Dear Lord we are grateful to you for your love and mercy from the cross and the Good News. We know that we are sinners and guilty before you and unworthy of such a love and redemption in Christ the Lord and Savior. Thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit, thank you for your word, the Bible, the Bread of Life. Please bless us all to feed on it everyday and every night. Above all we thank you for Lord Jesus who died for our sins that we may be saved and restored to you forever. Please bless us more and use us for the sake of world evangelism. Please give us wisdom to have a tender heart and concern for the unsaved. Please help us to sacrifice it all for the sake of the lost so they may be saved too. Please bless this message to go out with the power of the Holy Spirit, and convict every ear that you are righteous, and the coming judgment is near and we must repent and make a decision for Christ today, right now. Please bless Iranians and all others who do not know Christ and the Gospel, so they may be saved too. Please bless every reader of this message to become a Bible reader. Please bless Iran with Christ more than ever before, so they may all know Him and the redemptive power of His blood and resurrection.

"Search the Scripture, for in them you think you have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me." John 5:39

Dear Reader, we have been most blessed one more time to hear the words of the Messiah, speaking to everyone of us in the most personal way, the living Bread of Life¹, feeding us for the will of God, fresh manna from Heaven, reviving us, and transforming us unto the will of God². What a blessing at this time of our life to have God our creator to speak to us! What a privilege to listen to our maker and to have His nature, the very nature of God, the Holy Spirit, the Comforter³, to reside in us and give us companionship⁴ and convict our hearts for The Way and The Truth and The Life⁵.

Dear Reader, Lord has been faithful, long suffering, and not slack concerning His promise, and is not willing that anyone should perish⁶. Now He is giving us one more chance to know His revelation⁷, and His plan of salvation through the Messiah⁸. Please respond to His plea and conviction and ask Him to forgive you and save you⁹ today! For many of us, this might be the last time that God is trying to have fellowship with us and His word. This might be the very last time that the Holy Spirit convicts our hearts with His plea and Promise¹⁰, and He is ready right now to pardon us¹¹, and adopt us unto His own, as His own child¹², and give you His own mind¹³.

Dear Reader, the one who created us, God, the one who spoke us unto being now wants to speak to our being! He is telling us or commanding us to search the scriptures so we may come into contact with Him and be blessed by His wisdom and to have a personal relationship with Him and to be born again by The Spirit of the Lord¹⁴.

Dear Reader, there is nothing better we can do than be obedient to His Word and His commands and instructions¹⁵. Here the Lord is guiding us to His Living Bread of Life, to His Word, to the scriptures. He also tells us the reason we err is because we do not know the scriptures¹⁶. Studying the scriptures prayerfully will surely put us in touch with God and He speaks to us through His Word and gives wisdom¹⁷. Lord says only fools despise wisdom and instruction¹⁸. For the Lord giveth wisdom and out the His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding¹⁹. Please note that at the time, our Lord spoke these words Bibles were not available like they are today, and certainly there are plenty of them printed every year in America. There was only the Old Testament hand written and many in fragments in some synagogues and the high priest or rabbis could touch it, kiss it or read it, or pass it to anyone he selected. According to the will of God, the New Testament was written later and gathered and added to the Old Testament or the Torah. Now the Lord has blessed us much more than the past generations for He has made His Word, the Bible, available to us and now we can reach it and pick it up and read it or even listen to it through an electronic audio device! "In the old times," the words of scripture traveled around person to person, starting from the synagogue. There was no printing press, no radio, no television or telephone, or internet! However Christ told them to read the scriptures and definitely He was speaking to the Jewish leaders or the Rabbis who were in possession of the Word of God in their worshipping places, the synagogue. Evidently those folks believed that they are the most favored by God for being children of Abraham, and having received the laws through Moses. Therefore, God is more pleased with them and they also thought that they are most obedient to the Law, till Christ met with them and told them that they are full of dead man’s bones, and all uncleanliness, and full of hypocrisy and iniquity²⁰. It appears that theses folks were selective when it came God’s Word. They hid parts of the scriptures and did not tell their congregation about it²¹. They only opened up the parts that were most favorable to themselves and their sacred positions and incomes and benefits. And how often this happens that Lord trusts someone with many talents, but the servant puts His own needs above the Lord’s or hides the truth and becomes dishonest and unprofitable to his master²². The trusted servant goes on with things that do not matter and hides the talents which is the Gospel and will not use it for the benefit of God and His kingdom. What a horrible thing to do?! To keep the Truth hidden, to keep "The Light of the World"²³ hidden in this present darkness is a sinful thought and deed which God hates.

They hid the Heaven, Grace, Salvation, Eternal Life, the very God Himself, and preached and encouraged works and deeds. They hid the Savior at the Calvary and took the perishing and the dying to a mountain of laws, the Mount Sinai, and there they told them about doing things to go to Heaven while they knew about God’s teaching about man’s work²⁴.

