August 2021 "Dearly Beloved" Articles
Dearly Beloved 08/30/21 "Daily Living"
Daily Living
Dearly beloved of God, continue to look to God our Father to be your sufficiency in all things. You are His dearly beloved child, and He cares for you.
God our Father freely gave us all things with Christ; believe it. He blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
You have access to Him by the spirit of sonship you received when you were born again. Go to Him. Pray without ceasing; talk His ear off.
Study His Word, and renew your mind to the measure He has given us to believe; it will transform you.
Love one another as Christ loved us and gave himself for us.
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other as God forgave you in Christ.”
Walk in the newness of life you received in the new birth, which includes your sonship rights, your privileges as the sons of God, and the ability to operate the nine manifestations. Walk in the complete reality of the new birth, dearly beloved.
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Dearly Beloved 08/28/21 "What a Difference"
What a Difference
Dearly beloved of God, have you noticed any changes in your life since Jesus Christ gave you the introduction to God as your Father?
In Christ we have gone from being the children of wrath to being God’s dearly beloved children, and delivered from the wrath to come.
In Christ we have gone from being guilty before God to being justified, and there being no more condemnation to us; in fact we will never again come into condemnation.
We were once overpowered by fears but in Christ we can do all things through Christ. God promises to deliver us from the things that make us afraid.
We have gone from being far off to nigh by the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, we are God’s dwelling place by the spirit; we are His sanctuary in the Lord.
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Dearly Beloved 08/27/21 "What's the Big Deal?"
What’s the Big Deal?
Dearly beloved of God, had the adversary known what God had in mind concerning the mystery of God, which He kept secret since the world began, the adversary never would have crucified the Lord Jesus Christ. God did not make it known in other ages; it was hid in God, Who created all things.
What’s the big deal about the mystery of God concerning Christ? For starters, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in the mystery of God concerning Christ!
Under the old covenant, Gentiles were formerly called uncircumcision and were without Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise having no hope and being without God in the world.
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Dearly Beloved 08/26/21 "The Reality and the Experience"
The Reality and the Experience
Dearly beloved of God, our God is the God of peace, and He has gone to extreme lengths so we can enjoy His peace. The pressures and troubles of this life can be overwhelming at times, but through all of them we can have a peaceful life.
Peace is the Greek word “eirene,” which is peace, rest, the end of strife. The peace of God is not dependent on circumstances, it is an accomplished reality.
Each of the Church epistles begin with, “Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
There is peace between God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and us. There is no longer strife between us. God is not against us; He is for us. We are God’s beloved children, and beloved brethren of the Lord Jesus Christ; we are members of his body.
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Dearly Beloved 08/25/21 "Firm and Unalterable"
Firm and Unalterable
Dearly beloved of God, God our Father provided us with the foundation for our believing. He made Jesus Lord, and He raised him from the dead. What God accomplished in Christ Jesus is unalterable.
Believing is to have trust and confidence in information we receive from God. God sets the terms of what we are to believe – not us. The right way of believing comes by hearing, by hearing the Word of God. The foundation that God gave for our believing does not vary from one person or group to another. It is unalterable.
The Lord Jesus Christ and what he accomplished is the foundation God gave for our believing. We walk with God by believing what He says.
If we are to practically apply what Christ accomplished we must be transformed by the renewing of our minds, thinking soberly according to the measure God has given us to believe. He wants us to believe who we are in Christ.
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Dearly Beloved 08/24/21 "Urgent News"
Urgent News
Dearly beloved of God, I feel an urgent need to inform you of the latest news. Listen up! He that began a good work in you will continue to perform it until the day of Christ!
Fear not; God made you more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus our Lord, and nothing can separate us from him that loved us, so stand!
Be strong in the Lord and in his exerted strength for us; he is above every principality, power, might, and dominion: he is Lord of all in heaven and on the earth. Stand!
In Christ, God our Father blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm. It is all of them in all of us. We are completely filled in Christ; completely, completely, completely filled. We are not lacking one iota of Christ’s accomplishments, in fact, it is Christ in you, the hope of glory. You are not inadequate to face what the day holds.
