The visitation in support of the family of our brother Jimmy Shearer
will be this Wednesday evening – Oct 9th – from 5:00pm – 8:00pm at
Spurlin Funeral Home, located on US Hwy 27 just north of Lancaster. The funeral service will be Thursday afternoon – Oct 10th – at 2:00pm, also at Spurlin Funeral Home.
To stand in support of Mary and the family, and to allow everyone that
wishes the opportunity to pay their respects at the visitation, we are
canceling our Yom Kippur Service Wednesday evening, For “Precious in the sight of The Lord is the death of one of His saints.”
Although Yom Kippur is a
specific day on most calendars and in the annual cycle of the moedim (the
appointed holy days of our Creator) as set forth in Scripture, for every
born-again believer in Messiah Yeshua/Christ Jesus of Nazareth that came in the
flesh, our ‘Yom Kippur’ was and is the consummation of the time when we came to
understand our need for a reconciler and saver (by the convincing and
convicting work of the Holy Spirit) and
were made whole (sozo) by faith through grace in The Word of God and The Blood
of The One Slain before the foundation of the world was laid.
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God
by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his
life.” (Rom 5:10)
As believers in Messiah
Yeshua, we are not betting our eternal destination on a ‘ hope-so’ that our
names might be written in a book of life because of something we do once a year,
but rather a reminder of the sureness of our eternity because of what was begun
for us on a cross on Calvary and consummated on that day when Yeshua took His
blood into the ‘Holy of Holies not made
with hands’ and performed Yom Kippur for me and you and everyone one who has
and will call upon His Name.
“ . . . for I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded
that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.
(2Ti 1:12)
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ . . .(Rom 8:16-17)
And if you belong to Christ, then are you Abraham’s seed,
and heirs according to the promise. (Gal 3:29)
So as we ‘afflict our souls’ on this day of remembering, may
it not be so as to wish our names to be written down, but to remember the
purposeful and intentional suffering and agony of our Saver Yeshua, and that by
faith in Him we ARE reconciled and saved, and because of Him our names HAVE
been written down, for our names are engraved on the palms of His hands.
“ . . . and as we
share (in some small way) in His sufferings,, we may also share in
his glory. “(Rom 8:17)
That if you shalt confess with your mouth Adonai Yeshua,
and shall believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you
shall be saved. (Rom 10:9)
In Him, you also,
after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation– having
also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14
who is given as a pledge of our inheritance (by whom you were sealed for the
day of redemption), and redemption as His purchased possession, to the praise
of His glory. (Eph 1:13; 4:30)
Sukkot is coming up. But you can’t get to Sukkot until you
first pass Yom Kippur. Sukkot is the ‘family reunion of all times’. How do we
get to be part of the family ? We enter at Passover. We come in through the
Door, Yeshua. For no one comes to our Father but by Him. So we accept our
Father’s Kippur – His covering – the blood and body of Yeshua. Now we can enter
His presence unafraid . . . for He sees us through the Blood of His Lamb . . .
the One Who was born to die . . . for me and for you.
So, as we observe this
memorial day, may we be mindful as to why we should willingly ‘afflict our
souls’ . . . for Yeshua willingly
suffered torture and death that we might live and have life abundant and
eternal.
” . . .do you think that I cannot appeal to My
Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of
angels? (Mat 26:53)
“ . . .No one takes (My life) from me; I lay it down of
my own free will, and as I have power to lay it down, so I have power to take
it up again . . .”(Joh 10:18)
“ . . . and Yeshua went a little further, and fell on his
face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass
from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will. (Mat 26:39)
This is why we observe Yom Kippur. Not for what might be,
but for what WILL be because of what has been done.
For even though we were hostile, we were reconciled to
God by the death of his Son; and much more, having been reconciled, we are
saved by His (resurrected) life. (Rom 5:10)
As you prepare to observe Sukkot – no matter how, where, when or with whom – may these words be the theme, the focus and the intent of our gatherings . . .”What can wash away my sin? Nothing . . .nothing . . .nothing but The Blood.What can make me whole again? Nothing . . .nothing . . . nothing but The Blood.”
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