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Heb 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

2Co 9:15
Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

The Ancient Truth
The Gospel transcends human history as we think of it, for it was planned by God from eternity past. God has always known that His creatures would fall and that He would save them. There was never a time where salvation wasn’t an option, for God is immutable. And the Son of God has always wanted to die for us (Heb 13:8).

The Sphere of God

Blog - 4/9/21

The Ancient Truth
The Gospel transcends human history as we think of it, for it was planned by God from eternity past. God has always known that His creatures would fall and that He would save them. There was never a time where salvation wasn’t an option, for God is immutable. And the Son of God has always wanted to die for us (Heb 13:8).

The Ancient Truth
Jesus Christ has always been our Lord and Savior. He IS that Person of the Godhead, uniquely, as the Son of God and Son of Man. He owns all the titles, including Victor, and deserves every last ounce of love/respect He demands from us. (Ro 5:17)

Ro 5:17 [Amplified Classic]
For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God’s] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Fitness is a mindset.

Charles Spurgeon
Learn this lesson: not to trust Christ because you repent, but trust Christ to make you repent; not to come to Christ because you have a broken heart, but to come to Him that He may give you a broken heart;…

Charles Spurgeon
…not to come to Him because you are fit to come, but to come to Him because you are unfit to come. Your fitness is your unfitness. Your qualification is your lack of qualification.

Christ’s Resurrection
The resurrection of Jesus is our proof that He overcame death, itself. Death had no hold on Him; therefore, He is victorious over it, as are we, being baptized into union with Him at salvation.

Ro 6:4 [Amplified]
We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways].

Ro 4:25 [Amplified Classic]
Who was betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and was raised to secure our justification (our acquittal), [making our account balance and absolving us from all guilt before God].

Christ’s Resurrection
The resurrection of Jesus is our proof that He overcame death, itself. Death had no hold on Him; therefore, He is victorious over it, as are we, being baptized into union with Him at salvation.

Your Faith is Justified

You are indeed justified in your celebration of victory over death; not because you won it, but rather that you’ve been baptized into union with the Victor, Himself!

Victory in Jesus
I heard an old, old story,
How a Savior came from glory,
How He gave His life on Calvary
To save a wretch like me;
I heard about His groaning,
Of His precious blood's atoning,
Then I repented of my sins
And won the victory.

Heb 12:14-15 [Amplified]
Continually pursue peace with everyone, and the sanctification without which no one will [ever] see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of God’s grace; that no root of resentment springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled.

Ro 12:9, 17-18
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good…Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Grace Giving

When a person “sees” the Lord in you, they “see” the LOVE that motivates you, and they will treasure your gifts.

Ro 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.

Jas 4:4
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Jn 15:10-11 [Amplified]
If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing.

Being “In Love”
There’s no better place to be, for you or for others, than abiding in the sphere of God’s love! (e.g. Jn 15: 11-14)