clearly demonstrate

through the ages to come

the unlimited riches of

His free grace in His kindness

toward us in Christ Jesus.

( Ephesians 2.7).

POINTS OF PRAISE AND

MEDITATION

1) God’s magnificent

unlimited favor is

demonstrated to

us in His acts.

2) His goodness and

His lovingkindness

never fail.

3) He has shown very

clearly His amazing

divine love for

humanity

through Jesus Christ.

4) The ministry and passion

of Christ are the most

explicit proof of the

fact that God is indeed love.

5) His amazing favor toward

us will demonstrate His love

through countless generations

in ages to come.

HALLELUJAH!

AND REVELATION

Therefore I also, after I heard

of your faith in the Lord Jesus

and your love for all the saints,

Do not cease to give thank for you,

making mention of you in my prayers:

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of glory, may give to you

the spirit of wisdom and revelation

in the knowledge of Him,

( Ephesians 1. 15-17)

POINTS OF PRAISE AND MEDITATION

1) The great significance and value of

your faith in Jesus Christ and love for

fellow saints.

2) This faith and love are God’s gift.

3) The importance of praying and

thanking for fellow saints.

4) The Father of glory gives us the

Holy Spirit, who is the Advocate,

Helper and Comforter, the Spirit

of wisdom and revelation.

5) This wisdom of insight into the

mysteries and secrets in the deep

and intimate knowledge of Him

is granted to you by our Father

in heaven.

What then do we conclude?

Is the Law identical with sin?

Certainly not! Nevertheless,

if it had not been for the Law,

I would not have recognized

sin. For instance I would not

have known about covetousness

if the Law had not said, You should

not covet and have an evil desire.

But sin, finding an opportunity, to

express itself got a hold on me and

provoked forbidden desires such as

lust and covetousness. For without

the Law sin is inactive.

Once I was alive, but quite apart from

the Law. But when the commandment

came, sin came alive and I died.

And the very legal ordinance which was

designed to bring life actually proved

death.

For sin, seizing the opportunity from the

commandment, beguiled me and using it

as a weapon, killed me.

The Law therefore is holy, and the

commandment is holy, just and good.

Romans 7.7-12).

Consider the following:

1) The Law is just, holy and good.

2) The problem is with human

sinful nature.

3) Sinful nature is enticed and

entrapped by the allure of sin.

4) Sin ends in death.

5) This is a vicious cycle which

is at work on those unaware

of the Law also.

6) The notion of sin or taboo is

pervasive in every society and

every human heart.

( More on this in Romans 2.14 and 15).

7) The Law proscribes what is taboo

in God’s sight and regulates human behavior.

However, the root cause of sinful behavior,

the violation of taboo, is wrong thinking due

to sinful nature.

Right action is predicated on right thinking.

A new mind based on spiritual rebirth is required.

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ grants this to us.

He paid our sin debt in full. We can be reborn of

the water and the Spirit. This is how we enter the

Kingdom of God, become a new creation in Him and live

forever with Him, the Father and the Holy Spirit.

WE THANK YOU FOREVER LORD JESUS!

HALLELUJAH!

I only baptize in water.

Among you there stands

One you do not recognize

and with Whom you are not

acquainted and of Whom you

know nothing.

It is He Who, coming after me,

is preferred before me,

the string of Whose sandal

I am not worthy to unloose.

These things occured in Bethany

across the Jordan where John was

then baptizing.

The next day John saw Jesus coming

to him and said, Look!

There is the Lamb of God, Who takes

away the sin of the world!

(John 1. 26-29).

Consider, meditate and pray about these verses.

For the  love of Christ compels us,

because we judge thus, that if One

died for all, then all died,

And He died for all, that those

who live should live

no longer for themselves,

but for Him who died for them

and rose again.

( II. Corinthians 5.14 and 15).

POINTS FOR PRAYER

1) The love or charity of Jesus Christ urges or  compels us

2) We were reckoned as dead because of trespasses and sins

3) Jesus Christ died to atone for our sins

4) Jesus Christ rose again so that we can live with Him

5) We therefore live for Him empowered by the Holy Spirit

6) The life we live is actually His life

7) Remember the scripture which indicates

that we were crucified with Him, yet we live

and the life we live is now no longer ours, but

His life, because He died and granted us His

salvation and His life, so we can walk in newness

of life as new creations in Christ.

O righteous Father! The world has not
known You, but I have known You and
these have known that You sent Me.
And I have declared to them Your name,
and I will declare it, that the love with
which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.

 ( John 17. 25-26).

TOTALLY AMAZING

How awesome and wonderful it is to realize that the Father

loves us with the same love He loves the Son

and the Holy Spirit enables us to experience

 and express the love of

the father toward Jesus because Jesus is in us.

Christ in you the hope of glory. ( Colossians 1.27).

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