The Wondrous Cross-2

Every Christian should be heartily, constantly, and compassionately pointing sinners to Christ Jesus. Only in His Precious Blood do I trust, Only in His Righteousness do I rest, Only in His Cross do I glory, Only in His Finished Work do I boast. The Gospel truth we should proclaim, and say, "Behold the Lamb!" This is our highest Business here below to say. "Behold the Atoning Sacrifice for sinners!" JEHOVAH-JIREH provided the Lamb of God upon Calvary's Cross as an Atonement for the sins of the whole world.

GRACE is now seeking in the Earth for spiritual misery, beggary, helplessness, contrite ones, distressed, ungodly, blind, weary, heavy laden, despairing, lost cause, brokenhearted, oppressed, sighing, ruined, poor in spirit, sinful, prisoners, troubled, damaged beyond human repair, desperate, unworthiness, guilty, captives, destitute, sitting in darkness, emptiness, bruised, needy, bankruptcy, hopelessness, and nothing else. 

Friend, Is that you? 

Grace sought Adam in the garden in Genesis 3; Grace sought the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4, and Grace is seeking you today. Divine GRACE is seeking human ruin, because He delighteth in MERCY.

Trust Jesus as your own Savior, give up your sins and self-reliance. Flee to the Lamb of God, and Find eternal Shelter for your defenseless Soul at the Cross. Look completely away from self to Jesus and His full Atonement and utmost Ransom that He paid with His innocent Blood. Where can I find forgiveness for my sins against God? Answer: Only in the most Precious Blood of The Lord Jesus Christ. My sins have been imputed to Christ forever, and they can never be imputed to me again. When Christ Jesus justifies, He justifies forever and ever. Jesus bore the full punishment which was due to all my sins. Enjoying cigarettes slowly destroys your lungs, Enjoying grain alcohol slowly destroys your liver, brain and kidneys, Enjoying the pleasures of sin deceitfully destroys your mind, heart, soul and body.

Christ Jesus had to become a human being in order to be the Substitute for human sin. The Innocent died for the offender. A man had to suffer, because a man had sinned. I fell by one man, Adam; and I must be raised up, lifted by another Man, Christ Jesus. A man must literally die in my place; just His sinless life could not take away my sins against God. His sinless life, preaching, healing, fasting, praying, serving, spotless obedience, bloody sweat, scourging, shame and spitting that He endured could not take away one of my sins. Salvation is of the LORD. If I had committed one sin against God, Jesus had to die for that one sin. Jesus had to shed His blood and die for my sins. The Infinite became an infant, The Maker became a man, The Immortal became a mortal, The Creator became a creature. Jesus became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross, for my soul's sake. Christ was cursed and condemned to die in my place. The blood of Jesus Christ now cleanseth me from all my sins, once and for all. Are you willing to have your sin problem taken care of by JESUS Himself?

Whosoever trusts Christ, that is, His person and blood, is saved the very moment he trusts Christ. Christ is able to save sinners to the uttermost that come unto God by Him. You have not gone beyond the uttermost; so He is able to save you too, just now as you are. The key to the Gospel mystery is this: Christ has fulfilled the Law's demands by His perfect obedience, and He suffered the Law's utmost penalty through His bloody death on the Cross. He endured what I should have endured, and made the Perfect Atonement to the Father for all my sins, that I would ever commit in this life. The simple act of relying upon Jesus as my Substitute, Savior, and Atonement has put away my guilt and sins forever. Simply trust in the Lord Jesus Christ; Come to Him as a little child. 

The Father fulfilled His wrath against human sin by bruising, smiting and afflicting Christ. Christ became Sin itself on the Cross, He bore my sins in His own body, He endured the wrath of God on my behalf. The righteous unflinching demands of the Law were perfectly satisfied: this is called Propitiation. For God is Holy and Just, and He must exact the full penalty of my guilt on someone: It is either JESUS or me. Christ Jesus suffering, bleeding, dying, and rising from the dead has gotten me the VICTORY. All my life was full of sin when JESUS found me, All my heart was full of misery and woe; Jesus placed His loving arms about me, and He led me in the Way of Peace where I ought to go. No one ever Cared for me like JESUS, for He took my sin and darkness from me. There's no other Friend so Kind as He.

The whole story of Salvation: We are born sinners, and have increased our guilt day by day. There is no hope in ourselves. Christ Jesus, the Son of God, came into this world, born of the virgin Mary. He went about doing good, seeking and saving the lost, and at the last, He was falsely accused and died a death of public disgrace and shame, taking the punishment due to my sins. The guilty is saved by the Innocent; the unworthy redeemed by the Worthy. JEHOVAH-JIREH charged the guilt of my sins to Christ; in my place He bore the consequences I deserved. HIMSELF HE COULD NOT SAVE! Jesus was the full payment for my sins: He fully satisfied both the wrath and righteousness of God, so God could freely forgive sinners without compromising His HOLINESS.

Tell all sinners these Gospel Facts: God was manifest in the flesh; God was incarnated in Jesus Christ, and dwelt among us as a Jewish man. Christ Jesus was God as well as man. Grace brought Him here to Earth to save sinners. His sinless life is my Righteousness; His suffering and bloody death is my Atonement; He appeased the wrath of God for all my sins. This is the Sum and Substance of the Gospel: The sinner in Christ's place, and Christ in the sinner's place. This is the very soul and essence of the Gospel Message: Christ died for the ungodly; Simply place your Faith in His Blood, and your sins are forgiven freely. Ye must be born again, or you will enter Heaven. No human reformation will suffice; The New Birth, Forgiveness of Sins, and Eternal Life poor sinners need.

JEHOVAH-JIREH has made Christ to be a Propitiation for sin; For JEHOVAH-JIREH made JESUS to be Sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Christ. JEHOVAH-JIREH laid on JESUS the iniquity of us all. 

Listen closely now with solemn attention:  The voice of Jesus is calling you, Come guilty sinner, Come to Me. I have real Peace and Rest to offer your sick, troubled, laboring Soul; Take my Salvation; Take Me now and happy be. Only Faith gives us ears to hear His invitation. Soon His voice will cease its calling; Sinner, heed His gracious call, Flee to His Blood for Refuge, Take Christ's Salvation; Take Him now, and safe and happy you will be. Eternal life is found alone in Christ, only in HIM is Life Eternal offered to you. Offered to you without price or works; JESUS is the Gift of God sent freely.

