October 2020 "Dearly Beloved" Articles
Dearly Beloved 10/29/20 "Who, What, When, and Where"
Who, What, When, and Where
Dearly beloved of God, the Lord Jesus Christ and what he accomplished for us in his death and resurrection is the only hope for mankind.
The answers we so desperately need are found in the gospel of God concerning God’s Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jesus Christ was marked out by God, the Spirit who is Holiness, by his resurrection from the dead as the Lord and Savior.
God made the same Jesus that the Judeans crucified, both Lord and Christ. God exalted Jesus in the resurrection from the dead, and forty days later he ascended into heaven, and God seated him at His right side in the heavenly realm.
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Dearly Beloved 10/27/20 "Love as I Have Loved You"
Love as I Have Loved You
Dearly beloved of God, under the law given to Moses for Israel the first and great commandment was, “Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind,” and the second was like it, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Jesus Christ gave his disciples a new standard of love. He said, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” John 13:34
This love exceeds the love that natural men have for one another. Jesus Christ loved people with the love of God.
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Dearly Beloved 10/26/20 "Equality of Membership"
Equality of Membership
Dearly beloved of God, there has never been a group as diverse as the body of Christ, the Church, who equally share the riches we have in him.
Anyone who confesses Jesus as Lord and believes that God raised him from the dead is born again of God’s spirit, and has entered the kingdom of God as a child of God, and is a member of the body of Christ, the Church.
In this group of God’s saints it does not matter whether a person was from the nation of Israel, or from one of the other nations. It makes no difference whether a person is a male or female, or whether one is bond or free, young or old, or black, brown, yellow, or white.
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Dearly Beloved 10/23/20 "Fullness of Joy Forevermore"
Fullness of Joy Forevermore
Dearly beloved of God, God truly does love us; it’s true. We can love Him because He first loved us.
Jesus Christ accomplished the good pleasure of His Father’s will concerning us. Everything he accomplished was the Father’s will, His idea, His plan, and the purpose of the ages that He purposed in Christ.
God made it available for anyone to be a child in His household by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ and his resurrection from the dead. In Christ we have a sonship relationship with God as our Father, and He wants to have fellowship with us.
Sonship is by birth; fellowship is the walk of a son with the Father.
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Dearly Beloved 10/22/20 "It's a Choice"
It’s a Choice
Dearly beloved of God, fear not! Did you hear what God says? Fear not! Fear will not deliver you, it will torment you. Only believing what God says will deliver you. Fear not!
God’s children do not have to fear the things the world fears. We walk by believing the revelation that God gives us to walk on, and we do it with believing confidence because God is the power behind the words we believe.
Our God is able and willing to bring His Word to pass in our lives: fear not! Fear is the opposite of having trust and confidence in God and His faithfulness to deliver us: fear not!
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Dearly Beloved 10/21/20 "Certain in the Midst of Uncertainty"
Certain in the Midst of Uncertainty
Dearly beloved of God, only the Word of God reveals the answers we so desperately need to live a more abundant life, and to have certainty in the midst of the turbulent times in which we live.
Science is not the end all. Its discoveries are indeed wonderful, but the scientific method employs learning through trial and error. Theories are not proven truth; they are assumptions based on thinking that comes out of the mind of man. Only laws are proven realities.
Revelation knowledge from God is truth; there is no trial and error to it. The Word of God reveals the Will of God. The only trial and error comes from wrongly dividing God’s Word, and from unbelief from those who hear it.
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Dearly Beloved 10/20/20 "The Realm of Impossible Possibilities"
The Realm of Impossible Possibilities
Dearly beloved of God, God sent His Son to do what we could not do for ourselves. He saves that which was lost, makes whole that which was broken, forgives the undeserving, heals the incurable; He is our Delivering God, and His realm is the realm of impossible possibilities.
The moment we confess Jesus as Lord and believe that God raised His Son from the dead we become a child of God by being born again of His spirit. We don’t have to wait until we die to find out if we are saved; we are saved from that moment forever.
As children of God we have possibilities available to us of which the world cannot conceive. What is the key to living victoriously in the realm of what the worldly would call impossible?
