By This, We Know

Peter and The Other Apostles (Jesus’ Disciples) answered and said: “We (Believers) ought to obey God (God Almighty), rather than Men.  The God (God Almighty) of Our fathers, Raised up Jesus (Jesus Christ), whom YOU (Unbelievers) murdered by hanging on a tree.  Him (Jesus Christ), God (God Almighty) has exalted to His (God Almighty’s) Right Hand, to be Prince and Savior, to give Repentance to Israel and Forgiveness of sins (through Jesus Christ).  And We (Believers), are His (Jesus Christ’s) Witnesses to these things, and so also is The Holy Spirit, whom God (God Almighty) has given, to those (Believers) who obey Him (God Almighty).”

“Blessed be The God (God Almighty) and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who has Blessed Us (Believers), with every Spiritual Blessing in The Heavenly Places, in Christ (Jesus Christ), just as He (God Almighty) chose Us (Believers), in Him (Jesus Christ), before The Foundation of the World, that We (Believers) should be Holy and without blame, before Him (God Almighty) in Love, having Predestined Us (Believers) to Adoption as Sons, by Jesus Christ, to Himself (God Almighty), according to The Good Pleasure of His (God Almighty’s) Will, to The Praise of The Glory of His (God Almighty’s) Grace, by which, He (God Almighty) made Us (Believers) accepted in The Beloved (Jesus Christ).

In Him (Jesus Christ), We (Believers) have Redemption through His (Jesus Christ’s) Blood, The Forgiveness of sins (through Jesus Christ), according to The Riches of His (God Almighty’s) Grace, which He (God Almighty) made to Abound toward Us (Believers) in all Wisdom and Prudence, having made known to Us (Believers), The Mystery of His (God Almighty’s) Will, according to His (God Almighty’s) Good Pleasure, which He (Jesus Christ) Purposed in Himself (Jesus Christ), that in The Dispensation of The Fullness of The Times, He (God Almighty) might gather together in One, All Things in Christ (Jesus Christ), both which are in Heaven and which are on Earth, in Him (Jesus Christ).  In Him (Jesus Christ) also, We (Believers) have Obtained an Inheritance, being predestined according to The Purpose of Him (Jesus Christ), who works all things, according to The Counsel of His (God Almighty’s) Will, that We (Believers) who first trusted in Christ (Jesus Christ) should be, to The Praise of His (Jesus Christ’s) Glory.  In Him (Jesus Christ), YOU (Believers) also Trusted, after YOU (Believers) heard The Word of Truth, The Gospel of Your Salvation; in whom also, having Believed, YOU (Believers) were Sealed, with The Holy Spirit of Promise, who is The Guarantee of Our Inheritance, until The Redemption of The Purchased Possession, to The Praise of His (Jesus Christ’s) Glory.”

^“For this reason, We (Believers) also, since The Day, We (Believers) heard it, do NOT cease to pray for YOU (Believers), and to ask that YOU (Believers) may be filled with The Knowledge of His (God Almighty’s) Will, in All Wisdom and Spiritual Understanding; that YOU (Believers) may walk, Worthy of The Lord (Jesus Christ), fully pleasing Him (Jesus Christ), being Fruitful in every Good Work and increasing in The Knowledge of God (God Almighty); strengthened with all might, according to His (Jesus Christ’s) Glorious Power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks, to The Father (God Almighty) who has Qualified Us (Believers), to be Partakers of The Inheritance of The Saints (Believers) in The Light (Jesus Christ).  He (Jesus Christ) has Delivered Us (Believers), from the power of darkness (Satan/Lucifer/The Devil), and Conveyed Us (Believers) into The Kingdom of The Son (Jesus Christ) of His (God Almighty’s) Love, in whom We (Believers) have Redemption, through His (Jesus Christ’s) Blood, The Forgiveness of sins (through Jesus Christ). 

He (Jesus Christ) is The Image of The Invisible God (God Almighty), The Firstborn over All Creation.  For by Him (The Word/Jesus Christ) All Things were Created, that are in Heaven and that are on Earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.  All Things were Created, through Him (The Word/Jesus Christ), and for Him (The Word/Jesus Christ).  And He (The Word/Jesus Christ) is before All Things, and in Him (The Word/Jesus Christ) All Things consist.  And He (Jesus Christ) is The Head of The Body, The Church, who is The Beginning, The Firstborn from the dead, that in All Things, He (Jesus Christ) may have The Preeminence.”

