The Law of the
Spirit of Life
he fundamental teachings of Christianity are
essential for every believer who desires an intimate relationship with their
Creator. To come to maturity in our relationship with the Lord, we need to
know His Word in order to understand His will for our lives. We can have our
senses exercised to know and discern between good and evil through study of
God's inspired Word, the Holy Bible. With all of the New Age religions
becoming popular it is easy to understand a Christian's need to become
skillful in God's Word. These studies will establish us in the faith and
prepare us for the work God has called us to walk into.
The Foundation Of Our Faith
Therefore, leaving the discussion of the
elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again
the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the
doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and
of eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. -- Heb 6:1-3
Understand The Power Of The Word Of God By
Faith
Now faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good
testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of
God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are
visible. -Heb 11:1-3
Faith Is An Indispensable Element
But without faith it is impossible to please
Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a
rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. -- He. 11:6
Faith Is A Gift From God
For by grace you have been saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, -- Eph.2:8
Faith Works Through Love, So Do Spiritual
Gifts
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor
circumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. -- Ga. 5:6
Faith Is Revealed Through The Word Of God
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,
for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew
first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed
from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith." - Ro.
1:16-17
The Gift Of Salvation Is Lived By Faith
For we walk by faith, not by sight. -- 2
Cor 5:7
Justification Comes By Faith Not In Trying To
Live According To The Works Of The Law
..."knowing that a man is not justified by the
works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ
Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of
the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. --
Galatians 2:16
Our Righteousness Came Through Being Placed In
Christ's Crucifixion
"For I through the law died to the law that I
might live to God. "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who
live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I
live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. "I do
not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law,
then Christ died in vain." --Galatians 2:19-21
The Law Of Faith Works Through Love
For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the
hope of righteousness by faith. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. --Galatians
5:5-6
We Are Set Free To Fulfill The Law Of Love
For you, brethren, have been called to
liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through
love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in
this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." -- Galatians 5:13-14
The Greatest Commandment
"Teacher, which is the great commandment in
the law?" Jesus said to him, " 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' "This is the first and
great commandment. "And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor
as yourself.' "On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."
-- Matthew 22:36-40
Love Never Fails
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not
envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely,
does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in
iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are
prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease;
whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. -- 1 Cor 13:4-8
Those Who Do God's Will Are Justified
For as many as have sinned without law will
also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged
by the law (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but
the doers of the law will be justified; for when Gentiles, who do not have the
law, by nature do the things contained in the law, these, although not having
the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in
their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves
their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) Now we know that whatever the
law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be
stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the
deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is
the knowledge of sin. -- Romans 2:12-15
By The Renewing Of Our Mind We Are Transformed
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed
to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may
prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. For I say,
through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of
himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has
dealt to each one a measure of faith. -- Romans 12:1-3
Faith Comes Through Hearing The Word Of God
How then shall they call on Him in whom they
have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not
heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach
unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those
who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!" But
they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed
our report?" So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
-- Romans 10:14-17
The Truth Is Revealed Through The Scriptures
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test
the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone
out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit
that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.
And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and
is now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have
overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the
world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the
world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of
God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of
error. -- 1 John 4:1-6
We Express Our Faith By Being A Doer Of God’s
Word
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no
variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the
word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of
God. Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and
receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if
anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his
natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and
immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect
law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer
of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. -- James 1:17-25
The Love Of God Is Revealed Through Us In Deed
And In Truth
By this we know love, because He laid down His
life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But
whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his
heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let
us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. -- 1 John
3:16-18
We Overcame The World Through Faith In God
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is
born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep
His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.
