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  Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you shall follow Me afterward.”  (John 13:36 NKJV) Henryk Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer." Quo Vadis is taken from a scene in Sienkiewicz book with the same title. The scene reveals that, persuaded by the saints in Rome, horrified Saint Peter is leaving Rome and suddenly he sees Jesus going towards the city. He asks Him 'Quo vadis, domine..?' (where are you going my master?) Jesus says: 'I am going to be crucified for the second time, because you do not ought to'. The legend says Peter immediately turned back to the city and faced his martyrdom. He was killed in Rome around the same time as Saint Paul. Fiction aside,...

Whatever has a defect, you shall not offer, for it shall not be acceptable on your behalf. And whoever offers a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord, to fulfill his vow, or a freewill offering, it must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect in it.  (Leviticus 22:20-21). This injunction from the Lord to His people caught my attention again, and a compulsion fell on me to share it to us, His present people. The compulsion is borne out of the weight of the prescribed consequence God places on disobedience to this injunction, for not only is a defect. I've offering unacceptable to God, the bible describes it as evil: “You offer defiled food on My altar, But say, ‘In what way have we defiled You?’ ‘...when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, Is it not evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, Is it not evil? Offer it then to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you favorably?” Says the Lord of hosts. (Malachi 1:7-8) What then is a defective of...

 '...If anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.'  (1John 2:1-2 NKJV). Renowned itinerant preacher and Pastor, Robert Henderson, teaches extensively about the Courts of Heaven. He emphasises that our prayers are not answered because we go to God as Father and as Friend merely and not as Jugde. He teaches that our accuser, Satan, knows that our sins, transgressions and iniquities stand against us before God as hindrance to our prayers and we need a verdict of acquittal for our prayers to be answered.  Jesus our advocate is seated at God’s right hand pleading believers' case whenever Satan brings accusations against them. (See Job 1), Believers are the accused, Satan is the accuser of brethren, Jesus Christ is seated with the Father as Advocate interceding for them, and God the Father is seated on His throne in the courtroom of heaven as ...