Brother Gyme Sunday Evening 10/26/14

Brother Gyme Sunday Evening 10/26/14

Gen 1:1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Gen 1:2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Gen 1:3  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Gen 1:4  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Gen 1:5  And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Gen 1:6  And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Gen 1:7  And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Gen 1:8  And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Gen 1:9  And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Gen 1:10  And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Gen 1:11  And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Gen 1:12  And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Gen 1:13  And the evening and the morning were the third day.

God is a God of order.  The Apple seed brings apple trees.  You always get strawberries from strawberry plants.  Without that order it would be hard to trust God.  Because He is a God of order, what He says always brings forth.  It is the way it is.

God says, “This is what happens if you obey.” Then we see it happen, it causes faith to grow.  If we planted a seed and had to wait for it to come up to see what it would be, we would plant a garden and just wait to see what would come up.

Spiritually in the garden of our life we can have confidence that it will bring forth what God says.  From the beginning God was the God of order.  If you think of the big bang theory and stop and reasonably think of it you know it cannot be true.  We see every day that things are in order.

Can you imagine taking a shoe box, and a nice Swiss watch that keeps time perfectly and disassembling it and shaking it up and then think that you will open the box and have a watch that will work?  It won’t work.  God is a God of order.

Gen 1:14  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Gen 1:15  And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

Gen 1:16  And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Don’t you like that?  The nearest star after the sun in our galaxy is 4.24 light years away.  There are between 200 and 400 billion stars in our galaxy.  There are billions of galaxies.  God knows all the stars by name.

The distance to the nearest star after our sun, with the best propulsion that we have, it would take us 75 thousand years to get to that nearest star.  God spoke it into existence and it was so.  He set the sun and the moon in order.  If you can imagine the night sky and a small dark square in the night sky.  They pointed the Hubble telescope toward that spot for four years.  They found the universe is way bigger than they could have thought.  There were many bright spots.  They all represented galaxies.  Each of them held 200 to 400 thousand more stars.

With everything that they know about physics and the universe, that is impossible.  When someone says, “It is scientifically proven.”  We can say, “You know, there is a lot that we don’t know.”  They try to bring that spirit of unbelief; God knows.  He spoke it all into existence.

He knows the name of all the stars, yet He knows how many hairs are on your head.  With how big God is, He is interested in every little detail.  He knows how everything works.  He spoke it into existence.

Sister Timberly –

The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. 

The moon is rotating and revolving around us as we rotate and revolve around the sun.  The moon is revolving at the same rate that it is rotating so we always see the same side.  The earth is tilted on its axis so when it is summer in the north hemisphere, the northern part of the earth is toward the sun in its revolution.

The moon causes the tides.  The earth has a bubble of water around it.  Where ever the moon is, the gravitational pull of the moon affects the tides and causes the bubble of water to form toward the moon.  It also pulls the earth over a bit and causes a bubble of water on the backside as well.  There are two high tides and two low tides at the same time.  During a full moon and during a new moon it causes an extra high tide and an extra low tide. 

The light that we see from the sun has traveled eight minutes to get to us.  If the sun and moon are at ninety degrees with the earth then there is the least difference in the high and low tides.  That is a neap tide. 

It is rare that the sun, the moon and the earth are ever lined up.  When it happens then there is an eclipse of some kind.  During the new moon there can be a solar eclipse.  During the full moon there can be a lunar eclipse. 

There is a new moon and a full moon every month but it hardly ever lines up to cause an eclipse because the earth and the moon’s orbit is tilted slightly. 

Job 38:3  Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

Job 38:4  Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Let us not question God’s authority and counsel.  The spirit of unbelief will come and say, “This cannot be true.  Why am I going through this trial?”  We need to never question what God puts us through and what God says.  He is never wrong.

Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever

God never changes.  The word of God never changes.  We have emotions and can be up and down.  We have feelings, but when we are going through those things we need to remember, God has not changed.  Just because we are having a bad day doesn’t mean that God is displeased with us. 

We are emotional beings.  Sometimes we are up and sometimes down.  Sometimes we have to get violent about some things.  We have to gird up the loins of our mind.

Exo 3:13  And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

Exo 3:14  And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

He is the eternal and self-existent God.  He is from the beginning and to the end.

Rev 1:8  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Isa 44:1  Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:

Isa 44:2  Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.