And His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes
the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world; our faith. Who
is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of
God? This is He who came by water and blood; Jesus Christ; not only by water,
but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the
Spirit is truth. For there are three who bear witness in heaven: the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three
that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these
three agree as one. -- 1 John 5:1-8
Faith And Deeds
What does it profit, my brethren, if someone
says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or
sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them,
"Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things
which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself,
if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, "You have faith, and
I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my
faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the
demons believe; and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that
faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works
when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working
together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? And the
Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God. You
see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. Likewise,
was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the
messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit
is dead, so faith without works is dead also. - James 2:14-26
By Faith Through Love We Overcome The World
By this we know that we love the children of
God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God,
that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. For
whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has
overcome the world; our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who
believes that Jesus is the Son of God? -- 1 John 5:2-5
The Parable Of The Fig Tree
Now in the morning, as they passed by, they
saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to
Him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away." So Jesus
answered and said to them, "Have faith in God. "For assuredly, I say to you,
whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does
not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will come to
pass, he will have whatever he says. "Therefore I say to you, whatever things
you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
"And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive
him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. "But if
you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your
trespasses." -- Mark 11:20-26
Faith Is A Defensive Weapon
... above all, taking the shield of faith with
which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. --
Eph 6:16
But let us who are of the day be sober,
putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of
salvation. -- 1 Thessalonians 5:8
We Receive The Holy Spirit Through Believing
In Jesus
And this is His commandment: that we should
believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave
us commandment. Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in
him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given
us. -- 1 John 3:23-24
Faith Liberates Us To Fulfill God’s Law
Through The Law Of The Spirit -- Rom. 8:1-2
1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
[a] 2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free
from the law of sin and death.
Footnotes:
1. Romans 8:1 Some later manuscripts Jesus, who do not live according to the
sinful nature but according to the Spirit,
We Are Justified By Faith
Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to
Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are
no longer under a tutor. -- Galatians 3:24-25
By Faith We Become Heirs With God’s Son
For as many of you as were baptized into
Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither
slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in
Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise. -- Gal. 3:26-29
We Are Heirs Of God ‘In Christ’
And because you are sons, God has sent forth
the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" Therefore
you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. -- Galatians
4:6-7
Through Faith We Are Justified
Now to him who works, the wages are not
counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who
justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, -- Romans
4:4-5
Through Faith God Answers Prayer According To
His Will
"And all things, whatever you ask in prayer,
believing, you will receive." -- Matthew 21:22
Now this is the confidence that we have in
Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we
know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions
that we have asked of Him. -- 1 John 5:14-15
Faith Is The Secret Behind Answered Prayer
If any of you lacks
wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach,
and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for
he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let
not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a
double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. -- James 1:5-8
y grace alone God saves us through faith in
the accomplished work of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ proclaimed to the world,
“It is finished!” God clearly reveals His will through His inspired Word.
God’s desire is for the every man, woman, and child to conform to the image of
his Son. God gave his Son, Jesus Christ for the total reconciliation of all
men unto God. The relationship God desires is possible through Jesus Christ
as each member of the church allows God’s Word and Spirit to replace their
hearts of stone with a new heart and spirit from God. Within the New
Testament letters the Spirit continually calls out to the sons and daughters
of God time and time again.
The church is full of young and
immature self-centered people professing to be Christians. Immature believers
concern themselves with their wants and desires, although God’s stated will
for them is to love those around them and become other-centered. The
self-centered attitude comes from fallen human nature and does not reflect the
spiritual nature Jesus died to give us. For the church to overcome this
dilemma, the children of God need to change dramatically in their thinking.
Everyone needs to receive the truth about their identity and position ‘in
Christ’ and practice the truth for it to become reality. Only when the truth
about our ‘identification’ and ‘position’ ‘in Christ’ becomes a reality in the
church, will there be a God-given desire, to reveal the love and life of Jesus
Christ. Then we can say we understand His will for our life.
The Word of God reveals a victorious
vision of the church. God calls us to be a community of servants, where God’s
children treat each other with charity, respect, dignity, and acceptance. A
community of believers that considers and esteems the needs of others
side-by-side with their needs.