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Dearly Beloved 08/22/21 "The Times of the Gentiles"
The Times of the Gentiles
Dearly beloved of God, what are the times of the Gentiles? Jesus Christ said, “They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” Luke 21:24
The times of the Gentiles describe the rule of the nations, the Gentiles over Jerusalem. When did the times of the Gentiles begin?
King Nebuchadnezzar was the king of Babylon when they took Israel into captivity. He had a dream, and Daniel told him the dream, and what it meant. The record is in Daniel 2.26-45.
In his dream the king saw an image whose head was of gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet of iron and part of clay. Then he saw a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were made of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. The wind carried away the broken pieces of the image, and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
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Dearly Beloved 08/21/21 "Which Day Concerns Us?"
Which Day Concerns Us?
Dearly beloved of God, the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Church, whose members make up the body of Christ, is our “hope of glory.” We know what will occur because we have “the word of the Lord” concerning it. We are to comfort one another with these words.
I Thessalonians 4:15-18, and I Corinthians 15:51-57 reveal the Lord Jesus Christ’s coming for the Church.
The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Church is called “the day of redemption” in Ephesians 4:30. It is called, “our gathering together unto him,” in II Thessalonians 2:1. It is called, “the day of Christ,” in Philippians 1:10, and 2:16. It is called, “the day of our Lord Jesus Christ,” in I Corinthians 1:8. I Corinthians 5:5 calls it, “the day of the Lord Jesus [Christ], as does II Corinthians 1:14.
Our hope in Christ is to partake of the glory of God, to acquire the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ as joint heirs with him; of salvation, of redemption, eternal life, new bodies like Christ’s glorious body, fulness of joy, rest, and much, much more.
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Dearly Beloved 08/20/21 "His Word Will Not Fail"
His Word Will Not Fail
Dearly beloved of God, not one word of God will fail; every last jot and tittle will be fulfilled as He has spoken.
In the synagogue in Nazareth the scroll was delivered to Jesus Christ and he read from the prophet Isaiah. After reading Isaiah 61:1, and 2a, he proclaimed, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” He stopped in the middle of the verse. He fulfilled “the acceptable year of the LORD” with his earthly ministry to Israel.
The Lord Jesus Christ will also fulfill the second half of the verse, “and the day of vengeance of our God….” That day will be fulfilled with his second coming to the earth.
Every last word of God’s Word will be fulfilled; you can stake your life on that. Every prophecy concerning Jesus Christ’s first coming was fulfilled, and every prophecy concerning his second coming will also be fulfilled.
The Lord Jesus Christ said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.” Matthew 24: 35. He said this concerning his second coming to the earth.
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Dearly Beloved 08/19/21 "We are Dearly Beloved Children"
We are Dearly Beloved Children
Dearly beloved of God, God our Father is with us and He is for us. His Will is only good concerning us. We are His dearly beloved and we are highly favored in His sight.
He freely gives us all things with His Son. He blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
In Christ and by his accomplishments we are justified, and when he returns to gather us up to him we will be glorified together with him. We will obtain the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ; we have been delivered from the wrath to come.
God our Father will never leave us, nor ever, ever forsake us. If we draw near to Him, He will draw near unto us. He will lead us by the spirit we received from Him when we were born again. He is our Father and we are His beloved children.
Behold what manner of love the Father has for us that we should be called the sons of God, and we are! The Father wants us to know that He loves us as He loves the Lord Jesus Christ. We are His dearly beloved and highly favored children.
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Dearly Beloved 08/18/21 "Delivered from the Wrath to Come"
Delivered from the Wrath of God
Dearly beloved of God, the Church epistles, the books of Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians all speak of the hope of our calling in Christ.
Part of our hope in Christ is that we will be delivered from the wrath of God that is coming upon the unjust in the Lord’s Day. Three times in the Church Epistles we are told that the Church has been delivered from the wrath to come.
I Thessalonians 1:10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
The Lord Jesus Christ delivered us from the wrath to come. The wrath of God will be part of the Day of the Lord, and that period of time will follow this administration of the grace of God, and the mystery concerning Christ.
