The Proof of Our Ministry 1 Do we have to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as others do, letters of approval to you or from you? 2 You are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all men. Through our ministry to you, you are declared most definitely to be the letter of Christ, not written with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, and not on stone tablets, but on the tablets of the heart. 4 We have this trust through Christ toward God. We are not sufficient in ourselves, and we don't think we are, but our sufficiency comes from God. 6 Who has made us able ministers of the New Covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. But if the ministry of death written on stones, was so glorious that the children of Israel were not able to keep looking at the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face, even though that glory would be done away with: 8 How much more will the ministry of the Spirit be glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, how much more will the ministry of righteousness surpass it in glory. 10 That which was made glorious, has no glory at all, compared to the glory that surpasses it. If that which was done away with was glorious, that which remains is much more glorious. 12 Since we have such hope we speak plainly. Not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel were not able to look at the end of that which has been done away with. 14 But their minds were blinded: and the same veil remains and has not been taken away, in the reading of the Old Testament; but that veil is removed in Christ. Even today when Moses is read the veil is on their heart. 16 But if we turn to the Lord the veil is taken away. The Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. 18 But we all with unveiled faces are looking at the glory of the Lord, and are changed into the same image: from glory to glory, by the Spirit of the Lord. Compiled by: Joseph Zeiss Edited by: Joel Barrios
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There are only two kinds of people.
People who are dead TO sin. People who are dead IN sin. Everyone is currently on their way to Hell. It is an eternal Lake of Fire.
Everyone is going there. There is only One Way out. Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father, but by Me." Jesus is our only Hope. These are facts. First, we are eternally doomed to torture forever because of our sins. Second, we have only One Way to escape. So if Jesus is the One that can save us, shouldn't we be investigating Him and who He is? There are two obvious solutions. The first is by reading Bible. Here is another fact, Jesus is God and He wrote the Bible. So if the only One that can save us wrote a book, then we should probably read it! Good advice was given me when I was seeking after Jesus for Salvation. The person said to read Genesis, because it was about God creating the universe, and the New Testament, because it focuses the most about Jesus and salvation. So read the New Testament and Genesis. When your done, start over. After all we are talking about Eternity. We should be investing everything into securing our future. Some people focus on securing things in this life. How much more important are things which make a billion years look like a drop in the ocean. We will be alive forever and ever. That is a fact. We have only two options. That is another fact. Heaven, because Jesus knows us and we know Him, or Hell because we rejected Him either outrightly or by ignoring Him. This is very Urgent. We must seek after Jesus. So the first obvious solution is to read the book that Jesus, who is God, wrote. The second solution is to talk to Jesus because He is God and can hear our prayers. We must read the ONLY Divine Book and we must converse with the ONLY Divine Person. When we read the New Testament we find out that Jesus is very Holy, Truthful, and Loving. He heals people to show His Love, that He is God, and to show our need for ultimate healing in Salvation. We read in the New Testament of the Bible that Jesus was born of a virgin, lived a perfect life and died on the cross, willingly, to pay for our sins against Him and make a way back to Him. He paid the death penalty and then conquered death, for everyone who believes in Him, by rising from the dead, just as He said He would. He then ascending back into Heaven, after giving many convincing proofs to many people that He was alive. He then sent us His Holy Spirit to guide us into truth and lead us to Himself. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, and the comforter. These are all facts. Another important fact is that believing these facts and believing in Jesus is NOT enough. That is correct. We must go further. We must seal the deal. In our reading the Bible and praying to Jesus, we must come to a place of complete surrender and yield our wills and our lives totally to Jesus. When this occurs the Holy Spirit instead of guiding us to Jesus on the outside, now He takes up residence in our spirit and heart never to leave us or forsake us, leading and guiding us in true obedience. The Spirit of Jesus will move on our hearts to seek after Jesus and will point to Jesus and lead us to Salvation (giving our lives to Jesus), but after we give control of our lives to Jesus, His Spirit come to forever live in us. It is incredible. Some people wonder if you feel anything and the answer is ABSOLUTELY! It is going from death to life. It is literally becoming a new creature that knows and loves God and wants to follow Him and has the ability to follow Him because God LIVES IN THEM! Those are the facts. Eternity is Forever. Jesus would that none would perish, but He also commands us to seek after Him with ALL OUR HEART!!! ONLY THEN WILL WE FIND HIM! He is a real person, alive and well and ruling the universe! His Holy Spirit is everywhere and if you seek with all your heart you will feel His Presence and give Him your life and be forever saved in His loving Arms! The reason the world is in bad shape is we have an enemy, the devil, that wants everyone to go to Hell. Also all people's hearts are corrupt. This make for a bac world. But Jesus is accomplishing exactly what He wants in the middle of what seems like chaos. We must trust Him and seek with all our heart. We must get rid of sin. We must pray that Jesus help us give Him our lives. We must read the New Testament. We must ask God to lead us. We must be all about Jesus 24-7. We must seek with all our heart. We must not give up. We must know that Jesus is for us. We must trust in Him at all times. And Jesus will show us through His Holy Spirit to invite us to give Jesus our lives. We must give Jesus our lives. Jesus loves us and eternity is hanging in the balance. Seek with all your heart and everything and YOU WILL FIND JESUS!!! GOD BLESS! I just wanted to say thank You to Jesus!!!
It has been approximately 10 years! January 2011 I gave my life to Jesus!!! Thank You Jesus for Saving me, being my Lord, my Guide, my Protector, and my Friend! You have never left me. You are my Best Friend! Thank You for everything! Help me to follow You even more and closer! Love You Jesus!!! Happy Anniversary! Love, Your son, soldier, slave Joseph Zeiss "As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good."
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May 2021
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