Imagine every member of the church
contributing to each other’s well-being, an entire culture being motivated,
involved, and committed to the fulfillment of loving one another. Mature
Christian relationships come about when two people know Jesus Christ
personally and allow His spiritual life in them to fulfill the perfect law of
love. This kind of maturity only comes when they surrender their will and
heart to God’s will. The transformation involves God replacing our corrupt
heart and spirit with a new heart and a new spirit. With a new heart and
spirit born of God the life of the Lord Jesus Christ can reflect through a
believer’s life. As we grow in faith (trust), the church will grow through
the trials, tribulations, and the testing of the relationship. Our personal
responsibility is a daily commitment to maintaining our communion with God.
This will come as we begin to understand the different roles of the Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit through the Scriptures. We learn to stand on the
promises of God that He gives to us for our comfort and we abide by His
providential care. We see the will of God for our life through Jesus
obedience. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, the One who came to reveal
His trust in God so we can Trust in Him even to the point of our trusting God
for our death through Him.
Every member of the body of Christ
is unique with different personalities and God-given talents. As part of the
body, each member needs to learn about their place in the body of Christ. No
one is insignificant. God creates us with the intention of our being a part
of the body of Christ. Each member needs to learn how to participate and
partake in God’s plan of redemption. God personally wills and either directly
or indirectly affects not only our lives but the life of every other member of
our family and the church.
Each of us has different roles,
functions, and capacities but we are still one body. We have different
God-given talents and gifts for the building up of the body of Christ. We
have all been united together by being baptized into Christ and received the
promise of the Holy Spirit for this cause. The Holy Spirit came to lead us,
and He is the one who is there to empower us. The Holy Spirit authorizes and
works the gifts through us for ministry. He gives members the authority and
support to minister unto the needs of other members of the body. We are God’s
gift to each other. God gave us to each other to encourage and build up one
another in Christ. When we allow God to work through us, we will be working
with Him, not just for Him.
Giving our life as a living
sacrifice is our greatest gift to God, and a life given to God is our greatest
gift to our community. We need leaders; we need examples! Examples who live
the life they talk about! These leaders are willing to set personal goals
aside and reveal God’s plan for the reconciliation of mankind. We need
leaders who will motivate and encourage people to continually grow into the
likeness of Christ. The Christian culture demands a change in lifestyle.
Even with the best available resources, the biggest challenges and the best
opportunities to improve our communities come through individual efforts.
These leaders will sacrifice their own life and take up the Cross daily. This
requires the unselfish sacrifice and obedience in a person that will allow God
to shatter their heart of stone and replace it with a new heart of flesh and
blood to give us a right spirit, a broken and contrite spirit before God.
The question each elder, deacon, lay
person, and Sunday school teacher needs to ponder, “Are we sending people out
prepared to meet the community’s needs?” We need to look at our own approach
and personal practices. We need to be accountable to one another. “Have we
really been listening to God? Do we give the people what they need? Or, are
we meeting the needs of the community with our interpretation of
Christianity? Do we use pet doctrines to get them to conform to our image?
Is the chief sin of the local church 'Procrusteanism'?
In effect, procrusteanism is our
effort of forcing people into our image or religious system instead of helping
people conform into the image and likeness of our Savior. We are responsible
for our own actions. We need to question the thoughts, motives, and intents
of our hearts. Otherwise, we will only continue to play church.
The challenge lay(s) before us, “Are
we willing to lay our life down to allow God to enable us to express the life
of Christ through us? Will we reflect the love God has for a dying world and
give up trying to do God’s will in our strength?” There is only one hero, our
Lord Jesus Christ. We are His brothers and sisters, and members of the family
of God; we are ambassadors of His good will toward humanity. We are not
employees or associates, ‘We are His children, born of God!’ The job of
judging or even convicting the world is the Holy Spirit’s work. Scripture
says that judgment begins on the house of God so we better clean up our act
before we begin to try and convince others about their sinful nature.
God commissions us to share the Good
News! Jesus came to save the world and destroy the works of the evil one. He
came to reveal the grace, mercy and truth about God’s love through us. We are
here to reveal that there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are
in Christ Jesus and walk according to the Spirit. Therefore the challenge is,
“Will we set aside our personal agendas, deny ourselves, take up the Cross,
and follow Christ’s example?” God wants to know!