“I (Jesus Christ) now send YOU (Believers), to the Gentiles (Yet-To-Be-Believers), to open their (Yet-To-Be-Believers) eyes, in order to turn them (Yet-To-Be-Believers), from darkness to Light (Jesus Christ), and from the power of Satan, to God (God Almighty), that they (Yet-To-Be-Believers) may receive Forgiveness of sins (through Jesus Christ) and an Inheritance, among those (Believers), who are Sanctified by Faith, in Me (Jesus Christ).”

Fellow Believers, this is Our (Believers) Task, to share, to Preach The Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ, to All, who have “Ears to hear and Eyes to see”, to hear The Truth, to see The Truth, and most importantly, to accept The Truth!  So, they (Believers) may become Children of Our God Almighty, Brothers and Sisters, in Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Turn Back To Him

Yet-To-Be-Believer,

Has your Life turned out exactly the way YOU anticipated, hoped it would, or dreamed it could?  Do YOU need guidance in your Life?  Are YOU in a dark place, right now?  Have YOU run out of places to turn?  Do YOU seem to experience more “valleys” than “hills” in your Life?  Do YOU feel completely alone, even in a room full of friends or family?  Do YOU go to sleep wishing or hoping, that YOU will NOT wake up?  Have YOU done too many bad things, caused too much harm, or gone too far, to ever return?  Do YOU think everyone, including the World, would be better off, without YOU?  Do YOU wish YOU had a relationship with someone, who understands YOU, who gets YOU, who truly cares for YOU, who truly cares about YOU?

On the flip side of this coin . . .

Is your Life going along perfectly, for YOU?  Do YOU have a great paying job, lots of money, anything your money could possibly buy?  Do YOU have a great family with no concerns there, as well?  Do YOU have a great relationship, with your significant other (husband, wife, fiancé, girlfriend, or boyfriend)?  Are YOU able to recover from Life’s little detours, quite easily?  Do YOU truly believe YOU have anything and everything, YOU could possibly ever, want, yearn for, or desire?

My question, for any of YOU would still be, do YOU have a personal relationship with God Almighty?  Do YOU have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, through The Holy Spirit?  Well, do YOU?  If NOT, why NOT?  And if YOU do, are YOU sure?  Can YOU honestly say, God Almighty IS Your First Priority in Life?  Are YOU challenged each day, to ask God Almighty, what can I do to serve YOU today, Lord?

Well, if YOU do NOT have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, through The Holy Spirit, and YOU do NOT have a personal relationship with God Almighty, then my words, are foreign to YOU.  But let’s see if I can open your ears and perhaps yours heart, as well.

God Almighty Created YOU, that’s right, YOU!  God Almighty Created a uniquely special path, God’s Path, for YOU!  God Almighty truly yearns to have a personal relationship with YOU!  So much so, that He patiently waits for YOU!  So much so, that He truly pursues YOU, All Your Life!  God Almighty, Our Father, actively pursues His Children, because He truly desires a personal relationship with each and every single one of Us!  It’s difficult for a father, any father, to teach his children, IF he does NOT have complete access to his children.  Now, even if God Almighty, Our Father, does NOT have “willing access” to Your Life, He still will influence Your Life!  Oh, but how much more fulfilling, enlightening, and joyous, are Our lives, with God Almighty, Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit!  I’m talking about, a very intense personal relationship with God Almighty!  YOU will have absolutely NO doubt, whatsoever; Jesus Christ abides within YOU, through The Holy Spirit!  I’m talking about truly feeling Our Lord, Jesus Christ’s, Presence!  Feeling Him within YOU, feeling Him beside YOU, feeling Him walk with YOU, being able to talk to Him, as easily as I’m talking to YOU, right now!

Do YOU feel God Almighty, tapping YOU on your shoulder or tugging on your heart?  That’s right, just because YOU may NOT yet be ready, to acknowledge God Almighty, God Almighty has already acknowledged YOU, His Creation, yes, YOU are His Child!  Turn back to Him; God Almighty will welcome YOU, Home, with Open Arms!

