January 2024 "Dearly Beloved" Articles
Dearly Beloved 01/30/24 Salvation or Wrath
Salvation or Wrath
Dearly beloved of God, all Christians have Christ in them, the hope of glory. We have been delivered from the wrath to come. There is now no more condemnation to those in Christ Jesus. We will never again come unto condemnation!
The Church, the body of Christ, has the hope of salvation and redemption when the Lord Jesus Christ returns to gather us together up to meet him in the air. He will raise the dead in Christ incorruptible, and change the mortal to immortal, and together we will meet the Lord in the air.
After the Church has been removed from the earth, the day of the Lord will come in like a thief on the earth.
The day of the Lord will be a day of God’s judgment and wrath against the ungodly and wicked who suppress the truth of the Word of God.
The Church will have no part in this judgement. The Church has been judged in Christ as the righteousness of God.
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Dearly Beloved 01/29/24 I No Longer Live, but Christ Lives in Me
I No Longer Live, but Christ Lives in Me
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. I do not reject the grace of God. Moreover, if justness is through the law, then Christ died for no reason.
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things passed away. Behold, new things have come, and all [of the new things] are from God, Who reconciled us to Himself through Christ.
Believing God’s Word concerning who we are in Christ is liberating. The truth will make you free. Learn to think about yourself as God thinks about you the same as the Apostle Paul did. Christ lives in you!
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Dearly Beloved 01/26/24 It Is Not Even Close
It Is Not Even Close
Dearly beloved of God, the Administration of the Grace of God, the Administration of the Mystery, is unlike any period of time in which God dealt with mankind previously. What we have today in Christ Jesus is not even close to what anyone in a previous administration had available to them.
Let me give you a few examples.
Adam and Eve received the spirit from God upon the condition of keeping God’s commandment given to them in Genesis 2:17. God dealt with them on the basis of spirit, but they lost the spirit life form they received from God when they disobeyed that commandment. When we lose life it is called death.
Every Christian received the gift of holy spirit instead of just the two that received it originally in the garden. Every Christian is born again of the spirit from God, and it is incorruptible seed; we cannot lose it as they did.
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Dearly Beloved 01/21/24 Access Beyond the Veil
Access Beyond the Veil
Dearly beloved of God, God blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm. It is all of them in each and every Christian. God freely gives us all things with His Son, Christ Jesus our Lord.
By the same exceeding greatness of His power which He wrought in Christ when He raised him from the dead, and set him at His right hand in the heavenly realm, God made us members of the Church, which is the body of Christ, and He filled us with all in all of us.
As members of the body of Christ, God made us alive together with Christ, He raised us up together, and made us 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 His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
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Dearly Beloved 01/19/24 The Living God
The Living God
Dearly beloved of God, very few through the ages have had an awareness of their privileged sonship as children of God.
I John 3:1, 2
Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God [and we are]: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now we are the sons of God….
Instead of magnifying the revelation truths of the Word of God concerning who we are as children of God, people magnify the weaknesses of their flesh; their past sins, and they entertain devilish doubts about themselves as though Jesus Christ had not accomplished redemption and salvation.
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Dearly Beloved 01/11/24 We Have God's Word on It
We Have God’s Word on It
Dearly beloved of God, the Word of God is the declaration of the good pleasure of His Will. It is information He has revealed. It is revelation knowledge from Him.
If a King, or a President wrote a letter to another head of state, that letter would carry the same weight, perhaps even more weight, than if they had called them because it would be a formal declaration of information from them in writing.
God revealed His Word to holy men of God. He says that information is a “more sure word of prophecy.” It is more sure, more certain, than the experience Peter had on the mount when Jesus was transfigured before him.
The Word of God did not come because of the writer’s determination; it came as God revealed the information to “holy men of God.”
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Dearly Beloved 01/09/23 What Difference Does it Make?
What Difference Does it Make?
Dearly beloved of God, there is no way of understanding the truth about any given topic concerning spiritual matters without grasping what God reveals about that subject in His Word.
If we are to have the truth, every verse regarding the identical subject must agree. Difficult verses must be understood in light of the many clear verses.
No one is at liberty to add to, or subtract from what God reveals about the subject in His Word, yet this is a common practice in Christianity today. When this occurs, the commentator puts what they say on the same level as what God says. Whose word should we believe?
If we are to understand topics such as who Jesus Christ is, the holy spirit field, death, the resurrection from the dead, the new birth, or the coming of Christ, we must take the truth of the Word of God over what anyone else may say about the subject. We must allow God to speak for Himself.
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Dearly Beloved 01/07/23 Where Did That Thought Come From?
Where Did That Thought Come From?
Dearly beloved of God, we are now the sons of God, and as God’s children we are His heirs, and joint heirs with Christ. We should frame our thinking with thoughts that reflect this reality, and believe who we are in Christ.
The new birth does not affect how we think about ourselves. We can either renew our minds to who we are in Christ and believe who God says we are, or we can continue to think as we used to think.
God does not lie. He reveals in His Word that by Jesus Christ’s accomplishments, we are now justified.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.” In him, “we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace, wherein He hath abounded toward us.”
Believe what God says, and think in this manner.
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Dearly Beloved 01/03/23 God Does Not Lie
God Does Not Lie
Dearly beloved of God, who can we trust to keep their word these days?
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
God does not lie. He keeps His Word. He does not repent, meaning, change His mind. If He says something, He will perform it.
Whatever He says He will make it good. God does not lie.
God marks this vital truth by utilizing a figure of speech in this verse which involves the repetition of thought. He repeats the same truth four different ways so that we do not miss this important truth. God does not lie!
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Dearly Beloved 01/02/24 The Truth or Deception
The Truth or Deception
Dearly beloved of God, there is only one reference for truth for all Christians, and that is the Word of God. Only the Word of God reveals the will of God.
The Word of God did not originate with religious consensus, or papal decree, or with scientific discovery, or with the dictates of social consciousness, or of political correctness.
The Word of God is information that God originated for the profit and benefit of His people. The Word of God is the Will of God.
What is God’s Will? God would have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. His Word is truth. Not all choose to respond by believing Him, by taking Him at His Word. It is their loss.
II Timothy 4:3 and 4
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
I Timothy 4:1 and 2
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Some will withdraw from the faith, that is, from the right way of believing, giving heed to deceiving spirits, and teachings of devils.
These verses concern the Church today in the Administration of the Grace of God, and the Mystery.
In the next administration, after the Church of the Grace of God is gathered together at the coming of Christ, II Thessalonians 2 addresses the deception of the man of sin, the son of perdition.
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Dearly Beloved 01/01/24 Happy New Year
Happy New Year
Dearly beloved of God, the old year is gone and a new one commences, but we have something of much greater value to celebrate.
Jesus Christ was the Passover lamb offered for the sins of the world.
He fulfilled the law. In fact, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes concerning him. [See Romans 10:4].
Hebrews 10:12-18
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.