Ephesians 2:8 '…For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God…' NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Month: September 2025
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So, again this past weekend, multiple people were killed while attending a church service.
Please, ALL OF YOU, we shouldn’t go to a church thinking that a church is going to keep us SAFE. People visit a church thinking their going to find God. The same God that has promised us His saving Grace after this world, as we know it, comes to an end.
We don’t need to pray and ask that we are kept safe, instead we should pray and ask God to protect us from missing out on the opportunity that He is offering us.
We should pray to Him and not worry about being killed by another human being, but instead, we should pray to God and ask that we would be worthy to accept His GIFT of Grace.
We should ask that He finds us worthy to be offered everlasting life in the presence of Jesus Christ after this earth has come to its conclusion.
There are those in this world that think that by us losing our physical life today, it will result in our defeat, when we are told in the Word of God that this life we are living in is just a glimpse of what is in store for our future.
Eternity is just one example of what so many human beings don’t take the time to understand its real, true meaning.
Us Gentiles, we are promised either a future life in Jesus’ presence, or we are promised an eternity of torment and destruction.
Don’t go to a church on Sunday because you think you will be saved … the Bible tells us that we’re saved if we speak to others about Him and we BELIEVE that He was raised from the dead.
Romans 10:9 ‘…that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…’ AKJV
There is nothing that a human being can do to be saved, except, BELIEVING in Him.
Ephesians 2:8 ‘…For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God…’ AKJV
We strengthen our FAITH In Jesus Christ by studying the Word that we have been given.
Romans 10:17 ‘…So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God…’ AKJV
Don’t confuse yourself, we aren’t told we grow our FAITH by listening to others read the Word to us either.
We grow our FAITH when we open up our Bibles, for ourselves, and we listen to God speak to us through His Word.
Since Charlie Kirk was killed by a gunman, there has been a very positive response of people trying to find God and fit Him in their lives.
The younger generations are going to church for the first time, and this world has seen an increase in buying themselves a Bible. This is a powerful example showing us how important it is for us to have Jesus in our life.
Let me suggest that instead of trying to fit God into your life, change your life to fit around God. Live your life for Him. Promote God in everything that you do.
Don’t rely on another human being to get you to God, open your Bible and let God show the way He desires for you to go.
There are going to be those that want you to find God, but they want to find God how they want to find God. I want you to find God, but don’t let anyone tell you how much you have to give in the offering basket, to find Him. Don’t let people tell you how many bells you must ring or how many hoops you have to jump through to find Him either. God is offering Himself to each one of us, all we have to do is BELIEVE.
Open your Bible and allow Him to speak to you through His words.
I am not a firm believer in today’s man-made religions.
God doesn’t need a religion to find you.
God doesn’t need a building so you can be saved.
After Jesus was crucified, He was resurrected from the dead. After His resurrection Jesus Ascended up into heaven. It was believed that Jesus would remain in heaven until His 2nd coming, but God had different plans that mankind didn’t understand.
God changed His mind on how He did things.
In Acts 9:3, Jesus came back to this earth in a vision and confronted Saul of Tarsus on his way into Damascus.
In Acts 9:15, Jesus spoke with Ananias in a dream, that he was to go to a certain house and baptize Saul, Jesus had decided to use Saul of Tarsus to teach the entire world about Himself.
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
Ask yourself, why would our churches forget to teach us this change?
Why do our churches continuously return back to Jesus’ earthly ministry up to His crucifixion to return right back to His earthly ministry all over again?
Never moving forward … stuck in a continuous loop over and over again, forever.
Read your own Bible and see what God has planned for our future.
Read how Jesus has moved forward since He died on the cross for ALL mankind.
OPEN your Bible and READ what God wants you to know.
I have tried to emphasize how important that it is for each one of us to open up our Bibles and READ the Word of God for ourselves, EACH ONE OF US.
Several years before that I asked people: ARE YOU READY.
I want everyone to have the opportunity to gain what each and every one of us has been offered, the ONLY thing, we MUST BELIEVE.
Our FAITH in God is what is going to trigger our BELIEF for us and the only way our FAITH can grow is by READING the Word of God.
Over the years, I have tried to come up with a basic plan, where each one of us could get over the hundreds of excuses so we could each READ His Word.
We all have had an excuse one way or another. The most used excuse of all time is time, people will say they don’t have the time in their day to read their Bible.
Give up sitting in front of your tv for 30 minutes a day, give up being on your computer or your phone on social media for just 30 minutes a day, give up playing your Xbox or your PlayStation for just 30 minutes a day and in less than two weeks, the part of the Bible that is the most significant to each one of us in the 21st century, will be read.
Give it a second two weeks and re-read what you just read … and why not continue.
Thirty minutes a day is NOT going to upset your schedule. Download a Bible app onto your phone and during a coffee break or lunch, read a couple of verses from the Bible. Bible apps cost nothing to download on your phone and just about every adult in America carries a phone with them.
I have BibleGateway on my phone, computer and tablet. As of this morning, there were over 66 English versions of the Bible available with every download. Now there are many in America that believe the King James version of the Bible is the only Bible that should be read … I disagree but a point that I would voice, there are many times a person needs a different English version of the Bible so they can even understand what has been written in the King James version.