My sin debt to God is paid in full by Christ Himself. I have peace with God through Christ's sufferings, bleeding, bruises, thorns, chastisement, wounds, piercings, stripes, and dying. Jesus' body was broken and His blood was spilt for my sake; His blood was shed in grievous agony, even unto death, as an Atonement for human sins. He took all my personal Guilt and suffered for it. God's Divine Justice is vindicated by the bloody death of His dear Son. Peace of mind and heart can never come from this world's vice and vanity. A Free pardon is offered to you now by the Grace and Blood of God. The pith and marrow of the Gospel is to Trust only to God Incarnate's Precious Blood for the forgiveness of sins. 

Faith in the real, actual, literal Substitution of Christ finishes the great transaction between your soul and God. I have tied His scarlet line in the window of my heart forever. When God sees His blood on my Soul, He will pass over me. Simple reliance in God's dear Son, resting upon Him alone, that is all. The Great Central Truth of the Gospel: Christ suffering in the sinner's place; Christ's Blood Atonement made available for guilty sinners. He was a Recompense made to God for human sin. Divine Vengeance and Justice was seeking me, but at the same time, the Grace and Mercy of God was seeking me. I felt the weight of my sins and guilt upon my conscience, the Holy Ghost made me conscious of the heinousness of my sins. The Holy Spirit gave me Faith that directed me to the Precious Blood of the Lamb of God. Draw nigh to God, Close in with Christ, and your Soul shall live eternally.

Christ died for sinners; I'm a sinner for sure; I look only to Him, and trust my sins and Soul with Him. I hide behind the mighty Cross, for the Grace of God is available there, and there my sin debt was paid, my sins on Jesus were laid, and I am saved from the wrath to come. His Person and Righteousness, not I; His Bleeding Love, not mine. I trust all my Soul's Salvation on what Jesus in Love has done. 

The Father punished His Son instead of me; therefore the Father cannot punish me, I am redeemed and go scot free forever. Jesus' very life bled out for me on Calvary; He loved me to death. I have offended and insulted God, how can He ever forgive me? How can Holy JEHOVAH justly pass by my iniquities? Answer: Jesus stood in my place of curse and ruin and bore my sins' penalty which is Death. I know my sins are freely forgiven for His name's sake. No one's hunger can ever be satisfied by just hearing about bread: the bread itself must be eaten by the hungry, even so must the Bread of Life be eaten by starving lost souls. In Christ, the Father is now able to show full Mercy to sinners without violation of His divine justice. 

Christ must be fully received into the heart. There is no other of Salvation under heaven, but by Faith in the Precious Blood of the Substitute - The Atoning Sacrifice of the Lamb of God. Jesus saw me plunged in the deep distress of my sins, and He flew to my Rescue and Relief, and bore the shameful Cross especially for me. There is no danger for my Soul in Christ, and there is no safety outside of Christ. Through the Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ you can come to God, forsaking your own righteousness, hating your sins, believing on God's Son, and you will be completely pardoned through faith in the Precious Blood of Jesus, and accepted on the spot. Until you are saved, you are filled with unrest: Jesus said, "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will Give you REST.

Free Salvation by Substitution (THE CROSS) is the Father's invention from His divine wisdom, grace, and omniscience. Christ bore my grief, carried my sorrows, was wounded for my transgressions, and bruised for my iniquities. JESUS bore the full penalty for all my rebellion against my Creator. Self-righteous man adores the false-works gospel that they manufacture in their carnal minds.  No actions or merits of mine could ever atone for any of my sins, or help make me righteous before a thrice holy God. I have given up all hope of self-justification, and I am now by the Grace of God justified freely by His Son's Blood. God please be Merciful to Me for Jesus' sake, for I am the greatest of sinners, I desperately need your forgivenesses through the Blood of your dear Son, Lord please remember me for Jesus' sake, I ask no more. 

The Precious Things

* The precious fruits brought forth by the sun.
* The word of the LORD was precious in those days.
* My soul was precious in thine eyes this day.
* Let my life now be precious in thy sight.
* His eye seeth every precious thing.
* The redemption of their soul is precious.
* Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.
* He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed.
* How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!
* She is more precious than rubies.
* The substance of a diligent man is precious.
* The lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
* A good name is better than precious ointment.
* A tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation.
* An alabaster box of very precious ointment. An alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious.
* Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble.
* Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth.
* The trial of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perisheth.
* But with the precious blood of Christ.
* A living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious.
* Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious, and he that believeth on Him shall not be confounded.
* Unto you therefore which believe He is precious.
* Obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
* Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises.
* The holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.

The GOSPILL

May the Holy Ghost Himself, the Spirit of Grace, make you sensible of your need of God's Salvation provided freely and fully through the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Only the Spirit of God can bring you out of sin's Coma and allow you to come to your senses. What will become of you if you die in your natural state - current sinful condition?

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and whosoever believeth in HIM is not condemned. I believe on JESUS, therefore I am not condemned. My sins are all forgiven, because Jesus died for sinners, and there is no condemnation to those that are in HIM. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Whosoever believeth in Jesus' Precious Blood is fully and eternally forgiven. (See John 1:12; II Cor 5:19-21, I John 2:2; I John 4:10; Ecc 7:20; I Tim 1:15; I Tim 2:5; Titus 3:5) 

No man on earth can absolve sinners; the Man Christ Jesus is the only Absolver/Pardoner of human sins. Religious quack remedies won't rid you of your sins. Believe in the infinite Goodness and Mercy of God in the person of His dear Son, and come and trust HIM alone. Trust God in Christ Jesus, and you are reconciled to Him, and your sins are blotted out for Christ's sake. God freely forgives all your sin debt for the sake of Jesus Christ. Trust Christ to do it All. Throw yourself down at the feet of the Savior. Here I stand condemned, near to Hell, save me JESUS, forgive me, impute your Righteousness to me, and make me accepted in the Beloved. Jesus died for ungodly God-provoking rebels. 

Heartily trust Christ and Him alone; You can count on HIM; but Never trust yourself. Be convinced that what Jesus says is True, first believe Him, depend upon what He has done, and on who He is. Commit your Soul to the Redeemer's safekeeping, and He will keep You safe forever more. Lean your whole weight on JESUS. Your primary concern should be the Salvation of your Soul. There is no absolutely no cure here on earth, but the entrance of God's words, His Son, and Spirit into your soul, and the Savior then becomes near and dear to your heart. Hopefully, by the good providence of God you will discover the Remedy by which your spiritual disease can be removed. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

Now Understand: The only Antibiotic that can kill the deadly bacteria called SIN which is currently moving through your Soul is the Precious Gospill. This remedy was very expensive for the Savior, but Free to you. The Gospel is power of God unto Salvation to every one that believes on the Lord Jesus Christ. The matchless divine Remedy has been prescribed and is available to you now. Just like when you are very sick, you must go to the Doctor for a trusted Remedy, or you will eventually perish in your sickness. There's no remedy within yourself. But see with your Sin, you need Help from above. 

