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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.

Dearly Beloved

If you are new to this page, you may wonder why I constantly address the readers as “dearly beloved”.

Most Recent "Dearly Beloved" Articles

Dearly Beloved 04/21/26 I Think, But He Said

I Think, But He Said

Dearly beloved of God, every Christian should read the Bible, which is the Word of God, but not every Christian knows how the Word of God interprets itself.

Some Christians do not understand how God’s Word interprets itself.

Truth cannot contradict itself. The Word of God says what it means and it means what it says. If we are to have truth, every scripture regarding the identical subject must agree without contradiction.

The first thing we must be willing to do is to give up our preconceived ideas, that is, the ideas we hold to be true before we hear what God reveals on the subject.

Dearly Beloved 04/20/26 Whose Mail Is That?

Whose Mail Is That?

Dearly beloved of God, if we are to understand the Word of God and God’s Will for Christians today, we must understand this truth.

We must understand to whom and of whom a Scripture concerns.

I Corinthians 10:32

Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

The Old Testament predominately concerns the Judeans and the Gentiles. The Old Testament covers the time of Genesis 1 unto Acts 2:1.

Dearly Beloved 04/19/26 Ding, Dong, Ding, the Church Bells Ring

Ding, Dong, Ding, the Church Bells Ring

Dearly beloved of God, today is go to church day for many Christians. I hope they are taught the Scriptures because God gave us His Word so that we can know what to believe concerning spiritual matters.

Those who confess Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, will be saved. That makes a person a Christian; a Christ-in-you person. in Christ, we have everlasting life by the grace of God.

If someone is in the flesh, which is the old nature; they cannot please God. But good news! From God’s point of view, we are not in the flesh, but in the spirit since the spirit from God dwells in us.

Dearly Beloved 04/17/26 The Stone and the Keys

The Stone and the Keys

Dearly beloved of God, at the Feast of Pentecost, Peter stood up and explained to the Judeans present what had just occurred.

Let’s back up to learn what the Lord Jesus Christ told Peter that he would give him, which enabled him to do what he did on Pentecost.

Dearly Beloved 04/14/26 Some Very Important Questions

Some Very Important Questions

Dearly beloved of God, who can be saved today, what is the hope of salvation, what is this administration called, and when will it end?

Who can be saved today?

Romans 10: 9 NKJV

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.

Salvation is not about confessing Jesus, it is dependent on confessing the Lord Jesus.

Dearly Beloved 04/13/26 Comfort One Another with These Words

Comfort One Another with These Words

Dearly beloved of God, since we know that the Church epistles are addressed to the Church of God and they address what is ours in Christ because of his accomplishments, let's consider our hope in Christ.

II Thessalonians 2:13, 14 NKJV

13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,

14 to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Dearly Beloved 04/12/26 Is This the Right Address?

Is This the Right Address?

Dearly beloved of God, if we are to understand the revelation from God, we must first learn to whom a section of scripture is addressed, and who it concerns.

God sent Jesus Christ to Israel.

Matthew 10:5,6

5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Dearly Beloved 04/11/26 Walking with Our Father

Walking With Our Father

Dearly beloved of God, we have been begotten from above, or born again of the spirit from God. Now we are the sons of God.

In the new birth, we receive sonship rights and privileges as sons of God, and the spirit of sonship provides us with spiritual ability.

Romans 3:24

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Every son of God is justified by the accomplishments of Jesus Christ our Lord. We have been freely justified by the grace of God through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Since we have been justified God has forgiven all our past sins.

Dearly Beloved 04/10/26 Sonship

Sonship

Dearly beloved of God, on the way home yesterday I was listening to an ask the pastor a question radio talk show.

Not one time did he answer the person’s question by telling them what God said concerning the subject in His Word. He answered the questions according to what he thought and what he felt.

Our thoughts and feelings are not the standard for truth, even if they are the thoughts and feelings of a clergyman.

The Word of God is the Christian’s only rule for what we are to believe concerning matters about which God speaks. The Word of God reveals God’s Will to us.

Dearly Beloved 04/09/26 Life in Christ Jesus

Life in Christ Jesus

Dearly beloved of God, we just celebrated Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, yet many Christians do not fully understand its significance.

John 10: 17, 18 ESV

17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.

God, Jesus Christ’s Father, gave His Son His Word that if he laid his life down of his own accord, he could take it again. These two verses inform us of the Word and Will of God.

Dearly Beloved 04/05/26 The Evening of the First Day of the Week

The Evening of the First Day of the Week

Dearly beloved of God, the two disciples that saw Jesus on the road to Emmaus “…rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon.” Luke 24:33, 34

Sometime after Peter's second visit to the tomb, the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to him, and he had reported it to the others.

