The first two articles explain the origin of "Dearly Beloved"
Dearly Beloved
Good morning beloved of God. God said that Jesus Christ was His beloved Son when John baptized him and the spirit descended and abode upon him; and God said it again on the mountain where he saw the vision of Moses and Elijah appearing to him in glory. This was his installation as Israel's permanent high priest.
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Dearly Beloved 11/28/24 Christ is All and in All
Christ is All, and in All
Dearly beloved of God, Christ is all and in you all. It is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Oh, what a revelation!
Galatians 2:20
I am [was] crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave himself for me.
This is newness of life, spirit life.
Romans 8:8-10
8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
10 And if Christ is in you, the body [the old nature] is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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Dearly Beloved 11/26/24 From Disappointing Misery to Peace
From Disappointing Misery to Peace
Dearly beloved of God, God has made known the way of peace to us. We have known the disappointing misery of life without God, but now we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now we know the way of peace.
Jesus Christ was delivered for our sins and was raised again for our justification. Therefore, being justified by believing in Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
We have peace with God, PEACE! We do not have peace with God because of our goodness, but because of the goodness of God toward us in Christ.
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Dearly Beloved 11/24/24 Stop Living in Denial
Stop Living in Denial
Dearly beloved of God, all that we are and all that we have as God’s children is in Christ. He is the head of the Church, which is his body the fulness of him, and we are filled with “all in all” of us.
What is true for any one member of the body of Christ, the Church, is true of every member of his body. It is all in all.
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly realm.
Every Christian has been blessed in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm. God our Father says so, so stop living in denial as though God did not bless us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
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Dearly Beloved 11/23/24 Will God Heal Me?
Will God Heal Me?
Dearly beloved of God, the will of God concerning our health and healing has not changed; it is the same today as it was in the beginning.
Everything God did when he created, formed, and made man was very good. There was no sickness or death in Adam until he sinned.
God made the body to heal itself. He put information in the DNA of the human body so that it repairs itself day after day. The body is stocked with antibodies to fight disease. He made the body to heal itself.
In Exodus 15:26 God told Israel, "...I am the LORD that heals thee." He is the LORD, and He does not change according to Malachai 3:6. God is able and willing to heal His people.
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Dearly Beloved 11/21/24 Live with Thanksgiving
Live with Thanksgiving
Dearly beloved of God, with Thanksgiving coming next week, I made a list of some of the things I am thankful for, and I thought that they would be things that you are thankful for, also.
Being thankful doesn’t just happen spontaneously, we must decide to be thankful. God instructs us to be thankful, so we ought to choose to cultivate this attitude.
We can be thankful that:
We have been reconciled to God by Jesus Christ.
We are saved by the grace of God.
We are heirs of salvation, and that we have the hope of salvation.
We have redemption, the remission of sins.
We are justified, and there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, and we will never again come unto condemnation.
We are washed, sanctified, and justified.
God made Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for us so that we might be the righteousness of God in him.
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Dearly Beloved 11/18/24 Who Has the Answers?
Who Has the Answers?
Dearly beloved of God, we know the will of God by knowing the Word of God. You will never have to back up from the truth that God reveals in His Word. God said precisely what He meant, and He meant what He said. His Word is trustworthy and reliable.
God has the answers to all the questions we may encounter in life. Let me give you a few examples.
What is the will of God concerning salvation? I Timothy 2:4
How does a person get saved? Romans 10:9; Romans 6: 23
Is Salvation by our works or by God’s grace to us in Christ Jesus? Ephesians 1:7; 2:4-9; Romans 5:1, 2 and 21
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Dearly Beloved 11/16/24 Identified With Him
Identified With Him
Dearly beloved of God, when Jesus Christ was crucified and died, all those who believe on him died to the sin of Adam and the condemnation of death it brought upon mankind.
God our Father determined for all His children to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. The Father freely gives us all things Christ. This was the Father's idea, not man's.
We were crucified with Christ, and we were buried with him. When God raised him from the dead, we were raised with him. When he ascended and was seated at God’s right hand, we arose with him, and God made us to sit in the heavenly realm in Christ. When Christ returns to gather us together, we will be glorified with him; we will obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Dearly Beloved 11/15/24 We Live in Such a Time
We Live in Such a Time
Dearly beloved of God, the mystery of God concerning Christ was revealed to the Apostle Paul in the first century Church.
