Pigpen is Forever 27 Kurt Cobain's Last Words - The Twelve Tribes
Pigpen is Forever 27 Kurt Cobain's Last Words - The Twelve Tribes
Pigpen is Forever 27 Kurt Cobain's Last Words - The Twelve Tribes
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<strong>Forever</strong> <strong>27</strong><br />
“THE REMEDY”<br />
Continued from page 10<br />
Yahshua died for every<br />
sin in you, no matter how<br />
terrible or how trivial<br />
it may seem to you. H<strong>is</strong><br />
blood can cleanse you of<br />
your sins, if you believe<br />
upon H<strong>is</strong> name. If I were<br />
to die for you and give<br />
my blood as a sacrifice<br />
for your sins, it wouldn’t<br />
work. But H<strong>is</strong> blood works.<br />
He <strong>is</strong> your only hope. No<br />
other name can save you.<br />
He <strong>is</strong> the only one. He <strong>is</strong><br />
salvation. H<strong>is</strong> name means<br />
salvation. Th<strong>is</strong> Salvation<br />
<strong>is</strong> God’s free gift to you to<br />
save you from your sins.<br />
A Blood Covenant<br />
He told H<strong>is</strong> d<strong>is</strong>ciples<br />
one time that to be H<strong>is</strong><br />
d<strong>is</strong>ciple you had to eat<br />
H<strong>is</strong> body and drink H<strong>is</strong><br />
blood. (A large number of<br />
people went back to their<br />
homes and quit following<br />
Him after that statement.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y had better things<br />
to do.) Though it sounds<br />
strange, the Son of God<br />
was trying to make a point!<br />
In the same way, many<br />
ancient tribes understood<br />
that the life of something<br />
or someone was in their<br />
blood. Thus, they made<br />
blood covenants with<br />
one another, binding<br />
agreements. It <strong>is</strong> a prom<strong>is</strong>e<br />
of “life for life.” H<strong>is</strong> life for<br />
you <strong>is</strong> in H<strong>is</strong> blood. When<br />
Yahshua shed h<strong>is</strong> blood<br />
for us in death, the Father<br />
forever bound Himself to<br />
honor the death of that<br />
Lamb that would pay<br />
the price for man’s sins<br />
once and for all time.<br />
If you don’t lay your<br />
hand upon the head<br />
of that Lamb as your<br />
substitute in death,<br />
identifying your total<br />
being with Him, as the<br />
slain lamb sacrificed<br />
for you, it does not<br />
count on your behalf.<br />
You must actually lean<br />
your entire personality<br />
on Him in faith and<br />
confidence before you<br />
can reach H<strong>is</strong> blood. Th<strong>is</strong><br />
blood <strong>is</strong> the only thing that<br />
has the power to cleanse<br />
your dirty conscience and<br />
forgive you forever and<br />
ever. You will not be able to<br />
come into th<strong>is</strong> new blood<br />
covenant any other way.<br />
Th<strong>is</strong> covenant <strong>is</strong> not a<br />
mystical experience that<br />
<strong>is</strong> way beyond your reach.<br />
In giving up your old life<br />
among h<strong>is</strong> people who<br />
are gathered here on th<strong>is</strong><br />
earth in tribes of caring,<br />
forgiven people you will<br />
find the reality of “life<br />
for life.” You will come to<br />
understand all about h<strong>is</strong><br />
death on the cross, where<br />
He shed H<strong>is</strong> blood, and<br />
how that can become a<br />
reality in your daily life<br />
of covenant love, lived<br />
for Him alone. It <strong>is</strong> there<br />
where you can learn what it<br />
After hearing such<br />
good news of love and<br />
forgiveness, what other<br />
response could a man<br />
have but to devote the<br />
rest of h<strong>is</strong> life in giving<br />
thankful appreciation<br />
for th<strong>is</strong> sacrifice?<br />
means to “repent” (change<br />
your whole way of life).<br />
You can’t do it merely by<br />
reading a Bible or believing<br />
something in your mind, or<br />
by l<strong>is</strong>tening to a preacher<br />
on TV. You must count<br />
the cost. It’s life for life.<br />
You must give up<br />
everything that makes up<br />
“your life.” You must give<br />
up all your possessions, as<br />
well as all your personal<br />
ambitions, just a surely<br />
as a man who enters h<strong>is</strong><br />
grave in death cannot take<br />
anything with him. Any<br />
earthly tie with relatives<br />
or former friends who<br />
would hinder you from<br />
following Him must be<br />
left behind. Hanging on<br />
to anything betrays the<br />
fact that you are not truly<br />
giving up “your life” – thus<br />
H<strong>is</strong> life will not be given<br />
for you… “Life for Life.”<br />
Th<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong> the absolute<br />
call of a Good God who<br />
knows how to save us.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Son of God made<br />
it supremely clear in<br />
H<strong>is</strong> own words when<br />
He said: “Assuredly, I<br />
say to you, there <strong>is</strong> no<br />
one who has left house<br />
or brothers or s<strong>is</strong>ters or<br />
father or mother or wife<br />
or children or lands, for<br />
My sake and the gospel’s,<br />
who shall not receive a<br />
hundredfold now in th<strong>is</strong><br />
time — houses and brothers<br />
and s<strong>is</strong>ters and mothers<br />
and children and lands,<br />
with persecutions — and<br />
