Endures The Cross
Yet our Lord Endures the Cross.
He Accepts It and Endures It.
And the Final Result?
He Reaches the End Triumphantly: Sat Down at the Right Hand of the Throne of God.
Wednesday April 24 2024
2 CORINTHIANS 3.18
and we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the LORD in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
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EPHESIANS 5:26
so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
JOHN 6.63
It is the Spirit that is giving life; the flesh does not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
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JOHN 15.2
every branch not bearing fruit in Me, He takes it away, and everyone bearing fruit, He cleanses by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
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MARK 10:51
And answering him, Jesus said, “What do you want Me to do for you?”
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1 PETER 2.21
for to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving to you an example, that you may follow His steps,
Self
It all rooted in that one word self.
Christ had Said Deny self
But he never understood and never obeyed,
And every failing came out of that.
By This Spirit
After a person Becomes a Christian he should Know Spiritual Things.
Yet why is it that many still do not know?
This is due to the fact that though they Possess a Regenerated Spirit, they are not necessarily Spiritual men.
Man needs not only to Possess This Spirit but needs Also to be Possessed By This Spirit.
It is Absolutely Necessary to Have The Spirit; there is no other way.
But Having the Spirit he Must Live Under Its Principle, Walk According To The Spirit, and Be a Spiritual Man;
Otherwise it is still of no avail.
Giver of Life Himself
But now, not only do I Have The Life;
I Have Also with me the Giver of Life Himself.
Faith in What He Has Done
As we put our faith in What He Has Done –
In God that Justifieth
And in Christ that Died –
We Present a Front Against which the very gates of Hades shall NOT prevail.
Comfort
The Father Loves us So, that With Him our Real and Abiding Profit is His First Object, but He does NOT forget to Comfort too.
When He Comforts it is that He may Turn the bleeding heart to Himself to Receive the Blessing in Fellowship with Him;
When He refuses Comfort, His Object is still the same.
Vague and Pointless
How much of our prayer is vague and pointless?
To all of us, the Lord Asks,
What is it you really want and expect me to do?