We are to be the light of the world,
empowered by the Holy Spirit, sharing the blessings of God. We can not be a
light until we deal with the corrupt nature that is at war with God’s Holy
Spirit. To be able to extend the grace and mercy shown to us through Jesus
Christ our Lord, we need to become obedient to the will of God as revealed
through Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only one given to resolve everyone’s
problem with sin. He is the open door to receiving a new heart and a new
spirit. Jesus is the Wonderful Counselor and He is our Salvation. So where
does this lead us? Hopefully, we bend our knees and rest at His feet just as
Mary did.
The Bride of Christ is being readied
for her Bridegroom through the continuing efforts of the Holy Spirit
reconciling the relationships of believers. The members of the church need to
continually examine themselves and allow God’s Spirit to prepare His Son’s
bride. Through their relationship in Jesus Christ, the faithful know God
already envisions the Church without spot or wrinkle because God placed us in
Christ so that we could receive His righteousness.
Our strength is in knowing the
weakness of the corrupt nature and letting God become our strength, by
accepting the truth. Our relationship with God will then become our only
strength. God drew us to Himself. We did not find Him; He found us. The
strength of the church is dependent on our personal ‘trust in God’ and resting
in knowing ‘God is God’. When we yield our will to God, He reveals His will
for our life and empowers us to live it through a new heart and a new spirit.
Although we did not know the will of God as we began our walk, we learn to let
Him become our strength as the Holy Spirit, through the Word of God, lights
our pathway. For it is written, ‘Those who are led by the Spirit, they are
the sons and daughters of God.’ (Ro.8:14)
We are members of the body of Christ
on earth, His church, and given different gifts and callings, according to the
Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit gives the gifts severally as He wills and is
the one who works the spiritual gifts through us. We need to listen and obey
God! We need to leave God’s dominion alone and let Him take care of His
creation. Then, working with Him, we can go about doing the works He has
prepared for us. There is no ‘Lone Ranger’ working in the Bible. Today,
there is no need for renegades, those believers who do their own thing, not
connected to the rest of the body of Christ, nor answerable to any earthly
ministry. The believers need connection with a group of mature Christians who
know the truth, to help keep them free.
cripture must be held in proper esteem for a
true Christ-centered doctrine of holiness. The Epistles must be revered as
the inerrantly inspired Word of God communicated by the Holy Spirit. The New
Testament conveys with certainty the authoritative and definitive view of what
holiness is. The Word of God must be seen as the definitive end to theory and
the only source for practical application. True holiness is found through the
personal revelation of the Holy Spirit moving in the individual’s life.
The Holy Spirit deals with sin as a
disease condition, the ‘sin that dwelleth in me’, Romans 7:17, 20, & 23. Sin
is a disease condition that abides with our nature. In order to deal with the
struggle of our sinful nature God gives us a new heart and spirit upon
conversion. The Holy Spirit effects a new spiritual birth within as He
regenerates us, He spiritually infuses us with His own nature. We are
immersed into Christ, into His death, burial, resurrection, ascension and
life. The conversion of the soul is a regeneration. The whole of man is
mentally, morally, and spiritually revitalized. The renewal of the mind is
evident in Ephesians 4:23 and Romans 12:2. The new creation is being
sanctified and refined by the Holy Spirit.
Human nature is corrupt from birth.
Mankind is capable of doing both good and evil. No man is totally good or
totally evil. However, mankind has a propensity for sin. The Bible points
out our human evil nature but it does not say we are reprobate. The Bible
does say that though we have a body, soul, and spirit we are spiritually dead;
morally corrupt, and physically subject to death.
The inherited tendency toward sin
comes from Adam’s race. The condition we are born with is a product of
original failure to be obedient to God. Everything God created was good; it
is because of the fall the propensity for evil was established. Our
possibility for doing good does not contribute to regeneration or salvation.
We are spiritually dead and morally perverted. It is because of this
perversion that the Holy Spirit must divinely convert us and give us our new
heart and spirit. We receive a new moral and spiritual nature when we are
born-again.