So They May Know Your Faith

Now it came to pass after these things that God (God Almighty) tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”  And he said, “Here I am.”  Then He (God Almighty) said, “Take now your son, your ONLY son, Isaac, whom YOU (Abraham) Love, and go to The Land of Moriah, and offer him (Isaac) there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I (God Almighty) shall tell YOU (Abraham).”  So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac, his son; and he (Abraham) split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God (God Almighty) had told him (Abraham).  Then on the third day, Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.  And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad (Isaac) and I (Abraham) will go yonder and worship, and We (Abraham and Isaac) will come back to YOU.”  So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac, his son; and he (Abraham) took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two (Abraham and Isaac) of them went together.  But Isaac spoke to Abraham, his father, and said, “My father!”  And he (Abraham) said, “Here I am, my son.”  Then he (Isaac) said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”  And Abraham said, “My son, God (God Almighty) will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.”  So the two (Abraham and Isaac) of them went together.  Then they (Abraham and Isaac) came to the place of which God (God Almighty) had told him (Abraham).  And Abraham built an Altar there and placed the wood in order; and he (Abraham) bound Isaac, his son, and laid him (Isaac) on the Altar, upon the wood.  And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son (Isaac).  But The Angel of The Lord (God Almighty) called to him (Abraham) from Heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”  So he (Abraham) said, “Here I am.”  And He (The Angel of The Lord) said, “Do NOT lay your hand on the lad (Isaac), or do anything to him (Isaac); for now I (God Almighty) know that YOU (Abraham) fear God (God Almighty), since YOU (Abraham) have NOT withheld your son (Isaac), your only son (Isaac), from Me (God Almighty).”  Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him (Abraham) was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns.  So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering, instead of his son (Isaac).  And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In The Mount of The Lord (God Almighty) it shall be provided.”

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and NOT the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.  For then would they NOT have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.  But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.  For it is NOT possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.  Therefore, when He (Jesus Christ) came into the World, He (Jesus Christ) said: “Sacrifice and offering YOU (God Almighty) did NOT desire, but a Body, YOU (God Almighty) have prepared for Me (Jesus Christ).  In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin YOU (God Almighty) had no pleasure.  Then I (Jesus Christ) said, ‘Behold, I (Jesus Christ) have come, in The Volume of The Book (The Holy Bible) it is written of Me (Jesus Christ), to do Your Will, O God (God Almighty).’”  Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin YOU (God Almighty) did NOT desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), then He (Jesus Christ) said, “Behold, I (Jesus Christ) have come to do Your Will, O God (God Almighty).”  He (God Almighty) takes away the first, that He (God Almighty) may establish, The Second.  By that (God Almighty’s) Will, We (Believers) have been Sanctified, through The Offering of The Body of Jesus Christ, Once for All.  And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.  But this Man (Jesus Christ), after He (Jesus Christ) had Offered One Sacrifice for sins, Forever, sat down at The Right Hand of God (God Almighty), from that Time, waiting till His (Jesus Christ’s) Enemies are made His (Jesus Christ’s) Footstool.  For by One Offering, He (Jesus Christ) has Perfected, Forever, those (Believers) who are being Sanctified.

Abraham was willing to sacrifice, his one and only son, Isaac, to show his complete Faith, in God Almighty.  In turn, God Almighty did Sacrifice His One and ONLY Son, Jesus Christ, to show His (God Almighty’s) Unconditional Love for His Creation, Mankind.  Did YOU happen to notice, this is a great analogy, between Abraham and his son, Isaac, compared with God Almighty and His One and ONLY Son, Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ, The Lamb of God Almighty, The Lamb which was Slain.  Just as the ram was sacrificed, in place of Isaac, Jesus Christ was Sacrificed, in place of sinners, Once for All.  On the third day, God Almighty Raised Him (Jesus Christ) from the grave, Alive!  Jesus Christ, The Lamb, God Almighty’s Sacrifice, Once for All, Our (Believers) Bridge to return, into God’s Immediate Presence, Forever, for Eternity!

Our (Believers) Faith, requires complete submission to The Will of God Almighty.  This requires, acknowledging God’s Amazing Saving Grace AND accepting God’s Free Gift of Salvation.  This requires, Repentance, asking God Almighty for Forgiveness of Our sins, with the full intent of turning away from sin and back towards Him (God Almighty).  This requires, accepting Jesus Christ, as Our personal Lord and Savior.  This requires, giving full and complete control of Our lives, over to Jesus Christ.  This requires, welcoming Jesus Christ, to come abide within Us, through The Holy Spirit.  Finally, this requires, We (Believers) share with others, what this means to Us, and for Us All.