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Dearly Beloved 8/16/21 "A Glorious Calling, Great Grace, Riches, and Treasures"
A Glorious Calling, Great Grace, Riches, and Treasures
Dearly beloved of God, rejoice; by His grace God called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus. We will inherit the glory of God. He called us to His kingdom and glory by the gospel of God concerning Christ. Beloved, He called us to acquire the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Who could have ever imagined such treasures as these? He blessed us in Christ with the exceeding riches of His grace.
God’s goodness to us far exceeds our wildest imagination. What He has purposed in Christ, no one can disannul. His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? No one, and nothing can stop Him from executing all that He purposed in Christ. He will do all the good pleasure of His Will.
God revealed what is in His heart concerning His children. He sent His Son so that we might be saved, and born again of His spirit.
In Christ and by his accomplishments we have an entrance into the kingdom of God by being born again of His spirit. This entrance is ours by the grace of God.
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Dearly Beloved 8/13/21 "Remember To Whom You Pray"
Remember To Whom You Pray
Dearly beloved of God, to whom do we pray and look to for our deliverance? We pray to the One True and Living God. He is able and willing to answer your prayers; He created the heavens and the earth by His mighty power, surely He is capable of answering your prayer.
The God to whom we pray is the Creator. He is El Shaddai, Who supplies, supports, and defends us. He is the LORD our God. This God is God our Father, and we are His children.
God became our Father when we were born again of the spirit from Him. He gave us the spirit of sonship, and He encourages us to walk in the complete reality of our sonship including the sonship rights, privileges, and ability with which it enables us.
Of course we can pray to Him; the prayer of the upright is His delight. When we seek Him, He hears us, and He delivers us from the things that make us afraid. His angels encamp around us. Are they not all attending spirits sent out to minister for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation at the coming of Christ?
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Dearly Beloved 8/12/21 "The God-given Proof"
The God-given Proof
Dearly beloved of God, God our Father desires true worship.
Jesus Christ said, “But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship Him. God is Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:23 and 24
To worship God one must have the spirit of God. As human beings we are born with a body and soul life, the life of the flesh, which is breath life.
“Verily, verily I say unto you, Except a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” Jesus said. John 3:3
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh: and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said you must be born again.” John 3:6 and 7
When we are born again we are born of the spirit from God.
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Dearly Beloved 8/10/21 "An Outline of Events Concerning the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ"
An Outline of Events Concerning the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ
First, the Lord Jesus Christ will come to gather together the Church up to meet him in the air.
“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive, and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
I Thessalonians 4:15-18. See I Corinthians 15:51-57, Philippians 3:20,21; I John 3:1-3.
After the Church is removed from the earth, the Day of the Lord will come in like a thief; unannounced. First Thessalonians 5:2. The Lord’s Day is the subject of the book of Revelation. See Revelation 1:10. There will be strong delusion.
After the Church of the Grace of God is removed from the earth, “the beginning of sorrows” of Matthew 24:4-8 will begin. False Christ’s will arise, there will be wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in many places: all these are the beginning of sorrows.
The record in Matthew runs parallel with the first four seals that are opened in Revelation 6. During this time a quarter of the world’s population will be killed.
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Dearly Beloved 8/9/21 "Searchers"
Searchers (Edited)
Dearly beloved of God, people are searching for answers, and they are looking in many different places because no one has taught them the Word of God.
We must never forget that God would have all men to be saved, and to come a knowledge of the truth [I Timothy 2:4.] His Word is the Word of Truth [I Thessalonians 2:13.] God’s Word makes known His Will, and if people want answers He is willing to give them to those who are searching for the truth.
When people do not know the Word of God they wander aimlessly through life grasping for answers.
Let’s compare two very different sources from which we can obtain spiritual information. The first source we will consider is the One True and Living God. He says:
II Peter 1:2, 3, and 4
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through [Through what?] the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.
According as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness [How?] through the knowledge of Him that has called us unto His glory and virtue;
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Dearly Beloved 8/7/21 "It Is a Glory Walk"
It Is a Glory Walk
Dearly beloved of God, our walk is a glory walk; let not your heart be troubled. Do not be disturbed by the events taking place in the world. Fear not; our God is with us, and He is for us. He will never leave us, nor will He ever, ever forsake us. Cast your cares upon Him because He cares for you.
