John 9 -- Enjoy!

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You Are Sent To Shine

“The night has long been on its way, and the day has arrived. Therefore, let us at once and once for all put off the works of the darkness, and let us at once and once for all clothe ourselves with the weapons of the light.”

“O the depth of the wealth and wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are His judgments, and how untraceable the paths He takes; for whoever knew the Lord’s mind? or who became His counsellor? or who has previously given to Him and it will be recompensed to him? Because out from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.” Romans 11

God is constantly rich: “For there is not a distinction between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord is over all, constantly rich toward all those who call upon Him. For whoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10

“For I have come through a process of persuasion to the settled conclusion that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things about to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8

“For as many as are being constantly led by God’s Spirit, these are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again with resulting fear, but you received the Spirit who places you as adult sons, by whom we cry out with deep emotion, Abba, [namely] Father. The Spirit himself is constantly bearing joint-testimony with our [human] spirit that we are God’s children, and since children, also heirs; on the one hand, heirs of God, on the other, joint-heirs with Christ, provided that we are suffering with Him in order that we also may be glorified together, for I have come to a reasoned conclusion that the sufferings of the present season are of no weight in comparison to the glory which is about to be revealed upon us.” Romans 8

Romans 5 “But God is constantly proving His own love to us, because while we were yet sinners, Christ in behalf of us died.”

Romans 4:11 “Spiritually prosperous are those whose lawlessnesses were put away and whose sins were covered. Spiritually prosperous is the man to whose account the Lord does not in any case put sin.” Amen! Thank you Jesus for covering my sin!

“for our reasoned conclusion is that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law” Romans 3

Here’s Romans 1:29–32 “They are filled with. . . - Unrighteousness - Sexual immorality - Wickedness - Covetousness (greed) - Maliciousness (desire to harm others) - Envy - Murder - Strife (quarreling, fighting) - Deceit - Evil-mindedness - Whisperers (gossips) - Backbiters (slanderers) - Haters of God - Violent - Proud - Boasters - Inventors of evil things - Disobedient to parents - Undiscerning (without understanding) - Untrustworthy (break promises) - Unloving (no natural affection) - Unforgiving - Unmerciful - They know God’s righteous judgment — that people who do these things deserve death — yet they not only keep doing them but also approve of and encourage others who do them.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting” Romans 1:28

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. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.

The opening paragraph of the greatest letter ever written: “1 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God 2 which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, 3 concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, 4 and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. 5 Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name, 6 among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ;” ROMANS

“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24

Going back to Christianity is the only way our society will survive.

“All have confessed that no government can be happily established unless piety is the first concern.” —John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1559”

“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young.” Deuteronomy 28

The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”  Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.