Advancing Encouragement By:
Bishop James Jr. Hairston

PASSION WEEK STILL IN TUESDAY (NO RECORDS FOR WEDNESDAY)
Matthew: 25:34: Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

This picture of Christ separating the sheep from the goats is in perfect context of Him preparing to go to the cross during Passion Week. In three days our Lord and Savior was about to go and endure the brutal punishment He was going to receive from His enemies and then be nailed to the cross. While Christ knowing many would desert Him because of the curse of the cross they needed to hear these words so they could reflect on what was said six day’s earlier after His resurrection. Jesus Love for His children in-spite of their sin is ready to receive them into the Kingdom of God because He was about to shed His blood for them all the way to His death. In addition, the love that His children had for Him to do what He came to do there is a reward for our labor in the Lord to feed the hungry, visit the sick, to welcome strangers, to clothe the naked, and to visit those in prison. These words that Jesus Christ spoke were seeds planted into His disciples so that they could carry out the work after He leaves the earth. He new exactly what He was doing, He was calling those things that are not as if they were, right into existence even unto this day. Wow! He purposely waited to sow these words into His disciples for a reason. I believe it was because in light of the cross this was His direct purpose to bring forgiveness, freedom, healing, sight, prosperity and salvation to the poor, naked, homeless, sick, imprisoned, shut in, abused and down trodden. This was His ministry from the time He came out of the wilderness after being tempted by the Devil, Luke 4:18-21 unto this point of His ministry still proclaiming His purpose while on earth yet, leaving this charge to His disciples to carry it out in His stead. As believers we have a lot of work to do and in light of the cross this is even the more greater to be about the business of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior and to stop looking down on the people whom He came to receive and learn how to embrace them with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Today my friend, this is in light of Passion Week that we should keep this focus for the rest of our lives as believers in Jesus Christ to carry this message all around the world daily to purposely fulfill Christ mission from over 2000 years ago. Today, get ready; it is time to inherit the Kingdom of God and to inherit the Kingdom of God it is not because you earned it but because of being a Child of God doing the work of God being about Kingdom business in Jesus Name. Therefore, it is time to get ready to inherit the Kingdom of God for all eternity…

James Jr. Hairston