I have included my Bible reading plan on this paper, I hope it will assist that person out there that is looking where to start, and they’ve been asking for help. Here is my suggestion:
Day 1 – Galatians 1-6, 1Thessalonians 1-5
Day 2 – 2Thessalonians 1-3, 1Corinthians 1-8
Day 3 – 1Corinthians 9-16
Day 4 – 2Corinthians 1-13
Day 5 – Romans 1-10
Day 6 – Romans 11-16, Philippians 1-4
Day 7 – Colossians 1-4, Ephesians 1-6
Day 8 – Philemon 1, 1 Timothy 1-6, Titus 1-3, 2Timothy 1-4
Day 9 – Acts 1-7
Day 10 – Acts 8-13
Day 11 – Acts 14-20
Day 12 – Acts 21-28
Allow God to speak to you through His Word.
I hope this helps at least that one individual who has never opened a Bible before, but they are seeking to find God.
I am InHIM. ><)))o>
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You may ask, why did I only post the writings of Paul and the book of Acts, to me, the answer is quite clear, we are told in Acts that Jesus CHOSE Saul of Tarsus (Paul), to be the teacher for the entire population of the world.
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
If you are reading from a ‘RED LETTER’ Bible, the above verse is written in red ink, these words are spoken by Jesus, the crucified, resurrected and ascended Jesus Christ. Jesus came back to this earth, by revelation to Saul and vs15 are words spoken by Jesus to Ananias, a Jewish believer living in Damascus.
Paul’s writings are the Doctrine that we are to FOLLOW today in the 21st century.
I included the book of Acts into this reading plan, so the pivotable change can be seen that was made by God.
There are about just as many people that don’t believe in the writings by Paul as there are those that think we should only read from the KJV. Just so you know, both of these beliefs are nothing but made up man-made rules that they want other human beings to follow, NONE of their beliefs or words are found in the Word of God.
Many of these people that don’t read the apostle Paul’s writings, they think His epistles should be ripped from our Bibles and thrown away, but Luke, the writer of one of the synoptic gospels wrote the book of Acts telling us that Jesus CHOSE Saul, are we to rip out the book of Acts also?
What about the gospel that was written by Luke, should that be torn from our Bibles too?
2Peter 3
vs15 ‘…And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you…’
vs16 ‘…as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction…’ AKJV
This man called Peter, from Matthew 16:18, Jesus calls Peter the Rock of the church, in Matthew 4:19 Jesus told Peter that he would be ‘fishers of men,’ Peter was a natural leader in the Jewish Christian community, Peter was an apostle and a pillar in the origins of the early church, because Peter wrote that Paul’s writings were from wisdom, he called his writings SCRIPTURE and those that don’t understand his writings, they don’t understand other Scripture as well, are we then to rip out Peters 2nd epistle also … and maybe his 1st epistle as well?
Where did these so-called christians read where God told us we could pick and choose what books and verses we want to believe in the Bible, and we could simply toss the other ones aside … where is the verse? They can’t because there is no such verse in the Word of God.
There are two (2) important verses found in 2Timothy.
2Timothy 2:15 ‘…Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth…’ NKJV
2Timothy 3:16 ‘…All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness…’ AKJV
In 2:15 we are told of the importance for us to ‘RIGHTLY DIVIDE’ the Word of Truth, the Word of God.
In 3:16, it not as important to notice what is in the verse, as it is to notice WHAT IS NOT IN THE VERSE. The word FOLLOW is not in that verse.
All Scripture has been given to us by God, but we are not told we are to FOLLOW ALL SCRIPTURE … we are to be WISE, so we are able to RIGHTLY DIVIDE the Word of God.
If you are visiting a man-made religion, in their man-made building and what they are preaching cannot be backed up by God’s Word, LEAVE, get out as soon as you can.
Go home and OPEN your Bible and READ the truth that God wants for you to HEAR.
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
Ephesians 2:8 ‘…For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God…’ AKJV
Romans 10:9 ‘…that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…’ AKJV
Jesus, as we begin this lesson, be with us and allow us to keep our focus on what we are able to read in Your Word. Keep us from focusing on what others say and keep us from gossip, false interpretations and keep us standing firm in Your Word that we have been given by You and You alone. I love You Jesus. Amen.
The Bible verses we’re going to use this morning are:
So, we are going to begin this lesson, trying to show the reader where they can find the ONLY Truth that we each have been given and then also hopefully, that will allow this world to realize almost everything that is taught on Sunday mornings is mostly man-made wants, wishes and desires.
Let me begin speaking about the Word of God, our Bibles and what can be found on its pages.
From our Bibles let’s acknowledge that God shows us, the beginning of this world that we live on and we are informed of the beginning of mankind.
Move forward to Genesis 6, God sees that mankind on the earth is full of nothing but evil.
Genesis 6:5 ‘…And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually…’ AKJV
What happened to God’s Creation? One should ask, how did this world turn into such a mess?
Genesis 6:6 ‘…And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart…’ AKJV
Now, move away from the Bible for just a moment, we should ask ourselves: why would God even allow for us to read and study this failure?
I think we should use the common sense that God has given us and be able to realize that the simple answer as to why ALL of the evil that was found on the earth, has to fall onto the shoulders of Satan, alone. Since his introduction in the garden with his temptation involving Eve, Satan has wanted to do nothing other than making this world fail so that God and His plan, in essence, would also fail and Satan could take over.
