2020 Passover Message to the Brethren
All of us in God’s church are concerned about the upcoming holy days and the fact that we won’t be able to join together in fellowship and praise of our Father in heaven and our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. While we will greatly miss these wonderful opportunities for sharing our common faith, we are not like the many organizations in this world who share a common interest. We must realize that our calling is a vey different one from all other religious organizations.
We are not members of an external church, headquartered in some worldly location that we must contact by our presence, or by phone, mail or other physical means. Our calling comes from our Father in heaven. John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father draws them. John 6:55 This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them. If you are in God’s church, it’s by design and not accident. You had a personal invitation to be a member of God’s family. Matthew 12:48-50. When asked, He replied “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers ?”. Pointing to His disciples, He said “Here is my family. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
John 4:24 God is spirit and His worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth. John 4:21 You will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem, nor at any worldly location. There won’t be a need to do so. John 4:23 As the time has come when true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for these are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
We have a personal covenant with Christ Jesus, one which we will renew shortly. It is a covenant with Him alone and no one else can share it with us. We have a desire but no need to be with others with like mind or to be in a particular location. Hebrews 12:22-24 You have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel, the first to walk with God. This is where our prayers are heard and our renewed covenant is observed. Hebrews 10:16 The covenant that we have with God is in our hearts and in our minds. Hebrews 10:17 Our sins are forgotten.
We will keep our covenant with Christ on Tuesday evening, April 7, after sundown. What we will celebrate has nothing to do with Israel or the Jews, religious organizations, church leaders or any denomination. Those who think it does, lack understanding.
To those who will be alone at such an important time and are concerned
because of the foot washing: Through our calling and our walk with God’s Holy Spirit, we are now living the foot washing. We come before God with a contrite heart as the lowest of servants and would gladly wash the feet of our family members, those who walk with God’s Holy Spirit. Philippians 2:1-5 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interest of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus. The same mindset of the One who washed the feet of His disciples. Hebrews 10:10 By that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. John 13:8 We are clean because we have been washed by the blood of Jesus Christ. John 13:10 We walk in this sin-filled world and if our feet get dirty, then we must kneel before our Father in heaven and have our feet washed in forgiveness through Christ. He is the One who washes the feet of those who walk with Him, just as He washed the feet of His apostles. We must repent in order to have unbroken fellowship through the Holy Spirit.
1John 1:5-10 This is the message we have heard from Him and declared to you; God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out 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, His Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar and His word is not in us.
May God grant us special favour this Passover season.
Alex Kennedy sr
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