blood of Jesus.  Once we have cleaned our bodies, minds, hearts, and souls of sin by taking Jesus on as our Savior, then only one person can mess it up.  Want to guess who that might be?  No, it is not Satan!  The only one who can mess up our Sanctuary is our own self.

So our Father in Heaven gave us His Son Jesus (John 3:16).  Then Jesus went to the cross for us, and we just need to confess our sins and our believing and faith over to Jesus (Romans 10:9/10).  I think we need to close out this short week by making our bodies a Sanctuary for Jesus.  Are you with me?  Let's pray.

Dear Father in Heaven:  I confess I am a sinner and I want to be clean.  I want to be sanctified by Jesus.  I want to become a Sanctuary for Him to come and live.  Please, Lord, clean me this day, and Jesus, I believe You died for me and were risen from the dead.  Seal my place in heaven this day by placing my name in the Lamb's Book of Lie.  In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya.  Please share my love with others.

Pastor Dan