Sunday, February 18, 2024
More Probing Questions
* Are you building upon any of your works, merits, sacraments or ordinances?
Saturday, February 10, 2024
SANCTIFICATION (1)
The wisdom that is from above is First Pure. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. I press toward the Mark.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for Himself. I have given them Thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men. But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. He that honoureth Him hath mercy on the poor.
Say ye of Him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world. Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
For this is the will of God, even your Sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in Sanctification and honour. Lest thou give thine honour unto others. That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. That He might sanctify and cleanse the church with the washing of water by the word, Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's. But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and Sanctification, and redemption.
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto Honour, sanctified, and meet for the Master's use, and prepared unto every good work. He that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. In reputation for wisdom and honour. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through Sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called. Keep thyself pure. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness. Even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. I receive not honour from men. That all men should honour the Son.
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
BE NOT FAR
Sunday, January 28, 2024
THE RIGHT DIRECTION
My voice shalt Thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up. O that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes! Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with JESUS and His disciples: for there were many, and they followed Him. In all Thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed Him. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed JESUS from Galilee, ministering unto Him. If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct. O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way. Now God Himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow Me. If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF
And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all. Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace. And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone. And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it. But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself. And, having made peace through the blood of His Cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace. Now the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all. Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of HHis person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them that are tempted. Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this He did once, when He offered up Himself.
How much more shall the Blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns; and He had a name written, that no man knew, but He Himself.
Sunday, January 14, 2024
HOW TO TRUST JESUS
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* Beware of Yourself