May We (Believers) All, have The Faith, show Our Faith, and demonstrate Our Faith, with the same fullness of Abraham.

Glorified Together

And I (Believers) thank Christ Jesus, Our Lord, who has enabled me (Believers), because He (Jesus Christ) counted me (Believers) Faithful, putting me (Believers) into The Ministry, although I (Believers) was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man (Yet-To-Be-Believers); but I (Believers) obtained Mercy, because I (Believers) did it ignorantly, in unbelief.  And The Grace of Our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with Faith and Love, which are in Christ Jesus.  This is a Faithful saying and worthy of All Acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the World to Save sinners, of whom I (Believers) am chief.  However, for this reason I (Believers) obtained Mercy, that in me (Believers) first, Jesus Christ might show All Longsuffering, as a pattern to those (Yet-To-Be-Believers) who are going to Believe on Him (Jesus Christ) for Everlasting Life.  Now to The King (Jesus Christ), Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, to God (God Almighty), who alone is Wise, be Honor and Glory, Forever and ever.  Amen.

There is therefore now, NO condemnation to those (Believers) who are in Christ Jesus, who do NOT walk according to the flesh, but according to The Spirit.  For The Law of The Spirit of Life, in Christ Jesus, has made me (Believers) free from the law of sin and death.  For what the law could NOT do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God (God Almighty) did by sending His Own Son (Jesus Christ) in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He (God Almighty) condemned sin in the flesh, that The Righteous Requirement of The Law, might be fulfilled in Us (Believers) who do NOT walk according to the flesh, but according to The Spirit.  For those (Unbelievers) who live according to the flesh, set their (Unbelievers) minds on the things of the flesh, but those (Believers) who live According to The Spirit, the things of the Spirit.  For to be carnally minded (Unbelievers) is death, but to be Spiritually Minded (Believers) is Life and Peace.  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God (God Almighty); for it is NOT subject to The Law of God (God Almighty), nor indeed can be.  So then, those (Unbelievers) who are in the flesh, cannot please God (God Almighty).  But YOU (Believers) are NOT in the flesh, but in The Spirit, if indeed The Spirit (The Holy Spirit) of God (God Almighty) dwells in YOU (Believers).  Now if anyone (Unbelievers) does NOT have The Spirit of Christ, he (Unbelievers) is NOT His (God Almighty’s).  And if Christ (Jesus Christ) is in YOU (Believers), the body is dead because of sin, but The Spirit is Life, because of Righteousness.  But if The Spirit (The Holy Spirit) of Him (God Almighty) who Raised Jesus (Jesus Christ) from the dead, dwells in YOU (Believers), He (God Almighty) who Raised Christ (Jesus Christ) from the dead, will also give Life to your mortal bodies, through His Spirit (The Holy Spirit), who dwells in YOU (Believers).

 

Therefore, Brethren (Believers), We (Believers) are debtors, NOT to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.  For if YOU (Believers) live according to the flesh YOU (Believers) will die; but if by The Spirit, YOU (Believers) put to death the deeds of the body, YOU (Believers) will Live.  For as many as are led by The Spirit (The Holy Spirit) of God (God Almighty), these are Sons of God (God Almighty).  For YOU (Believers) did NOT receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but YOU (Believers) Received The Spirit of Adoption, by whom We (Believers) cry out, “Abba, Father.”  The Spirit (The Holy Spirit) Himself bears Witness with Our Spirit, that We (Believers) are Children of God (God Almighty), and if Children, then Heirs, Heirs of God (God Almighty) and Joint Heirs with Christ (Jesus Christ), if indeed We (Believers) suffer with Him (Jesus Christ), that We (Believers) may also be Glorified Together.

Fellow Believers, may these words from God Almighty, give YOU comfort, but also encourage YOU, to Preach The Gospel of Jesus Christ, to lead people to Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  So, they (Yet-To-Be-Believers) may come to acknowledge God’s Amazing Saving Grace AND accept God’s Free Gift of Salvation, as We (Believers) have.