We become sons and daughters to
serve the Most High God. We were sinners by nature but we become children of
God’s kingdom upon conversion. The Holy Spirit’s message is one of inwrought
holiness brought about by the sole work of the Cross our Savior died upon. In
a real sense we are no longer sinners. We have become children of the light
to reflect the glory of God. Yes, we occasionally sin but we are no longer
captive to the power of sin.
The judgment of man’s Adamic nature
was completed on the Cross. The body of death was judicially done away with
by God’s provision in the death of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. “I (the
total man) have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I (the Adamic
nature) who live, but Christ lives in me (the spiritual man); and the life
(natural life) which I (the new creation) now live in the flesh (my body) I
(the new spiritual man) live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me (the new
man) and gave Himself for me (the old man). -- Galatians 2:20.
Romans 6:6 is representative of the
judicial decree by God, the force of the Scripture is a judgment upon all of
Adam’s race. “... knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that
the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of
sin.” -- Rom 6:6
“Our Old Man, By Relation To Adam Was Found
Guilty Before God; That Is Our Entire Race Was Judged And Crucified With
Christ That In Christ The Body Of Sin Is Destroyed; Therefore, The Race Of
Adam Was Crucified In Christ That We Should No Longer Be In Legal Bondage To
Sin Through Judicial Guilt.”
The confirmation of the
interpretation of this verse is seen in 2 Corinthians 5:14 -15. “One died for
all, therefore all died [in Him] and He died for all, that they which live
should no longer live unto themselves, but unto Him.”
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit
the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor
idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor
thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit
the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you
were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by
the Spirit of our God. -- 1 Cor 6:9-11
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so
that in him we might become the righteousness of God. -- 2 Cor 5:21
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained
access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the
hope of the glory of God. -- Rom 5:1-2
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has
poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. --
Rom 5:5
Every good and perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like
shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we
might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. -- James 1:17-18
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation; the old has gone, the new has come! -- 2 Cor 5:17
We know that whoever is born of God does not (continually)
sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not
touch him. -- 1 John 5:18 Italics mine.
"My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater
than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. -- John
10:29
But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you
and guard you from the evil one. -- 2 Th 3:3
Behold, He who keeps Israel Shall neither
slumber nor sleep. The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade at your
right hand the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD
will keep you from all harm-- he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch
over your coming and going both now and forevermore. -- Psa 121:4-8
If you make the Most High your dwelling-- even
the LORD, who is my refuge-- then no harm will befall you, no disaster will
come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you
in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not
strike your foot against a stone. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent. -- Psa 91:9-13
The angel of the LORD encamps all around those
who fear Him, And delivers them. -- Psa 34:7
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess,
for he who promised is faithful. -- Heb 10:23
... who are kept by the power of God through
faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. -- 1 Pet 1:5
... being confident of this very thing, that He
who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
-- Phil 1:6
... for it is God who works in you both to will
and to do for His good pleasure. -- Phil 2:13
The one who calls you is faithful and he will do
it. -- 1 Th 5:24
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as
some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish,
but everyone to come to repentance. -- 2 Pet 3:9
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
-- Eph 2:10
And God is able to make all grace abound to you,
so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good
work. -- 2 Cor 9:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you
should go; I will guide you with My eye. -- Psa 32:8
Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed,
for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold
you with My righteous right hand.' -- Is 41:10
But those who wait on the LORD Shall exchange
their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and
not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. -- Is 40:31
I can do everything through him who gives me
strength. -- Phil 4:13
The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD
blesses his people with peace. -- Psa 29:11
And the peace of God, which transcends all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. -- Phil
4:7
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is
steadfast, because he trusts in you. -- Is 26:3
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, "He is my
refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." Surely he will save you from
the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his
feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be
your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow
that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the
plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand
at your right hand, but it will not come near you. -- Psa 91:1-7
Now to Him who is able
to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of
His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and
majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen. -- Jude 1:24,25
"For whoever does the
will of God is My brother and My sister and mother." -- Mark 3:35
Now He who searches the hearts knows what the
mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to
the will of God. -- Rom 8:27
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