He gives us peace that the world does not know, so don't be anxious; He gives us peace that passes understanding. Be at peace in your heart, Walk with Him, it's a glory walk.
God our Father called us by the gospel of God concerning His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. In Christ we are now fellow citizens in the heavenly realm, and members of the household of God. We are no longer of this world.
God called us unto His eternal glory, and He exhorts us to walk worthy of His kingdom and glory. He called us to acquire the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. As His children we should walk worthy of the calling with which we were called.
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Dearly Beloved 8/6/21 "Called Unto His Eternal Glory"
Called unto His Eternal Glory
Dearly beloved of God, what is the hope of His calling? What is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints? What is in God’s heart concerning our hope in Christ?
Ephesians 3:2-12 sets forth the Administration of the Mystery, which is also called the Administration of the Grace of God. Verse 6 reveals: “That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel.”
The mystery which was hidden from ages and generations has now been made manifest to His saints; to whom God made known the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory!
God will “…make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, who He has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. As He said in Osee [Hosea,] “I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ‘Ye are not My people;’ there shall they be called the children of the ling God.” Romans 9:23 - 26
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Dearly Beloved 8/5/21 "The Hope of His Calling"
The Hope of His Calling
Dearly beloved of God, what is the hope of His calling? What is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints? What is in God’s heart concerning our hope in Christ?
Ephesians 3:2-12 sets forth the Administration of the Mystery, which is also called the Administration of the Grace of God. Verse 6 reveals: “That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel.”
The mystery which was hidden from ages and generations has now been made manifest to His saints; to whom God made known the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory!
God will “…make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, who He has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. As He said in Osee [Hosea,] “I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ‘Ye are not My people;’ there shall they be called the children of the ling God.” Romans 9:23 - 26
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Dearly Beloved 8/4/21 "Do Not Be Deceived"
Do Not Be Deceived
Dearly beloved of God, the events taking place in the world today are not signs that the Day of the Lord is at hand. God chose us to salvation. We have been saved from the wrath to come in that day.
There will be two stages of the return of Christ. First, he will come for the Church, which is his body, and he will gather both the dead in Christ and the living ones together, and we will be caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
Christ’s coming for the Church is called the Day of Christ. The Day of Christ will be the last event in this current administration of the Grace of God, and the Mystery. This is our glorious hope. It is also called the Day of Redemption, and our gathering together up to meet him in the air.
The second part of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ will take place sometime after he has first come for the Church, how long afterwards the scriptures do not say. That coming is called the Day of the Lord, or Lord's Day. When he comes in the Day of the Lord he will come to the earth.
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Dearly Beloved 8/3/21 "This Changes Everything"
This Changes Everything
Dearly beloved of God, when the Lord Jesus Christ sent the promise of the Father it changed everything. For the first time it was available to be born again of the spirit from God, and gain entrance into the kingdom of God.
On the Feast of Pentecost following Jesus Christ’s resurrection out from among the dead, Jesus Christ shed forth the new birth spirit, and the twelve apostles spoke in tongues the wonderful works of God.
When asked what this meant, the apostle Peter began by quoting Joel 2:28-32. This was the beginning of the new covenant of the spirit, which was foretold in Jeremiah 31:27-34.
Hebrews 8: 8-12 speaks to this new covenant of the spirit, also. God became their God, and they became His people by the new birth of the spirit from God.
"And for this cause He [Jesus Christ] is the Mediator of the new testament [covenant], that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament [covenant]. they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." Hebrews 9:15
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Dearly Beloved 8/1/21 "We Are In An Information War"
We Are In An Information War
Dearly beloved of God, there is an information war going on around the world.
God has given us His Word in writing. The Word of God reveals the Will of God to us. The One True and Living God is faithful to His Word, and He is trustworthy. He means what He says, and He says what He means.
On the other hand, the so-called god of this world, our adversary, the devil is the father of lies; there is no truth in him. Everything that comes out of his mouth leads people away from the One True God. He is not trustworthy. He is the deceiver that deceives the whole world.
God, in His capacity as the Originator of information or instructions, communicates clearly, whether He does so by men of God, angels, or by whatever means He chooses.
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” I Corinthians 2:9