and everyone who loves the Father loves His Child as well.

This is ho we know that we love the children of God;

by loving God and carrying out His commands. This is

love for God: to obey His commands. And His commands

are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes

the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world,

even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only

he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

(I. John 5.1-5).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

and I know them and they follow Me.

And i give them eternal life, and they shall never lose it or perish.

And no one is able to snatch them out of My hand.

My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater and mightier than all;

and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

I and the Father are One.

(John 10.27-30).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

it comes down from the Father of all light, in  Whom

there can be no variation or shadow cast by His turning.

And it was of His own free will that He gave us birth by

His Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of

firstfruits of His creatures.

(James 1.17 & 18)

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVER!

“For the present you are also in sorrow, but I will see you

again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one can take

from you your joy.

And when that time comes, you will ask nothing of Me.

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that My Father

will grant you whatever you ask in My Name.

Up to this time you have not asked a thing in My Name,

but now ask and keep on asking and you will receive,

so that your joy may be full and complete.

I have told you these things in parables, the hour is now

coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures of

speech, but I shall tell you about the Father in plain words

and openly.

At that time you will ask in My Name and I am not saying

that I will ask the Father on your behalf (for it will be

unnecessary).

For the Father Himself (tenderly) loves you because you have

loved Me and have believed that I came from the Father.

I came out from the Father and have come into the world;

again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR COMING FROM

THE FATHER AND THANK YOU FATHER FOR SENDING JESUS

TO US TO BE OUR LIFE!

the Holy Spirit whereby we cry ‘Daddy, Father!’

In this is revealed God our Father, His Eternal Son Jesus

Christ our Elder Brother, the Holy Spirit bearing witness

to our adoption as sons.

In the unique Unity of the Trinity God is eternal,

permanent and perfect Holy Love.

The interaction of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is

eternally initiated, motivated and perpetuated by,

for and in this divine and excellent Love.

All of this is in the context of eternal parameters, beyond

time and space.

We have this Love transferred to us as a timeless,

supernatural and existential action by God to bring us

into His true and majestic Unity.

His timeless Love became  fully manifest in the

Passion of  our Lord and 

Savior Jesus the Christ  and at His resurrection.

We celebrate this in the Holy Communion.

We see the invisible Union into which we have been

made participants.

When we take Holy Communion

we are participating in the glory divine,

the Holy Trinity, the Agape Love Who is God,

Incarnate Word made flesh and crucified for our justification, 

sanctification and eternal life of glory in God.

“In this the love of God was

made manifested toward us, in that God sent His only

begotten Son into the world, that we might live

through Him.” (I.John 4.9).

We see this in the words of Jesus:

“The words spoke Jesus, and lifted up His eyes

to heaven and said:

‘Father, the hour has come, glorify Your Son, that

Your Son also may glorify You:

As You have given Him power over all flesh, that

He should give eternal life

to as many as You have given Him.

And this is eternal life, that they might know You

the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom You have sent.

I have glorified You on the earth: I have finished the work

which You gave Me to do.

And now, O Father, glorify Me with Yourself with

the glory which I had with You before the world existed.

I have manifested Your Name unto the men You have

given Me out of the world.

They were Yours, and You gave them to  Me,

and they have obeyed and kept Your word.

Now they know and understand that all You have

given Me are of You.

For I have given them the words You gave Me

and they received them and have known surely

that I came forth from You and they have believed

that You did send Me.

I pray for them: I am not praying for the world,

but for those You have given Me, for they are Yours.

And all Nine are Yours and Yours are Mine; and I am

glorified in them.

And now I am no more in the world, but these are in

the world, and I come to You.

Holy Father, keep through Your own Name

those You have given Me, that they may

be One, as We are.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in My

Name: those You have given Me I have kept,

and none of them is lost except the son of perdition;

that the scripture might be fulfilled.

And now I come to You; and these things I speak

in the world, that they might have my joy

fulfilled in themselves.

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated

them, because they are not of the world,

just as I am not of the world.

I pray not that You would take them out of the world,

but that You would keep them from the evil.

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Sanctify them through Your truth: Your word is truth.

As You have sent Me into the world world, I also send them

into the world.

And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might

be sanctified through the truth.

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which

shall believe on Me through their word,

That they all may be One, as You, Father are in Me and

I in You, that they also may be One in Us:

that the world may believe that You have sent Me.

And the glory which You gave Me I have given them;

that they may be One, just as We are One.

I in them and You in Me, that they may be made

perfect in One, and that the world may know that

You have sent Me and have loved them as you have

loved Me.

Father, I will that they also, whom You have given Me,

be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory,

which You have given Me; for You have loved Me

before the foundation of the world.

O righteous Father, the world has not known You:

but I have known You, and these have known that You

have sent Me.

And I have declared Your Name, and will declare,

so that the love You have Me with may be in them,

and I in them.

(John 17).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU HOLY FATHER!

THANK YOU LORD JESUS AND HOLY SPIRIT FOREVERMORE!

Led by the Spirit, we understand that we are now sons of God.

This is our new identity when we are in communion with Jesus the Christ.

We know He became one of us and did not count equality with

God something to hold on and grasp to, but He emptied Himself

of His divine privileges and prerogatives. This is known as Kenosis.

He came to identify with humanity as a human, as a servant and

experienced the death on the cross by being identified as a criminal.

When we embrace Him as our Lord and Savior we take on His identity

and are in union with Him. We then have His thought pattern and become like

minded with Jesus Christ:

“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,

who. though He was in the form of God, did not regard

equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied

Himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.

And being found in human form, He humbled Himself and became

obedient to the point of death- even death on a cross.

