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Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified

and made us fit to share the portion which is the

inheritance of the saints in the Light.

(Colossians 1.12).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood,

a dedicated nation, God’s own purchased special

people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds

and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who

called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

(I. Peter 1.9).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

Grace to you and peace from God

our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

We give thanks to the God and Father

of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always

for you,

Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus

and of your love for all the saints;

Because of the hope which is reserved for you

in heaven, of which you heard before in the word

of the truth of the Gospel (BEST NEWS EVER),

Which has come to you. as it has also in all the

world, and is bringing forth fruit, as it is also

among you since the day you heard and knew

the grace of God in truth;

As you also learned from Epaphras, our dear

fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of

Christ on you behalf,

Who also declared to us of your love in the Spirit.

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it,

do not cease to pray for you and to ask that you may

be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom

and spiritual understanding;

That you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing

Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing

in the knowledge of God;

Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious

power, for all patience and long suffering with joy;

Giving thanks to the Father Who has qualified us  to be

partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

HALLELUJAH! WE PRAISE YOU AND THANK YOU

LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

But you are a chosen generation,

a royal priesthood, a holy nation

God’s own special people, that you

may set forth the wonderful deeds

and display the virtues and perfections

of Him Who called you out of darkness

into His marvelous light.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS

FOREVERMORE!

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,

a holy nation, His own special people, that you may

proclaim the praises of Him Who called you out of

darkness into His marvelous light;

Who once were not a people but are now the people

of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have

obtained mercy.

(I.Peter 2. 9 & 10).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

For this reason we also, since the day

we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,

that you may be filled with the knowledge

of His will in all wisdom and spiritual

understanding;

that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully

pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work

and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Strengthened with all might, according to

His glorious power, for all patience and

longsuffering with joy;

Giving thanks to the Father Who has qualified us

to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints

in the light.

He has delivered us form the power of darkness and

conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the

forgiveness of sins.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over

all creation.

For by Him 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 and for Him.

And He is before all things and in Him all things

are held together.

(Colossians 1.9-17).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden

and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest.

Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle

and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

For my yoke is easy and My burden is light.

(Matthew 11. 28-30).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

THE GREAT REST

“And it shall be in that day that the Root of Jesse

shall stand as a signal for the peoples,

of Him shall the nations inquire and seek knowledge,

and His dwelling shall be glory

(His rest glorious)!”

(Isaiah 11.10).

“Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still holds

and is offered today, let us fear to distrust it

lest any of you should come short of reaching it.

For indeed we have had the glad tidings (The Best News Ever)

proclaimed to us just as truly as they (the Israelites of old

did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came

to them), but the message they heard did not

benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith

(with the absolute trust and confidence in God’s

power, wisdom and goodness) by those who heard it,

neither were they united in faith with the ones

(Joshua and Caleb) who heard (did believe).

For we who have believed ( trusted in and relied on God)

do enter that rest in accordance with His declaration that

those who did not believe should not enter when He said,

As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest;

and this He said although (His works had been completed and

prepared and waiting for all who would believe) from the

foundation of the world.

For in a certain place He has said this about the seventh day:

And God rested on the seventh day from all His works.

And they forfeited their part in it, for in this passage He said,

They shall not enter My rest.

Seeing that the promise remains over (from past times) for

some to enter that rest, and that those who formerly were

given the  good news about it and the opportunity,

failed to seize it and did not enter because of

disobedience,

Again He sets a definite day, Today, and gives another

opportunity of securing that rest, saying through

David after so long a time in the words already quoted,

Today, if you would hear His voice and when you

hear it, do not harden your hearts.

This mention of a rest was not a reference to their

entering into Canaan. For if Joshua had given them rest,

He (God) would not speak afterward about another day.

So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete

Sabbath-rest reserved for the true people of God;

For he who has entered God’s rest also has ceased

from the (weariness and pain) of human labors,

just as God rested from  those labors peculiarly

His own.

Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and

strive diligently to enter that rest (of God,

to know and experience it for ourselves), that no

one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief

and disobedience (into which those in the wilderness fell).

For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power

(making it active, operative, energizing and

effective); it is sharper than any two-edged sword,

penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of

life and spirit, and of joints and marrow, exposing

and sifting, analyzing and judging the very thoughts

and purposes of the heart.

And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight,

but all things are open and exposed, naked

and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.

Inasmuch as we have a High Priest Who has already ascended

and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God,

let us hold fast our confession.

For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand

and sympathize with our weaknesses and infirmities and

liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been

tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.

Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near

 to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor

to us sinners), that we may receive mercy (for our failures)

and find grace to help in time for every need.”

(Hebrews 4.1-16).

“All things have been entrusted and delivered to Me by my

Father, and no one fully knows the Son except the Father

and no one fully knows the Father except the Son and

anyone to whom the Son makes Him known.

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and

overburdened, and I will cause you

to rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle and

humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls

For my yoke is wholesome and My burden is light and easy to be

borne.”

(Matthew 11.27-30).

THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

Glory

For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined

in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the

face of Jesus Christ. (II. Corinthians 4;6).

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ” I am the light of the world. Whoever

follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”

(John 8;12).

Just as physical light is essential to life, spiritual Light in the Person

of Jesus is vital for Life. This is why Jesus says, when we follow Him

we will never walk in darkness, but have the light of Life. Because He

is the Light of Life. And God Who has said,’Let there be light!’ in the

beginning, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge

of the glory of God in the Face (Person) of Jesus.

This Light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus is

better understood in contrast. As light is best appreciated when contrasted

to darkness.In the same way the contrasts of righteousness to sin, life to

death, health to sickness allow the appreciation of each gift. This is what

St. Paul does when he says:’ And even if our gospel ( Best News Ever)

is hid, it is hid to them that are lost. In whom the god of this world has

blinded the minds of those who believe not, lest the light of the glorious

gospel (Best News Ever) of Christ, Who is the image of God (Imago Dei),

should shine unto them.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves

your servants for Jesus’ sake.

For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined

in our hearts, to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the

Face (Person) of Jesus Christ.

Without Jesus there is only spiritual darkness and shadows. Jesus is the

Light of Life.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

Adopted

The Truth of God, the Eternal Word, LOGOS entered into His own creation to

reconcile the fallen and broken creation to Himself as Jesus the Christ.

He is born of the Virgin Mary as very God and very Man to fulfill the Father’s

will by defeating the Devil, sin and death. In doing this He ushered in the

Kingdom of God where righteousness reigns. The Kingdom is righteousness,

peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

In the Kingdom the New Creation and the New World is based on the New

and Everlasting Covenant through His Body and His Blood. Since Jesus

Christ is very God and very Man, both Creator and Creation, He reconciled

Mankind to God, bringing the two together in union, in  Communion by His

Body and His Blood.

This reconciliation took place on the Cross at Calvary. This is how He

transformed Humanity, Nature and History.

He broke the dominion of darkness.

He brought us Light and Life.

He accomplished our reconciliation. 

He granted us salvation.

He won the victory over Satan, sin and death.

He redeemed us  and brought about our adoption as sons

of the Living God.

He restored His own creation.

He revealed Himself to us.

He fulfilled His mission, so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled

in us , who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

As we are united to Him at baptism and identify with His death, we

demonstrate our death, so we no longer walk after the flesh, but after

the Spirit in the Newness of Life.

This is how we are translated from the dominion of darkness to the

Kingdom of God’s dear Son.

The condemnation of sin in the flesh is the revelation of God’s righteousness.

This starts your New Life, Life in the Spirit.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!