“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.
It comes down from the Father lights, in Whom
there can be no variation or shadow of change.
Of His own free will He brought us forth by
His Word orf Truth, so that we should be
a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.”
(James 1. 17& 18).
“The Word is near you, on your lips and in your heart;
that is the Word of faith which we preach.
Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips
that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe that God
raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart a person believes and so is justified
and with the mouth he confesses and confirms salvation.
The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him will ever
be put to shame or be disappointed.”
(Romans 10.8-11).
The Word of Salvation is Jesus. The Name Jesus literally means
“The Lord is my Salvation”.
We acknowledge Him.
Salvation is in your heart and on your lips when you
believe and say that Jesus is Lord and He is raised from
the dead.
Salvation is based on faith in The Lord Jesus Who rose
from the dead. Your faith is reckoned by God as righteousness.
His righteousness is imputed to us when we believe.
“With the heart man believes unto righteousness,
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation”
AMEN! HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Jesus Christ as the Eternal Word of God reveals Who He is.
He was before all time, He Was and Is God from Eternity.
All things were made and came to existence through Him.
In Him was Life and the Life was the Light of men.
Christ as the Incarnate Word became flesh and lived among us.
No man has ever seen God at any time. The only
unique Son, only Christ Jesus Who is in the bosom
of the Father, has declared (revealed) Him.
( The Gospel According to St. John. Chapter 1)
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
” And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called;
and those whom He called, He also justified.
And those whom He justified, He also glorified.”
(Romans 8.30)
To be called by God to know Him as He actually is
as the Eternal, the great “I AM” as Christ Jesus,
the Father and The Holy Spirit, loved by Him and
loving Him. This calling is initiated by the Father.
To love God is to love Him as the Eternal Father,
the Eternal Son and the Holy Spirit in the unique
unity of the Holy Trinity.
The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts
to empower us to know Him as He truly is.
He is Invisible and Unknown otherwise.
He reveals Himself in the Gospel, the Best News Ever.
He demonstrates His love in Christ Jesus.
He expresses His revelation through the Holy Spirit.
This is Who God is.
In Christ crucified and risen we see God.
This is Who the Son of God is.
If you wish to know the true, living God,
this is Who God is.
This is how God revealed Himself.
We are called to be conformed to the image of the
Eternal Son.
To love God is feasible by His call to bear witness
to Christ Jesus Who bore our sins on the Cross and
rose again to bestow on us His Resurrection Life.
His calling is to rejoice in the assurance of His
reconciliation. This is what God’s love is and does.
His love allows us to rejoice in God’s glory and
salvation.
AMEN! HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS
FOREVERMORE!
“Born anew into an inheritance which is beyond the
reach of change and decay, unsullied and unfading
reserved in heaven for you,
Who are being guarded by God’s power through your
faith till you inherit that final salvation that is ready
to be revealed for you in the last time.”
(I.Peter 1.4&5).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
“To you who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father
and consecrated (sanctified, made holy) by the Spirit to be
obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled by His blood:
May grace and peace be given you in increasing abundance
(that spiritual peace be realized in and through Christ,
freedom from fears, agitating passions and moral conflicts).
Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an
ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead.”
(I.Peter 1.2&3).
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Most people are yearning to find meaning and purpose
in life. The ultimate and absolute meaning of your life is
found in Jesus the Unique Man and God Who is our Peace.
He unites us with God. He shows us Who God really is and
who we truly are.
With Him we know we are heirs children of God eternally.
“We are assured and know that all things work together
for good and and for good to and for those who love God
and are called according to His design and purpose.
For those whom He foreknew, He also destined from
the beginning to be molded into the image of His Son,
that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called;
and those whom He called, he also justified.
And those whom He justified, He also glorified (raising
them to a heavenly dignity and state of being).
(Romans 8.28-30).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
This is divine knowledge by God. It can be discerned only
through the Holy Spirit shed abroad in our hearts. This is
not concrete,tangible or visible. If it were so, it would not
be by faith. Hope that is fulfilled requires no faith. But
this hope never disappoints, because the Father’s love is
communicated to us through the Son and the Holy Spirit
to our hearts. Men can not avoid the void and fear,
the futility and desperation of life and death.
They seek God with groans which can not be uttered.
They say as Job:
“I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives and
at last He shall stand upon the earth!”
God’s response to men’s highest and most earnest yearning
is expressed in Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
God’s love for us is is proclaimed by angels loud and clear:
“Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among men
with whom He is well pleased!”
We enter the MORE EXCELLENT WAY OF GOD’S LOVE
(AGAPE LOVE) for us and our corresponding love
to Him made possible by the Holy Spirit He sent.
This is possible when we mature and put away childish
things. This love can never fail. Of the three remaining,
of hope, faith and love, the greatest is love, because, love
hopes all things and faith works by love. (I.Cor.13.13).
(Gal. 5.6).
All things work for good for those who love God and are
called according to His purpose. Because in experiencing
and expressing God’s love our greatest expectation is fulfilled.
The expression of God’s love is met in Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
The Way, the Truth and the Life! The Resurrection and the Life!
He declares ‘us not guilty!’ and blessed and His own!
We are united to God, the Ancient of Days in the Holy Communion.
If any one loves God, he is known by Him.
(I. Corinthians 8.3).
God knows those who truly love Him.
He knows in advance, in His foreknowledge.
He foreordains. He demonstrates His love
for us clearly by the fact that whole we were
still sinners, Christ died for us.
As we are called to be Spirit born and led
we are known in God’s foreknowledge,
foreordained and predestined to love God.
Because God’s love is poured out in our
hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been
given to us we love Him as our Heavenly Father.
His foreknowledge and predestination is eternal.
His love, joy and peace are also eternal.
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Those who are led by the Holy Spirit are sons of God.
No other criteria apply.
Election and divine sonship is on the basis of God’s action.
No human activity, designation or thought process can
replace or subtitute divine action.
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God”
(Romans 8.14)
“But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave
the authority to become the children of God, that is to
those who believe in His Name.
Who owe their birth neither to bloods nor to the will of the
flesh nor to the will of man, but to God.”
(John 1.12 & 13).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!