Mark 16: 12

After that He appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.

Dearly Beloved 04/05/26 The First Fruit Offering

The First Fruit Offering

Dearly beloved of God, Jesus died as the Lamb of God to pay for the sin of Adam and the condemnation it brought upon mankind, and his resurrection from the dead by God was the crowning jewel concerning our redemption and salvation.

Romans 10:9

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

After Jesus gave his life as the Lamb of God, as our Passover Lamb, God raised him from the dead.

Dearly Beloved 04/02/26 Two Travelers on the Road to Emmaus

Two Travelers on the Road to Emmaus

Dearly beloved of God, after going to the sepulcher to give Jesus a proper burial, the women met angels who told them that Jesus had risen from the dead. The women left and reported to the disciples what had taken place.

Before this, Mary had earlier reported to them that she had talked to Jesus after he had risen from the dead.

Now these women were reporting that they had seen the empty grave clothes, and the angels told them that he had risen from the dead.

After hearing the women’s report, Peter headed back to the sepulchre to take a second look.

Dearly Beloved 04/03/26 Firsthand Witness Accounts

Firsthand Witness Accounts

Dearly beloved of God, the events surrounding Jesus’ resurrection from the dead are astounding.

The sequence of events began late on the Sabbath toward dusk.

The events surrounding Jesus's resurrection from the dead began with a great earthquake caused by an angel descending out of heaven. He rolled away the great stone across the graveyard and then sat on it.

The opened sepulcher would give the witnesses who would shortly arrive clear access to enter the sepulcher and see the evidence left inside.

Dearly Beloved 04/02/26 The First Witnesses

The First Witnesses

After Peter and the disciple that Jesus loved left the sepulchre, what happened next?

Mark 16:9

Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

In the fifteen century, Aldus Manutius invented punctuation marks. Punctuation does not carry any God-given authority when it comes to interpretation; it is man-made, and there was none in the original uncial and cursive manuscripts.

The editors of the King James Version of the Bible added the italicized words as well as the punctuation, which at times affected the meaning.

Dearly Beloved 04/01/26 They Saw What?!

They Saw What?!

Dearly beloved of God, Jesus was raised from the dead on the weekly Sabbath before dusk according to Matthew 28:1-4.

The next event that occured is recorded in John 20.

John 20:1

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

The Hebrews numbered their days, and their days ran from sunset to sunset. This occurred on the first of the week, our Sunday morning before daybreak.

Dearly Beloved 04/01/26 Jesus Christ the Mediator Between God and Man

Jesus Christ the Mediator Between God and Man

Dearly beloved of God, the revelation in Isaiah informs us of God’s righteous servant. Jesus Christ was the mediator between God and man.

Isaiah 53:5

But he [Jesus Christ] was wounded for our transgressions He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.

Jesus Christ was the place, the mercy seat, where our redemption and salvation was achieved. He believed God’s word given to him and he carried it out.

Jesus knew that he must die as the sacrifice for sin; he paid our price for sin and its consequences.

Dearly Beloved 03/31/26 Deliverance from Sin, Sickness and Death

Deliverance from Sin, Sickness and Death

Dearly beloved of God, Isaiah informs us that God’s righteous servant was despised and rejected of men; a man of pains and he was acquainted with sickness. This prophecy concerned Israel’s Messiah, Jesus the Christ.

Jesus was tempted in all things like as we are yet without sin; all things would have to include sickness and death. Surely he carried our sicknesses and he bore our pains.

Isaiah prophesied that he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Dearly Beloved 03/30/26 Able Ministers

Able Ministers

Dearly beloved of God, if you are born again of the spirit from God, and you have a knowledge of the Word of God, you have the power and answers that can truly help people.

Romans 1: 16, 17 ESV

6 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."

The gospel of God is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes it. If a person confesses the Lord Jesus and believes in their heart that God raised him from the dead, they will be saved.

Dearly Beloved 03/29/26 Happy Palm Sunday

Happy Palm Sunday

Dearly beloved of God, we are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus.

God created spirit life in us the moment we confessed Jesus as Lord and believed that God raised him from the dead.

Ephesians 2:6-10 WTJ

5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved [delivered]),

6 and He raised us up together and caused us to sit together in the heavenly realm in Christ Jesus

7 so that in the coming ages He might display the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

8 By grace, you have certainly been saved [delivered] through believing, and this [salvation] is not from yourselves. It is the offering of God.

