Today, Pastor Jenkins spoke on what’s required for salvation found in 1st Peter, Chapter 1. Salvation is a free gift from Yahweh through Yahshua (our Comforter). Without Yahshua’s grace, we are lost and have no salvation and no chance to receive Eternal life. That is why it is so vitally important for us to repent for our sins and invite Him into our hearts. What’s holding us back from moving forward?
Don’t think for a minute that once we’ve accepted Yahshua, everything is going to be easy. NOT SO FAST: Understand there still will be challenges because Satan, our Number One Enemy will continually try to pull us back into a life of sin. He believes if he had control of us once, he can force us to turn back. That’s where Yahshua comes in—He will fight for you and lead you out of darkness into His glorious light. Yahshua is no respecter of persons, what He does for one, He’ll do for all.
When we repent for our sins, we become new creations in Yahshua, and our old life is “no more.” We now can move forward trusting in Him that our sins have been completely washed away, resting assured that we will never be the same.
If you want a new life -- we encourage you to try Yahshua! In Him, you’ll have what you need to defeat Satan and move closer and closer to a life of victory!
Memory verse: 1st Peter 1:9
Pastor Jenkins pulls back the curtain today and speaks about the right kind of prayer – which is the prayer of faith.
As believers—we have accepted Yahshua our Savior into our hearts. Now, we know how to pray according to His will. Let’s look at what He says in verses 14 and 15:
14: “And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He hearest us:
15: And if we know that He hearest us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.”
Our Heavenly Father Yahweh only hears our prayers when we pray to Him through His Son and according to His will. There’s no other way to receive salvation but through YAHSHUA, and His way is found in the pages of the Bible.
So, instead of crying, worrying, and wringing our hands about situations that are out of our control, why not pick up the Bible and act of what you’ve read. JUST STAND ON THE WORD OF YAHWEH AND BELIEVE.
We must remember: in order for Yahweh to hear us, we must be one of His. He answers our prayers in His own time because He knows what’s best for us. Therefore, we must wait patiently and be in expectancy knowing that Father Yahweh through His Dear Son Yahshua answers prayers when the time is right.
Also remember we must always forgive everyone -- no matter what (see Mark 11:25, Matthew 6:12 and Luke 6:37).
Memory verse: 1st John 5:3
Pastor Jenkins speaks about "Saved By Grace" from Romans 10. One might ask: "what does saved by grace" really mean? Well, it means through Yahshua's death, we received unmerited favor. We are forgiven for our sins even though we don't deserve it since we did nothing to receive His favor. Even though we didn't love Him, He still yet loved us and continues to love us. Out of His great love for all of mankind, He took our sins upon Himself and in exchange offered us eternal life. He did this for us because He loves us. He didn't leave anyone out. Not one person's sin escaped Him, His death covered it all. Once we meet the criteria found in verses 9 and 10, we are no longer the same. Instead of practicing sin, we now have the strength through Yahshua to say "NO" to sin, and go on praising Him. We're not perfect because we're in these flesh bodies, we still commit sin but now its unintentionally. As believers, we don't go around looking to commit sin and that's the difference.
We didn't do anything to deserve Yahshua's goodness. It was all His doing. When He shed His precious blood and died on the cross taking on the sins of the whole world, was when unmerited favor came into being; prior to His redemptive act, unmerited favor did not exist.
So now, the only question is "do we stay under guilt and shame" or do we invite Yahshua to come and live in our hearts. I choose to invite Yahshua into my heart and confess out of my mouth the words found in verses 9 and 10.
Don't let Satan steal your joy. You are a new creation in Yahshua, old things are passed away and all things are become new. Just know that you are not alone, there are others pulling for you, so take heart and be encouraged.
Memory verse: Romans 10: 9-10
Hearing and obeying Yahshua our Savior is the message Pastor Jenkins brings forth today from Hebrews 10.
To hear and obey takes some effort on our part. First, we must pay attention to what is being said/taught in order to correctly follow directions. Secondly, we must put into action what we have learned. In the natural sense, we have experienced what happens when we give our full attention to a specific situation—we receive a passing grade. The same is true in the spiritual realm. When we listen to Yahweh’s word and act on it, we receive a passing grade. The grade given in this life determines whether we have salvation which leads to Eternal life in Yahshua.
As you know, back in Old Testament days, when a person committed sin, an animal sacrifice was required for forgiveness of sin. The first verse of this Chapter says, “For the (sacrificial) law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.”
However, in the New Testament age, Yahweh sent Yahshua to the Earth to atone for our sins, and thereby He became our Sacrificial offering. He offered Himself ONCE for the sins of the whole world. So, when we repent for our sins in Yahshua’s name, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness.
If we are committing sin, we need to repent immediately in Yahshua’s name because Father Yahweh sent Yahshua to the Earth to shed His blood and die for our sins.
So, the question is: how are we living our lives? Does it honor or dishonor Yahshua?
Memory verse: 8:13
Pastor Jenkins message today entitled, “Yahweh speaks to us through His Son Yahshua” comes from Hebrews 1, with supporting Scripture found in Matt 17.
We know in the Old Testament age, Yahweh spoke to the people through His prophets and other ways. But, in the New Testament age, He speaks to us through His Son Yahshua – the One Who died on the cross for our sins and now offers us salvation, which leads to eternal life.
Father Yahweh gave all authority to Yahshua, Who came to Earth for the specific purpose of dying for our sins, so we could be forgiven and receive salvation. He finished what He was sent to Earth to do; now we must finish our part by inviting Him to come and live in us. When Yahshua was on the Mount with His disciples Peter, James and John, His appearance changed. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. As they continued watching, they saw His appearance change and heard and saw Him talking with Moses and Elijah. Then the disciples fell to the ground and heard a Voice coming from the cloud that said, "This is My Beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased, Hear Him!"
So now, we can pray to the Father through Yahshua asking forgiveness for our sins, and if we are serious, He will hear and answer our prayers.
Yahshua came for such a time as this. If it wasn’t for Yahshua dying on the cross, where would we be?
Today is the day for salvation; receive Yahshua today as tomorrow may be too late.
Pastor Jenkins, through Ephesians 1 continues to discuss with us Yahweh's promise of redemption to everyone who keeps our eyes on Yahshua. Our Redeemer Yahshua is the One who gave His life so that we could be forgiven of all the sins we've committed. We no longer have to be ashamed of what we did when we were in darkness. That being said, when we repent of our sins and invite Yahshua into our hearts, we are no longer sinners but children of the Most High Yah because we have been washed in the blood of Yahshua. As we continue to grow by reading the word of Yahweh and meditating on it, we grow in faith.
Out of a sincere heart, we ask Father Yah to forgive us of our sins and help us to receive His Holy Spirit. He will hear and answer our prayers. Do you wonder why? Well, because we are now ready to receive salvation through Yahshua, and through His love, we learn to lean and depend on Him.
As verse 6 notes and we as believers can now say, "To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has made us accepted in the Beloved".
Be blessed and know you are now in the family of Yah!
Memory verse: Ephesians 1:6