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Friday, August 8, 2025

Why Priests Ate The Sin Offering

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Here is a short article by an unknown source. Enjoy.

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In the Old Testament, priests were commanded to eat parts of certain sin offerings as a critical part of the atonement process. This practice, outlined in Leviticus 6:24–30, was deeply symbolic and served several purposes within the covenant relationship between God and Israel.

Bearing the Sin on Behalf of the People

When priests ate the sin offering, it symbolized their role in mediating between God and the people. By consuming the offering, they participated in the process of transferring and bearing the people’s sin, pointing toward God’s provision for dealing with guilt. This act prefigured Christ, our ultimate sin-bearer:

 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness” 1 Peter 2:24.

Holiness and Atonement

The sin offering was considered “most holy” and had to be consumed in a holy place.  Leviticus 6:26. This act signified the priest’s consecration and underscored the seriousness of sin and the holiness of God. Through the offering, atonement was made, and the priests acted as representatives of God’s sanctifying work.

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Foreshadowing Christ as the High Priest

The priests eating the sin offering pointed to Jesus Christ, who is both the ultimate High Priest and the sin offering itself:

 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” 2 Corinthians 5:21.
By consuming the offering, the priest’s actions typified the redemptive work of Christ, who fully dealt with sin on behalf of His people.

Sustenance Through Ministry

Eating the sin offering also provided sustenance for the priests, reminding them that their service in God’s house depended on His provision. In the New Testament, this principle continues as spiritual sustenance:

 “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst” John 6:35.

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Communion with God

Finally, consuming the sin offering emphasized fellowship with God. It was a physical reminder that reconciliation with Him involved intimate participation in His provision of grace. This fellowship is fully realized in Christ, through whom we now have direct communion with God:

 “We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat” Hebrews 13:10.

The practice of priests eating the sin offering was both a symbolic act of bearing the people’s sin and a typological foreshadowing of Christ’s perfect atonement. It demonstrated God’s holiness, provision, and the necessity of a mediator—a role ultimately fulfilled in Jesus, our High Priest.






















Tuesday, August 5, 2025

When it's His Will

Hello everyone,. Praise the Lord!

WHEN IT'S HIS WILL

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We met an American at secret church here in San Sebastian, Spain. She is a young lady from Colorado. Her name is Sheila. I had thought that she was Hispanic, but her mother was from Switzerland and her father was a black American.

Back in Colorado she was putting out job applications and praying for God's guidance about her future. She was an English teacher. The answer to all of her job applications was, "no." Every company and school turned her down. A closed door is an answer. 

But so is an open door.  Suddenly, out of nowhere, she received a phone call. It was someone from Spain! The person on the other end said that they wanted her to work for them! They said that they were looking for someone just like her to teach English there in Spain!

After praying about it, she felt that the Lord wanted her to go. Her mother, and others, said it was a good idea. She agreed to the job. They even paid for her to fly there. After getting there, and before her first paycheck, her money was getting low. She realized then that she was alone and scared. She couldn't even speak Spanish!

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She went to the bank to withdraw some of her last of her money, and out of the blue, someone approached her in the lobby....

A young lady walked up to her in the bank lobby, and said that she was going to give her some money! Then an older lady walked up to them, she was the mother of the first one. She said that she also wanted to give her some money!

The mother and daughter were complete strangers and seemingly came out of nowhere! They gave her all the money she needed to get by until her first paycheck came in. Only God could have done that!

We agreed and rejoiced that the Lord will meet our needs when we step out in faith!  When it's His will, it's His bill. She has now been there for over two years, speaks good Spanish now, and is active with her church. 

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Friday, August 1, 2025

Those Everlasting Arms!

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

THOSE EVERLASTING ARMS!


"Underneath are the everlasting arms!" Deuteronomy 33:27

That is, underneath every believer.

Those everlasting arms are there . . .
to bear him up,
to bear him on, and
to preserve from all real danger.

The arms of God are . . .
invisible — no one sees them;
spiritual — no one feels them;
careful — no one falls out of them;
omnipotent — no one overcomes them.

If the everlasting arms of my God are underneath me, then . . .
I may quietly yield myself unto Him;
I may confidently expect divine protection;
I may be certain that He will lift me above my foes;
I may feel assured that He will safely convey me home.

Aged saints may rejoice in this; for to them the Lord says, "I will be your God throughout your lifetime — until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you!" Isaiah 46:4

And weak believers may rejoice in this, for "He will carry the lambs in His arms, holding them close to His heart!" Isaiah 40:11

O to realize this sweet and encouraging truth: underneath me are the everlasting arms!”

























