November 2023 "Dearly Beloved" Articles
Dearly Beloved 11/29/23 Blessed Now and Forevermore
Blessed Now and Forevermore
Dearly beloved of God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm. He says so in His Word. It was the good pleasure of His will to do so.
God is for us, dearly beloved. In everything He works for good with those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. It is His goodness that leads us to a change of heart.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ is now God our Father. Now we are fellowcitizens with the holy ones, and members of the household of God!
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Dearly Beloved 11/27/23 The Father's Grace and Glory
The Father’s Grace and Glory
Dearly beloved of God, God called us to His kingdom and glory. We were all dead in sin, and we came short of the glory of God, but because of Jesus Christ’s accomplishments we can now rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Who could have ever imagined the grace that God has shown us in Christ?
We entered the kingdom of God when we were born again of the spirit from God. We will physically enter the kingdom when God sends His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to gather us up to meet him in the air.
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Dearly Beloved 11/24/23 A Life of Thanksgiving
A Life of Thanksgiving
Dearly beloved of God, we have so much to be thankful for that God has done for us in Christ.
God so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son for us so that we could be saved.
Since we confessed Jesus as Lord and believed that God raised him from the dead, God saved us by His grace, His rich mercy, and His great love for us.
Now we are born again of the spirit from God and we have entered the kingdom of God. When Christ returns for us we will physically enter it.
We have the spirit of sonship which makes us the children of God.
God, our Father, blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm. He freely gives us all things with His Son.
God now sees us “in Christ.” We stand before Him "in Christ," and we share in his accomplishments for our redemption and salvation.
Beloved, now we are the children of God!
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Dearly Beloved 11/19/23 What Would God Have Us Do?
What Would God Have Us Do?
Dearly beloved of God, since God’s love has been poured out to us by means of the gift of holy spirit which has been given unto us, how should we respond to such great love?
As children of God, we should live to do the good pleasure of our Father’s will. “Be transfigured by the renewing of the mind so that you may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and mature will of God.”
God wants us to love without hypocrisy. We are to live as the sons of God we are, not just play the part of a Christian at a meeting, and then go live as we did before we were saved.
We don’t go to church to make business contacts, or to be socially acceptable; we go to worship God, and grow spiritually by receiving God’s Word, and love one another.
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Dearly Beloved 11/16/23 It Is Quite a List
It Is Quite a List
Dearly beloved of God, how great is God’s great love wherewith He loved us? Jesus Christ said that God loves us as He loved him. See John 17:23.
Jesus Christ always did his Father’s will. It is easy to understand that God loved His Son, but God showed us His great love while we were ungodly, we were dead in sin, and enemies of God.
In spite of this, God loves us as He loved Jesus Christ. That is great love indeed.
What does God do for those who love Him?
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Dearly Beloved 11/14/23 Overcoming Discouragement
Overcoming Discouragement
Dearly beloved of God, it is Christ in you, the hope of glory! The acknowledgement of our hope in Christ will keep us from being discouraged and defeated as we walk with God.
The Father revealed the revelation knowledge of the hope of His calling, and the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.
The acknowledgement of our hope in Christ enables us to press toward the mark for the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him out from among the dead, you will be saved.
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Dearly Beloved 11/13/23 The Love Way
The Love Way
Dearly beloved of God, a child of God that walks in the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation is truly free.
What others do to you, or say about you will control you until you decide to walk in the love of God. When you walk in the love of God no one can control you.
The love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation in our lives makes us free indeed. It’s what makes our fellowship with the Father alive, real, sweet, and fills us with joy.
We are partakers of the divine nature. We should be imitators of God as beloved children and walk in love as the Lord Jesus Christ loved us. It is available.
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Dearly Beloved 11/12/23 You Are Righteous Now
You Are Righteous Now
Dearly beloved of God, thousands, maybe even millions of Christians live in condemnation thinking that they are just not good enough. News flash; you are not, but in Christ, and by his accomplishments God justified you by His great grace and mercy.
There is no reason to be sin-conscious because God justified you by Jesus Christ’s accomplishments, and He forgave you “according to the riches of His grace which He abounded toward you.” [See Ephesians 1:7 and 8]
God wants every Christian to know these truths; in fact, He wants all people to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
God has not held out on us, but many Christians are ignorant of the good pleasure of His will because no one has taught them the Word of God.
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Dearly Beloved 11/11/23 A Day of Thanksgiving
A Day of Thanksgiving
Dearly beloved of God, as the song goes, “All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray…” The fall has been glorious, and Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away.
Who knows, the Lord could come and gather us up to meet him in the air before then. Oh what a Thanksgiving that would be!
We have so much for which to be thankful. My list of thanksgivings has changed quite a bit over the years. It has changed from a list of physical, earthly blessings to those of my sonship as a child of God, and the inheritance that is laid up for us in the heavenly realm.
Just think, for starters, we will inherit glorious new bodies like Christ’s glorious body that dies no more. If death overcomes us before the Lord Jesus Christ returns, in the twinkling of an eye he will raise our corruptible bodies to be incorruptible.
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Dearly Beloved 11/07/23 Good Hope in Grace
Good Hope in Grace
Dearly beloved of God, God’s Word is sure and stedfast. What God has said will be, will be, and nothing can stop Him from performing it.
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, Who loves us and gives us eternal encouragement and good hope in grace, encourage and strengthen your hearts with every good work and word.
Beloved brethren, we have good hope in grace. Thank God that He showed us His divine favor by making Himself known to us through His Word. He revealed salvation to us, and the knowledge of the truth.
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Dearly Beloved 11/04/23 How Great is Great?
How Great is Great?
Dearly beloved of God, “God, Who is rich in mercy, for His great love, with which He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved), and He raised us up together and caused us to sit together in the heavenly realm in Christ Jesus so that in the coming ages He might display the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:4-7 WTJ
How great is “His great love” for us? When God uses words, He uses them with precision.
Psalm 12:6
The words of the LORD are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, Purified seven times.
You cannot purify silver any more than that. God uses pure words. He uses words to present His point of view.
What is “great” from God’s point of view? It is certainly greater than anything we could imagine.
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Dearly Beloved 11/03/23 God Determined, Planned, and Accomplished His Purpose in Christ
God Determined, Planned, and Accomplished His Purpose in Christ
Dearly beloved of God, God’s order in the first heaven and earth was overthrown and it became without form and void, and there was darkness upon the face of the deep.
God then created and made the second heaven and earth.
In the second heaven and earth, God made Adam His under ruler over the works of His hands until he chose to disobey God’s commandment.
When Adam disobeyed God’s commandment, the order that God had determined previously was once again overturned.
Adam lost the spirit life form that God created in him. He died that very day. God could no longer work with Adam as He had previously on the basis of Spirit to spirit.
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Dearly Beloved 11/02/23 The Three Heavens and Three Earths
The Three Heavens and Three Earths
Dearly beloved of God, II Peter informs us that there are three heavens and earths.
II Peter3:4-6
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
The word “perished” means destroyed. The former world was irretrievably destroyed.
Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
God did not create the earth in vain. The Hebrew word for “vain” is tohu, which means without form. God created it to be inhabited. Since God did not create it that way it must have become without form.