I think this is why God has allowed for us to see the past. Nearly 6,000 years before our time but God wants us to see the evil Satan has put on us.
Back in Genesis 6, when God seen the evil that had grown throughout this world, He made plans to destroy ALL of His creation.
Just think of it, it wouldn’t have taken anything for God to destroy what He had created and begin anew if He wanted to. In our three dimensional world, there are probably some in this world that cannot fathom what it would mean to destroy our creation and begin over again.
Genesis 6:7 ‘…And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them…’ AKJV
God was going to destroy His entire Creation, but then we read verse 8 …
Genesis 6:8 ‘…But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord…’ AKJV
God didn’t have to tell us what happened preceding the flood. In reality, God didn’t have to tell us anything. He didn’t have to give us the ability to realize what was right and what is clearly wrong.
The Bible tells us God did that though because He loves us, every one of us living on this earth, God is love.
Let’s go back into the Word of God, Genesis 11.
Genesis 11:1 ‘…And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech…’ AKJV
Now those people living back in Genesis 11, the world was very different, there was no North or South America; there was no Australia and no Europe.
From google.com:
The geography of the known world in Genesis 11 is primarily focused on the region of Mesopotamia, with the settlement in the land of Shinar. Shinar is widely considered to be a territory in Southern Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq, near the estuaries of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, including the city of Babylon. However, some scholars argue that Shinar may have been located further north in Mesopotamia, in what is now northeastern Syria. [1]
From Genesis 1 through chapter 11, there is one group of people all speaking the same language. There isn’t a Jewish group of people or a Gentile group of people, ALL people were the same, one group of people, known as ‘mankind.’
In chapter 12, God CHOSE Abram, later his name was changed by God to Abraham and through him, a new different CHOSEN people will emerge onto this world.
Genesis 12
vs1 ‘…Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee…’
vs2 ‘…and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing…’
vs3 ‘…and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed…’ AKJV
From Genesis 12, there is division between the different types of mankind.
Up to this point, the people on the earth were ALL bad. There is the history of the flood, there is the history at the tower of Babel.
God made a choice to divide mankind, He found favor in the Israelites, the Jewish people. There are so many religions today on this world that have missed out on this division by God.
They don’t preach it and are unaware that it even happened.
There are groups that sense this division, and they want to include themselves into the group that was chosen by God, but if these people would read their Bibles and listen to the Word of God, they would find out for themselves, they don’t need to join a group of people because God Himself made another CHOICE to include ALL mankind to have the opportunity for Salvation.
But mankind today doesn’t read the Word of God, they instead listen to their pastors and priests who claim they’ve read the Bible for them.
They follow what they hear in their churches and its denomination.
Most of mankind has decided to follow mankind and his message instead of following what God tells us in His Word.
Ask yourself, who’s fault is it then when you realize you’ve been lied to? Is it your pastor or priests fault? Is it your church or its denominations fault?
God is ONLY going to look at you, individually. Your pastor, priest, church and it’s denomination, they have been foretold of their own individual punishment.
But you, for not believing what God has been trying to tell you and this entire world, you are going to have an everlasting life, but it is an everlasting life of torment and destruction.
All mankind are promised an Everlasting Life, but you have to ask yourself, are you spending eternity in the presence of Jesus or are you spending eternity in torment and destruction, punishment.
Matthew 25:46 ‘…And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal…’ AKJV
But rather than jumping ahead to the end and out of sequence, we’re going to continue to follow in God’s footsteps, and walk through His Word with Him.
Throughout the OT, God used minor and major prophets, to spread His messages to the Chosen people.
From google.com:
The Bible lists numerous prophets whom God used to deliver His messages. These include major prophets like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, and minor prophets such as Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah. God also spoke through other figures like Moses, Samuel, and Elijah. [2]
These prophets were all sent to deliver God’s message to the Jewish people, God’s Chosen people, all lineage from Abraham.
Many of these prophets wrote of a promised Messiah that would have an everlasting reign. There are prophecies written of Jesus’ birth, and detailed prophecy of the city he’d be born in and prophecy of His death.
These prophesies were all given to one people in particular, God’s Chosen people, the Jews.
In this time period, there were two different types of mankind, Jews and non-Jews (also known as Gentiles).
Throughout His life, from His birth, the short stories of His life growing up through His earthly ministry have also been focused directly towards the Jewish people.
Jesus was promised to the Jews and that is why Jesus came to this earth; He came to fulfill OT prophesy.
Jesus told us this Himself in our Bibles.
Matthew 1
vs22 ‘…Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying…’
vs23 ‘…Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us…’ AKJV
Jesus also tells us in Matthew that He ONLY came for the Jewish people, the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:24 ‘…But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel…’ AKJV
It is funny to me because most of Christendom, they live in the book of Matthew. They read parts in Psalms and in Proverbs and almost the entire church knows by heart John 3:16 … but they’ve misinterpreted what God has told us, the Gentiles.
Do you know not until Acts 9:15, are we told God has decided to offer salvation and save the Gentile person, the non-Jew.
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
Here in this verse, God is stating to the reader He is going to allow the entire world to hear and learn about Him and His Word.
And 95 percent of Christendom today think they are to replace and take the place of the Jew since they proved they didn’t want God … but ask this person, what book, chapter and verse is it written that we were told to step in and take the Jews place?
