September 2023 "Dearly Beloved" Articles
Dearly Beloved 09/29/23 Deliverance from Two Kinds of Condemnation
Deliverance from Two Kinds of Condemnation
Dearly beloved of God, Adam brought the condemnation of sin and death upon the human race by his disobedience to God’s commandment, but Jesus Christ justified us from the condemnation of the sin and the death by his obedience to God.
Romans 8:1 WTJ
1 So there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
2 because the law of the spirit of life, that is to say, the life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of the sin and of the death.
“Condemnation” in verse one is the Greek word, katakrima, which is a sentence pronounced against someone. This is speaking of legal condemnation.
To those in Christ Jesus there is no more sentence against them. Those in Christ Jesus have been justified freely by God’s grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
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Dearly Beloved 09/27/23 Our Father is a Delivering God
Our Father is a Delivering God
Dearly beloved of God, God our Father is a delivering God. He is the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. In Exodus, He said, “I am the LORD that heals thee.”
God says that He sent His Word and healed them, so I would like to give you a good dose of His healing Word.
Isaiah 53: 3-5 instructs us as to why God sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Every aspect of these verses concerns our deliverance.
Jesus 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.
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Dearly Beloved 09/26/23 All Joy and Peace
All Joy and Peace
Dearly beloved of God, is it available to be filled with all joy and peace?
Romans 15:13 WTJ
Now may the God of the hope fill you with all joy and peace in the [right way of] believing so that you may abound in the hope by the power from the Holy Spirit.
As we believe the revelation of God’s Word concerning the realities of our sonship because of the new birth, until the day we will receive our inheritance God will fill us with all joy and peace. We will abound in the hope of the Lord Jesus Christ’s return for the Church to gather us up to meet him in the air by the power from the Holy Spirit.
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Dearly Beloved 09/24/23 Yea and Amen
Yea and Amen
Dearly beloved of God, God is faithful, trustworthy, and reliable. Whatever the promises of God are, in Jesus Christ they are yea, and in him they are Amen, meaning that they are certain.
We know that in everything God works for good with those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew He also determined beforehand for us to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Moreover, those for whom He determined things beforehand He also called, and those whom He called He also justified, and those whom He justified He also glorified.
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Dearly Beloved 09/22/23 Have an Attitude of Thankfulness
Have an Attitude of Thankfulness
Dearly beloved of God, of all the people on this earth we should be the most thankful. Why should we be thankful?
God called us according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus. He called us to His kingdom and glory. He called us by the gospel to obtain the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Why should we be thankful? We were dead in sin, without God, and without hope, but when we confessed Jesus as Lord and believed that God raised him from the dead we were saved, and we now have the hope of salvation.
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Dearly Beloved 09/12/23 What Did He Say?
What Did He Say?
Dearly beloved of God, behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God, and we are! We must never forget that God is our Father.
God our Father is always with us. He is present to bless, to support, to supply, and to defend us. The Almighty God is God our Father. He will never leave us, or ever forsake us.
We can call on the Father in our time of need. As the prophet said, “I have never seen the righteous forsaken, or His seed begging bread.” We can count on Him, dearly beloved. He is our Helper. He will supply all our need through Christ Jesus our Lord.
As many as are led by the spirit from God, these are the children of God.
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Dearly Beloved 09/10/23 It Shall Be as He Has Spoken
It Shall Be as He Has Spoken
Dearly beloved of God, God our Father has given the Church a glorious hope in Christ. That future reality is as certain as the reality that you are reading these words.
What we suffer today is not comparable with the glory that is to be revealed to us when Christ Jesus the Lord gathers us up to meet him in the air. When the Lord Jesus Christ comes for us we will receive a far more exceeding and eternal heavy weight of glory.
God our Father wants us to know the hope of His calling, and live with that expectation ever before our eyes. He called us to acquire the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ [II Thessalonians 2:14]. The coming of Christ for the Church is our glorious hope.
That day will be the day of redemption for the Church. It will be a day of rest, and of fullness of joy, and of unending glory. It will take the coming ages for God our Father to display the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
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Dearly Beloved 09/09/23 You are Righteous Now
You are Righteous Now
Dearly beloved of God, in Christ, and by his accomplishments we are righteous now!
II Corinthians 5:21
For he [God] hath made him [Jesus] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
We are now God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus. We now stand before God our Father clothed with His righteousness by the grace of God.
If you will read Romans 3-8 you will come to realize that Jesus Christ justified us, and there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ. In Christ we stand before God without any consciousness of sin, guilt, or shortcomings.
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Dearly Beloved 09/08/23 Full of Joy part 2.
Full of Joy [Part II]
Dearly beloved of God, Jesus Christ accomplished the will of God his Father concerning our redemption and salvation, then God by His grace gave us all things with His beloved Son.
Jesus laid his life down as God asked of him, and then God raised His Son from the dead. Forty days later Jesus ascended into heaven, and God then made Jesus both Lord and Christ, and He seated him at His right side in the heavenly realm.
Then on the Feast of Pentecost, the Lord Jesus Christ sent the promise of the Father, the gift of holy spirit. All that confess the Lord Jesus and believe that God raised him from the dead shall be saved. All of them receive the remission of sins, and the gift of holy spirit, which is eternal life, and they can manifest it by speaking in tongues as the proof that they have eternal life. See Romans 8:15-18.
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Dearly Beloved 09/07/23 Full of Joy part 1.
Full of Joy [Part 1]
Dearly beloved of God, everyone who confesses Jesus as Lord and believes that God raised him from the dead is saved, born again of the spirit from God.
At the moment of the new birth we became a child of God, born again of incorruptible seed, and we have eternal life. God becomes God our Father, and we become His children. The birth from above cannot be reversed, no more than our natural birth can be undone.
God had the Apostle John write about the Word of life. The twelve apostles received the gift of holy spirit on the Feast of Pentecost, and they manifested the spirit life they received by speaking in tongues, which is the proof that they had received eternal life.
The spirit from God witnesses to our being that we are the children of God, His heirs, and joint heirs with Christ.
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Dearly Beloved 09/05/23 Pinch Yourself, It is All True
Pinch Yourself, It is All True
Dearly beloved of God, God our Father highly favored us in the Christ. In fact, we are so highly favored that the time in which we now live is called the Administration of the Grace of God, which was before a mystery hidden in God.
Romans 8:32
He [God] that spared not His own Son [Jesus Christ], but delivered him up for us all, how shall He not with him also freely give us all things?
How could anyone mistake God’s great grace to us in Christ? Every time I read these words I am awe-stricken by the Father’s divine favor toward us in Christ Jesus.
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Dearly Beloved 09/03/23 God Confidence
God Confidence
Dearly beloved of God, the major factor in our deliverance is God. He revealed His Word which is His Will. Our part is to take Him at His Word. We have confidence in Him and trust that He is willing to perform His Word in our lives. He is our Deliverer.
There is no question that God is for us. He says that He is. He says that we are to cast all our cares upon Him because He cares for us. God is not a man that He should lie; He is faithful to His Word.
We are now God’s kids, born of the incorruptible seed that we received in the new birth. We are members of His household. In Christ we have access to the Father by the spirit.