Jesurun means the upright one.  It is a symbolic name for Israel describing her character.

Fear not.  For those that walk upright and are doing all they know to do, this is the message from God, “Fear not.”

Isa 44:3  For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

Isa 44:6  Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

Isa 43:1  But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

Are you His? If you are His then He says to fear not.

Isa 43:2  When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

He doesn’t say, “I’m going to keep you from the fire.”  He says, “When you walk through the fire thou shalt not be burned.”

Marvelous are thy works.

Psa 139:16  Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Psa 139:17  How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

God has good thoughts toward us.  He was there when we were formed.  One of the applications is that when He formed you in the womb, He was there.  When He made all of your parts, He was there. 

Science still doesn’t know how all those cells divide and become what they become.  They divide and some say, “I’m going to become the heart, I’m going to become the liver, and I’m going to become the brain.” 

A woman talking of how the embryo was formed, an unsaved woman, said “If you could listen to this instructor teach on how things happen in the womb, you would believe in God.”

This big God that spoke into existence the trillions of stars was there when you were formed.  He is more than able to take care of all his people.  He is more than able to take care of every problem you have.

He knows.  You are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Psa 48:1  A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Psa 48:2  Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Psa 48:3  God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

Psa 48:12  Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Psa 48:13  Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

They need to hear and they need to see.

Psa 48:14  For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

He is from the beginning.  God is more than able to see us through.

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 10/26/14

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 10/26/14

2Ti 1:1  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

2Ti 1:2  To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I exhorted some last Sunday on grace, mercy, and peace.  But it came real to me as I was before GOD that there were some more things to be said.  If there is something that is beneficial to you and your life, return and give God the praise.

As I looked at this book it is called an epistle, it was written with definite spiritual value.  It was not written out of wrath or because there was competition between this older brother and younger.  It was written by Apostle Paul to a younger man that he had met when the young man was about 15 years old.  It was written about twenty years later.

The thought is how God deals with souls.  He addressed Timothy as “my dearly beloved son.” And then he brought out three things that are vital. 

Grace is a very needed factor in our lives; it is vital that we know what grace means and have it in our lives.  It is vital that we recognize the need of grace and recognize when it is running low in our lives.

Grace is the unmerited favor of God.  None of us are born into this world with naturally something given to us as a privileged child that we don’t need to do what is necessary to receive the grace of God.

His grace came to us when we were very young, everyone here can undoubtedly remember when God spoke to you as a child.  It means the divine influence upon the soul. 

We can probably all remember our first sin.  It is very important.  We have heard it asked and maybe everyone here has asked, “What has happened to America?” 

In this audience there are those with young children.  It has been a while since Karen and I have had young children in our home.  It is vital as grandparents and parents to have the divine influence to be that example to them and influence on them.

It is such a responsibility to have children and it is so important that we have the grace, the divine inspiration to deal with them.

A man I met told me that he had dealt with anger all his life.  He thought it was because he was mistreated as a child.  Parents, it is your responsibility to treat your children right and to protect your children.  There is a certain amount of responsibility as grandparents and as citizens that if we know a child is being mistreated then it is a heavy burden.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Without the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we will be opinionated and influenced by whatever comes across our pathway.  Whether it is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, or the pride of life, or having an attitude caused by misfortunes of the past.  If we have a bad attitude it causes us to be unacceptable to God.

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

This older man was writing to this beloved son.  Beloved daughters, Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ this morning, it is so vital that we possess the grace of God.

Paul wrote to Timothy and said, “My dearly beloved son, grace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.” Grace brings joy to our heart and gracelessness brings such sorrow, such bemoanings, and such situations that need to be lamented over.  It is wonderful that we can have grace and joy in a world that is so upside-down.

It is wonderful that grace gives us liberality.  It allows you to be free to love, to give, to worship, and free to accept.  Often times we find, as a minister visiting with someone, they will make an expression of a situation; you perhaps give them a scripture and they brush it off, “I know all that.”  That tells you they are graceless.  Liberality receives.

We need the portion of grace that we are at liberty to receive from one another that which would be beneficial to our soul.

Grace makes the simple things in life so enjoyable.  I think of the misery of sin and of carnality.  How dissatisfied, and unsatisfied precious souls are.  It all comes back to the lack of receiving the precious grace of God.

