June 2022 "Dearly Beloved" Articles
Dearly Beloved 06/30/22 "We Have It All"
We Have It All
Dearly beloved of God, when we confessed Jesus as Lord and believed that God raised him from the dead we were saved. We became the children of God by the spirit of sonship that was born within us in the new birth. It is incorruptible seed.
We are saved, redeemed, justified, forgiven, and we will be glorified with Christ at his return. God our Father blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm. It is all of them in all of us.
Dearly beloved, we have peace with God, and we have access to Him as our Father by the new birth spirit.
The Father delivered us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son. Nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.
It is Christ in you, the hope of glory. We are complete in Christ who is the head of all principality and power, and the Father freely gives us all things with him.
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Dearly Beloved 06/28/22 "Your Labor is Not in Vain"
Your Labor is Not in Vain
Dearly beloved of God, our hope in Christ is the reason we labor in the Lord. If we only have hope in this life then let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die; we are of all men most pitiable. But beloved, it is not in vain.
I Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God who gives us the victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
When the Lord Jesus Christ returns to gather us together unto him, we will obtain that victory. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in glory.
I Thessalonians 4:13-18
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him [from the dead.]
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent [precede] them which are asleep.
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Dearly Beloved 06/26/22 "Contact with God"
Contact with God
Dearly beloved of God, people try many things in an effort to make contact with God. For many theirs is a quest of trial and error.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a proven way to make contact with the One True and Living God? There is; God revealed it in His Word.
Romans 10:9
That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
God sent His Son to save us. When we confess him as Lord, and believe that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. The Lord Jesus did everything necessary to accomplish salvation, and God freely gives it to us by His love, mercy, and grace.
The moment we make this confession we are saved, we receive the spirit from God, and we become a child of God. God no longer considers us to be in the flesh. We are now born again of the spirit from God.
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Dearly Beloved 06/24/22 "It Is Quite an Association"
It Is Quite an Association
Dearly beloved of God, all that we are, and all we will ever be is in Christ, and because of his accomplishments. God freely gives us all things with His Son.
Romans 8:29, 30, and 32
29 For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified and whom He justified, them He also glorified.
32 He that spared not His own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall He not with him also freely give us all things.
God will freely give us all things with His Son. Thank God for His great grace to us in Christ Jesus.
II Corinthians 5:17 and 18
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature [creation]: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things [all of the new things] are of God, Who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ….
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Dearly Beloved 06/22/22 "The Reason Why"
The Reason Why
Dearly beloved of God, God created this earth to make a home for His family, and He did it because of His great love for us.
Everything from the over one hundred thousand varieties in the vegetable kingdom to the vast expanse of the Milky Way exist because of you. You are the reason for the creation of the atom, to the power source of the sun.
You are the Heavenly Father’s dearly beloved. You are the reason for His creation. He designed every law and principle that governs its operation and continuance for man.
Everything that God did was very good. It was well-ordered in every facet. You are the reason for the existence of beauty, fragrance, order, and abundance.
Romans 1:18-20
Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
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Dearly Beloved 06/21/22 "Be Grounded in Reality"
Be Grounded in Reality
Dearly beloved of God, it is Christ in you, the hope of glory! Since Christ is in you, the old fleshly nature is dead because of sin, but the totality of the new nature is life because of God’s justness.
We have the reality of new spirit life in the new birth today, and we have the future reality of the redemption of the body to joyously anticipate on the Day of Redemption.
Beloved, you have the spirit from Him that raised Jesus from the dead dwelling in you, and He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also give life to your mortal body by His spirit that dwells in you.
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Dearly Beloved 06/16/22 "We Call Him Father"
We Call Him Father
Dearly beloved of God, we know a person or thing by its name. Whenever God names something He gives it a name that indicates its character or nature. God reveals Himself to us in the scriptures by His names so that we can know Him.
We are all called by various names. Each name speaks of a different relationship, or characteristic pertaining to that relationship. The same is true of the names of God.
Psalms 9:10
And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
We can put our trust in the LORD because we know His name. The figure of speech, Metonymy, is used here, where to know is put for the effect of knowing.
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Dearly Beloved 06/14/22 "A Living Reality"
A Living Reality
Dearly beloved of God, our Father wants us to know the hope of His calling, and the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He wrought in Christ when He raised him from the dead.
Every time I open the book of Ephesians I am overwhelmed. It is not only the astounding amount of blessings that God blessed us with in Christ that stand out, but His heart in blessing us is open for all to see. It was the good pleasure of His will to do all of it for us in Christ. He did all of it because of His great love, and mercy, and grace, and kindness toward us in Christ.
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Dearly Beloved 06/11/22 "Pentecost"
Pentecost
Dearly beloved of God, the Feast of Pentecost following Jesus Christ’s death, resurrection, ascension, and seating at God’s right hand was a new beginning in the relationship between God and man.
Jesus Christ sent the promise of the Father, which was the gift of holy spirit. This made it available for people to be born of the spirit from God, and to become a child of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir with Christ. It made it possible for people to enter into the kingdom of God, and to receive the remission of sins, and everlasting life.
Pentecost marked the beginning of the Administration of the Grace of God, the Administration of the Mystery. This administration will continue until God our Father sends His Son to gather together those for whom he gave his life to save.
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Dearly Beloved 06/06/22 "Time for a Reality Check"
Time for a Reality Check
Dearly beloved of God, where there is no knowledge of God the people wander aimlessly; they perish.
Everyone must have a reference for truth outside of themselves from which to learn regardless of their field of study.
As a child of God there is no other reference for learning we can embrace if we are to live a more abundant life other than God’s Word. He authored all of the information in His Word, the Bible, and He revealed it for our profit. We do not have to wander aimlessly through life if we will listen to Him.
It does not matter what the world may say; the course of this evil age is under the adversary’s authority. We cannot afford to conform to the ideas, maxims, and standards of this evil age. The adversary is the father of lies, and there is no truth in him. He is the deceiver that deceives the world.
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Dearly Beloved 06/01/22 "Live Love"
Live Love
Dearly beloved of God, Jesus Christ told his disciples to love one another as he loved them.
He did not say love your neighbor as thyself as the law said to do. He said that they were to love one another as he loved them. To do that requires one to have the spirit of God, and then to walk in that reality.
The Lord Jesus Christ loved them to the furthest extent. He demonstrated his love for them by laying down his life for his friends.
Jesus taught, “The servant is not greater than his lord: neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.” He said, “ I am among you as he that serves.” “If any man desire to be first of all, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.”
“Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.”