transgressions and sins, in which

you used to live when you followed

the ways of this world and of the ruler

of the kingdom of the air, the spirit

who is at work in those who are

disobedient.

All of us also lived among them at

one time, gratifying the cravings

of our sinful nature and following

its desires and thoughts.

Like the rest, we were by nature

objects of wrath.

But because of His great love for us,

God, Who is rich in mercy, made us

alive with Christ even when we were

dead in transgressions- it is by grace

you have been saved.

And God raised us up with Christ and

seated us up with Him in the heavenly

realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in

the coming ages He might show the

incomparable riches of His grace, expressed

in His kindness to us in Christ  Jesus.

For it is by grace you have been saved,

through faith- and this is not from

yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by

works, so that no one can boast.

For we are God’s workmanship,

created in Christ Jesus to do good

works, which God prepared in advance

for us to do.

(Ephesians 2.1-10).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

Anyone who does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar,

because he has not believed the testimony God has given about His Son.

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this eternal

life is in His Son.

(I. John 5.10 & 11).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

be called the children of God! And that is what we are! The reason

the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

Dear friends,now we are children of God, and what we will be has not

yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be

like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. Everyone who has this hope

purifies himself, just as He is pure.

(I.John 3.1-3).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

revealed independently and altogether

apart from the Law, although actually it

is attested by the Law and the prophets.

(Romans 3.21).

It is truly vital to rightly understand that

this is a fallen world, our predicament in it is

indeed dire,

we are helpless, hopeless and desperate and

apart from God’s grace this world is doomed.

All we like sheep have gone astray, everyone to

his own way. There is none that does good, not one.

The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who

can know it? All have sinned and come short of

the glory of God. The Law and the Prophets clearly

expound the Fix we are in. St. Paul said that

there is no good in him, he could not do what he

should do and did what he should not do.

We are bound in time and space, limited in

possibility and ability.

However, we have eternity

set in our hearts as Solomon said. We know there

has to be a point to it all and we reflect on

our origin, a time when there was abundance, peace,

love and only goodness in the Garden

where Adam and Eve strolled with God in the cool

of the day.

There was a time when the

sun stood still and time stopped upon Gibeon

and the moon did not move in the valley of

Ayalon.

We know there is a future with no pain, no sorrow, no tears

and no war.

We know there is a future resurrection when the

graves will be opened and the sea will give up the

dead.

We know that there is a judgeement coming when

the Jesus Christ will judge everyone

righteously because He is the righteous Son of God

and Son of man.

He is our righteousness.

He is our redeemer. He is our future.

But, now, refers to the new order of things, to the

shape of things to come and our escape of

the desperate Fix we are in.

This is because the Kingdom has come to us.

The Kingdom is among us , because the King has come.

The King of kings and Lord of lords has come.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth, says St. John in

Revelation, for the first heaven and

the first earth are passed away.

But, now we hear the voice of God which is

heard in the Law and has also spoken by the

prophets, speaking through the Holy Spirit

and  guiding us.

But, now in these last days

God has spoken to us in the Person of His Son,

Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner

of all things, also by and through Whom He

created the worlds and the reaches of space

and the ages of time (He made, produced, built,

operated and arranged them in order).

He is the sole expression of the glory of God

(the Light-being, the out-raying, the radiance

of the divine) and He is the perfect imprint and

very image of God’s nature, upholding and

maintaining, guiding and propelling the

universe by His mighty word of power.

When He had by offering Himself accomplished

our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down

at the right hand of the divine majesty on high.

(Hebrews 1.2 & 3).

HALLELUJAH! PRAISE, HONOR, GLORY AND POWER BE UNTO JESUS WHOM THE HOLY FATHER HAS

SEATED AT HIS RIGHT! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

Who shall bring any charge against

God’s elect, when it is God Who puts

us in right relation to Himself ?

Who shall come forward and accuse

or impeach those whom God has chosen?

Will God, Who acquits us?

( Romans 8.33).

MEDITATION AND PRAYER POINTS

Meditate and pray about the following:

1) The immense peace that comes from

knowing that you are loved and accepted

by God Himself.

2) The fact that God, Who is rich in mercy,

because of His great love with which He

loved us,

Even when we were dead in trespasses,

made us alive together with Christ ( by

grace you have been saved),

And raised us up together, and made us

sit together in the heavenly places in

Christ Jesus. ( Ephesians 2.4-6).

For when we were in the flesh,

the sinful passions which were

awakened by the Law were at

work in our members bore

fruit to death.

But now we have been discharged

from the Law, having died to

what we were held by,

so that we should serve in the

newness of the Spirit

and not in the oldness

of the letter.

( Romans 7.5 and 6).

Consider these:

1) Before being reborn of the Spirit,

obeying the letter of the Law was

the order of the day.

2) After your Spiritual rebirth you

can live in new freedom to obey

 our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

by yielding to the promptings

of the Holy Spirit.

3) Daily thanks and praises to God

increase because of our new life.

4) All of this is made possible because

our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

granted us His resurrection life

with resurrection power.

If in this life only we have hope
in Christ, we are of all men the
most pitiable.
But now Christ is risen from the dead,

and has become the first fruits of all
who have fallen asleep.
For since by man came death,
by Man also came the resurrection
of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so
in Christ shall all be made alive.
(I. Corinthians 15.19-22).

POINT OF PRAISE

WE ARE RISEN WITH CHRIST!
HALLELUJAH!