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Dearly Beloved 10/19/20 "Uncertain No More"
Uncertain No More
Dearly beloved of God, our times may be uncertain, but we can be absolutely certain of the outcome God has promised us in Christ.
God will send His Son to gather us up to him in the air and deliver us from this evil age, and even from death itself. God our Father has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son.
We may live on this earth, but we are not of it, dearly beloved. Our citizenship is in the heavenly realm; that is our true home where God has prepared for us a true home.
If you are looking for utopia here, you will be disappointed in your expectations. While the adversary promises mankind liberty, he only makes them the slaves of corruption, for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into bondage. He enslaves people as they pursue his lying promises.
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Dearly Beloved 10/18/20 "In His Eyes You Are Everything"
In His Eyes You Are Everything
Dearly beloved of God, God our Father loves you with a great love. His love for us is beyond our comprehension. Why else would He give His only beloved Son for us? Think of how valuable that makes you in His sight.
We find value in our lives because of how valuable we are in our Father’s eyes; consider the price He paid for you.
We learn to love ourselves because of His great love for us. We love Him because He first loved us. We learn to love others by imitating His love for us.
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Dearly Beloved 10/16/20 "Peace that the World Does Not Know"
Peace that the World Does Not Know
Dearly beloved of God, fear not, God our Father is with us, and He will never, never leave us, or ever, ever forsake us. You are not alone.
We are the children of God; that should calm your heart and give you peace. In Christ we have peace that the world does not have. We have peace with God. We have peace on the inside regardless of the confusion and trouble in the world. We have peace because we know our end; eternal life having the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
When you feel overwhelmed speak in tongues and He will calm your heart and mind. He will refresh our souls by His spirit. His spirit witnesses to our inner being that we are His children, His heirs, and joint heirs with Christ.
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Dearly Beloved 10/16/20 "God is Our Sufficiency"
God is Our Sufficiency
Dearly beloved of God, we are not sufficient of ourselves to think that anything is of ourselves; our sufficiency is of God.
This is the Almighty God speaking to His people, and He is not a man that He should lie. He says He is our sufficiency, and He means what He says!
In Christ, God our Father made us sufficient to be His children, His heirs, joint heirs with Christ, and we will obtain the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Christ and by his work we are sufficient for eternal life; if fact He sealed us for it with His spirit.
Not even sin and death reign over us any longer. God gave us the victory over them in Christ. If death should overtake us, it is not forever. Christ will raise the dead in Christ when he comes, and he will raise us with glorious bodies like his glorious body by the power that he is able to subdue all things to himself.
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Dearly Beloved 10/15/20 "An Endless Supply"
An Endless Supply
Dearly beloved of God, there is nothing that God our Father will not do for us.
At times we get ourselves in trouble comparing ourselves by ourselves, instead of comparing ourselves with the revelation truth of God’s Word. He tells us what is possible when we look to Him, and trust that He is faithful to perform what He has promised.
Don’t put constraints on God; He is the Unlimited One. He is the Lord God Almighty. He is more than willing to do what He has promised; in fact, it is the good pleasure of His will to perform what He has promised.
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Dearly Beloved 10/14/20 "The Lord Prophesied that It Was Coming"
The Lord Prophesied that It Was Coming
Dearly beloved of God, throughout Jesus Christ’s one-year long ministry he taught truths to prepare the Judeans for the coming of the kingdom of God.
John came baptizing with water to make Jesus manifest to Israel. He said, “…He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, ‘Upon whom thou shalt see the spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with the holy spirit.’ And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.” John 1:33 and 34
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Dearly Beloved 10/13/20 "Enjoy the Ride"
Enjoy the Ride
Dearly beloved of God, God the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Father, blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm in Christ; yes, every single one of them.
We are completely, completely, completely complete in Christ. God our Father freely gives us all things with His Son; all things that he has accomplished, and all things that he will yet accomplish when he returns to call us on high until all the good pleasure of the Father’s will has been accomplished.