Heaven's remedy is provided in the stripes and blood of the Lamb of God. You must forsake your deadly pride, and go to the only wise Physician. The Gospill will cause a bitter taste when first received. It will be a tough Pill to swallow, because first, it will cause you to sense the bitterness of your sins against your merciful Maker. The bitterness will become sweetness. The Remedy has already been prepared by Grace and is now freely presented to you. The Prescription of the Physician is one given out without charge to the poor sinner at the Dispensary (The CROSS). The simple mode of application is this often neglected and despised remedy for Sin: Take HIM only as directed - by Faith into your innermost heart; Trust Jesus Christ; Swallow down the potent Gospill all the way with cold refreshing water, that is, the Holy Spirit. 

Christ Jesus came into the world to save us from the deadly disease called SIN; The Divine Doctor came to Earth and made a house call for all of us sin-sick wretches. Only Jesus could fight and kill the most virulent and mortal of diseases - SIN. Therefore I confide in HIM without a doubt. JESUS is the Physician, but His sufferings and bloody death (Atonement) are the Medicine. 

Once you receive the simple but most effective Medicine, the Holy Spirit will begin His work and cause the Gospill to absorb into your heart, mind and soul. The cure begins (being convinced of your miserable and deadly condition by nature, the new birth). Let the Savior's Medicine do its divine work down deep in your inward parts, and give you the eternal healing you desperately need. By His stripes we are healed. Take the Gospill only as prescribed, exactly as Dr. Jesus tells you, receive the Gospill by Faith into your Heart. Do not save the Gospill for later. Receive the Gospill by Faith at once, Trusting only to JESUS' BLOOD alone. Talk with the Heavenly Doctor if you have questions. Never mix the Gospill with your works, this will only make your Soul sicker and cause deadly side effects. He forgiveth all my iniquities; He healeth all my diseases; He restoreth my soul. The only precious Balm to apply to your inward putrefying sores (filthy self-righteousness, inward wickedness, polluted thoughts, slighting the Savior, deceitfulness, love for sin, unbelief, guilty conscience, forgetting God, wretchedness of heart) is the Precious Blood of God Incarnate.

Buckle your eternal fate and destiny to Jesus, sink or swim with Him. Put all your eggs in Jesus' basket; Place all your treasure in His vault. Trust Him Implicitly. God bids you to trust His Son, trust Him without any further delay. Trust Jesus Christ with your whole heart. You can be pardoned at once through Jesus Christ's Blood. Be nothing, and let Jesus Christ be Everything. Just get to Jesus Christ, and you will be like the weary sailor who has reached his home port safe and sound. The storm will be over, the winds will cease to howl, and the waves will roar no more. You lack a perfect righteousness that can present you without fault before your Creator, but there is a Righteousness only found in Jesus Christ that can prepare you for Judgment. Be wise now:  Abhor and forsake your own filthy righteousness for it is insufficient to do you any temporal or eternal good.

Drop into JESUS arms, Plunge completely into His Precious Blood, and let Him bear the whole weight of your sins. Have done with your useless trying; Trust to the Finished Work of the Lamb of God. Jesus' Blood cleanses you the moment you rely on Him alone, it is All done then, His merit and Righteousness are yours eternally, and you shall not love your sins any more. The new divine nature  implanted within you by the Holy Spirit will cause you to abhor sin, and will fight and conquer the power of sins through the Grace of Jesus and the mighty power of the Holy Spirit. Confide your Soul's eternal interests with Christ now. Seek Jesus fervently; Love Jesus truly and intensely. Before it's too late, Come to your senses, humble yourself, sinner friend, cast your deadly righteousness overboard, and fix your faith in the sinless Precious Blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins on Calvary's Cross. 

Listen attentively now - Human evil, divine justice, bleeding love, and free forgiveness all converged one day at one place called Calvary's Cross where God manifest in the flesh bore in His own body all human sin, including yours; Calvary is where the Crucified Creator suffered the divine justice due to our sins, where He loved us to death with His own blood, and where now He offers us free forgiveness through simple faith in His atoning blood.

Whom Seekest Thou?

Give me understanding, and I shall keep Thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek His God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered. And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name. With my whole heart have I sought Thee: O let me not wander from Thy commandments. Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: I will keep Thy statutes.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that HE IS, and that HE IS a rewarder of them that diligently seek HIM. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord. For their heart was not right with HIM, neither were they stedfast in His covenant. 

If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord. Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty. Them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for Him. And I will give them an heart to know ME, that I am the Lord: and they shall be My people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto ME with their whole heart. For the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek HIM, HE will be found of thee. 

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. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. The Father seeketh such to worship HIM. If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward Him.

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 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.  Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the Lord gave them rest round about. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

I intreated Thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to Thy word. The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep Thy precepts with my whole heart. With my soul have I desired Thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek Thee early. And ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart. That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us. 

The INCREASE of God

* For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? Stop your strutting, and walk humbly. And of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. 

* Your glorying is not good. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Be not wise in your own conceits. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 

* No man can come unto Me, except it were given him of my Father. According as God hath dealt to every man the measure of Faith. But unto every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. For it is God which worketh in you to will and to do of His good pleasure. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another. And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven. And the vessel that He made of clay was marred in the hand of the Potter: so He made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the Potter to make it.

* And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred. And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. He must increase, but I must decrease. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. The things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel.

* But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ. I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. And so were the churches established in the Faith, and increased in number daily. I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. He that abideth in ME, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without ME ye can do nothing. For by Me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. And have no confidence in the flesh. It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. 

* But by the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. Wherein He hath abounded toward us in all Wisdom and Prudence. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. But grow in Grace. According to the gift of the Grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of His power. As to the Lord.

* For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

* God also to the Gentiles granted Repentance unto life. God opened the door of Faith unto the Gentiles. Lydia whose heart the Lord opened. Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures. They declared all that God had done with them. Paul declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry. In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.

* For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. But the word of God is not bound. But the word of God grew and multiplied. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed. And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. That the word of the Lord have free course, and be glorified. That in all things He might have the preeminence.

* Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness. Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord. Always abounding in the work of the Lord.

* From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God. And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. 

* He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you. And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more. 

* He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again. Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Pray for the WIND to Blow

Pray for the Wind to Blow: The Holy Spirit is the Heavenly Wind who is needed from above in the hot desert of this world. He bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries. He sendeth out His word, and melteth them: He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow. Thou knowest not the way of the spirit. The Wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of The Spirit. Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. You can't make the Wind blow outside, only The Creator can. And you can't make the Wind blow within you either, only The Almighty Spirit can. The rushing mighty Wind is needed here again in 2023.