They can’t tell you because the verse isn’t in our Bibles … it’s nowhere in the Word of God … it’s all a fallacy, a myth, a lie, a man-made made-up untruth to get you to revisit their church. It’s been written in the Word of God as ‘itching ears’ (tickling our ears).
2 Timothy 4
vs3 ‘…For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears…’
vs4 ‘…and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables…’ AKJV
Come back and study with us next Wednesday, as we continue through the pages of God’s Word.
If we cannot find what we’re being taught, written in and on the pages of God’s Word, we should flee and leave those lies alone.
The ONLY truth that we have been given is the Word of God.
Keep your Bibles open and continue to study.
I’ll see y’all next week.
I love ALL of y’all.
I am InHIM.><)))o>
Jesus, we pray that You would bless us and keep us safe. Keep us close to You and protect us. Keep us hungry so we search the words You have given for us to HEAR. We love You Jesus. Amen.
vs7 ‘…But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory…’
vs8 ‘…which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory…’ NKJV
We are treading on ground not covered in our man-made religions on Sunday mornings in their Bible studies.
Every individual should be able to conclude there are many things that us human beings do not fully, 100%, understand about what God has told us or how certain things were done … it has to be obvious.
This I would conclude is that MYSTERY that Paul is talking about in vs7.
This hidden wisdom can be seen in earlier writings.
We can find this in the next verse, verse 9.
1Corinthians 2:9 ‘…But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him…’ NKJV
And we can show a comparable verse found in Isaiah.
Isaiah 64:4 ‘…For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him…’ NKJV
Now the apostle Paul was a Pharisee … he would have known the writings on the scrolls of Isaiah that the Jewish people had for generations … but then I MUST ask, why didn’t those earlier generations read of the promise of the coming Lord … why didn’t they read of His death on the cross?
This again, is part of that MYSTERY that God, in His wisdom, in His Omniscience, in His ALL-KNOWING of everything, that us simple human beings, we will never understand until that day when God reveals His MYSTERY to us all so we all will be able to understand.
The way the early Jewish leaders and the people were blinded by the truth, I think is the same way that the apostles were blinded from understanding what Jesus meant when He spoke to them.
I think there are many in this world that have been blinded in this same way from seeing the truth that is found in God’s Word that He has given us.
God has told us, it’s written in His Word, but many times, by many people, it’s not been revealed until the time is right, RIGHT FOR GOD.
This MYSTERY is similar to a SECRET … I believe like the secret that God told us that He kept from all of us.
Deuteronomy 29:29 ‘…The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law…’ AKJV
There is a version of the English Bible that I use often to help me understand what has been written in the KJV. It is the EASY version.
Deuteronomy 29:29 ‘…Some secret things belong to the Lord our God. He does not let us understand everything. But he has shown us many things clearly. Those things belong to us and to our descendants for all time. They are the words of his Law that we need to obey…’ EASY
God is allowing us to know that He DOES keep secrets from us, mankind.
We should thank God for allowing us to know this.
So, the reason we ALL don’t understand what has been written is because some of us have been blinded from what has been said.
Here is just one example found in the Word:
Luke 18:34 ‘…The disciples understood none of these things, and the meaning of this statement was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend the things that were said…’ NASB
Jesus had just got done telling His disciples that He was going to be killed and in three (3) days He would be resurrected and brought back to life.
Jesus told His disciples this on three (3) different occasions, it’s written about in three (3) different synoptic gospels … and they did not understand what Jesus was telling them.
It was never meant for them to understand, in vs34 we read where it was ‘hidden from them.’
How many things has God told us in His Word that we have been hidden from the real, true meaning?
I think this is why God gave us His Word.
I think He gave us His Word so we could STUDY it … so we could pray and ask the Holy Spirit to help us understand what He means.
So, we could ask what God means when He tells us there is a MYSTERY.
His Word has been meant for each one of us … not for others to read the Word to us but for each one of us to OPEN our Bibles and READ the Word for ourselves.
In just these past few weeks, there have been many difficulties in this 21st century world that we live in … just focus on what we have seen here in America.
In just the past week, thousands of individuals have purchased a Bible for the first time, thousands of younger generations went to a man-made church this past Sunday seeking God … but the Message we ALL need to listen to is the REAL, TRUE MESSAGE of God and it is ONLY found in His Word.
Stay home this next Sunday and spend an hour or two and read your Bible … READ THE WORD OF GOD.
Jesus gave up His life and was crucified on a cross for the forgiveness of every sin throughout the entire world.
Every sin that was, is and ever will be committed by mankind … WE ARE ALL FORGIVEN ALREADY.
Now we must FOLLOW in Jesus’ footsteps … we are to walk in the trail that He has made for us, we’re not told we are to break a new trail, and we certainly aren’t supposed to go back to before He forgave us of our sins before He died on the cross for each one of us.
We are to FOLLOW His lead.
In the book of Acts, after the crucifixion and after the ascension of Jesus Christ, Jesus came back to this earth and confronted a man, Saul of Tarsus.
Acts 9:3 ‘…And as he (Saul) journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven…’ AKJV
That light spoken about is Jesus.
OPEN your Bibles and READ it for yourselves.
Jesus confronted Saul and sent him into town and told him to wait for His sign … Jesus then went to Ananias and told him to go to Saul.