Timothy was undoubtedly a promising individual.  Every individual is promising that will yield to God.  It is not so much their IQ; as an individual yields to God the grace of God becomes such a benefit.  It will be there to help you have the inspiration that you need for the moment.  It will help you to have the right word to say in a very awkward situation.  It will help you to speak a word to him that is weary.

It will help you gird up the loins of your mind and take a troubling thought and replace it with a positive thought according to Phil 4:8.  Then it helps you to help others to do the same and think on the good things: maybe things that were in the service.

What a benefit it is and it happens over and over again as our thought pattern is replaced by grace.  Isn’t it wonderful when our minds are being challenged with something that is going over and over, isn’t it wonderful to replace it with the benefit of a song or a scripture.

Paul thought it important to mention mercy to his beloved son.  I trust I have never taken for granted the mercy of God.  I don’t keep that thought as alive as I’d like to have it.  I told you all a little bit ago about our brush with death.  I personally am convinced that it was the mercy of God that my wife and I were not instantly killed.

Mercy is compassion for the miserable.  When I found that definition, my next thought was, “No wonder God’s mercies are higher than the heavens.”  This morning in Sanders County there are so many miserable people.  Sin and carnality and all that goes with them make men and women very miserable.

We had an anonymous request twice in service of a troubled youth in Mineral County that is so miserable.  That night I was praying, “God help him to come in contact with someone that can help him.”  That young lady that was here last Sunday was here because her daddy was taken to jail because of alcohol. 

Sin and self make people so, so miserable.  Anyone here that has an attitude, “I want to be saved but I don’t want to go on and become sanctified, you are going to be miserable.  Life is miserable with carnality.  All the injustices of the past come back and no infilling of the Holy Spirit of God to say, “I will not yield to that thought and go back to that injustice.”

All the parents that have the thought of protecting their children from injustice is a good thought, but let me help you to know: a part of life is injustice.  Without the grace of God and the Holy Spirit of God we will allow the injustice that has come into our life to come alive again.

My dear uncle Doy was a nice man, a clean and loving man.  My uncle Doy inherited as part of his makeup to get angry all over again over what happened 1 week, 1 day, 1 year ago or however far back.  The majority of people have this.  Without the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit of God your mind will go back to some very unjust thing and then you will allow it to make you miserable.

For every man, woman, and child that recognizes that something is not right because they are unhappy and miserable:  They are acting like everything is alright but deep down inside it is hurting.  That is how it is unless you have taken the mercy of God and said, “I want to be free from this thing and the bondage of it and have the blood of Christ applied to my heart.”

Psa 85:10  Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

When you are worshipping before God in the stillness of the morning, you and God are there together and you are telling God how much you love Him, want to serve Him, appreciate what He has done for you, and how you have enjoyed the mercy of God.  You go into the Word of God and read and see truth.  It is so wonderful when God reveals His truth; mercy and truth meet together. 

God gives you grace to say, “I will walk in the light of that.”  After mercy and truth meet, righteousness and peace embrace.

Psa 86:15  But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Every one of us here in this audience faces great challenges.  They are always bigger than we are.  Don’t ever think that you can handle it on your own.  However small it may seem it will handle you.  God is a God of mercy and great compassion.

Mat 5:7  Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Lam 3:22  It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Lam 3:23  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Isn’t it wonderful that His compassions don’t fail?  Perhaps you are weary with something that you have struggled with way too long.  It is ok to get violent with something like that.  Remember when you come to God it is of His mercies that we are not consumed.

Great is His faithfulness.

“May you have grace, mercy, and peace.” 

When you think of the life of Paul, you think of a life of hardship.  It would really be something for most of us to be shipwrecked once.  Paul was shipwrecked again and again.  There were a lot of troubles in his life.  He wrote and said, “You need grace, mercy, and peace.”

I needed peace this week.  I needed peace in my mind.  I felt unrest and such need to get a hold of God.  When you need to get a hold of God the most, everything is against you.  You feel more like you need to run a marathon than that you need to pray and seek God.  I needed to pray and seek God.

That word peace means one.  That shows me that you are not going to fly apart when you have God’s peace.  It shows me unity between your entire being.  People talk of “not really serving God” but being dysfunctional.  God wants you to get it all together and be one.

The second meaning is quietness.  The last part of this message is the best to me.  Quietness:  You say, “Brother Kelly do you know what is going on over there?”  No, but if I can have the peace of God I probably will be able to handle the shock.

