Return to God through Jesus Christ and He will return to us.

Malachi 3:6-7

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 “For I am the Lord, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob. Yet from the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. “But you said, ‘In what way shall we return?’” Malachi 3:6-7

The phrase, “For I am the Lord, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed…” is mirrored in the New Testament where Jesus Christ is seen as the Lord God, as a member of the Trinity. The Godhead is three-in-one, including God the Father, God the Son [Jesus Christ], and God the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. We are not consumed by strange teachings and teachings of humanism because our heart is established by grace, not by human needs, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.” Hebrews 13:8-9

The sons of Jacob/Israel have the Twelve Tribes of Israel named after them, but more than that, those who follow Jesus Christ are the sons of Jacob. We have been adopted into the house of Israel/Jacob, the family of God, by our faith in God to believe in Jesus Christ, “For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.” That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed…Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.” Romans 9:6-8, Galatians 3:16

The Jewish people have gone away from God by rejecting Jesus Christ, but if they return to Him through His Son Jesus, God will return to them. Our Lord Jesus wants to return the Jewish people to the flock of His Father, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” Matthew 23:37-39

Today, there has been an enormous falling away from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Churches have abandoned His Gospel to join with the atheistic community culture, government lawmakers no longer include the values of the Bible in their laws and policies, the educational system does not allow the teaching of the Bible in classrooms, and Christianity is not welcomed in any sector of society. Click here for a post on “the Great Falling Away”.

In what way shall we return to God? Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6

“…let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:10-12

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11