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him (Ananias), Go thy way: for he (Saul) is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
Jesus is telling Ananias that Saul of Tarsus is His CHOSEN VESSEL to teach the entire population, ALL mankind about Himself.
Throughout the entire Bible, after Genesis 1 through 11, there were only two divisions of people, Jews and Gentiles (non-Jews).
There were many different groups of Gentiles, but they were still Gentiles none the less.
There is another verse we should see that’s found in the book of Acts.
Acts 13:9 ‘…But [a]Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit and led by Him, looked steadily at Elymas…’ AMP
FOOTNOTE:
[a] Saul was the apostle Paul’s Jewish (Hebrew) name. As his ministry to Gentiles began he became known by his Roman (Latin) name, Paul.
The Book of Acts was written by Luke, the same Luke that wrote the gospel of Luke.
There are thousands of individuals that will not read the writings of Paul, they claim they are too different than the teachings of Jesus Christ.
But in the Word, Luke writes that Jesus CHOSE Paul to teach ALL of us about God.
There are people that say Paul’s writings should be ripped from our Bibles and thrown away.
Should we then rip out the book of Acts also because Luke claims that Jesus CHOSE Paul?
How about 2 Peter, Jesus’ most popular apostle.
2Peter 3
vs15 ‘…And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you…’
vs16 ‘…as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction…’ AKJV
Should we rip the books of Peter from our Bibles and throw them away also?
To you young, new believers, OPEN your own Bible and READ the words that God has given us in His Word.
TRUST in what He tells you … forget about what other men try and teach you (and I am including myself in that group also), OPEN your Bible and say a prayer to the Holy Spirit and ask that He would guide you in His footsteps. Allow Him to take you in the path He wants for you to FOLLOW.
Maybe one of the stronger and more powerful verses found in the Word that teaches us to STUDY His Word, is found in 2Timothy.
2Timothy 2:15 ‘…Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth…’ AKJV
Here is an easier version you might be able to speak:
2Timothy 2:15 ‘…Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth…’ NKJV
In both version we are told of the importance in our knowledge of ‘RIGHTLY DIVIDING’ His Word.
Not DIVIDING the Bible the way, we want to, but rather DIVIDE the Word that God has intended for us to HEAR.
Put your TRUST in Him and allow Him to walk you through this life we are living in. Pray without ceasing as we we’re told in 1Thessalonians 5:17.
Just a very quick lesson today … I seen this yesterday, it was the Verse of the Day.
September 17th Verse of the Day.
Romans 12:2 ‘…Do not become like the people who belong to this world. But let God completely change the way that you think, so that you live differently. Then you will understand what God wants you to do. You will know what is good. You will know what pleases God. You will know what is completely right…’ EASY
Jesus died on the cross for every one of us, to offer us Salvation and the forgiveness of our sins.
Open your Bible and READ the words that we have been given in the Word of God.
Jesus is our Savior, but we MUST follow in His footsteps after the cross, and not walk down the trail that ‘we’ desire or think we need to walk in.
Just because our pastor or priest might preach to us on Sunday mornings about where we need to go and what we need to do … OPEN your own Bible and READ what God desires from you instead.
Make yourself aware what God has given us in His Word.
Make the time in your day to fit God into your life.
STOP relying on other human beings or man-made religions to SAVE you … God has already offered you a GIFT that you don’t want to miss out on.
Put your TRUST and FAITH in God’s Word and BELIEVE in Him.
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
Ephesians 2:8 ‘…For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God…’ AKJV
Romans 10:9 ‘…that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…’ AKJV
Jesus, Guide me as I teach this lesson from Your Word. I love You Jesus. Amen.
The Bible verses we’re going to use this morning are:
Luke 22:36; Ephesians 6:17, 6:13-18; Luke 22:36, :38-39; 2 Timothy 2:15, 3:16; Acts 9:15, 13:9.
So, I was watching the new, fifth (5th) season of the series, the CHOSEN.
I think I like the series so much because I am able to physically see, with my own eyes, what is written in the Word of God.
So, last night, I think it was episode 3, as Jesus and the apostles were sitting at the table, celebrating the last supper, Jesus tells the apostles how they needed to start arming themselves with swords.
I had never heard of such a verse before.
Luke 22:36 ‘…Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one…’ AKJV
Jesus is telling His disciples at the last supper, to arm themselves … ?
Those apostles sitting at that table I would gamble all the money I could find, but I would bet that they were shocked at what was coming from Jesus’ mouth.
Can you just imagine … ?
But for us today in the 21st century, we have been given the entire Word of God, so we can at any time, get out our Bibles and search for any Scripture we desire.
Ephesians 6:17 ‘…And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God…’ AKJV
In our Bibles, in Ephesians 6, Paul writes of the armor that God has given us; to equip us so we can battle the evil found in this world, so we will be able to keep our eyes focused on Him.
Ephesians 6
vs13 ‘…Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand…’
vs14 ‘…Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness…’
vs15 ‘…and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace…’
vs16 ‘…above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked…’
vs17 ‘…And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God…’
vs18 ‘…praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints…’ AKJV
Over my many years of studying with y’all, I have done numerous studies on this armor that God is offering us.
Out of all of the different pieces of armor, the sword (the Word of God), is the ONLY offensive protection, that He has given us.
