The Sure Effect of This "Of and For"
Leviticus 16: 5
The Pharisees and Sadducees were kinsmen according to the flesh with Paul, with the same scriptures, using the same name of God, but they would not walk with Paul because they were not OF this family and Christ's sacrifice was not made FOR them. Only the Spirit of God makes this mystic sweet communion through the truth of Christ in the new birth (Jn 3: 3; 1 Pet 1: 23-25). Yet, every one in whom Christ dwelt joined themselves with Paul because they were children of promise. Through Paul they heard THE VOICE of their Father and their Redeemer which never fails to unite our hearts in love! (Romans 12: 5; Ephesians 4: 1-5.) No matter the measure of grace given to the believer, each one follows one voice and a stranger we will not follow Jn 10: 1-5, 14, 26-31). We rejoice that we are fully, freely, forever accepted in the Beloved. Our confidence for needy sinners, as well as our fellow brethren, is that through the same good news, through the same power of God's Spirit whereby we were called, shall each child of promise be born anew and grown in grace. Therefore, we deal mercifully with sinners and with one another's grave clothes which we each still bear. It is all because of these two little words "OF and FOR."