Dear Reader think about it that how wicked man is and how deceitful his heart is, even God warns us about it²⁵. Dear friend, God is not pleased with man! Man’s works and sacrifices are abomination and insults to God²⁶. That is why Lord Himself, the Creator, came down on this earth and lived with us and tells us to study the scripture and He is "The Life"⁵, which we are looking for, and He is God²⁷. Later on in the New Testament God points us out to His Word, His Revelation, the person of Christ as the ultimate sacrifice for our sins, that if we come to believe and repent we are saved from the coming judgment and wrath²⁸.

Dear Reader, to learn more about this fact we must be obedient to the commandment of the Lord and go read the scriptures, the foundation of living water. Through reading of the scriptures God will talk to us and we will come to have faith in His Word and we will come to believe²⁹ for sure that God does not lie and all His precepts are true and righteous and give life³⁰. That life is the word of the Messiah³¹, the Living Christ. We will come to believe that God came in the flesh and did not commit sin³², and the Jewish religious men, with the help of unbelievers took Him, and beat Him and tortured Him and crucified Him at a place called Calvary³³. There the innocent blood was shed for our sins, our dead works³⁴. There at the Calvary the innocent Christ, the Savior³⁵, the Holy One, the Hope of Israel³⁶, our Passover Lamb³⁷ was crucified for us sinners³⁸. His love and mercy is so great that even though we were not physically born yet, He thought about every one of us and He gave His life there at the cross as the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. When we come to believe in His deity and works, we will be saved from the coming wrath of God. As the result of our faith in Him we also receive the new life, the nature of God, the Holy Spirit, forever.

While here at the Calvary, let’s look at Christ our Savior on the cross. Look at Him, who died for our sins. Isn’t He lovely? Did any man ever love us as much as He did? Did any man forgive as much as he did ? Did any man ever care for us as much as He did? Indeed He is the Incomparable Christ! There on the cross while His hands and His feet pierced and His side tore up, bleeding and hurting and dying with His last breaths He prayed for us, asking God to forgive us³⁹.

Now look at Him there on the cross, dying for your sins, yes for you. Instead of you and I wretched sinners, He is on the cross dying and with His last breath He said "it is finished"⁴⁰ and died.

Yes, indeed He died for out sins and fulfilled the prophecies of God in the scriptures. He is the fulfillment of the scriptures. In fact, He is the scriptures, the Word of God⁴¹. The word of God says that every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become guilty before God⁴². For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God⁴³.

So we are all guilty before God because we are sinners and it is in our blood, ingrained in us, it is our fallen nature which we inherited from our parents Adam and Eve! But God says that Christ is the propitiation for our sin⁴⁴, and if we believe, He is our Saviour⁴⁵. Now Christ’s earthly works in the flesh ended by his death on the cross. But He rose on the third day and many who saw Him believed on Him⁴⁶ and it is all in the scriptures. That is why God’s word says read the scriptures so we may know Him and His plan of salvation for us sinners

Dear Reader, since 2000 years ago millions of wretched sinners have come to believe on Him, and repented of themselves and called on Lord Jesus to save them, and the Lord Jesus always does that⁴⁷.

Now do you believe on Him as your Savior and Lord? Do you believe that you are a sinner too, and even your good works will not save you? Do you believe that God is only pleased with you when you ask Him to come and live in you forever? Do you know that God’s word says that Christ in us "is the Hope of Glory?⁴⁸" That means that there is not glory in anything or anywhere or anybody but Christ, living in us, meaning the same way He was resurrected and glorified, we will be too, because if we are Christian then He lives in us!

Now don’t you like for God to forgive all your sins and reconcile you back to Himself and to save you and give you eternal life? If answers to all these questions are "yes," then praise the Lord for He has revealed Himself to you and His Spirit has convicted your heart of all things⁴⁹.

Now why don’t you ask Him, right now to save you? And say this simple prayer. Go on, just talk to Him. Right now is the very moment!

Dear Lord, now I know that I am a sinner and you are my Savior. I repent of my sins and ask you Lord Jesus to come into my heart and live with me forever. Please help me to live the way you want me to live, a holy life! I ask in the name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Dear friend, if you have said this prayer with faith in Christ and his deity, now you are a Christian or a new creation⁵⁰, a child of God⁵¹. Now you have just been born into the kingdom of heaven⁵².

Now your concerns and interests are of the father’s and not this earth. To know things better we must be obedient to the command of the Lord, " Search the scriptures ". So read the Bible every day, talk to the Lord in prayers, attend a church where the Bible is taught, and the Gospel is preached and an invitation to Christ is given. Attend Sunday school. Give to the Church with your time and treasures and talents. Tell everyone about your faith in Christ and your new life in Him. Congratulations for becoming a member of the international and the heavenly family of God. Thank you Lord Jesus, Amen.

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