Tuesday, July 29, 2025

A Testimony

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Francis Hunter's testimony.

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I was a wild sinner when I got saved! I was smoking five packages of cigarettes a day, drinking martinis like they were going out of style, was the life of every cocktail party because I knew more dirty jokes that anyone else, and couldn’t open my mouth and say four words unless one of them was a swear word!

Then I met Jesus! 

And He turned my world around! I went to an altar a wild sinner, and because we’re called to be saints, I rose up a saint of God! God placed in my heart an instant hate for evil. I looked at sin and it made me sick, so I turned and ran as fast as I could in the opposite direction. My life was completely transformed in that one single moment of time.

When I stood up from the altar, even though no one counseled with me and no one prayed with me, I was an “instant” fanatic. In the twinkling of an eye, I had become a brand new creature in Christ! Somehow in a supernatural way which I do not understand to this day, God allowed me to instantly grasp and comprehend the principles of the Bible, even though I had never read it.I understood there was no room for sin in the life of a Christian.

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 I immediately understood that I had to die to self because Jesus had come to live inside of me. He was in my heart and I knew it! I had an instant revelation that I had to give away to everyone I met, what God had given to me. All of this had to be a supernatural revelation of the Holy Spirit, but whatever it was, I knew that holy living and total commitment were the only way to go.

I had stood there just moments before, totally oblivious to everything that surrounded me, only aware of the fact that I had made contact with a living God. I said, “God, I’ll make a deal with you. I’ll give you ALL of me, for all of YOU!” He accepted my offer and I gave away my total being to serve Him. Never again did the woman named Frances Gardner (my name at that time) live. It was a totally new creature who stood up with the knowledge branded on my heart that Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, was actually living His life in and through me.

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That new creature took off like a rocket that day! My daughter and I got into the car together and I drove down the highway toward the shopping center where my printing company was located. I literally tried to “beat” Jesus Christ into the head of every person I met. Something had happened to me, and I had this zealous desire in me to give it away to everybody. I have often said, “Jesus Christ opened my mouth, and I haven’t shut it since, and I don’t intend to ever shut it where He’s concerned!”

I could not contain within myself the wonderful thing that happened to me. I was not a “silent”
witness. There had been such a radical change in my life that I wanted every person with whom I came in contact to experience the same thing. There was a peace, a calm, a joy, a happiness, a zeal, and a fervor to share what had happened to me that could not be stopped! And I’m still the same way today!

- Francis Hunter ( His Power Through You )

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Friday, July 25, 2025

Three Generations

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Here is an interesting juxtaposition from an unknown source that I wanted to share.


Saul was chosen by the people.
David was chosen by God.
Absalom was chosen by himself. 

Saul had a jealous heart.
David had a heart after God.
Absalom had a heart to usurp authority.

Saul wanted praise of men. 
David wanted to praise God.
Absalom wanted to praise himself. 

Saul was insecure.
David was confident in God.
Absalom was defiant to authority.

Saul wanted to maintain his position. 
David surrendered his position knowing God would restore it if He desired.
Absalom stole his position through manipulation. 

Saul died by suicide.
David died in honor. 
Absalom died fleeing in rebellion.

Saul left no legacy. 
David provided the legacy of Jesus.
Absolom left a legacy of dishonor.

In this world full of Sauls and Absalom's, I am choosing to be a David.






















Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Whosoever...

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Whosoever.....

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Mark 11:24 is the verse that brought me off the bed of sickness. It is the verse I’ve used as an individual in prayer more than any other verse in the Bible. I’ve preached and taught on this verse more than any other text in the Bible.

Mark 11:24 was such a great blessing to me as I lay sick in bed. I had been given up to die by medical science. In those dark days on the bed of sickness, five doctors came and went, shaking their heads, saying that I had to die. They said I didn’t have even one chance to live, not even one chance in a million.

Then the preacher came and said I should be patient because in a few days it would all be over. It may seem funny, but I can’t tell it without tears coming to my eyes. It was between 2:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon on a hot August day in Texas. The sun was shining brightly and there was hardly a cloud in the sky. But when that preacher left my room, telling me it would all be over in a few days, that room was dark. It was as though someone had pulled the blinds and had just put out the sunlight. 

It was so dark. The preacher said I had to die.But thank God for this Word that fell from the lips of the Master as He walked the old dusty roads of Judaea long ago. Thank God, Jesus was talking to me when He said those words in Mark 11:24!

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I wrote in the margin of my Bible that this verse is for me. The word, “whosoever” in Mark 11:23 applied to me. So beside the words, “. . . WHOSOEVER shall say unto this mountain . . .” I wrote: “This means me.”

