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training for reigning

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holy spirit gifts by grace

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Faith and law

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freely give

  Matthew 10: 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you have received.

 The reason we don't freely give is that we are taught wrong doctrine.

   The church has taught that salvation is free--you can't earn it---BUT.  Grace is free----BUT.  A prime example of what religion will do to manipulate...

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. 

  

  The original Greek---Romans 8:1 [There is] then now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.       The translators added a stipulation to Grace.

   If we do not receive freely then we will not give freely.  If we have to earn our blessing then we expect others to earn theirs.  Grace was given at The Cross.  Grace is received when you believe and confess with your mouth.  You will never be more "holy", more "saved" or more LOVED than you are when you accept the Gift of Jesus.

 When we know that it's all free---we can freely give.

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romans 5 intro

Romans 5

1 Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. 2 Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God's glory.

 3 We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us -- they help us learn to endure. 4 And endurance develops strength of character in us, and character strengthens our confident expectation of salvation. 5And this expectation will not disappoint us. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

 6 When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.

Knowing that we were already made right JUST because we believe that Jesus has DONE it for us---changes everything.  

No need for competition.  

Jesus won.

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new joseph prince

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Mother's Day America

In 1908 a U.S. Senator from Nebraska, Elmer Burkett, proposed making Mother's Day a national holiday at the request of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA).

The proposal was defeated, but by 1909 forty-six states were holding Mother's Day services as well as parts of Canada and Mexico.

Anna Jarvis quit working and devoted herself full time to the creation of Mother's Day, endlessly petitioning state governments, business leaders, women groups, churches and other institutions and organizations.

She finally convinced the World's Sunday School Association to back her, a key influence over state legislators and congress. In 1912 West Virginia became the first state to officially recognize Mother's Day.

In 1914 Woodrow Wilson signed it into national observance, declaring the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.

I thought it was HALLMARK :)
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Grace and the Holy Communion

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Daily Grace is different

You have to look to one source for everything,
and the source is not of this earth
things change.

You cannot do anything to make anything better.
You have to trust.

Trust is the only currency that works.
The dollar means nothing--good works mean nothing --
-you've tried all that.

Trust is all you have.

For everyday there is what you need.
Not tomorrow's -- just today's,
but there is more that you can't store.

There is trust.

You cannot work to earn what is free.
There is no way to pay for what is priceless.
There is no currency that works for that which is Grace.

There is only TRUST.


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Passover, Easter: Gospel of John The Resurrection

John 20

 Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. 

 "They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!" 

Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see. 

The other disciple outran Peter and got there first.  He stooped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in. Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was folded up and lying to the side.  Then the other disciple also went in, 

and he saw and believed -- 

for until then they hadn't realized that the Scriptures said he would rise from the dead. 

Then they went home. 

 Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in. She saw two white-robed angels sitting at the head and foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying. "Why are you crying?" the angels asked her."Because they have taken away my Lord," she replied, "and I don't know where they have put him."  

She glanced over her shoulder and saw someone standing behind her.

 It was Jesus, but she didn't recognize him. 

"Why are you crying?" Jesus asked her. "Who are you looking for?"

 She thought he was the gardener. "Sir," she said, "if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him." 

"Mary!" Jesus said.She turned toward him and exclaimed, "Teacher!" 

 "Don't cling to me," Jesus said, "for I haven't yet ascended to the Father. 

But go find my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, 

my God and your God." 

 Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them, "I have seen the Lord!" Then she gave them his message.

That evening, on the first day of the week, the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them!

 "Peace be with you," he said. 

As he spoke, he held out his hands for them to see, and he showed them his side.

 They were filled with joy when they saw their Lord! He spoke to them again and said,

 "Peace be with you.

 As the Father has sent me, so I send you." 

 Then he breathed on them and said to them,

 "Receive the Holy Spirit.

If you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven. If you refuse to forgive them, they are not forgiven."

  One of the disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin ), was not with the others when Jesus came. They told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he replied, "I won't believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my fingers into them, and place my hand into the wound in his side." 

Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. He said, "Peace be with you." Then he said to Thomas,

 "Put your finger here and see my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don't be faithless any longer. Believe!" 

"My Lord and my God!" Thomas exclaimed. Then Jesus told him, 

"You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who haven't seen me and believe anyway."  

Jesus' disciples saw him do many other miraculous signs besides the ones recorded in this book.  But these are written so that you may believe that 

Jesus is the Messiah, 

the Son of God, 

and that by believing in him

 you will have life.

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Passover, Easter: Gospel of John Holy Saturday

THE Holy Saturday was a very somber day for Jesus disciples.  Some scriptures below must have filled the minds of His followers.  Looking back on THE Holy Saturday, the day marked the end of one Covenant and the complete newness of The Covenant of Salvation inaugurated by the Resurrection of Christ.

John 14

"Don't be troubled. You trust God, now trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father's home, and I am going to prepare a place for you. If this were not so, I would tell you plainly."

 Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me."

...In just a little while the world will not see me again, but you will. For I will live again, and you will, too.  When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.  "I am leaving you with a gift -- peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give isn't like the peace the world gives."

 "So don't be troubled or afraid." 

"Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really love me, you will be very happy for me, because now I can go to the Father, who is greater than I am. 

 I have told you these things before they happen so that you will believe when they do happen."

John 15

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ... Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful apart from me." "Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing....  

... I no longer call you servants, because a master doesn't confide in his servants. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 

You didn't choose me. I chose you.

 I appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. I command you to love each other.  "When the world hates you, remember it hated me before it hated you. The world would love you if you belonged to it, but you don't. I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you."

."Do you remember what I told you? 'A servant is not greater than the master.' Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you! The people of the world will hate you because you belong to me... They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin. Anyone who hates me hates my Father, too. 

 If I hadn't done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be counted guilty. But as it is, they saw all that I did and yet hated both of us -- me and my Father.  This has fulfilled what the Scriptures said: 'They hated me without cause.'  "But I will send you the Counselor -- the Spirit of truth."

John 16

"I have told you these things so that you won't fall away....

...it is actually best for you that I go away, because if I don't, the Counselor won't come. If I do go away, he will come because I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convince the world of its sin, and of God's righteousness, and of the coming judgment. 

The world's sin is unbelief in me. 

 Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more. Judgment will come because the prince of this world has already been judged.

 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world."

John 17

..."During my time here, I have kept them safe. I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold. And now I am coming to you. I have told them many things while I was with them so they would be filled with my joy. 

 I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not.  I'm not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. They are not part of this world any more than I am. Make them pure and holy by teaching them your words of truth. 

As you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world.  And I give myself entirely to you so they also might be entirely yours."

"I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me because of their testimony. My prayer for all of them is that they will be one, just as you and I are one, Father -- that just as you are in me and I am in you, so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me. 

"I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are -- I in them and you in me, all being perfected into one. 

Then the world will know that you sent me and will understand that you love them as much as you love me. Father, I want these whom you've given me to be with me, so they can see my glory. You gave me the glory because you loved me even before the world began! 

"O righteous Father, the world doesn't know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me." 

"And I have revealed you to them and will keep on revealing you. I will do this so that your love for me may be in them and I in them." 

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hearing and doing revisited

The doctrine of doing is very much a part of the church.  The video here by Joseph Prince speaks the truth that makes sense with The Gospel message. It is Finished---Jesus.
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