Remus First Church of God- A Heritage Church of God

01/01/2026

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Read the obituary of Marie Ruby Starks from Edmore, MI. Leave your condolences and send flowers to the family to show you care.

12/02/2025

ADVENT DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT~
Adam and Eve learned that a son would be born who would crush the serpent (Satan who came to tempt the woman). And now Adam and Eve had two sons. Could one of these be the promised victor who would slay the serpent?
When the two sons brought their sacrifices to God, Abel brought an offering from his flock while Cain an offering from his fields. God looked at Abel's offering favorably but not so at Cain's. It had more to do than what the offering was about. It was what was in each man's heart as they worshiped God and brought Him their very best. Most likely, Cain had sin in his heart and God saw that his gift was given in an obligatory manner rather than from true worship in his heart.
Cain, in his jealousy, slayed his brother Abel after having words with each other. The righteous son had been overcome by the wicked one.
From that point, wickedness needed a reckoning, and the God of justice heard a cry for it. The suffering of a righteous Abel is the beginning of a pattern of suffering that includes people like Job, Joseph, Daniel, and you and me today! That suffering even affected Jesus who came to a people who would not accept or receive Him as their own and would kill him on a cross.
However as the scripture says, "The serpent struck his (Jesus) heel, but He (Jesus) crushed his head." The death of Jesus satisfied divine justice.
Justice has been satisfied through the substitutionary sacrifice of the righteous Son of God.
Jesus is the righteous sufferer whose death hearlds salvation. And through faith in Him, we belong to Him.
We receive His shepherding, His care, and His everlasting life.
This Advent brings to us that realization that Jesus came to defeat the serpent that held mankind in the bo***ge of unfixable sin. We now can experience freedom!
[Excerps from, "There Shone a Holy Light," by Mitchell L. Chase]

12/02/2025

ADVENT DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT~
The Apostle Paul draws a comparison between Adam and Jesus. He says Adam "was a type of the one who was to come." (Romans 5:14). A correspondence that Adam and Jesus shared was their representative role, their headship.
Adam of the Garden was the "first Adam". There was no earthly representative preceding him. Jesus can be described as the "last Adam," meaning there will be no Savior beyond Jesus.
The obedience of Christ contrasts with the disobedience of Adam.
"For as by the one man's disobedience (Adam's) the many were made sinners, so by one man's obedience (Jesus') the manty will be made righteous." (Romans 5:19).
Given the significance of who Jesus is and what He has accomplished, Paul called him the "last Adam". The first Adam (of the garden) turned from God's command, but Jesus upheld and embodied divine wisdom. Jesus was the true and better Adam.
What mankind needed was a new Adam and the man of heaven (Jesus) is the Adam we needed. If through Adam came sin and condemnation, then through Christ come forgiveness and justification.
Jesus is the greater Adam whose faithfulness and righteousness would be the refuge for all who come to Him by faith.
"Just as we have borne the image of the man of the dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. (I Corinthians 15:49).
Christ became like us so that we could become like Him. Left to ourselves, we are only like the first Adam, transgressors who deserve judgment.
In order to be fitted for heaven and a new creation, a greater work was needed that could undo and overcome the scope of the fall.
Mary gave birth to the man of heaven, the last Adam.
The Advent of Christ was the inauguration of God's kingdom. The promised victory had come, and the man of heaven had been born!
[Excerps from. "There Shone a Holy Light" by Mitchell L. Chase]

10/28/2025

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10/28/2025