The book of Acts gives us the history surrounding the great mystery revealed.
Acts 1 and 2 took place in 28 A.D. The Feast of Pentecost that year occurred June 20.
Acts 12:21-23 gives us another historical reference for time in the book of Acts, which concerns the death of Herod Agrippa I. The historian Josephus, along with other historians, fix the date of his death in 44 A.D.
From these two reference points between 28 A.D. and 44 A.D. we can determine when the events of Acts 1-12 took place. These are some of the significant events that took place during that time span.
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Dearly Beloved 11/14/24 The Key to Our Success
The Key to Our Success
Dearly beloved of God, God our Father is an adept and reliable communicator. The Word of God reveals the Will of God.
The problem Christians have today is not that God does not communicate with us, but that they do not believe the information that He gives for our believing.
The key to our success in walking with God is believing His Word.
II Timothy 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
How much of the Scripture did God communicate? He communicated all of it and all of it is profitable.
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Dearly Beloved 11/13/24 Citizens of Heaven
Citizens of Heaven
Dearly beloved of God, all Christians are now citizens in the heavenly realm having all the rights and privileges that go with it.
We are no longer strangers and foreigners, we are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.
We were made alive together with Christ, raised up together, and made to sit together in the heavenly realm in Christ Jesus so that in the ages to come God our Father might display the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us through Christ Jesus!
We were made to sit together in the heavenly realm in Christ Jesus. We sit there as citizens.
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Dearly Beloved 11/12/24 All Means All
All Means All
Dearly beloved of God, of all people who have ever lived we are among the most privileged. We are so privileged to live in the Administration of the Grace of God, the Administration of the Mystery of God concerning Christ. All things are ours in Christ. All means all.
Jesus Christ accomplished all that His Father sent him to accomplish. It is finished, done, and we now have all the benefits of his work as accomplished realities, and there is even more to come! It is all and in all.
We are truly dearly beloved by God the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we are highly favored in His sight. Jesus Christ’s Father is now God our Father. What a fantastic privilege we have to call Him Father.
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him; but God has revealed them unto us by His spirit.
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Dearly Beloved 11/10/24 Live in That New Reality
Live in That New Reality
Dearly beloved of God, “With Christ I have been crucified and I live no longer, but living in me is Christ. So what I now live in the flesh I live by believing concerning the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 WTJ
This is now the reality for everyone that confesses with their mouth the Lord Jesus and believes in their heart that God raised him from the dead.
Consider yourself to be dead to the death dealing sin of Adam and alive to God in Christ Jesus by the new birth spirit. Live as a dead man raised to life and walk in that newness of life.
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Dearly Beloved 11/09/24 I Can't Wait
I Can’t Wait
Dearly beloved of God, the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. Be strong in the Lord and the strength of his ability.
The Lord Jesus Christ will prevail because his ability came from his Father’s ability, from the exceeding greatness of His power.
That power is according to the working of the strength of His Father’s ability, which He energized in the Christ when he raised him from the dead and caused him to sit at His right hand in the heavenly realm far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.
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Dearly Beloved 11/08/24 What an Election!
What an Election!
Dearly beloved of God, we won! The election is ours! We are the elect of God!
Romans 8:33
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifies.
God chose us out of those of the world. He chose those who were previously dead in sin and without God in the world, having no hope.
God selected us in Christ to be His children, His people, because we confessed the Lord Jesus and believed that God raised him from the dead.
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Dearly Beloved 11/05/24 Just a Few Words
Just a Few Words
Dearly beloved of God, boy oh boy, God can sure say a lot in just a few words.
Ephesians 3:3
How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
The “few words” that he wrote afore are recorded in the first two chapters of Ephesians.
To get the true impact of these “few words” you must remember that Ephesians was written to those of a Gentile background.
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Dearly Beloved 11/04/24 Christ in You, the Hope of Glory
Christ in You, the Hope of Glory
Dearly beloved of God, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in the mystery of God concerning Christ.
Ephesians 3:9
And to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, Who created all things by Jesus Christ.
The word “fellowship” in the Greek is “oikonomia.” “Oikonomia” is an “administration.” The Aramaic texts agree that the word used here is administration.
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