God’s eternal Altar

The Cross is an eternal memorial altar before the heavens.

The God of heavens and earth had erected an eternal altar from eternity past to eternity future for all who would come to realize that salvation is not found anywhere, but in the name of Jesus the Christ and through this an eternal abode has been opened up for us in heavens.

As Abraham the father of our faith built many altars and they later on served as memorial sights of God’s goodness to him, we have an eternal altar in the sight of God build by Him spiritually to serve us as an eternal reminder. For two thousand years men looking at the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ are reminded of this eternal altar where the greatest sacrifice of heaven once was nailed to. This was and is the fulfillment of heavens demand for justice. A deep eternal conviction of the truth for all who would live by the principals of its  revelation of grace. A magnificent sight before God for His mercy on human soul. As the rainbow upon the waters of the flood was a reminder to God for mercy, the cross is an eternal reminder to God for the sacrifice of His own atonement. Today we the truly redeemed have this memorial to look upon just as Abraham did when he erected his alters to later on remind him of God’s own goodness to him upon his return to thepromise land.

The same is true for us today. Looking at the Cross in a childlike manner is to correct the error of religion. We should see love on the cross, a perfect demonstration of God’s eternal plan of redemption accomplished by it.

A look on the reality of the cross is no longer a place of agony or a yearly ritualistic moment of grief, but a joyous reminder of atonement of sins. Every year we are reminded of our greatest hope following the cross and that is the resurrection of our Lord from the dead.

When Israel sat at the Passover table, they celebrated their redemption from Egypt and their preservation from the death of their first born from the sting of the angel of death. The lamb on their table served as the means of their salvation and not a cause for mourning or grief. Messiah’s death is a sign of His love and the cross is the reminder of His eternal altar erected by his mercy.

The fallacy of the religious groups is to still see the eve of His crucifixion as a rehearsal of mourning over Christ’s God ordained death for our redemption. This raises a righteous anger within me, that the majority of the so called the believers too are allured in this mental trap of the enemy.

It is as though the spirit of Christ is not crying out to them for this fallacy. The darkest cloud of delusion has stolen the truth from them. Instead of the joy of our salvation in the hope of redemption, they are ensnared in a thick cloud of delusion. It is as though the cloud on the night of Christ’s crucifixion has descended upon their mind. Satan who is the master of all intrigue has rubbed them of the truth in presenting them to believe the counterfeit.

Even when the Messiah who was carrying the cross was tired of its weight the Bible says a man named Simon a Cyrenian came that he might bear the cross after Him.

Right in the midst of this the scripture tells us that “ A great multitude of people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him, but Jesus turning to them said;

“Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children” “For indeed the days are coming in which they will say“Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed! “The they begin to say to the mountains Fall on us !” and the hills “ Cover us!”

“For if they do these things in the green wood , what will be done in the dry?”

Luke 23:26-31

Reading this part of the scripture too is another indicator of God’s warning on mourning for His Son’s death on the cross, even on His suffering for such a death, since this was the perfect will of God for the salvation of all. Here there is also another important aspect of His words, which is to be aware of the coming persecution immediately in Israel and at end of the age.

Jesus Chris our Lord is presenting a very valid case here for his suffering, saying I go through this and it is the victory of the Father for the punishment of sin and is the means for eternal life for many. I am the fruitful tree and the green tree. But you and your children even the best of you are as a dry tree and if you cry it should not be for me, it must be for you and your children for who’s sins I am going on this cross.

Jesus also spoke about the immediate and future suffering of all who would reject Christ. The true mourning of a beleiver should only be for his own sin and not for Christ who was the sacrificed Lamb of God. His day of crucifixion is the actual day of man’s atonement and the true day of the atonement not a repeated day of mourning for His Substitutionary death.

He was the true sin offering, and the cup we drink this day is a cup of the memorial of His victory, a joyous act of celebration.

The scripture in Hebrews chapter 9 verse 25 is cautioning us in regards to even saying He is being sacrificed often, meaning over and over again, year after year. Therefore we as the New Covenant believers must be cautioned in regards to observing this day as a ritual. This is a true  feast of celebration and not an occasion for weeping or mourning for the work of our redemption. As we said if there is any mourning it is not once a year at this night, but a continual act of humility before God for our own sins and shortcomings. Tonight’s reminder must be a posture of humble thanksgiving for God’s eternal plan of justice accomplished on that glorious day almost nineteen hundred seventy six years ago inJerusalem.

Now Apostle Paul says we are celebrating His death in a memorial remembrance every time we come together as a Church. An awesome occasion to remind ourselves of this joyous victory of our God.

The word in 2 Corinthians 5 verse 16 reveals even a higher truth about Christ our Lord, and I pray for us to fully embrace its complete understanding. This truth is the way we need to know and relate to Him now. That He is no longer as the days of His flesh. Church let us wakeup completely from our slumber of religion. Let us cast off the veil of religious unbeleif and let us enter into His truth. His resurrection is a reality by which you and I were saved, therefore stop relating to Him in a dying and ignorant way.

I feel it is a very pathetic confusion to leave our initial confession of faith and once again walk in the ignorance of unbeleif, covered in the name of religion.  As Jesus said to Mary in a form of the Gardner “ Why are looking for The Living among the dead?”

His resurrection from the dead was and is the key to the heavens gate.  I truly believe it is a great spiritual injustice to ignore the very truth of the gospel of our Lord in falling back to a dead religion with no power to bring life to the redeemed.

Here in this race of faith we spend our time in the flesh living the crucified life after His awesome example, which is the true message of the cross.

Communing with His living Spirit in fellowshipping with Him in the Power of his resurrection daily is our goal in life.

Therefore the remaining time in our flesh is just an opportunity to serve Him by His grace and we are not to spend our days as  mourning for what is the glory of His righteousness.

The Bible says in Romans that, Christ resurrection is the prove of his righteousness, and that is what we are to celebrate tonight.