The Holy Spirit turns our imaginary riches into deep poverty. He is the only Quickener of a dead soul. The Spirit of the Lord sends Light into the Soul making us conscious of sin's deep pollution and power within us. We should always be praying for the Heavenly Wind to blow in our lives and in the hearts of those we are trying to reach for Christ. Without the Holy Spirit, no true change will ever occur in the heart and soul. 

The sinner's Understanding must be enlightened first by the Law. For by the Law is the knowledge of sin. Then the Gospel comes home to the heart in power as the divine Remedy for Sin. The Holy Spirit reveals to man his obligations to his Maker, and his transgressions of these obligations. The Spirit of God shows us the evil of our sins, our guilt and imminent danger, and the Impossibility of us escaping that danger by any efforts or merits of our own. 

The purity of the Law condemns us all, but Christ redeems us. The Law reveals Sin, Christ removes Sin. The Law is the Net that catches from our element of Sin. The Law is the Storm that drives us to the Safe Harbor. The Law is the Sheriff that arrests and remands us, so we will seek Freedom through Christ. The Law empties us, but the Grace of Christ fills us. The Law wounds us, but Mercy heals us. The Law is the Sheepdog that fetches the lost sheep to the Shepherd. The Law is the burning heat that creates a real thirst deep within and leads to the cool waters of the Gospel. We have all fallen way of the divine standard of the LAW. The Law is the Bloodwork that the Holy Spirit uses to detect and reveal to you the deadly Illness in your Soul. 

The Law is broken in a thousand pieces by us each day, and we cannot repair the damage we have done. The Law demands Perfection, but Christ provides me His Perfection, that is, He gives me His Righteousness. The perfect obedience to the Law was absolutely essential: so the Father sent the Son, and Christ thought no sin, knew no sin, and did no sin whatsoever. JESUS was without a blemish in the sight of God; He was the spotless Lamb of God slain in the place of sinners like me. 

The divine Wind reveals to the sinner God's way of Salvation: The Person of Christ, His finished work, His Blood and Righteousness, and its suitability and freeness. We obtain eternal Redemption in Christ Jesus by the simple act of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting in what He has done, not in what we do. You can't have Salvation your way; Jesus is the only Way.

Let there be Light: Only the LORD can speak Light into your dark, void Soul. Divine Light pours into the heart when we receive the Light of the world, Christ Jesus Himself. The whole credit and glory of the supernatural work of Salvation belongs to LORD alone: He removes the darkness from the Understanding; He opens the blinded eyes of the Soul; He illuminates the conscience and intellect, He regenerates the heart and renews our inward nature. It is most needful for the Father of lights to interpose for us. 

The heart of every man is Darkness itself. The entrance of God's words giveth light and understanding. God covereth Himself with Light as with a garment. For God, who commanded the Light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 

Divine Light's entrance into the heart and mind is instantaneous and miraculous, He comes at the speed of divine light. The path of the just is as the shining Light. JESUS calls us out of darkness into His marvelous Light. He opens to us the Scriptures. The LORD Himself opened the heart of Lydia, and then she believed. No sinner ever comes to Christ except the Father draw him. It is the Spirit that quickeneth. In Thy Light shall we see Light. O send out Thy Light and Truth. Truly the Light is sweet, and a Pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Son. 

The LORD thinketh upon me; Thou God seest me. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the Soul of the needy. The LORD knows all about your sinful activity from day to day. The Spirit of God begins to blow upon your heart, and you start to feel your inward corruption, sense your evil thoughts, and your tendencies to sin and propensity to depravity. You choose not to retain God in your knowledge; He is the last person on your mind throughout your day. But you become you become conscious of your deadly condition; You begin to pray, try to repent of sin, bemoaning disobedience, and you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and hope in His mercy. 

No sinner will ever receive the Holy Spirit by his own works, merit, or religious activity. The Holy Ghost goes to the root of the matter, and cuts at the tap roots of Unbelief and Self-Righteousness. He penetrates deep within us, into our reins and searches the heart and discerns our intents. He applies Christ's Wondrous Medicine where we need it the very most. In the hidden part, Thou shalt make me to know Wisdom. Faith itself is the divine operation of the Spirit of God. Faith is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. 

Sin's paths lead one way, and the way of Sin goes in the opposite direction from God. The way of transgressors is Hard. Turning from the folly of sin to the glory of God is Repentance. Confessing wrong thinking, wrong talking, wrongdoing, wrong habits, lamenting our transgressions, abhorring evil lusts, and desiring pardon and renewal of inward nature. Precious in the sight of the Lord are tears of Repentance and the sighs of Contrite hearts. True Faith from above leads a man to hearty earnest Repentance towards God, that is, an intense loathing of our sins against God, and an actual forsaking of those sins.

The Heavenly Wind blows Repentance into our hearts, and we give up the objects of our idolatries: money, pleasure, the pride of life, the world's vanities, fleshly desires, and the devil's wiles and snares. The aim of our Being is to worship and please God. The eyes and affection of the heart turn upward. We yield obediently to the sway of the Holy Spirit, become willing to do what He bids. We walk in the Spirit, think what He teaches, and be what He commands. We are transformed, renewed in our minds, a willing and obedient mind, sincere obedience to the Father in our secret, private, and public life. Humbly believing in JESUS. They believed and turned unto the LORD. (Acts 11:21) We ask JESUS Himself to deliver us from the present dominion of our sinful habits. Seeking humility, sobriety, morality, thrift, chastity, purity, sincerity, honesty, mercy. 

The poor in spirit are always feasting on the Bread of Life. The poorest, vilest, weakest, guiltiest are welcome at the Cross today. An empty vessel simply receives, because it is empty. Free gift of divine mercy found in the Precious Blood. Spiritual bankruptcy and utter penury stare you in the face before you are born again of the Spirit of God. You need Divine Charity: a handout from the hand of God. Behold the Lamb of God; Look unto JESUS, not into yourself.

PRAY FOR THE WIND TO BLOW!