God wants us to arm ourselves with the knowledge of what has been written in the Word so that we will know when we are being lied to.
Return with me back to the book of Luke. Jesus just told the apostles to sell what they had buy themselves a sword … let me show the verse again to you.
Luke 22:36 ‘…Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one…’ AKJV
The apostle Simon the Zealot (nicknamed Z), left the table and returned with two swords he already had, hidden, in his possession.
Luke 22
vs38 ‘…And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough…’
vs39 ‘…And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him…’ AKJV
Jesus wasn’t telling His apostles to arm themselves with ‘swords’ … He was telling them to arm themselves with the Word.
The apostles couldn’t run down to the Dollar General on the corner and buy a copy of the Bible, like we can today.
Jesus had realized the men, did not understand.
I believe Jesus was telling us, today; we are to arm ourselves with what has been written in the Word.
We shouldn’t just own a copy or copies of the Bible and leave them lying around our house collecting dust, we should search and study the Word of God so we can protect ourselves for what dangers are out there wanting to fight against us, and I’m talking about Satan always fighting against us.
We have people today, they go to church every Sunday morning, some even go every Sunday and Wednesday nights; these people walk into their church building with a Bible in their hand, and they come in and sit down.
When they’re seated, they’ll notice Bibles on the seats right next to them or under the seats in front of them.
But in most services, these Bibles are not even opened up and read from.
If they are opened, they are opened to a part of Scripture that has been meant for us to see, but it has never been intended for us to follow.
2 Timothy 2:15 ‘…Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth…’ AKJV
The apostle Paul wrote to teach us that we are to be wise enough, to know where in the Bible we can read the Truth for our ears to HEAR and read the words in the Bible that were given to earlier generations, thousands of years before us.
2 Timothy 3:16 ‘…All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness…’ AKJV
ALL Scripture, the entire Bible has been given to us so we can learn from what has been written in the Word of God, but NOWHERE are we told we were to FOLLOW all the Scripture written in the Word.
What gets to me, is when a person will hear me make that statement, right away they’ll state how they’re not going to listen to me, and they’ll use ALL Scripture …
Okay, well why then why don’t you USE ALL SCRIPTURE?
Why do you leave out Acts 9:15?
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
This verse, in fact, the entire chapter of Acts 9, is of the ascended Jesus Christ coming back down to this earth and CHOOSING Saul of Tarsus to teach the entire world what God wants for us to know so we can attain Everlasting Life in the presence of Jesus Christ.
The ascended Jesus CHOSE Saul, but just think how many out there today won’t even read from the thirteen (13) books Paul wrote for us.
Here is another important verse and footnote also found in the book of Acts.
Acts 13:9 ‘…But [a]Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit and led by Him, looked steadily at Elymas…’ AMP (Amplified Bible)
FOOTNOTE
[a] Saul was the apostle Paul’s Jewish (Hebrew) name. As his ministry to Gentiles began he became known by his Roman (Latin) name, Paul.
There is much foolishness in this world today.
Remember, when Jesus came to this earth during His earthly ministry, He was very disappointed with the religion of that day.
Why are there so many that don’t see the same thing that is going on today in our man-made churches.
There is ONE God, how can their be thousands of different denominations celebrating different gods?
Always remember, there is only ONE book of Truth.
Our Bibles today are available in many different versions, in many different languages.
I don’t believe there is only one version any better than another, if there was, I’m positive God would have told us what that version was.
I do believe though that we should read and compare our versions with others to make sure we are reading what God wants us to HEAR.
Keep your Bibles open and continue to study the Word of God.
Make yourself aware so that you will know what God is trying to tell you, stop listening to a man in a building preaching that he is the only one that understands the truth.
If he was the only man that knew, God would have told us in His Word of this man’s gift.
Open your Bibles and listen to God Himself speak to you.
Let the Holy Spirit dwell in your presence.
I’ll be back next Wednesday.
I love ALL of y’all.
I am InHIM.><)))o>
Jesus, bless those that are studying in Your Word this morning. Keep them strong and keep them hungry to find out more secrets in Your Word. I love You Jesus. Amen.
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
Ephesians 2:8 ‘…For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God…’ AKJV
Romans 10:9 ‘…that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…’ AKJV
Jesus, keep me focused on the Message You want me to share this morning. I love You Jesus. Amen.
The Bible verses we’re going to use this morning are:
1 Corinthians 1:30 ‘…But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption…’ AKJV
Maybe it’s the English version I used or maybe it is only because I used one verse, but here is a different English version of the verse.
1 Corinthians 1:30 ‘…But God has brought you into union with Christ Jesus, and God has made Christ to be our wisdom. By him we are put right with God; we become God’s holy people and are set free…’ GNT
It is God that allows us to be ‘In Christ.’
It is from our FAITH that we have in God that allow us to be in union ‘In Christ.’
It’s not written that we have to tithe anything.
It’s not written that we have to go to a building every week or three times in a week.
It’s not written that we have to jump through any hoops, ring any bells or throw any frisbees … we can be ‘In Christ’ just by claiming that I AM IN CHRIST?