Therefore God has also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name

that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee

should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every

tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord , to the glory of God

the Father.

(Philippians 2;5-11).

His mind is present in the born-again Spirit-filled Christians.

This is the identity of the reborn sons of God. Because Christ

in you is the only hope of glory. Jesus Christ gives you His life,

so the life you live should be lived to glorify Him and serve Him.

He has redeemed us from sin and death and given us eternal life.

As St. Paul declares: I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live,

but the life that I live is the life of Christ Jesus the Eternal Son of God

Who gave His life for me. Since the Holy Spirit Who raised Jesus Christ

dwells in you, the same Spirit will quicken your mortal body.

The Holy Spirit gives you life and freedom. Where the Spirit of the Lord

is there is freedom. The Holy Spirit is the Helper, the Advocate, the

Comforter and the Spirit of adoption of wisdom and revelation.

You can have freedom from fear.

“You have not received the Spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you

have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

This is because the love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the

Holy Spirit and we know He is our Daddy. God is love and He is perfect.

Perfect love casts out fear. Fear has torment, but God’s divine love

dispels fear. This has tremendous implications of immense potential.

The vanity and futility of thought, worry, anxiety simply vanish.

The emptiness and desperation of dissatisfaction disappear.

The bondage to the mere physical with its impotence is  now gone.

Gone are the limitations of time, space, physicality with the preoccupations

of mortality and transitory, frustrating experience, illusory existence

of unregenerate material life.

Because Jesus Christ is fully human and fully divine and we are recreated

in His Spiritual image we now are full-fledged sons of God. No longer

strangers or aliens, no longer subjects or slaves, no longer clinging to

the fanaticism of yesteryear, the dogmas of modernism, the crutch of

postmodernism. You are truly free. As the son or daughter of God you

receive the fullness of the blessedness and favor of God to His glory.

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but the Spirit of power, love and a

sound mind.

This is the Spirit of Sonship freely given through our Lord and Savior

Jesus the Christ. The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are

children of God.

” Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether

they are from God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus

has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess

Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which

you have heard that is coming; and now it is already in the world.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the

One Who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are

from the world; and therefore what they say is from the world, and the world

listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and

whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the

spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”

(I.John 4;1-6).

“Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not

confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any such person is

the deceiver and the antichrist! Be on your guard, so that you do

not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.

Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ, but goes

beyond it, does not have God; whoever abides in the teaching has

both the Father and the Son. Do not receive into the house or

welcome anyone who comes to you and does not bring this teaching;

for to welcome is to participate in the evil deeds of such a person.”

(II. John 7-11).

POINTS FOR MEDITATION AND PRAISE

1) Our freedom from spiritual and intellectual error is totally dependent

on abiding in Jesus the Christ Who as our Lord and Savior is the Way, the

Truth and the Life. He backs up all His assertions with the Holy Spirit, the

spirit of wisdom and revelation.

2) The Holy Spirit leads you into all truth. He guides us in the new creation.

He transforms us from glory to glory. Eye has not seen, ear has not heard,

neither has entered into the human mind the things God has prepared for us.

God reveals these to us by His Spirit.

Prepare for the adventure of eternity. The most  intellectually and

spiritually rewarding new life, the Life! Life in the Light!

HALLELUJAH! WE THANK YOU AND PRAISE YOU LORD JESUS FOREVER!

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just and right.

Honor (esteem and value) your father and your mother- this is

the first commandment with a promise-

That all may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth.

Parents, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger (do not

exasperate them to resentment), but rear them (tenderly) in the

training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord.

(Ephesians 6.1-4).

POINTS FOR MEDITATION AND PRAISE

1) Our role model as parents is our heavenly Father.

As children, we obey and honor our parents in the Lord.

2) This is the secret to happy parenting and family harmony.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR GIVING US
THE KEYS TO SUCCESS IN FAMILY RELATIONS!

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ

(the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Wives, be subject (the Savior of His body.

be submissive and adapt yourselves

to your own husbands as (a service) to the Lord.

For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head

of the Church, Himself the Savior of His body.

As the Church is subject to Christ, so let wives also

be subject in everything to their husbands.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church

and gave Himself up for her,

So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the

washing of water with the Word,

That He might present the Church to Himself in glorious

splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things (that

she might be holy and faultless).

Even so husbands should love their wives as (being in a sense)

their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully

protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the Church.

Because we are members (parts) of His body.

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be

joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.

This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning (the relation of) Christ

and the Church.

However, let each man of you (without exception) love his wife as (being

in a sense) his very own self; and let the wife see that see that she respects

and reverences her husband (that she notices him, regards him, honors

him, prefers him).

(Ephesians 5.21-33).

POINTS FOR MEDITATION AND PRAISE

1) We realize how much Jesus loves the Church and how He

wants us to love one another with His love.

2) To the extent that we experience His love we can express

His love.The perfect role model for us is Jesus Christ Himself.

HALLELIUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

God sent His Son, born of a woman,

born subject to the regulations of

the Law,

To purchase the freedom of ( to ransom,

redeem, atone for) those who were

subject to the Law, that we might be

adopted and have sonship conferred

upon us ( and be recognized as God’s

children).
And because you really are His sons,

God has sent the Holy Spirit of His Son

into our hearts, crying out, Abba (Father)!

Father!

are children of God.

For the Spirit you have received is

not a spirit of slavery to put you

once more in bondage to fear, but

you have received the Spirit of

adoption (the Spirit producing

Sonship) in the bliss of which we

we call Him “Father, dear Father!”

The Spirit Himself speaks deeply

to our hearts assuring us that we

are God’s children.

( Romans 8.14-16).