Mark 11:24 says, “Therefore I say unto you . . .” and I put my name where it says “you.” Jesus said, “Therefore I say unto Kenneth Hagin.” I just took God at His Word! He said it, and I believed it. And you can put your name in that verse too.

My heart leapt within me when I read this verse of Scripture and something on the inside of me was overjoyed and thrilled with these words from the lips of Jesus. It seemed that someone had turned on a light inside of me. On the inside of me something lit up.

Jesus is talking in this verse about what you desire. He’s telling you how to get the desires of your heart. He’s discussing the subject of prayer. He’s talking about how you through prayer can receive the desires of your heart.

This is the verse of Scripture that brought healing and strength to my body and to my poor deformed heart. This verse has enabled me, through these more than fifty years, to go almost constantly day and night without sickness, disease, or pain.

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For the first thirty years of my ministry, I never really stopped to take a vacation. I would hold two to four services almost every day. Minister friends told me they didn’t see how I held up under it. They said it surprised them that I didn’t wear out.

 But I live by what I preach. It’s not a chore and it’s not a job to teach the Word of God. It’s a thrill to do it. The Word works!

Jesus is talking about how you as an individual can receive the desires of your heart. Many times, people read something else into Mark 11:24. They think God might answer their prayer if it’s His will. Well, it must have been His will to answer their prayers or Jesus never would have said to ask! 

If it wasn’t God’s will that you have the desires of your heart, then Jesus  lied about it by saying believers were to ask. I would much rather believe that someone else lied about this verse, than to believe that Jesus lied.

For about a month after that preacher left my room as I lay on the bed of sickness, I never even looked at the Bible. I didn’t even ask to have the Bible brought to me because I thought I was going to die at any minute. I thought, Surely if the preacher knew of any help for me, he would have told me. But he just told me that in a few more days it would all be over.

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In October, following that day in August when the preacher came to see me, I asked Momma to bring the Bible to my bed. I opened it to this verse in Mark 11:24 and I read it again. Then I told the Lord that the doctors said I had to die; in fact, five of them had said I had to die.

The last doctor spent forty-five minutes talking to me one day explaining my condition to me. He told me nothing could be done for me. He did say that unless a Higher Power intervened, I would die. He told me to stay ready to go. When the preacher came, he wasn’t even as kind as the doctor was about my condition! He didn’t even ask me whether I was ready to go or not. He just said that in a few more days it would all be over.

So I told the Lord what the preacher had said. Then I pointed out to Jesus that when He was on the earth He had said, “ . . Wha.t things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24).

I told Jesus that the desire of my heart — the one main consuming desire of my heart — was to have a well body. I told Jesus that I was going to take Him at His Word. I told Him that if I didn’t get off that bed, it would be because He told a lie in His Word. I said that if His Word didn’t work, then I was going to have my folks throw my Bible in the trash can.

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But I knew that His Word wasn’t a lie, and I also told Him this. I knew it was the truth. I told Him that I was going to get off that bed. I didn’t get off the bed that day, but you can see I made it!

Don’t try to put some kind of an interpretation on the Word of God. Just take it for what it says. In Mark 11:24, Jesus is talking about your desires. I can’t make this scripture work for someone else. I can help the other fellow with my faith sometimes, and get the blessing of God to work for him to some extent, but there is a part that he has to play in answered prayer.

I can’t always make God’s Word work for the other fellow; it depends on what He does with the promises in God’s Word himself. But I can make God’s Word work for me, and you can make it work for you too. Jesus is talking about what things soever you desire. He’s talking about your praying. This verse does apply to the other fellow, but he has to appropriate it himself. You can’t do it for him.

- Kenneth E Hagin ( Bible Prayers Study Course)

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Friday, July 18, 2025

The Gift of Other Tongues

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Here is a short example of the spiritual gift of other tongues.


THE GIFT OF OTHER TONGUES 

One day I stood at the railway station in Logansport, Indiana, waiting for my train and observing a group of Italian men, apparently laborers, sitting on a bench. They were going somewhere to work.  As I walked up and down the platform, I said, "Oh, God, how much I would like to be able to talk to these men about the living Christ and His power to save! "

The Spirit said, "You can."

I stepped over to them; and as I preached, I observed myself beginning to speak in some foreign language!  I addressed one of the group, and he instantly answered me in Italian. I asked where he was from, and he replied, "Naples."

For fifteen minutes God let me tell the truths of Christ and the power of God to that group of laborers in Italian, a language of which I had no knowledge.  That was a little flash, a gleam but one day, bless God, there will come from Heaven a shower that will so anoint the souls of men that they will speak in every language man speaks by the power of God.  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come Matthew 24 14.