Galatians 3
vs26 ‘…For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus…’
vs27 ‘…For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ…’
vs28 ‘…There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus…’
vs29 ‘…And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise…’ AKJV
To be ‘baptized into Christ’ (v27) means that they were identified with Christ, having left their old sinful lives and fully embracing the new life in Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ‘…For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit…’ AKJV
The apostle Paul is speaking to the Christians in Galatia, reminding them of their new identity since they placed their faith in Jesus Christ.
Jesus CHOSE Paul to teach this entire world what He wanted for us ALL to know.
I know this because of one very important and often unread verse in Acts.
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him (Ananias), Go thy way: for he (Saul of Tarsus) is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
This is the ascended Jesus speaking to Ananias in a vision.
No matter what time of day it is … no matter what you are doing … whether you are awake or asleep … busy or idle, when Jesus speaks to you, FOLLOW HIM and do as He tells you.
Up to this verse (in the Bible), in Acts 9 verse 15, God only spoke to His Chosen people, the Jews.
Vs15 is the most pivotable change in all of biblical history.
God decided to save ALL mankind: ‘…Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’
There is no one else left on the earth that is not mentioned in that one verse.
The apostle Paul has been CHOSEN by Jesus to teach all mankind what He wants us to know.
Here is maybe another verse found in the book of Acts along with the footnotes found in the Amplified version.
Acts 13:9 ‘…But [a]Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit and led by Him, looked steadily at Elymas…’ AMP (Amplified Bible)
Footnotes
[a] Saul was the apostle Paul’s Jewish (Hebrew) name. As his ministry to Gentiles began he became known by his Roman (Latin) name, Paul.
I believe our churches do not teach these verses because Satan doesn’t want us to HEAR the Message God has been trying to tell us.
Satan doesn’t want us to have a life with Jesus, similar to the life he once had, before he was thrown down from heaven to this earth.
Romans 8:1 ‘…There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit…’ AKJV
This verse is telling us that if we FOLLOW Jesus and we walk with Him and we leave our flesh behind, we have no condemnation.
We will no longer be condemned by all of the sins that we have committed throughout our life, Jesus’ BLOOD that He shed on the cross for us will cover those sins that we have committed, and we will be free from them and their punishment forever.
When Jesus took our place on the cross, He suffered the punishment our sin deserves. His last words before He died were, ‘It is finished’ (John 19:30).
What was finished? It wasn’t merely His earthly life, as He proved three days later, when He was resurrected back to life.
What He finished on the cross was God’s plan to redeem His fallen world. When Jesus said, ‘It is finished,’ He was stating that He had successfully paid in full, every act of rebellion, past, present, and future.
All we have to do is BELIEVE.
There are many today that preach and will tell you it cannot be that easy. In a way, I almost agree with them; it does seem too easy, but that isn’t what has been written in the Word of God.
But it is a good thing that God is the One forgiving us and promising us Everlasting Life because all of the naysayers throughout and around this world, they can tell us how it cannot be that easy but not a one of them can offer us the promise and GIFT of everlasting life.
To be ‘In Christ’ means we have accepted His sacrifice as payment for our own sin.
We don’t understand how it can be true … but we are fortunate that we have a God that loves us enough to offer and save us.
Keep your Bibles open and continue to study the words God has given us in His Word.
God is SOVERIGN. He can do what He wants to do whenever and as many times as He wants to do it.
God wants each one of us to be with Him after our life on this earth is finished.
It up to us whether or not we would like to be with Him and in His presence.
Don’t worry and focus on what is going on around us today … there is nothing that we are going to do that will change anything.
The ONLY thing we can do is save ourselves from an everlasting life of torment and destruction.
God has already told us in His Word that it has been offered to us.
Our lesson is a little shorter today, so keep your Bibles open and continue to study His Word that He has given us.
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
Ephesians 2:8 ‘…For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God…’ AKJV
Romans 10:9 ‘…that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…’ AKJV
Jesus, stay with me and open my ears so I can HEAR the exact Message You desire for me to share with those reading this lesson this morning. Use me Jesus and keep us ALL safe and in Your arms. I love You Jesus. Amen.
The Bible verses we’re going to use this morning are:
vs3 ‘…But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost…’
vs4 ‘…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…’ AKJV
There is a lot of information for us to unpack in just these two (2) verses alone.
The apostle Paul wrote the Gospel that Jesus wanted us to know, ALL of us, ALL of mankind.
Acts 9:15c ‘…Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
There is no one left that Jesus wanted Paul to reach out to, Jesus wanted the entire world to hear His Message.
Paul wrote the Gospel of Christ to and for the entire world.
Not only Paul but Jesus as well, doesn’t want us to be confused with the gospels written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (MMLJ).
My intention is to hopefully portray to that person reading along, that they would ask themselves what it truly means, to be ‘In Christ.’
I want to show the importance for us to listen to what Jesus is trying to tell us and keep us away from thinking we are doing what He wants us to do or even worse, listening to someone other than Jesus Himself speaking to us.
So, ask yourself, does the Word of God tell us what it means to be ‘In Christ?’
2 Corinthians 5:17 ‘…Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new…’ AKJV
Is this verse telling us, that if we attend a church on Sunday morning, does that mean we are ‘In Christ?’
What if we go further, what if we attend a church that also meets on Sunday and Wednesday nights, does that mean we are ‘In Christ’ or maybe even closer to Him.’
What if we listen to Christian music throughout each and every minute in our daily lives, does that mean we are ‘In Christ?’