The Minds of The Bible

* Mind of the Lord: For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been His counsellor?
* Mind of Christ: For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that He may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
* Mind of the Spirit: And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

* Renewed mind: 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. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
* Persuaded mind: One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
* Right mind: And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
* Pure mind: This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance. The wisdom that is from above is first Pure.
* Lowliness of mind: Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
* Humble mind: Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
* Humility of mind: Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
* Sober mind: Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
* Sound mind: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
* Ready mind: And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind.
* Willing mind: For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
* Stedfast mind:  When Naomi saw that Ruth was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
* Forwardness of mind: For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
* Mind to work: So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
* One mind: Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
* Fervent mind: And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
* Ready mind: These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind. I am ready to preach the gospel to you.
* Peaceful Trusting mind: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

* Shaken mind: That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
* Fainting mind: For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.
* Double minded: A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
* Doubtful mind: And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

* Blinded mind: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
* Carnal mind: For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
* Alienated mind: And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled, 
* Corrupted mind: But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
* Vain mind: This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.
* Earthly mind: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
* Fleshly mind: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.
* Defiled mind: Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
* Wicked mind: The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? For I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
* Hardened mind: But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
* Evil affected mind: But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
* Reprobate mind: And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

Simply Trusting JESUS

The very essence of Salvation lies in depending upon Christ Jesus alone. Divine Faith ascribes Salvation wholly to HIM who saves the Soul. True Faith never robs the Father of His glory. Christ's bloody Sacrifice for sinners is fixed, settled and the essence of the Gospel. The essence of the Gospel is Substitution. The center of Biblical Christianity is God manifest in the flesh dying for sinners on the Cross, and the core meaning of the Cross is Substitution. Through the Blood of His Cross is only way to Heaven.

Justification by Faith in Jesus' Blood alone is the most important Truth and is the vital essence of the Gospel. Trust the sufferings, righteousness, and Blood Atonement of the Lamb of God; never try to save yourself from Sin. You may have all that Jesus has purchased, you can have it All for nothing, the Free Gift of God. By repenting of sin and believing on Jesus Christ, you can have All He has to offer, Freely. But He who saves you must reign over you. His Blood cleanses us, and then His Love rules us. He saves us from our sins, rebellions, revolting, stubbornness, and the love we have for our sins. Redemption by Blood is the marrow of the Gospel. The marrow is the innermost part of our being; this is where we receive Christ into by Faith in His Blood. 

You cannot see anything spiritually until JESUS is your Light. Look at everything through the Cross. I am here to persuade you to think of Christ, to trust in Christ, to avow your Faith in HIM, make your Faith in Him known. Read about Him, Hear about Him, Think about the CROSS. Sitting and seeing the Son of God dying on the CROSS for you is the only way to get Faith. You have deep black stains on your Soul called Sins, and they can only be washed out by the Blood of the Living God, Christ Jesus. The Blood of Jesus will instantly give you a clean Soul and Peace of Mind. Unbelief is the soul-damning Sin. When you will not believe God's words, when you reject the testimony of God concerning His Son, and when you make God a liar by refusing to believe on His Son, this is your most deadly decision ever. Unbelief is Sin enough to damn you Forever and Ever. God is True, the Blood of Jesus Christ is able to wash away your Sins within. But you refuse to quit your sins, because you love them. You have broken the divine Law of God innumerable times and have lived forgetful of God days without number. Be careful or your self-righteous pride will carry you off into Hell. 

Meditate on Christ Himself. Study and Ponder about  Christ's Person, Blood, Work and Character. Sequester yourself, get away from the noise and confusion of this world, read the Bible very prayerfully and carefully; let God's words sink down into your ears and heart. Yield to the Holy Spirit, Receive Christ, Cherish the Father. I only persuade you to trust in Christ alone. Trusting in Jesus' Blood is the essence of saving Faith. Faith is trusting to a living Person, Christ Himself. Jesus is worth trusting; He is worth serving. Soul, where else can you trust? 

The moment you simply trust in JESUS, you are saved on the spot. Prove it to be true by your own personal faith in Christ Now. The Look of Trust to the Lamb of God is all it takes. Look away from your Buts and Doubts, and look to Christ now and Trust HIM. Whosoever believeth on Jesus Christ hath Everlasting Life. My JESUS died because of my sins. Away with my sins forever. 

As a sinner, you have no rights but to die, be judged, condemned and punished eternally. God cannot pardon any sinner without an Atonement. My sins slew the Savior and nailed Him to a Cross; He was wounded for my transgressions, therefore I cannot be friendly terms with my sins. We must hate our sins with a perfect hatred. There is a great evil in just a little sin. God abhors all iniquity. Nothing creates more indignation and revenge against our own sins than a grateful sense of God's free grace and bleeding love. When you love Truth, you hate falsehood. Seek and receive God's Righteousness, reject and abhor your sins. 

The Soul who worships the true and living God, The Lord Jesus Christ, detests and loathes idols and sins. Loathe sin intensely. Every sin hates God, therefore we should hate every sin. There is no sin that can help you, but every sin will seriously harm and hinder you. There is no beauty, comfort, or strength in sin, only Misery. There is nothing good whatsoever in Sin. Hate Sin as Sin; turn from Sin with purpose of heart. 

The sheep hates and avoids the mire; but the pig loves the mire and runs to it and relaxes in it. Sin is a misery to the saved Soul. The pig wallows where the sheep is distressed. Trust Christ; Hate your sins; strive after Purity; desire to please and fear God; Cultivate fellowship and friendship with God. Love what God loves, seek what God seeks.  

Yield your Soul up to Jesus now. The Savior never told you to get yourself ready, so He can save you. Do not try to mend and improve your old sinful self. For that is a serious insult to the great God and His dear Son. Take notice of Christ's atoning death, not your own efforts. Your own doings will seal your doom. If you will come and have JESUS, He will save you, just as you are. Don't try to make yourself better before you Trust HIM. Human nature says, "Doctor, I believe in your Medicine, but I will not take it until I make myself start feeling better." Any reason that leads you to neglect or reject Jesus Christ is a bad one, and will be ruin to your Soul. Simply Trusting JESUS, That is All.

You Better Believe *HIM*

With great delight, I trust in no one and nothing but The Lord Jesus Christ right now, and I should, for my Soul has no one else to trust to. My Soul has nothing but the Blood of Jesus Christ to trust to in this life. I am simply Accepting, Trusting, Believing, Relying, resting on Jesus. I am all the more trustful in Christ Jesus, since I have nothing in myself to rely upon. Faith is the trusting simply to what Jesus has done, and nothing I have done or ever will do. Look away from self, and trust only to the Lord Jesus Christ for Salvation. 

Faith from above focuses my trust in the Precious Blood. The Lamb of God is all my Salvation from beginning to end. You're not any good, but Jesus is altogether Good. The true way of Salvation is trusting only to the living person of Jesus Christ. All my desires, attitudes, opinions must be crucified. What will you do when it really comes time for your to Die and go out into Eternity, if your Soul has no Savior?