If we have the peace of God, then in the disappointment that you think is on the horizon, I will not tell you it won’t happen, but you can have peace and quietness.

Don’t you love to walk into a home where there is quietness?  It takes more than it being written on the wallpaper. 

When the mind is churning, flooded with thoughts that are not thoughts of peace, when the mind is in turmoil, in confusion, you know what the definition of peace is?  Quietness.  God is not the author of confusion. 

Another meaning is rest.  Peace with God, with the blood of the Lamb, with the word of God, in our soul, in our life.  Rest. 

For every individual in this audience that works.  This goes for the schools, real-estate, hospitals, everywhere where people work.  Make sure that you keep peace in your life.  There is such changes with personnel, new policies, and the whole thing. 

You say, “I am afraid something is going to …” Your worrying is not going to do anything.  If you don’t have grace, mercy, and peace I guarantee that you will make the wrong choice.  When you feel the pressure, “Things are not going how I thought life would go.”  That is the way that life is. 

Things change, but if we have grace, mercy, and peace then we will be able to handle it.  We may not know the days that are ahead.  We have to have peace.

Peace means to set at one again.  I said, “OK, God, I am the man.” 

Whatever the challenge was, battle confusion, temptation, disappointment.  Whatever the challenge I was faced with.  God said, “Let me set you at one again.”  I felt like my mind was rotating in several directions at once.  I said, “God only you can set it at one again.”  I wish I had set a time, God began to move and I felt peace that passes understanding.

The angels to the shepherds were saying, “Glory to God in the Highest and on earth, peace, good will to men.” 

Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the temple.  There was an older brother there by the name of Simeon.  He was moved on by God and when they brought in the baby Jesus, he came and took the child into his hands and said, “Blessed be God, for mine eyes have seen God’s salvation. Let me depart in peace.”

Mark 4:39 Jesus and some of the disciples were out on the sea and there was a great storm.  Jesus stayed asleep.  The disciples woke him and said, “Carest thou not that we perish?”  Jesus got up and said to the storm, “Peace be still.”

In the crucial hour of Jesus’ life He said, “Peace I leave with you.”  Don’t keep the peace that Jesus has left you on the shelf setting there as a bouquet.

Jesus before His betrayal said, “Those that are so close to me will be scattered.  I feel alone.”  We are so blessed to be loved so much by each other.  I don’t get many phone calls from out of the area but there are a few, Brother Figeroa, Brother Davis, and Sister Griffin call once in a while.

There are times that I feel all alone.  I have daughters that call, saints call when I am sick and I appreciate it very much but there are times that I feel alone.

Jesus said, “I feel alone but I am not alone.  The father is with me.  I am telling you this so that you will know; that when you have troubles you can have peace.”

Joh 16:32  Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Joh 16:33  These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

After the resurrection the disciples were gathered together, fearful, locked up in security.  Jesus came in and said, “Peace be unto you.” 

Quietness, oneness, rest, and set at one again. 

Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight
Rolls a melody sweeter than psalm;
In celestial like strains it unceasingly falls
O’r my soul like an infinite calm. 

Things don’t give peace.  Peace can only come down from the Father above.  There is no peace with a new car.  You cannot buy peace. 

What a treasure I have in this wonderful peace
Buried deep in the heart of my soul;
So secure that no power can mine it away,
While the years of eternity roll

I am resting tonight in this wonderful peace,
Resting sweetly in Jesus’ control;
For I’m kept from all danger by night and by day
And His glory is flooding my soul.

And me thinks when I rise to that city of peace,
Where the author of peace I shall see,
That one strain of the song which the ransomed will sing,
In that heavenly kingdom shall be

Peace, peace, wonderful peace
Coming down from the Father above
Sweep over my spirit forever I pray
In fathomless billows of love.

Ah! Soul are you here without comfort or rest,
Marching down the rough pathway of time?
Make Jesus your friend ere the shadows grow dark;
Oh accept this sweet peace so sublime.

Sister Sunny Sunday School 10/26/14

Sister Sunny Sunday School 10/26/14

Everyone born to Adam and Eve was born in the image of Adam.

Gen 5:1  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Gen 5:2  Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Gen 5:3  And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Adam Clarke - And begat a son in his own likeness, after his image - Words nearly the same with those Gen_1:26 : Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. What this image and likeness of God were, we have already seen, and we may rest assured that the same image and likeness are not meant here.

