Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart

Matthew 11:27, “All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”

We do not have a separate relationship with God apart from the Father and Son’s own relationship.

God is not establishing new relationships with others.

He has established one relationship, and that is with His Son.

Then He gives that relationship away as a gift.

This is the meaning of the gift of eternal life in the New Testament.

Eternal life is receiving the Son of God into us and participating in His relationship with the Father.

John 17:3 says, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”

Also, 1 John 5:20 says, “And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.”

When we receive eternal life, we receive the Father and Son’s very own relationship.

Now Christ Himself is my relationship with the Father.

You and I do not have a different relationship with God from the one Christ has with the Father.

This is why, after the Lord revealed the one unique relationship in the universe between Himself and the Father,

He immediately said, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:27-28).

This means that there is no longer any need to labor and struggle in our souls, trying to establish our own relationship with God (Rom. 10:3-4).

We only need to come to Jesus and learn from Him.

When we do, we become one with Him and discover that our relationship with the Father is actually His relationship.

We are merging with His relationship with the Father, and this brings rest to our souls.

Until Tomorrow

With A Shepherd’s Love,

Pastor Jackson

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Pastor Jackson

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Karen Slane

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Linda Alexander

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Linda Hodges’ Sister 

Lonzo Christin 

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Marynell Ford 

Maureen Brown 

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