THINK - fix your mind'e eye on JESUS, and trust and believe Him completely. Think of Him, Assent to the Gospel, Believe the Truth, Receive and Trust the Person, Nature, and Blood of God's dear Son. Look to Jesus now by simple faith in His Atonement. Every will have a righteousness, one kind or another, but if he doesn't receive the God-given Righteousness of Jesus Christ, he will seek to have one of his own making. Self-righteous men try to manufacture a righteousness out of that which is within them, but this they can never do. The only RIGHTEOUSNESS that will stand the test of the day of Judgment is that which the Father freely gives to sinners who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 

The Law says, "Work to obtain life." The Gospel says, "You have Eternal Life freely given to you in Christ Jesus, and now go live and work for JESUS out of gratitude and love for Him. Here's the whole plan of Salvation: Christ is preached, sinners hear the message of the Gospel, they think about the Gospel, assent to the facts of the Gospel, believe the Gospel for themselves, and then trust and receive Jesus Christ into themselves by faith in His Atoning Blood. Ask the living God for living Faith in the Crucified and Risen Savior.

Human doings and external religious paraphernalia and performances are all in vain. Religion complicates the Gospel and destroys men's souls. Here is the Gospel of the Grace of God: Place your faith in the meritorious bloody Sacrifice which JESUS made when He laid down His life for ungodly sinners. The whole tendency and propensity of unrenewed human nature is ever towards rebellion and iniquity. Trusting to yourself in any way is very deadly, to trust to JESUS is Safe. Every bit of my Righteousness is found in Jesus Christ. 

Trust to the merits of God's dear Son. We are absolved only virtue of His great atoning Sacrifice. Trust alone to Jesus Christ at one, for He is the sinner's Savior. Faith in Jesus Christ always saves the Soul. Simply trusting Him, wholly and entirely, only Hide yourself in Jesus by trusting in His atoning Sacrifice. Commit your Soul to Christ for safekeeping - Trusting, Believing, Relying, Depending, Resting on Him. Human nature struggles, strives, frustrates, frets, searches, and worries itself to get a righteousness of its own which will never satisfy/propitiate the Almighty. 

The submission of our proud self-righteous will to the Righteousness of God is the answer. Lay aside your own righteousness, and just take the Righteousness freely. You have nothing that could ever help pay off the terrible debt which you have incurred through your sins. Self-righteousness says, "Help folks out, do your best, make the world a better place to live in." Have done with our own righteousness, self-idolatry, and false confidences. Have done with all your attempts at self-salvation. 

Christ Jesus is my only Savior; He finished my Salvation and Righteousness on the Cross of Calvary with His own life's Blood. I depend on Him, I lean on Him with all my weight, and all my Soul. Guilty, polluted, vile, foul by nature, I need His Precious Blood. You cannot cease from your evil habits without the power of the Holy Spirit. Cease from trusting in yourself: Glory only in the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust to enter Heaven by Christ's Free Grace alone. Trust everything you are to Jesus Christ. Faith in believing the Person of Jesus Christ. 

He that believeth on the SON hath everlasting life. JESUS is God, He is also man, He is the appointed, sanctified, anointed, and sealed Savior of the whole world, that means He died for you. In His Death, He is the Propitiation for Sin; In His Resurrection, He is our Justification; in His Intercession, He si our eternal Guarantee of Salvation and Preservation. Give up all earthly confidence, all human hope, and repose in Christ crucified, and find Rest unto your Soul. 

Look to Jesus, Look for Him, Look to the quickening Spirit. Trust in JESUS to break the power of Sin within you. Desire to be freed from sin's bondage. Look to Jesus for Help. Look to His Almighty Grace. And this is Life Eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. To know Jesus Christ is Life Eternal. At once, look to Christ crucified for your guilty soul. Panting after Christ's Righteousness is infinitely better than to be a self-righteous Christ rejecter. 

Humbly read the Scriptures, trusting only to the Guidance of the Holy Spirit, and that He lead you into all Truth. Go to the holy God through the Holy Mediator. Trust to His Atoning Sacrifice for your sins, and be ye reconciled to God by Him who became Sin for you, and put away Sin for you. Ask JESUS to release you from the power of the sins that dwell within you. 

*The Father of Glory*

* Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.
* But to us there is but one God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are all things, and we by Him.
* Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
* And Jesus said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
* Glorify your Father which is in heaven.
* For one is your Father, which is in heaven.
* The reward of your Father which is in heaven.
* Pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
* The Father knoweth what I have need of.
* How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?
* Do the will of the Father which is in heaven.
* The Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
* I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth.
* Every plant, which My heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. (Father, please plant me in your Son forever.)
* No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
* Come ye blessed of my Father.
* When I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
* O my Father, if this cup may not pass from me, except I drink it, Thy will be done.
* And Jesus said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
* For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
* And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
* Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
* Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
* Wait for the promise of the Father.
* And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
* No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
* Worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
* For as the Father hath Life in Himself; so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself.
* Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for Him hath God the Father sealed.
* All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.
* As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me.
* I honour my Father.
* The Father hath sanctified the Son, and sent Him into the world.
* Father, glorify Thy name.
* In my Father's house are many mansions.
* Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
* The Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works.
* He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him.
* I and my Father are one.
* He that hateth Me hateth my Father also.
* For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God.
* I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
* And now, O Father, glorify thou Me with thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.
* Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
* O righteous Father, the world hath not known Thee: but I have known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast sent Me.
* Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
* Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent Me, even so send I you.
* Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
* By Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised *Him* from the dead.
* That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him:
* I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
* One God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
* 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.
* Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
* Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
* And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.
* I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
* 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.
* Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
* Continue in the Son, and in the Father.
* And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

* For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

* His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

* But now, O LORD, Thou art our Father; we are the clay, and Thou our potter; and we all are the work of Thy hand.
* Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

* To them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called. Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

* He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His throne.

*  Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Missing Ingredient-11

Now pay close attention: This world's Recreation, Education, Intoxication, Denominations, Legislation, or Medications will never ever rid your heart, mind and soul of your own personal misery, guilt and sins. But what is needed most in our heart and mind? REGENERATION: The sure and lasting work of the Eternal Spirit. His work of divine Grace is Essential in the heart of every man and woman. But human nature rebels and refuses to seek the Holy Spirit's help and healing, because the carnal mind is enmity against God. Self-righteous human nature says, "I'm all I got, and I'm all I need."

The atoning soul-saving work of Christ Jesus for us is completely Finished, once and for all; but the work of the Holy Spirit in us must be done as well.  First, at the New Birth when we become new creatures in Christ, and then day by day as we yield and walk in the Spirit with a willing heart desiring to please God the Father. Propitiation, Justification, Regeneration, and Sanctification are all works of the eternal Grace and Power of the Godhead, not by any man's merits or through any man-made religious acts. 

