They are all alive to him."
YOU ARE THE LORD'S! BE YE SEPARATE!
A difference exists between God's saint and the world. A wall of separation of differing values and practices. Set apart from the New Birth, we are Sons and daughters of God, heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ, our Brother and king, a KING,The King of kings & Lord of lords, the Saviour of the World.(NKJV)
2Cr 6:13 Now in return for the same (I speak as to children), you also be open. (open to God)
2Cr 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness?
And what communion has light with darkness?
2Cr 6:15 And what accord has Christ with Belial?
Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
2Cr 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols?
For you are the temple of the living God.
As God has said: "I will dwell in them
And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people."
(the people of God are called to a higher standard. God wants to be with us His children)
2Cr 6:17 Therefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you."
2Cr 6:18 "I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the LORD Almighty." (God is calling you)
We, dear Children of God, are called to a HIGHER STANDARD. A BETTER WAY of LIVING. To INNOCENCE, tenderness and Love.
Stand Strong in the Glory of His might.
Eph 3:14 ¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father(GOD) of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Eph 3:15 Of whom the whole family(believers) in heaven and earth is named,
Eph 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
Eph 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Eph 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
To find out who and whose you are, listen to the words of Jesus in Luke chapter 20~ different to the world:(NLT)
Luke 20:27 Then some Sadducees stepped forward--a group of Jews who say there is no resurrection after death. ( they are SAD-U-SEE because they they don't beleive in the resurrection)
Luke 20:28 They posed this question: "Teacher, Moses gave us a law that if a man dies, leaving a wife but no children, his brother should marry the widow and have a child who will be the brother's heir. [fn]
Luke 20:34 Jesus replied, "Marriage is for people here on earth.
(Describing the way it will be in the Kingdom of God among the children of God)
Luke 20:35 But that is not the way it will be in the age to come. For those worthy of being raised from the dead won't be married then.
Luke 20:36 And they will never die again. In these respects they are like angels. (NKJV~equal to)They are children of God raised up to new life.
Luke 20:37 But now, as to whether the dead will be raised--even Moses proved this when he wrote about the burning bush. Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, he referred to the Lord [fn] as `the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' [fn]
Luke 20:38 So he is the God of the living, not the dead.
The attitude of believers in Christ~
Mat 5:9 Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
That we should be ONE in Christ, both Jew and Gentile; the Believer Nation; the Body of Christ; the Kingdom of God !
John 11:48 If we let him thus alone, all [men] will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.(they worried about their postions they didn't care about Jesus)
John 11:49 And one of them, [named] Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
John 11:50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
John 11:51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
John 11:52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in ONE the children of God that were scattered abroad.
We have a Father(God) Who loves us, Whom we bare witness to and can know Him personally!
Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Rom 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."
Rom 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Rom 8:17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
We are set free from bondage to our flesh to be like Jesus ans walk in the Spirit!
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has 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 did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
Rom 8:4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
There is peace of mind in the Spirit of God.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Flesh cannot please God or bring peace because when you are not right with God there is no peace.
Rom 8:8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Adoption and blessing from God ot believers.
Gal 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
We are ONE in Christ, heirs of all He promised, preparing us to serve Him completely. An heir receives what belongs to the family member who dies.
But in this case we as believers receive an inheiritance from One Who is LIVING!
Gal 3:26 ¶ For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
We ARE WHO WE ARE and Whose we are matters to Him.
1John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
1John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
We also know who we are not and whose we are not part of and should live accordingly!
1John 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
1John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
1John 3:9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
Love governs the Child of God and guides their relationships. We love God and God's Childern.
1John 3:10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
1John 3:11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,1Jo 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.
1John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
We are overcomers of God!
1John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith.
We are eternal from the New Birth!
1John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
A side benefit of being a child of God is answered prayer!
1John 5:14 ¶ And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
1John 5:15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Another benefit of being in Christ and obeying Him is protection from satans attacks.
1John 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.
The TRUTH is we are Children of God from the New Birth and are entitled to same privailage and standing as the Lord Jesus Christ but ONLY as we obey and follow Him faithfully. We are on the same level as angels and are respected and required by God to live up to this standard. Being separate from the world and its fleshly entanglements. Free indeed to serve Him and love Him. With Christs help, WE WILL!
1John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Idol worship, a major problem of by gone peoples, is strictly forbidden by God.
To compare the Living True God to an animal, a piece of carved wood, or metal object, is to degrade Him and say He is the same as that. And it degrades our own
person as a God made human. How would you like ot be compared to your car or bed or pet or house? Does not compute!
1John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
It is just awesome to contemplate the meaninngs of these verses concerning us believers.
We are heirs and children of God with rights and privileges given us by God to Love and to serve Him.
Love others in Christ, our brothers and sisters, and to gether form a strong fellowship and force to defend against the enemy.
Live eternally, share in His sufferings and be glorified along with the other saints of God.
Having a measure of equality with angels, and future in God's futuristic kingdom yet to come.
We look forward to the day when all will come to fruition and our adoption, and inheiritence will be realized.
We yern for Him as a child yerns for their parent. And we shall see Him as he is!
LJC/HS to auther Jeanette Gayhart