The body of Adam was created provisionally immortal, i.e. while he continued obedient he could not die; but his obedience was voluntary, and his state a probationary one. The soul of Adam was created in the moral image of God, in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness.

He had now sinned, and consequently had lost his moral resemblance to his Maker; he had also become mortal through his breach of the law. His image and likeness were therefore widely different at this time from what they were before; and his begetting children in this image and likeness plainly implies that they were imperfect like himself, mortal like himself, sinful and corrupt like himself.

We, as sons of Adam, were born in his image.  We are all born with a nature to sin, a carnal nature.  It shows itself before we know the difference of right from wrong.  We are born wanting our own way, selfish, and putting ourselves before others. 

The carnal nature desires to shine above others, is envious at the success of others, and in every way is opposite of love.  The carnal nature is not longsuffering, not kind, envies, vaunts itself, is puffed up, behaves unseemly, seeks her own, is easily provoked, thinks evil, etc. 

God is love and in order to bear the image of love, we must be in His image.

1Co 13:4  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1Co 13:5  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

1Co 13:6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

1Co 13:7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Thank God that we don’t have to remain in the image of Adam, sold under sin.

Rom 7:14  For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Rom 7:15  For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

Through Jesus Christ and His death on the cross, taking our place and dying for our sin, we can be free from the law of sin and death and walk in newness of life.

Rom 8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Rom 8:3  For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Rom 8:4  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Rom 8:5  For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Rom 8:6  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Rom 8:7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Rom 8:8  So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

Rom 8:10  And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Rom 8:11  But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Rom 8:12  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Rom 8:13  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

This is the reason that Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again, born of water and of spirit, so that he could be a son of God and bear His image: pure, holy, without guile. 

Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Joh 3:6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Joh 3:7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

To be born again is to have our heart washed of all our committed sin by the blood of Christ and then to walk in newness of life, where we continue to be washed by the water of the Word of God.  To be born of the Spirit is to have our carnal man, the image of Adam, cleansed from us so that we no longer have that selfish tendency that we were born with that would keep pulling us back to sin.

1Jn 3:8  He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

1Jn 3:9  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1Jn 3:10  In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

We see again that love is the attribute that allows us and others to know if we are born of God, love and doing righteousness. 

Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil in every life that would yield to Him.  If we are not doing righteousness, or if we don’t love our brother, then we do not have the seed of God dwelling in us.  We instead are still full of the carnal nature that we received from our father, Adam.

1Jn 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

1Jn 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1Jn 4:9  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

1Jn 4:10  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1Jn 4:11  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

1Jn 5:1  Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

1Jn 5:2  By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

1Jn 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

1Jn 5:4  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Whosoever is born of God overcomes the world.  We can live a victorious life in this world.  We don’t have to walk after the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life. 

1Jn 5:18  We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

There is always a choice.  God doesn’t remove that from us.  He doesn’t want robots.  Just as He gave Adam and Eve the choice in the Garden to continue in His way or to go their own.  We have the same choice after being saved and sanctified. 

If we grow lean in our soul and allow other things to creep in, we can lose the image of God out of our life.

Gal 6:8  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Rom 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Gal 5:14  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Gal 5:15  But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Gal 5:16  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Gal 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Gal 5:18  But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Gal 5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Gal 5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Gal 5:23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Gal 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Gal 5:25  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Gal 5:26  Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

We know that Christ was in the plan from the beginning: Gen_3:15; Mic_5:2; Eph_1:4, Eph_3:9, Eph_3:11; Col_1:26; 2Ti_1:9-10; Tit_1:2-3; Rev_13:8  We’ve seen how there was given a prophecy of Christ at the time of Adam and Eve’s fall: Gen 3:15.

God’s prophets looked for the day of Jesus’ coming:

1Pe 1:10  Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

1Pe 1:11  Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

1Pe 1:12  Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

 Some prophecies of Jesus:

Gen 12:3  And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Psa 68:18  Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

Psa 69:21  They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psa 118:22  The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

Isa 7:14  Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Isa 9:7  Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Isa 25:8  He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Isa 28:16  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Isa 61:1  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Jer 23:5  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Dan 2:44  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

Mic 5:2  But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

Hag 2:7  And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zec 9:9  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

Zec 11:12  And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

Zec 12:10  And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Mal 3:1  Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.