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Let us Come Forward to God through Christ to be Saved from any By-Products of Death

Christ in His ascension is a divine High Priest who is able to save us to the uttermost if we come forward toGod through Him, since He lives always to intercede for us (Heb. 7:25). Let us therefore come forward withboldness to the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help (Heb. 7:26)!Christ in His ascension is the High Priest according to the order of Aaron, according to the order ofMelchizedek, and a divine High Priest.As a high priest according to the Aaronic order, Christ offered Himself

as the all-inclusive sacrifice for all our sins; He entered into the holy tabernacle in the heavens and madepropitiation for our sins, being the sin offering for all mankind.

As the High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek, Christ is the kingly high priest. As the kinglyHigh Priest, Christ ministers the processed and consummated Triune God into us as our life supply (typifiedby the bread and wine offered by Melchizedek to Abraham).As the divine High Priest, Christ is saving us theuttermost all those who come forward to God through Him; He is saving us from death and all the by-products of death and, in this process, His divine life swallows up all the death and fills our whole being withGod’s life!

Hallelujah for our Christ in ascension who is the great High Priest ministering God into us as our life supplyand saving us to the uttermost in His life! If we come forward to God through Christ, He is able to save us tothe uttermost from any aspect of the effect of death on our life and living; He is able to save us from anydecay, sighing, groaning, moaning, complaining, vanity, and corruption.By coming into us as the divine lifein resurrection, Christ has started a process of swallowing up any aspect of death in our being and in ourliving. The more we come forward with boldness to the throne of grace, the more we receive mercy from theLord and we find grace for timely help! Lord Jesus, we come forward to God through Jesus Christ to be savedto the uttermost today!

Sin brought in death (Rom. 5:12), and death is not only physical but also psychological and spiritual, anddeath has many by-products. Both sin and death are terrible, and they have a great impact on man.When we believe into the Lord, He washed away our sins and came into us with His divine life to deliver usfrom the power of sin; however, even though sin is finished, death still operates and the by-products of death

still affect us. According to the broadest understanding in the Bible of death, death includes vanity,corruption, sighing, groaning, and decay (see Rom. 8:20-23).The by-products of death are such things asvanity (the feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness), corruption (the feeling and reality that you’re decayingand eventually dying), bondage (the fact that you’re bound, unable to do what you want to really do), sighing(reacting with hopelessness to things beyond your ability to handle), groaning, pain, and decay.All these arethe by-products of death, and they operate in all human beings; when we received Christ as life, he came intous and His life started working within us day by day to swallow up all the by-products of death. Whenwe come forward to God through Christ by coming to the throne of grace, Christ’s life in us swallows up anydeath and any by-products of death.

As we live by the Spirit and walk by the law of the Spirit of life, we have no more vanity, no more corruption,sighing, groaning, and decaying. This is what the Bible tells us, this is what we believe, and this is whatactually happens.All mankind is polluted by corruption and decay, and every person is groaning deep within;even though many try to find some comfort and happiness with sports, entertainment, cars, and other thingsin the world, the sense of vanity and corruption is still within them and the inward groaning is present witheveryone.As believers in Christ we can also be affected by this; if we are not touching the Lord and living bythe spirit, we are touched by death and the by-products of death operate in us.Because of these issues ofdeath, we need the salvation that comes through the divine priesthood. Christ’s divine priesthood doesn’t justsave us from sin but also from corruption, decay, vanity, sighing, and groaning; furthermore, His divinepriesthood is not only restitutional but constitutional – we are being constituted with God’s life!

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As the life of Christ spreads in us and swallows up death and its by-products, we are being constituted withChrist to be the same as He is. Through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, andresurrection, Christ has been fully perfected forever; in Him there’s no groaning, sighing, corruption, decay,vanity, or any other by-product of death. Christ in His ascension is fully perfected and fully able to save us tothe uttermost if we simply come forward to God through Him!

Lord Jesus, we come forward to the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help. Lord,thank You for Your death-swallowing life in us. Keep us coming to You again and again so that Your life may operate

in us and swallow up any by-product of death. Lord, save us to the uttermost a little more today! We want to live by thespirit and walk by the law of the Spirit of life in our spirit so that we may be delivered from vanity, corruption, sighing,

 groaning, and decay!

The Bible promises us that Christ is able to save to the uttermost all those who come forward to Godthrough Him; we simply need to come forward to God through Christ and the divine priesthood will operatein us to deliver us from any death or by-product of death – and save us to the uttermost!An aspect of being saved to the uttermost is being saved from remembering other’s mistakes; we may saythat we forgive others of their mistakes, but we still remember their mistakes – this is not real forgiveness.When God forgives us, He forgets (Heb. 8:12), and when we are one with the Lord to forgive others, we willalso forget their mistakes.

We need to come forward to God through Christ, coming forward with boldness to the throne of grace, sothat we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help. When we come forward to God through Christ,our divine High Priest, He saves us in the power of His resurrection and by the law of the Spirit of life (Phil.3:10; Rom. 8:2).Unbeknownst to us, when we come to the throne of grace and contact the Lord in our spirit,the law of the Spirit of life operates in us spontaneously and automatically to save us from death and theissues, the by-products, of death. At the same time, when we touch the Lord in our spirit and come forward toHim, the power of Christ’s resurrection operates in us to deliver us from any death and any by-product ofdeath so that we may be saved to the uttermost.

In Hebrews we are told four times to come forward: we need to come forward with boldness to the throne ofgrace (Heb. 4:6), come forward to God through Christ (7:25), come forward to the Holy of Holies (10:22), and

come forward to Mount Zion (12:22).Our Christian life is a life of coming out of ourselves, our situations, ouropinions and thoughts, and our feelings – and come forward to God through Christ; a normal Christian life isa life of enjoying Christ and having His life operate and grow in us to save us to the uttermost.

Lord Jesus, we come forward to You to be saved to the uttermost! We refuse to stay in our situation, our condition, our feelings, or our way of thinking; we come forward to God through Christ so that we may enjoy the Lord and be saved tothe uttermost by His death-swallowing and life-imparting divine life! Lord, we come forward with boldness to thethrone of grace. We come forward to God through Christ. We simply come forward to You so that You may save us tothe uttermost!