9 It is not of our works so that no one may boast,

10 for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus on the basis of good works that God previously prepared, so that we may walk in them.

If it was not for God's great love for us and His grace toward us in Christ, where would we all be? We would be dead in trespasses and sins.

Dearly Beloved 03/28/26 Are Your Thoughts Less than Kind?

Are Your Thoughts Less than Kind?

Dearly beloved of God, are your thoughts less than kind? Don't think like that. Be kind to yourself. Set your affection on things above, where Christ sits.

Beloved of God, we are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus.

God created spirit life in us the moment we confessed Jesus as Lord and believed that God raised him from the dead.

Dearly Beloved 03/27/26 How Do You Rate Success?

How Do You Rate Success?

Dearly beloved of God, how do you rate success? Some rate it by their financial status, some by the power they hold, some by their position and influence, whether in business, politics, or religion, some by how others esteem them.

How should we rate success as Christians? We ought to be concerned about how God rates success. Let’s look at the only usage of the word “success” in the Bible.

Dearly Beloved 03/25/26 Living in the Reality of Christ's Accomplishments

Living in the Reality of Christ’s Accomplishments

Dearly beloved of God, as the sons of God we must renew our minds to who we are in Christ. Christ’s accomplishments are a reality.

We are instructed by God’s Word, “Do not be fashioned by this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind so that we can prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and mature will of God.” Romans 12:2.

If we are to be transformed, we will have to renew our minds to the reality of Christ’s accomplishments.

Dearly Beloved 03/24/26 How Do You Start Your Day?

How Do You Start Your Day?

Dearly beloved of God, I was recently speaking with a Christian who once had heard the truth of the Word of God.

The person said that they were happy with their relationship with God. They said that they started every day with the sinner’s prayer.

I thought to myself, “What a slap in God’s face to think like that after all God went through to claim us as His sons.”

Dearly Beloved 03/21/26 The Just and the Justifier

The Just and the Justifier

Dearly beloved of God, God is just and He is the Justifier of all those that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and what he accomplished in his death and resurrection.

Hebrews 12:2

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

“Author” is the Greek word “archegos.” With the article, as here, the leader, founder, princely-leader; the pioneer, trailblazer, or chief leader.

Dearly Beloved 03/20/26 Our Passover Lamb part 3

Our Passover Lamb [Part 3]

What He Accomplished for Us

Dearly beloved of God, Jesus Christ our Passover was slain for us. As Israel killed their lambs in Exodus 12, at the time of the first Passover, Jesus Christ was slain as our Passover.

Psalm 105:37

He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

According to Exodus 12:37, there were about 600,000 on foot that were men, besides children.

Dearly Beloved 03/19/26 Our Passover Lamb part 2

Our Passover Lamb [Part 2]

The Day Jesus Arose from the Dead

Dearly beloved of God, Jesus said, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

Since Jesus died and was buried on the fourteenth of Nisan, then he must have risen from the dead on the seventeenth.

Dearly Beloved 03/18/26 Our Passover Lamb part 1

Our Passover Lamb [Part 1]

The Day Jesus Christ Died

Dearly beloved of God, every Christian should know when Jesus was crucified, and its significance. The next few articles will deal with this subject.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Jesus compared his death to Jonah’s. Jesus said that he would be “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

Dearly Beloved 03/16/26 God is With You

God is With You

Dearly beloved of God, remember, God is with you today, and He is for you. Practice the presence of God in all you do.

Romans 8:35-39 WTJ

35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction, or calamity, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword

36 (even as it has been written: Psalm 44:22: “For Your sake we are being killed all the day long; we were considered as sheep for slaughter.”)?

37 On the contrary, in all these things, we are superconquerors through him who loved us.

38 In fact, I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor [spirit] messengers, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

39 nor a high place, nor a deep place, nor any other created being will be able to separate us from God’s love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Dearly Beloved 03/15/26 The High Calling of God in Christ Jesus

The High Calling of God in Christ Jesus

Dearly beloved of God, telephones are a wonderful invention. We can pick one up and call anyone we wish. God did not use a telephone, but He did call us by His Word.

Romans 1:5-7

5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The word “called” in verse 6 in the Greek is “kletos,” which means called, in the sense of invited.

Dearly Beloved 03/14/26 It's an Ephesians Kind of a Morning

It’s an Ephesians Kind of a Morning

Dearly beloved of God, blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.

How are we blessed? Ephesians 1:3 informs us that we are blessed “in Christ.”

What are we blessed with in Christ? We have been blessed “with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.”

Who determined this? “The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” determined it beforehand.

Details: Written by Gerald Wrenn