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FIRST

I passed on to you first of all

what I also had received,

That Christ died for our sins

in accordance with the Scriptures,

That He was buried, that He arose

on the third day as the Scriptures

foretold,

And that He appeared to Peter, than

to the Twelve.

Then later He showed Himself to more

than five hundred brothers and sisters

at one time, the majority of whom are

still alive, but some have fallen asleep.

Afterward He was seen by James, then

by all the apostles,

And last of all He appeared to me also,

as to one prematurely and born dead.

For I am the least of the apostles, who

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FIRST

We have become fellows with Christ

and share in all He has for us, if only

we hold our first newborn confidence

and original assured expectation firm

and unshaken to the end.

(Hebrew 3.14).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

FIRST

Thus it is written, The first man Adam became

a living being. The last Adam (Christ) became

a life giving Spirit (restoring the dead to life).

(I. Corinthians 15.45).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

HIS KINGDOM

Seek first of all His kingdom

and His righteousness, and

then all these things will

be given you besides.

(Matthew 6. 33).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

CHRIST’S SACRIFICE ONCE FOR ALL

The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming- not the

realities themselves.

For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly

year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshippers

would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty

for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, because it

is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said:

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THE SPIRITUAL

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

So it is written: “The first man became s living being”,

the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.

The spiritual did not come first, but the natural and after

that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth,

the second man from heaven.

As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and

as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall

we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

(I. Corinthians … Continue Reading

ENTIRELY NEW

Christ, the Messiah is therefore the Mediator of an entirely new

agreement so that those who are called and offered it may receive

the fulfillment of the promised everlasting inheritance- since a

death has taken place which rescues and delivers them from the

transgressions committed under the first agreement.

(Hebrews 9.15).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

EVEN WE OURSELVES

EVEN WE OURSELVES

 For we know that the whole creation

groans and labors with birth pains

together until now.

Not only the creation, but we ourselves

too, who have and enjoy the first fruits

 of the Holy Spirit, even we

ourselves groan within ourselves

 eagerly waiting for the redemption

 of our bodies which will reveal our

adoption as God’s sons.

( Romans 8. 22 and 23).

MEDITATION POINTS

Meditate about the following:

1) The entire creation is awaiting the

manifestation of God’s children.

2) The entire creation groans and labors

in labor pains until then.

3) We also who have and enjoy the

firstfruits of the Holy Spirit ( a foretaste

of the blissful world to come)  groan inwardly

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The Divine Solution

For the wages of sin is death,

but the gift of God is eternal life

in Christ Jesus our Lord.

( Romans 6.23)

But as many as received Him,

to them He gave the right

to become the children of God,

even to those who believe

in His name.

( John 1.12)

For I delivered to you first

of all that which I also received:

that Christ died for our sins

according to the Scriptures,

and that He was buried,

and that He rose again

the third day according

to the Scriptures.

( I. Corinthians 15.3 and 4).

HALLELUJAH!

PRAISE AND INSPIRATION

In His wonderful love God

provided His amazing solution

to the problem of sin, evil

and death by sending His

Unique Son Jesus … Continue Reading

RISEN WITH CHRIST

RISEN WITH CHRIST

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!