Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly
as you teach and admonish one another
with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms,
hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude
in your hearts to God.
(Colossians 3.16).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
In Him we have redemption through
His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in
accordance with the riches of God’s
grace that He lavished on us with all
wisdom and understanding.
(Ephesians 1.7 & 8).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,
since members of one body you were
called to peace. And be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you
teach and admonish one another with all wisdom,
and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs
with gratitude in your hearts to God.
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed,
do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
to God the Father through Him.
(Colossians 3.15-17).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of God
Who gives to all liberally and without reproach and it
will be given to him.
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who
doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
(James 1.5&6).
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!
God is not unrighteous to forget and overlook your work
and the love which you have shown for His name’s sake
in ministering to the needs of the saints, as you still do.
But we do desire for each of you to show the same diligence
and sincerity in realizing and enjoying the full assurance
and development of your hope until the end,
In order that you may not grow disinterested and become
spiritual sluggards but imitators, behaving as do those who
by faith ( by their leaning totally on God in Christ in absolute
trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness)
and by practice of patient endurance and waiting
are now inheriting the promises.
(Hebrews 6.10-12).
THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE! HALLELUJAH!
“All things work together for good to them that love God
and who are called according to His purpose.”
(Romans 8.28).
The ultimate good is our being in Christ eternally.The Good
in all waiting and wanting for the Redemption is being with
our Redeemer. The very love of God towards us assures us
that all will be well.
Everything Works together in harmony to the ultimate goal
of God’s purpose for us and His creation. God’s purpose is
to accomplish our Redemption.
“May blessing be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual
blessing in the heavenly realm!
Even as He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and blameless in His sight,
even above reproach, before Him in love.
For He foreordained us to be adopted as His own children
through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His
will to the praise and commendation of His glorious grace,
which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
In Him we have Redemption through His blood, the forgiveness
of our offenses, in accordance with the riches and the generosity
of His gracious favor,
Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding,
Making known to us the mystery of His will in accordance with His good
pleasure which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him,
He planned for the maturity of the times and climax of the ages to unify
all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, both things
in heaven and on the earth.
In Him we also were made God’s heritage and we obtained an inheritance;
for we had been chosen and appointed beforehand in accordance with His
purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and
design of His will,
So that we who first hoped in Christ (who first put our confidence in Him
have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of His glory!
In Him you also have heard the Word of Truth, the glad tidings (Gospel)
of your salvation, and have believed in and adhered to and relied on Him,
were stamped with the seal of the long-promised Holy Spirit.
The Spirit is the guarantee of our inheritance, in anticipation of its full
redemption and our acquiring complete possession of it- to the praise
of His glory!”
(Ephesians 1.3-14).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
We discover and worship the Only True God and Jesus Christ
through His Holy Spirit Who is the guarantee of our inheritance
to the praise of His glory which He has purposed and promised
all along.
The revelation of His divine and eternal purpose is to unite everything
under Christ Jesus in the unique unity of the Holy Trinity. This is the
glory of the children of God full of joy beyond words and extreme glory.
In His love He has provided us the eternal opportunity to belong to Him
and be in Him so we can live with Him forever in divine love and glory.
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Do you not perceive that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
(Romans 2.4)
It is God’s goodness and kindness that leads you to repentance.
Not our exceptional intelligence, brilliance or insight.
Not our mystical, spiritual or religious background or standing.
Not our strong will-power, discipline, intense prayer or fasting.
Not our achievements, wisdom or energy.
It is God’s goodness and kindness alone which leads you to repentance
from dead works. This is an absolute miracle.
At one point our unrighteousness and ungodliness becomes clear to us.
We realize like Job did when he encountered God in fear and trembling
how much we need God’s imputed righteousness. The righteousness of
Jesus Christ is credited to us when we totally believe and trust Him.
We conclude that God is true and everyone has sinned and come short
of the glory of God. We realize with awe and fear and trembling how much
we need His grace. We are saved by His grace alone and the faith we obtain
is totally His gift. God’s forbearance and long-suffering lead us to repent.
With humility and endless debt of gratitude we receive His most precious gift.
There is nothing better than abiding in His Presence and basking in His love.
We continue to praise Him for His indescribable gift.
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Intellectually Stimulating and Rewarding Spiritual Rebirth
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!
For He is Himself our peace, our bond
of unity and harmony. He has made
us both Jew and Gentile one body,
and has broken down, destroyed, abolished
the hostile dividing wall between us.
By abolishing in His own crucified flesh
the enmity caused by the Law with its decrees
and ordinances (which he annuled), that He
from the two might create in himself one
new human (one new quality of humanity out
of the two), so making peace.
(Ephesians 2.14 and 15).
POINTS FOR PRAISE AND MEDITATION
1) Jesus Christ is our peace.
He is the way, the truth and the life.
He is our wisdom. He is the resurrection
and the life. He is also our peace.
2) The wall of separation that existed
under the old covenant no longer
exists under the new covenant.
The barrier is no longer there.
Belief in Jesus Christ allows entering into
the covenant made possible by His
blood. This covenant is made with better,
much greater and everlasting promises.
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD JESUS!