in the age to come, eternal<br />
life” (Mark 10:29-30).<br />
If you give up your<br />
life, you will find life,<br />
true life, eternal life. You<br />
will reach the blood that<br />
can wash you clean and<br />
make you new inside. H<strong>is</strong><br />
life will live in your life.<br />
A <strong>Twelve</strong> <strong>Tribes</strong> Freepaper<br />
After hearing such<br />
good news of love and<br />
forgiveness, what other<br />
response could a man<br />
have but to devote the<br />
rest of h<strong>is</strong> life in giving<br />
thankful appreciation<br />
for th<strong>is</strong> sacrifice?<br />
If you love your life, you<br />
will lose it. If you want to<br />
hang on to your life, you<br />
can — at least until you<br />
die. After you die, you will<br />
face judgment along with<br />
everyone else who has<br />
ever lived. That <strong>is</strong> when<br />
we will all have to answer<br />
for the way we lived these<br />
few years on th<strong>is</strong> planet.<br />
<strong>The</strong>n it will become all<br />
too clear what our deep<br />
inner motives were. It will<br />
either be a day of shame<br />
or a day of rejoicing.<br />
So, if you love your<br />
fallen, rotten, stinking,<br />
lonely life, you can keep<br />
it. But without the benefit<br />
of the sacrifice there will<br />
be no remedy for all your<br />
maladies. But if you are one<br />
of H<strong>is</strong> sheep who desires<br />
a new life, you can give up<br />
your life and receive the<br />
remedy. If you do, you will<br />
find true life — eternal life.<br />
You will be joined together<br />
with H<strong>is</strong> people in a life<br />
together. It <strong>is</strong> just what<br />
you’ve always wanted.#<br />
Yahshua <strong>The</strong> Name Above All Names<br />
In the days of John the<br />
Bapt<strong>is</strong>t and the Son<br />
of God, the preserved<br />
language of the devout Jews<br />
was Hebrew. So, when the<br />
angel Gabriel brought the<br />
good news to the Hebrew<br />
virgin, Miriam (or Mary in<br />
Engl<strong>is</strong>h), that she would<br />
give birth to the Savior<br />
of the world, and told her<br />
what H<strong>is</strong> name would be,<br />
what language do you<br />
suppose he spoke? Hebrew,<br />
of course! And certainly<br />
Miriam and Yoceph (or<br />
Joseph in Engl<strong>is</strong>h) named<br />
the child just as the<br />
angel had commanded<br />
them — Yahshua.<br />
In Matthew 1:21, your<br />
Bible probably reads, “…<br />
and you shall call H<strong>is</strong> name<br />
Jesus, for He will save H<strong>is</strong><br />
people from their sins.” But<br />
the name Jesus <strong>is</strong> a modern<br />
Engl<strong>is</strong>h adaptation of the<br />
Greek name, Iesous, which<br />
<strong>is</strong> itself a corruption of<br />
the original Hebrew name<br />
Yahshua. <strong>The</strong> name Jesus<br />
or Iesous has no meaning<br />
of its own, but the Hebrew<br />
name Yahshua literally<br />
means Yahweh’s Salvation, 1<br />
1<br />
Yah <strong>is</strong> the personal name of God,<br />
and shua <strong>is</strong> from a Hebrew root<br />
word that means “to save.” God<br />
identified Himself to Moses as<br />
YAH (meaning “I AM”) in Exodus<br />
which makes sense out<br />
of what the angel said in<br />
Matthew 1:21, “…you shall<br />
call H<strong>is</strong> name Yahshua<br />
[Yahweh’s Salvation],<br />
for He shall save H<strong>is</strong><br />
people from their sins.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> fact <strong>is</strong>, the name<br />
of God’s Son was not even<br />
3:14, as in Psalm 68:4, KJV (“whose<br />
name <strong>is</strong> Jah”), and as most familiar<br />
in the word Hallelujah (“Pra<strong>is</strong>e<br />
Yah”). And in John 5:43 and 17:11,<br />
Yahshua says that He came in H<strong>is</strong><br />
Father’s name, “the name which<br />
You have given Me” (NASB), so it<br />
<strong>is</strong> not surpr<strong>is</strong>ing that the Father’s<br />
name would be incorporated into<br />
the Son’s name, Yahshua.<br />
pronounced as “Jesus”<br />
in Engl<strong>is</strong>h until the 16 th<br />
century, simply because<br />
there was no “J” sound<br />
or letter in Engl<strong>is</strong>h until<br />
then. 2 <strong>The</strong> modern letter<br />
“J” developed from the<br />
letter “I” which began to<br />
be written with a “tail”<br />
when it appeared as the<br />
first letter in a word. So<br />
in old Engl<strong>is</strong>h the name<br />
now written as Jesus<br />
was actually written<br />
and pronounced much<br />
like the original Greek<br />
2<br />
Compact Edition of the Oxford<br />
Engl<strong>is</strong>h Dictionary (Oxford<br />
University Press, 1971), pp.<br />
1496,1507.<br />
Iesous. Eventually the<br />
hard “J” sound crept into<br />
the Engl<strong>is</strong>h language to<br />
accompany the different<br />
way of writing the<br />
initial “I” in the name.<br />
You may also find it<br />
interesting that in Acts<br />
26:14-15, it says that the<br />
apostle Paul heard the<br />
name of the Son of God<br />
pronounced “in the Hebrew<br />
tongue” by the Son of God<br />
Himself, so he certainly<br />
didn’t hear the Greek<br />
name Iesous or the Engl<strong>is</strong>h<br />
name Jesus, but rather the<br />
Hebrew name, the name<br />
above names, Yahshua. 3 #<br />
3<br />
Philippians 2:9; Acts 4:12<br />
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