Read the verse again in 2 Corinthians:
2 Corinthians 5:17 ‘…Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new…’ AKJV
From this verse in 2 Corinthians, we are told that we will be a new creature if we are in Christ, what does it mean, to be a new creature?
Does it mean I am looking at life through new glasses, or I am changing the way I live my life, or I’m changing my ways, if I change my beliefs is that what makes me new?
I found on google.com that I am a new creature through FAITH in Christ. That individuals will experience a transformation, a change in their spiritual state, and a new beginning with God.
Ask yourself this question, If you continue to focus on MMLJ, are you beginning new?
Continue asking yourself, am I beginning new or am I continuing with the old that has been on the face of this earth for over 2000 years.
Jesus when He walked during His earthly ministry, was He portraying that He wanted our generation today to follow His ways or was Jesus teaching only a certain group of people?
Jesus came to fulfill OT prophesy to the Jewish forefathers, promises that were made to the Jewish people in an earlier age.
Jesus told us Himself that He came to only fulfill.
Matthew 5:17 ‘…Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill…’ AKJV
Jesus was talking to the Jewish people, that is who He came to this earth for. He came to this earth to teach the people, Chosen by God.
2 Corinthians 5:17b ‘…Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new…’ AKJV
Jesus was never accepted by the Orthodox Jewish community, they did not believe Jesus was the Son of God.
The Pharisees, they turned Jesus in to the Romans and demanded that Jesus be crucified and killed.
Jesus knew ahead of time He was going to be sacrificed for mankind. Throughout His entire earthly ministry, He knew He was only here for a short time.
Jesus foretold of His death on three different occasions. Each one of these times were wrote about in the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
Jesus knew He was giving His life up for us, but His disciples did not understand what Jesus was telling them, it was never meant for them to know, it was hidden from them.
Luke 18:34 ‘…And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken…’ AKJV
Back when I started this lesson, I quoted Scripture from the Word of God, two very important verses.
2 Corinthians 4
vs3 ‘…But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost…’
vs4 ‘…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…’ AKJV
This ‘god of this world’ that is written about, is nothing more than Satan himself.
The same Satan that tempted Jesus when He first began His earthly ministry.
The same Satan that tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden.
This is the same Satan that has been blinding this world from the truth and deceiving millions and spewing nothing but lies to them every Sunday morning, and Sunday and Wednesday nights also.
Lies that the Word has warned us about, but people no longer read the words that God has given us.
People today have been sold the promise that if they go to church every week, if the give their monthly or weekly tithes, they will be okay, but that false promise is no where written in the Word of God.
We are warned of these false words in the Word of God.
We are warned of these false preachers spreading these false promises in the Word of God, but people are not reading the Word of God today. If their Bibles are even opened, they are directed to only look at that which has never been meant to save us from Everlasting Death.
We are shown in 2 Timothy, the apostle Paul fore warning Timothy of the importance in him to teaching the truth and spreading the love of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 4
vs1 ‘…I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom…’
vs2 ‘…preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine…’
vs3 ‘…For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears…’
vs4 ‘…and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables…’
vs5 ‘…But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry…’ AKJV
Too many pastors, too many priests, too many churches and too many denominations are going to tickle the ears of their congregations this week. They’re going to fill them with stories of laundry, relatives on trains, and what’s the English definition of a Greek word used in the original gospels, and the truth is that for us today living in the 21st century, it is nothing but a fable meant to tickle our ears.
Our preachers today should spread the Word God wants us to HEAR.
Our pastors, priests, churches and denominations should remind us of Easter Sunday and how Jesus was raised from His tomb.
How He moved forward into His NEW life and how He moved forward in the book of Acts.
How He told the remaining original apostles to spread the promise of Pentecost and how our futures were to be shared with a helper.
How Jesus, after repeatedly being unwanted by the Chosen people, how Jesus made the most pivotable change in biblical history.
Jesus CHOSE Saul of Tarsus, to teach the entire kingdom of mankind about Himself, God.
This verse is of Jesus Christ, the resurrected and ascended Son of God, speaking to Ananias in a vision, Ananias, a believer living in Damascus, telling him to go and do as Jesus wants because Saul is Jesus’ CHOSEN vessel to teach this entire world, what He wants us to know.
Acts 9:15 ‘…But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel…’ AKJV
The Book of Acts is in no-way doctrine for the Body of Christ today, but it shows us the change made by God.
Here is another important and informative verse found in the Book of Acts and also a footnote found in the Amplified version.
Acts 13:9 ‘…But [a]Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit and led by Him, looked steadily at Elymas …’ AMP (Amplified Bible)
Footnotes
[a] Saul was the apostle Paul’s Jewish (Hebrew) name. As his ministry to Gentiles began he became known by his Roman (Latin) name, Paul.
Keep your bibles open and continue to study the words that God has given us in the Word of God.
READ the words that God wants for you to know and understand and don’t allow others to influence your future.
Jesus was resurrected from His tomb so He could keep moving forward, not to continuously, year after year, immediately after His resurrection to be returning back to the stable.
I love y’all.
I will be back next Wednesday.
I am InHIM.><)))o>
Jesus, thank You for being with us this morning Jesus. If there is that person out there this morning struggling with what I tried voicing in this lesson, please be with them and guide them to a closer relationship with and In You. I love You Jesus. Amen.