Build your soul's eternal Safety only on the person and work of the Savior of the world - The Prince of Life, Christ Jesus Himself. The grand truth of the atoning Precious Blood, and faith in our Substitute whose name is Emmanuel, God with us. There is matchless Goodness and Sweetness that dwells in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. The words of God are never appreciated and desired until the heart is given a divine appetite by the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit reproves the world of sin, and may be trying to convince you of your most heinous sin (the rejection of Christ) at this moment. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? 

The Holy Spirit quickens, convinces, converts, consoles, guides, instructs, sustains, nurtures, sanctifies, perfects, matures. First, we must be fully convinced by the Holy Spirit of our deadly sinful condition. Until we yield and read our own spiritual blood work, we won't be convinced of our soul's terminal condition. To truly learn anything, we must be taught by the Spirit of God through the words of God. The Holy Spirit convinces us of our guilt, leads us to Christ Jesus the Truth, enables us to flee every false way through God-given Repentance, assists us in detecting sin, and discerning both good and evil. The Holy Spirit convinces us of sin, and brings us to the Savior's feet. The most malignant of all diseases are your own Sins lurking deep within you now. Your most fatal choice is to neglect the Savior, and your most deadly decision is to reject the Savior. The Holy Ghost must convince the sinner of his lost estate and gently persuade him to turn from sinning against God. Only the Goodness of God will ever lead us to Repentance.

Nothing short of divine Salvation from Jesus Christ will do. The only safe ground of trust is Christ's solid Foundation. The Holy Spirit brings upon us the dreadful conviction of sin, then He give us faith and conversion in Jesus Christ. There is no sound place in you whatsoever; you must be reduced to despair, and under a sense of your sins, be dragged through the thorn hedge, and locked up in the prison of conviction, and beaten with the ten-thonged whip of the Law, ready utterly to die and see the Savior through the bars, you call out to Him for mercy, and then Jesus comes into your cell and says to you, "Be of Good Comfort, thy sins are forgiven thee." 

You must first feel that your entire existence up to this day has been a blank in the sight of God, an absolut insult to God, and that you're the sole cause of your own Misery. Nothing in your past or present yields any comfort, your dread your past and have no present hope, you then begin to bemoan yourself and say: Would to God I had never been born into this world? You lament because all you can do is Evil, and the things you once boasted about, they now horrify you. Only grievous burdens are to be borne by your soul without Christ. Your Sins will only bring you more despair, misery, confusion and hunger. Why seek ye the Living among the dead things of this world? The prodigal son in Luke 16 said to himself, "even these pigs have it better than me." You must be born again and renewed in your heart by the Holy Ghost Himself. 

Be wise now: As humbly as you can, ask God the Father to draw you to His dear Son through the working of the Holy Spirit. Expose your heart to the words of God and the Holy Spirit of God. Religion says this: God does His part, and I do my part. But this is a Lie; God must draw you to His Son, or you will never truly come. (See Matthew 11:27; John 6:44; John 12:32) Only the Holy Spirit can open the inner ear of your soul and give you attentive listening, and the true desire to Understand the Gospel and Christ Jesus. You must be saved by divine Charity, and come to Christ as a thief, harlot, criminal, and beggar. Jesus said, All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. All that the Father giveth me shall come to Me, and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.

The Holy Spirit must apply the scriptures to your soul and heart with the working of His mighty power. Just give up: Your self-righteousness or any religious act can never raise you from your inward spiritual death. The Holy Spirit must commend the word of the Gospel to your conscience and understanding. The Holy Spirit must quicken you and give you true consciousness of your sinfulness, danger, and inability. You must be brought down from being commendable to condemnable, from strength to nothingness and weakness, from attractiveness to wretchedness, the glory of man is withered up, and you begin to truly feel defiled and sense your evil thoughts within. (See Mark 7:21-23) 

The invisible working of the Holy Spirit brings all of man's self-excellency to naught, and destroys the pride of man. The flesh profiteth nothing, the flesh relies on works, and insanely persists that it has something it must do to help save itself. Only the Holy Spirit can translate you from death unto Life, from darkness to Light, from the power of Satan unto God, from the power of darkness to the Kingdom of God's dear Son.

Nothing great or small remains for you to do: JESUS died a bloody death in your place and paid your entire sin debt with His own sinless Blood. He left His lofty throne on high, He stooped to do and die. Everything was fully done for you, long long ago. It is Finished! was JESUS' cry from the Cross. Weary, heavy laden Soul, why do you toil so? Cease your doings, for all was done by the Lamb of God. Until you cleave to Jesus' Finished Work alone by simple Faith, your doings are deadly things, and all your doings will end in Eternal Death. Cast your deadly doings overboard, fall down at JESUS' feet, and instantly you will be made Complete in Him. Christ in your heart will drown the taste and addiction you have for the lusts of this world. (See I Peter 1:14; I Peter 4:3) 

My conscience, heart and soul must Rest on the sinless Substitute's Blood Atonement for sinners. My mind must be absolutely divorced from every other confidence. You see, I must rest comfortably upon who the Father has set forth to be the Propitiation, the Finished Work, the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh. (See Matthew 11:28) Being born again of the Holy Spirit is like regaining consciousness after being in a long dark sinful COMA. Only the Grace and Mercies of God can bring your Soul out of this deadly COMA. Your Sins put you in this COMA, but only DR. JESUS can bring you out.

When you are born again, your appetites and affection are altered, converted, reversed heavenward. You begin to love Jesus Christ, holiness and purity within, and being to strive after inward purity, and have communion with God and the witness of the Holy Spirit. Sure and certain pardon of sins are sealed home to your heart. You begin to be in communication with God, and then you start to discern leading, warnings, consolation, instruction, directions of the Holy Spirit. You actually begin to enjoy communicating with God the Father. The divine nature of the New Birth begins within your Soul from a single seed being planted by the Holy Spirit: the Word of Faith. (See Romans 10:8)

Be still, be small, be silent, draw nigh to God, renew your strength, then speak for Christ. Live in the Holy Spirit, and then you will Live by the Father, and you will live for Christ. Intimate communion with the Father, loving adoration, heartfelt gratitude, confession of sins, humble petition, childlike confidence, and holy resolution. I will call upon Him as long as I live, and continue in Prayer. Communion with Christ is the only place where your Soul will find true REST each day. After you are born again, you will be freed from the fear of death and the dread of the wrath to come, and from superstitious idolatry such as the adoration of the virgin Mary. Salvation from above brings childlike simplicity toward JESUS, plainness to our speech, quietness and peace to our hearts, rest unto our Souls, sense of security and courage, childlike confidence in the Father, trusting in Him without a doubt, and a childlike spirit which adores the dear Father. 

