"Not by works of righteousness which we have done,but according to His mercy, He saved us...." -Titus 3:5

As Christians of the western world we are generally contented in our faith. Many of us have become satisfied with what we have been told.

"Jesus has done it all. Therefore there is no call on me to do anything in response."

The blood of Christ has been shed, the atoning blood of Jesus/Yeshua is the complete and finished sacrifice, the issue of the price of our redemption is settled. The matter of the covenant, paying the purchase price of our redemption, is finished. Our great salvation has been paid in full by the Sacrificial Lamb of G-D.

Our free ticket to heaven just fell out of the sky. Grabbing it, we do not stop to think on what this means. We are rich and popular and in need of nothing. We are jam packed full of religion, yet we do not know our G-D. Continuing to compromise with the powers of this world, we dodge the higher calling of our faith, unaware of the perilous situation we are now in. Enticed and seduced by Mammon, we proceeded to re-process, re-engineer, and re-package the message. The Gospel is now a "product" for sale to the masses. In order to sell our message it must be cooked, artificially sweetened, repackaged and rendered palatable and appealing to the average middle of the road carnal "Christian".

God is at work in His people even now. And in the fullness of time the true Bride of Christ will emerge. She is in the world now. She must go up onto center stage in the times to come. There she will bring her testimony before kings and rulers. History demands it.

"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come." Matthew 24:14

So we as Christian believers are not passive in the covenant. We are His witnesses.Our Christian witness to the Good News is our side of the covenant. This response we have to the indwelling Christ comes by a ministry of His divine grace. It is not a matter of our "works". Our witness to His Great Salvation flows out of the blessings of the covenant. Our power to witness comes as we open our hearts to Him. And our witness is a response He produces in us by His Holy Spirit.

It is a response to His wooing. It is a response to His love.

This is the "rest of the story".