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Dearly Beloved 10/7/20 "Our God is For Us"
Our God is For Us
Dearly beloved by God our Father, we are one day closer to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, the day we will be received up in glory with him. Thank God! Live today as though it is your last; it may be.
Until the day we are delivered from this evil age we will have to deal with the adversary, but fear not dearly beloved, he that is in us is greater than he that is in the world!
We are born again of God’s spirit, and it was His idea and will to enable us to manifest it for godly profit. He declares it in His Word, and we know His Will by His Word. Faith comes by hearing, by hearing the Word of God.
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Dearly Beloved 10/6/20 "For Starters"
For Starters
Dearly beloved of God, start today by being thankful and remembering what God has done for us in Christ. For starters….
God sent His Son to die for you and He raised him from the dead so you might be saved. God redeemed you in Christ by his accomplishments.
You are justified, and delivered from the reign of sin and death. There is no more condemnation to those who are in Christ. In Christ you reign in life.
God forgave you in Christ by His loving kindness and tender mercies. He forgave you by the riches of His grace which He has abounded to you.
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Dearly Beloved 10/5/20 "The Only Hope of Salvation"
The Only Hope of Salvation
Dearly beloved of the Lord, what is our hope of salvation? The Lord Jesus Christ is the only hope of salvation.
There is no hope of salvation without him, only the reign of sin and death. With him, the grace of God reigns through His justice unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
What do we have that we did not receive? We have nothing without him, and the Father freely gives us all things with His beloved Son.
Adam brought us under the reign of sin and death. In him, mankind was sentenced to the condemnation of sin, which is death.
Adam lost the image of God that God created him in (spirit life) the very day he sinned, and his body and soul life died when he was 930 years old. Death has reigned over man ever since.
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Dearly Beloved 10/4/20 "Our Times in a Nutshell"
Our Times in a Nutshell
Dearly beloved of God, the book of Romans sums up our times. Without God life is hopeless; with God we are full of hope.
Every human being is born with a body and soul life. He is of the flesh; a natural man. No good thing dwells in the flesh. Romans 1:18-3:20 pretty well sums it up.
The natural man has a carnal mind, and this way of thinking is enmity against God; it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. To be carnally minded is death. The carnal mind is unsound.
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Dearly Beloved 10/3/20 "Stand Fast in the Lord"
Stand Fast in the Lord
Dearly beloved of God, Samson slew a thousand of his enemies with the jawbone of an ass, but the Lord Jesus Christ will defeat every enemy in heaven and on the earth. He will destroy the beast, and the false prophet, along with the kings that follow him, and their armies with the word that goes out of his mouth. He will subdue every enemy!
The book of Revelation calls Jesus Christ “the King of kings and the Lord of lords,” and his name is called, “The Word of God.” Why? Because God His Father gave him the power to fulfill every Word that He has spoken to accomplish all of His Will. Jesus came to do the will of God, and that he shall until every enemy is subjugated under his feet.
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Dearly Beloved 10/2/20 "Living Acts"
Living Acts
Dearly beloved of God, rejoice, the Word of God is true and faithful; it does not need to be fact checked like the daily bad news, only rightly divided so we have the word of truth. Everything God says shall come to pass as He has said.
Don’t be disturbed by the world. We are not of this evil age; we are children of God who have entered the kingdom of God. We are citizens of the heavenly realm, and of the household of God. Eagerly look for the Lord Jesus Christ to return and gather us together up to him into his heavenly kingdom.
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Dearly Beloved 10/1/20 "Religion Versus Christianity"
Religion Versus Christianity
Dearly beloved of God, religion like politics, is rife with fraud and hypocrisy. Religion revolves around man; Christianity revolves around Jesus Christ and what he accomplished.
Religion is the work of the flesh. It is the perversion of truth. It revolves around the works of the flesh in order to stand before God. The only thing that differs among the various religions of the world is the work they require to stand before God.
Religion works on the outside of man, the flesh, not within a man’s heart. It is about being conformed to this evil age, and it concerns the flesh, and the ideas, doctrines, philosophies, and traditions of this world. It comes out of the mind of man, not from God’s heart.