Now remember Soul, Don't Forget: This world with its cunningly devised spells and seducing spirits is going to try its best to distract, deceive, conform, and doom you. Recreation, Education, Intoxication, Legislation, Denominations, or Medication will never ever rid your heart, mind and soul of your own personal misery, guilt and sins. 

The Bible's Good Things

* O taste and see that the LORD is Good.

* The Good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep.

* The Goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance.
* Thou gavest also Thy Good Spirit to instruct them. 
* I pray Thee, send me Good Speed this day, and shew kindness.

* Only Be Strong and of a Good Courage.
* Holding Faith and a Good Conscience. 
* Good Stewards of the manifold Grace of God. 

* Then thou shalt have Good Success.

* Created in Christ Jesus unto Good Works. 
* Have tasted the Good Word of God. 
* A Good Name is rather to be chosen that great riches. 
* Having obtained a Good Report through Faith. 
* That falsely accuse your Good Conversation in Christ.

* They strengthened their hands for this Good Work.
* Full of Mercy and Good Fruits.
* Thou shalt be a Good Minister of Jesus Christ.

* For he that will love life, and see Good Days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

* It is a Good Land which the LORD our God doth give us.

* Take ye therefore Good Heed unto yourselves, that ye Love the LORD your God.
* Nourished in the words of faith and of Good Doctrine.
* Fight the Good Fight of Faith.

* Mary hath chosen that Good Part, which shall not be taken away from her. Don't miss the Good Part ;)

* A Good Man out of the Good Treasure of the heart bringeth forth Good Things.

* Whoso findeth a Wife findeth a Good Thing.

* But it is Good for me to draw near to God.

* Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a Good Work upon Me. 

* It is a Good Thing to give Thanks unto the LORD.

* Let him shew out of a Good Conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

* They that Seek the LORD shall not want any Good Thing.

* Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a Good Old Age.
* Professed a Good Profession before many witnesses.
* Endure hardness, as a Good Soldier of Jesus Christ.

* The steps of a Good Man are ordered by the LORD.
* A lover of Good Men, sober, just, holy, temperate.
* Not purloining, but shewing all Good Fidelity.
* Be perfect, be of Good Comfort, be of one mind.
* I bring you Good Tidings of great joy.
* That ye have Good Remembrance of us always.
* Fulfill all the Good Pleasure of His Goodness.
* Hath given us everlasting consolation and Good Hope through grace.
* Stablish you in every Good Word and Work.
* Thou by them mightest war a Good Warfare.
* Vigilant, sober, of Good Behaviour, given to hospitality. 
* Evil communications corrupt Good Manners.
* According to the Good Pleasure of His Will.
* Preach the Gospel of Peace, and bring Glad Tidings of Good Things.
* Examined of the Good Deed done to the impotent man.
* With Good Will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.
* Good Measure, pressed down, and shaken together. and running over.

* He that soweth the Good Seed is the Son of man.
* And other fell on Good Ground, and sprung UP, and bare FRUIT.
* An honest and Good Heart, having heard the word, keep it.
* Be of Good Cheer, it is I, be not afraid.

* Every Good Gift and perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.
* Well done, thou Good and Faithful Servant.
* Well, thou Good Servant: because thou hast been faithful.
* I will feed them in a Good Pasture.
* There they shall lie in a Good Fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed.
* With Good Advice make war.
* A Good Blessing shall come upon them.
* Good News from a far country.
* But a Good Word maketh it glad.
* A Good Understanding have all they that do His commandments.
* Because Thy Mercy is Good, deliver Thou me.
* Teach me Good Judgment and knowledge.
* Then shalt thou understand righteousness, judgment, and equity; yea, every Good Path.
* According to the Good Hand of my God upon me. 
* Teach them the Good Way wherein they should walk. 
* Thou doest that which is Good and Right in the sight of the Lord thy God.
* The Good Lord pardon every one.

* Laying up in store for themselves a Good Foundation against the time to come.
* The Levites that taught the Good Knowledge of the LORD.
* Hezekiah wrought that which Good and Right and Truth before the LORD his God.
* Thy Spirit is Good; lead me into the land of uprightness. 
* There hath not failed one word of His Good Promise.

CONTINUE!

Ye are they which have continued with me in My temptations. If ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed. As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you: continue ye in My love. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. 

But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished. Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. That the truth of the gospel might continue with you. 

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them. Let brotherly love continue. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

Let's Go For A WALK

Worship the Father; Follow JESUS; 

Live in the Spirit; Walk in the Spirit; 

Pray in the Spirit; Commune with the Spirit;

Continue in the Son, and in the Father. 

And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Noah walked with God. The Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. And Jacob blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it. 

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear Him. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and ye shall serve Him, and cleave unto Him. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in Thy truth. For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 

Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in Thy truth: unite my heart to fear Thy name. I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. They also do no iniquity: they walk in His ways. And I will walk at liberty: for I seek Thy precepts. And there is none that calleth upon Thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of Thee: for Thou hast hid Thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in His ways. 

Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in Thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto Thee. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. 

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him. Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly. Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. 

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. Let us walk in the light of the Lord. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Neither walk after other gods to your hurt. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. They say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. I am the Lord your God; walk in My statutes, and keep My judgments, and do them. 

He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Do not My words do good to him that walketh uprightly? 

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. 

Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 

For we walk by faith, not by sight. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. 

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 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. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto His kingdom and glory. Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. 

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked. 

I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. And this is love, that we walk after His commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

Worship the Father; Follow JESUS; 

Live in the Spirit; Walk in the Spirit; 

Pray in the Spirit; Commune with the Spirit;

Continue in the Son, and in the Father. 

NOT MY WILL

My meat is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. (John 4:34) Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10) Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. (John 5:19) I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. (John 5:30)  The works which the Father hath given Me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father hath sent Me. (John 5:36)

For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of Him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:38-40)  

No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:44) No man can come unto Me, except it were given unto him of my Father. (John 6:65) My doctrine is not Mine, but His that sent Me. (John 7:16) He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh His glory that sent Him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him. (John 7:18) 

Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father hath taught Me, I speak these things. (John 8:28) I do always those that please Him. (John 8:29) Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love Me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of Myself, but He sent me. (John 8:42) I must work the works of Him that sent Me. (John 9:4)

For I have not spoken of Myself, but the Father which sent Me, He gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. (John 12:49) The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. (John 14:10) The word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent Me. (John 14:24) As the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. (John 14:31) I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. (John 17:4) 

Nevertheless not my will, but Thine, be done. (Luke 22:42) Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. (John 19:28) Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, IT IS FINISHED: and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:30) Looking unto JESUS the author and finisher of our faith. (Hebrews 12:2) WORTHY IS THE LAMB!