Making known to us the mystery of His will.
In accordance with His good pleasure which
He had previously purposed and set forth in Him,
He planned for the maturity of the times and
the climax of the ages to unify all things and to
consummate them in Christ, both things in heaven
and things on the earth.
(Ephesians 1.9 & 10).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
He said to them, But who do you
say that I am?
Simon Peter replied, You are the
Christ, the Son of the living God.
Then Jesus answered him, Blessed
are you, Simon Bar-Jonah. For
flesh and blood have not revealed
this to you, but My Father Who is
in heaven.
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on
this rock I will build My church, and
the gates of Hades shall not overpower it.
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of
heaven and whatever you bind on earth
must be what is already bound in heaven;
and whatever you loose on earth must be
what is already loosed in heaven.
(Matthew 16.15-19).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
“The One Who comes from above is above all.
The one who is from the earth belongs to the
earth, and speaks as one from the earth.
The one Who comes from heaven is above all.
He testifies to what He has seen and heard, but
no one accepts His testimony. The man who has
accepted it has certified that God is truthful.
For the One Whom God has sent speaks the words
of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
The Father loves the Son and has placed everything
in His hands. Son has eternal life, but whoever
rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath
remains in Him.”
(John 3.31-36).
ALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the
will of God, and Timothy our brother,
To the holy and faithful brothers and
sisters in Christ at Colosse:
Grace and peace to you from God our
Father.
We always thank God, the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
because we have heard of the love you
have for all the saints- the faith and love
that spring from the hope that is stored up
for you in heaven and that you have already
heard about in the word of truth, the gospel
(Best News Ever) that has come to you.
All over the world this gospel is bearing
fruit and growing, just as it has been doing
among you since the day you heard it and
understood God’s grace in all its truth.
You learned it from Epaphras, our dear
fellow servant, who s a faithful minister
of Christ on our behalf, and who also
told us of your love in the Spirit.
For this reason, since the day we
heard about you, we have not
stopped praying for you and asking
God to fill you with the knowledge of
His will through all spiritual wisdom
and understanding.
And we pray this in order that you may
live a life worthy of the Lord and may
please Him in every way:
bearing fruit in every good work,
growing in the knowledge of God,
being strengthened with all power
according to His glorious might so
that you may have great endurance
and patience, and joyfully giving
thanks to the Father Who has
qualified you to share in the
inheritance of the saints in the
kingdom of light.
For He has rescued us from the
dominion of darkness and brought us
into the kingdom of the Son He loves,
in Whom we have redemption, the
forgiveness of sins.
He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.
For by Him all things were created:
things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones
or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by Him and for Him.
He is before all things, and in Him all things
hold together.
And He is the head of the body, the church;
He is the beginning and firstborn from among
the dead, so that in everything He might have
the supremacy. For God was pleased to have
all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him
to reconcile to Himself all things, whether
things on earth or things in heaven, by making
peace through His blood, shed on the cross.
(Colossians 1.1-20).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.
The heavens will disappear with a roar;
the elements will be destroyed by fire, and
the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
Since everything will be destroyed in this way,
what kind of people ought you to be? You ought
to live holy and godly lives as you look forward
to the day of God and speed its coming. That day
will bring about the destruction of the heavens by
fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in
keeping with His promise we are looking forward to
a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.
So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to
this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless
and at peace with Him. Bear in mind that our Lord’s
patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul
also wrote to you with the wisdom that God gave him.
He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them
of these matters. His letters contain some things that are
hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people
distort, as they do to other Scriptures, to their own
destruction.
Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this,
be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by
the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position.
But grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. To Him be glory both now and forever! Amen!
(II. Peter 3.11-18).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
So it is written: “The first man became s living being”,
the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
The spiritual did not come first, but the natural and after
that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth,
the second man from heaven.
As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and
as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.
And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall
we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.
(I. Corinthians 15.44b- 49).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering,
take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered.
You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord
finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
Above all, my brothers, do not swear- not by heaven or by earth or
by anything else. Let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, or you will
be condemned.
(James 5. 10-12).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
(James 5.10-12).
Jesus replied, Are you the teacher in Israel, and yet
do not know nor understand these things?
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, We speak only
of what we know; we have actually seen what we are
testifying to, we were eyewitnesses of it. And still you
do not receive our testimony.
If I have told you of things that happen right here on the
earth and yet none of you believes Me, how can you
believe if I tell you of heavenly things?
And yet no one has ever gone up to heaven, but there is One
Who has come down from heaven- the Son of Man, Who dwells
in heaven.
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert on a pole,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
So that everyone who believes in Him may not perish, but
have eternal life and live forever!
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He gave
up His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not
perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge the world,
but that the world might find salvation through Him.
He who believes in Him is not judged; but he who does not believe is
judged already and has already been convicted because he has not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
The basis of the judgement lies in this: the Light has come into the
world, and people have loved darkness rather than the Light, for
there works were evil.
For every wrongdoer hates the Light, and will not come out into the
Light, but shrinks from it, lest his works be exposed and reproved.
But he who practices truth comes out into the Light; so that his
works may be plainly shown to be what they are- done with God’s help.
(John 3.10-21).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Do not be surprised at My telling you, You must all be born anew.
The wind blows where it will; and though you hear its sound, yet
you neither know where it comes from nor where it is going.
So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
Nicodemus answered by asking, How can all this be possible?
Jesus replied, Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet do not know
nor understand these things?
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, We speak only of what we
know; we have actually seen what we are testifying. And still you
do not receive our testimony.
If I have told you of things that happen right here on the earth and
yet none of you believes Me, how can you believe if I tell you of
heavenly things?And yet no one has ever gone up to heaven, but there
is One Who has come down from heaven- the Son of Man Who dwells
in heaven.
(John 3.7-13).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
The Father has delivered and drawn us to Himself
out of the control and dominion of darkness and has
transferred us into the kingdom of His Beloved Son,
In Whom we have our redemption through His blood,
the forgiveness of our sins.
He is the exact likeness of the unseen God. He is the
Firstborn of all creation.
For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven
and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether
thrones, dominions, rulers, authorities; all things were
created and exist through Him and in and for Him.
(Colossians 1.13-16).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!