And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge
and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be
pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness
that comes through Jesus Christ- to the glory and praise of God.
(Philippians 1.9-11).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
In righteousness you will be established. Tyranny will be far from you.
You will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not
come near you.
(Isaiah 54.14).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God’s will in thought and deed)
is the fruit of the seed sown in peace by those who work for and make peace (in
themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement and
harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free
from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts).
(James 3.18).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord
been disclosed?
For the Servant of God grew up before Him like a tender plant, and like
a root out of dry ground: He has no form or comeliness, that we should
look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him.
He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows
and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from
Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate
His worth or have any esteem for Him.
Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses,weaknesses, and distresses)
and carried our sorrows and pains, yet we considered Him stricken and
afflicted by God.
But He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our guilt
and iniquities; the chastisement needful to obtain peace and well-being for
us was upon Him, and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and
made whole.
All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way;
and the Lord has made to light upon Him the guilt and iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, yet when He was afflicted, He was submissive and opened
not His mouth; like a lamb, that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before
her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.
By oppression and judgement He was taken away; and as for His generation,
who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living
for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?
And they assigned Him a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His
death, although He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.
(Isaiah 53.1-9).
When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named
Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus.
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus, and Pilate ordered
that it be given to him.
And Joseph took the body and rolled it up in a clean linen cloth used for
swathing dead bodies.
And laid it in his own fresh tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he
rolled a big boulder over the door of the tomb and went away.
(Matthew 27.57-60).
He was guilty of no sin, neither was deceit ever found on His lips.
When He was reviled and insulted, He did not revile or insult in
return; when He was abused and suffered, He made no threats;
but He trusted Himself and everything to Him Who judges rightly.
He personally bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we might
die to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.
For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have come back to the
Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.
(I.Peter 2.22-25).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
And God Who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating
will also provide and multiply your resources for sowing and
increase the fruits of your righteousness (which manifests
itself in active goodness, kindness and charity).
(II. Corinthians 9.10).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
So this I say and solemnly testify in the name of the Lord, that you
must no longer live as the heathen do in their perverseness (in the
folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility) of their
minds.
Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded.
They are alienated from the life of God because of ignorance that is deep-
seated in them, due to their hardness of heart.
In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and
reckless and have abandoned themselves as a prey to unbridled sensuality,
eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity that their depraved
desires may suggest and demand.
But you did not so learn Christ!
Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as all
Truth is in Jesus embodied and personified in Him,
Strip yourselves of your former nature which characterized your previous
manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring
from delusion;
And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind,
And put on the new nature created in God’s image, in true righteousness
and holiness.
(Ephesians 4. 17-24).
AMEN!
“Because if you shall confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord,
and shall believe in your heart that God raised Him from the
dead, you shall be saved. For with the heart man believes unto
righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation. For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on Him
shall not be put to shame.”
Jesus, the Lord, the Way, the Truth and the Life, the Resurrection.
This is the confession. This is the condition for salvation. This is
the requirement for all men everywhere, for every age.We thus
submit to the righteousness of God, to the goodness of God.
THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
HALLELUJAH!