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God is blessing and has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus in heavenly places in Himself Ephesians 1:3. What have we received that we have done. zero. zilch. Nada. If God gave it (and He could very well take it away) why not give thanks and say, "thank you God" because we're not only living in today, tomorrow is not promised. If we have accepted Christ as personal Lord and Savior, let's go on to perfection of Zoe (God's vitality) and God's salvation and not meager lives.

Through Christ the Son God made the sky, the earth and its fullness belongs to Him. In Him all things hold together. He intricately formed our inward being even while in our Mother's womb. Care for the unborn.

Through Christ the Son we have a relationship on a personal level with the Creator. God has allowed us appointments to win salvations to Him and environment around us and we who have the Holy Spirit need to let our light shine that men may see our good works (in Christ) & glorify our Father which is in heaven! Thats's in Matthew 5:16.

Make His praise glorious! Happy Blessed New Year! Christ is coming soon! Maranatha! God truly loves us! Re: Giving thanks, Let this blessed thought control, that Christ hath regarded my helpless estate and hath shed His own Blood for my soul. It is well with my soul. Go forth into the fields and sow, weeping, and you shall doubtless come again rejoicing, reaping, bearing your sheaves with you.

Christ by highest heaven adored, Christ the Sun of Righteousness.. Risen! Raised! In My life! Are you living or just existing? Are you living worthy of the blessing? Jesus is the only way to God. Believe you this? It is a rhetorical question(s).

Dave Candel

The faithful love, the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, His mercies never come to an end. We should take time to spend with the Lord before we come apart. Great are you Lord and great is your mercy. His mercies never come to an end, They are new every morning, His lovingkindness is new, Great is Thy faithfulness O Lord. 

The Lord God is Holy. He shows us righteously His wrath against sin in our spirit and nature Romans 1:16-32. Christ is our profession of faith for salvation. And no condemnation from the wrath to come is our profession as well from Him Romans 8:1. In fact, cleansing and rescue is His promise. In His testimony God is righteous, just, and Holy, and therefore good like the scarlet cord seen in the window for Rahab's family and every family saved through the scripture. This is in the Risen Son of God, Jesus Christ, His Blood. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. He fulfills.

Follow God, reach out for Christ. Press through the crowds to get to Him. He'll be One Glorious Savior to save you. He said in Mt. 21:22, "All things you ask in prayer, believing you shall receive." Read over again and over and over: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Pour over His word of healing. Partake of His Healing, blessing, salvation. Be a partaker. He has called us partners to glory and virtue by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. He has given us in Christ everything we need to abound to every good work by abundance of grace from Him. Everything pertaining to life and godliness is promised with conditions: Obedience to Christ. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven for there is where your heart is. Realize that the love, joy and peace of the tender yet kind God who has the Power of God to save us in the resurrection graciously has followed for us to become a raised risen life in Christ, risen in His risenness. We're His hands, His feet. Repent and follow Him. I am dead. I'm crucified. I died in going to the cross with Christ. I no longer live (Galations 2:20) but Christ lives in me. I live by the faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up for me. I'm off the stage and at the empty Tomb, where Christ went to ascend having said, of His work, "It is finished." He, who rising from supper a week before, and knowing all things in heaven and earth had been given into His hand, girded Himself, took a towel, and washed His disciple's feet. "You do likewise," He says to us.

Revival starts as love, joy, peace, passion, and forbearance characterize your acts because you're drawing close to Him in heart and life and lifestyle, sitting in heavenly places in Christ focusing on tasks at hand with all of your might. To do the opposite of love, God's love, will be absurd.

I Timothy 5:24 Those who yielded to God in life will have their sins before judged (at Calvary,) while those who did not yield will have their sins follow them into final judgment.

Jesus taught us to love one another and the Father in Heaven. He had a proclivity to teach everywhere He went. Proactively then break up your fallow ground and do the right thing as it's 'first love' to Jesus and bear fruit in the Holy Spirit, O Christian. Rend your hearts and not your deeds only. And proclaim the Gospel good news. When necessary, use words. We are not of this world, we're aliens. Your actions speak so loud I can't hear what your saying. As God's peculiar people welcome the Kingdom more. If they loved Christ they will love you. If they hated Christ they will hate you. When they revile your good name as evil, rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven, & bless. Love your enemies and do good to them. Know for sure if they are God's enemies or not. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers & authorities in the heavenlies, and spiritual wickedness in high places. Therefore submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you and put on the full armor of God and stand. Humble yourself under His mighty hand. Having done all to stand, stand. Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Stand in the might of His Sword, which is the Word of God, and breastplate, armor on. Who will stand on the Lord's side? As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. Dave Candel

We are all of the Church militant though the weapons we wield are not carnal but mighty through God for the pulling down of strong holds of ungodliness and sin. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood. But we take captive every thought to the obedience of Jesus Christ. We only want to hear what comes down from heaven.

What is faith and why is God not a God of faith but of hope and love? "The God of Hope," the Bible says,
"Father Of Mercies," "God of all comfort," & "God is love." I don't think the opposite of love is God is true. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the Patriarchs proved true and God is true Hebrews 11.

What a mighty God we serve. He made us like Himself in His image. Behold what kind of love amazing God lavishes upon us to be called the children of God and even then it doesn't appear what we shall be but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him (God & Jesus) as He is. Everyone that has this hope in him purifies himself even as He (God) is pure. The Father pours this love upon me even as He did on Jesus John 17:26.

Jesus was always about doing the Father's business. He went about doing good and healing all the people. Jesus always did what He saw His Father doing. Just like the Father loved His Son, so He loves me. This is the favor. I'm pleasing God and pleasing to God; I'm in the Divine will of God because I do what God demands. I have atonement for sin with a relationship to God. This is through Christ. If I were perfect at living it in heart and life and lifestyle I'd be Jesus. But I confessed to God I'm unable to accomplish anything good. Even so I myself must believe the words of scripture when it says, "Believe (no ifs, ands, or maybes) on the Lord Jesus Christ (and His Name) & you will be saved."

A Person's NAME tells a lot about the PERSON himself because they try to live up to their name's known meaning; My name means, "Beloved." It's David. Jesus was named by the angel in Matthew chapter one, and He is to be called, "Jesus, the Son of God," "for He shall save His people from their sins."

All a man's character and integrity are re: his deeds. Jesus has that special quality of being the noblest of mankind for He chose the best. The good is truly the enemy of the best. He obeyed God to a tee even to being Crucified on the Cross. His Name scripture says is higher than any other & highly exalted. He grew from babe to a child to an adult in this Name. He knew how to sell an ad: his Dad's ad. He worked as a Carpenter's apprentice probably a stone mason given the terrain. So if I, say.. wanted to trade my obvious shortfall in regard to God's glory and admit I'm wrong before Him, then..give it to God in exchange for Christ's Righteousness, I get to hear the Name of Jesus said over me by God instead of David C. who fell short by sin. I have a relationship with God. God forever sees the righteousness of the Son over me for Christ is my Righteousness. If I continue.. belief, I HAVE assurance.

Not bad this transaction, and easy to continue beliefs in it but you really should read the Bible to see that its true and necessary. If you read it to start as a great moral piece of literature you can just as easily bend your eye & ear to see how much integrity is in its truth microcosmicly and it's pages therein are Holily and Righteously telescoping portrayals of Divine Deity's Character as Morally and Holily true to plumb and reveals the Divine salvation plan God chose to share with all mankind. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," and He never said He wasn't God (He is either Lord, liar, or lunatic) but confirmed the Divine words that He is God He spoke with deeds and truth in love by miracles/healing. He became the Author and finisher of our faith, dying yet Risen, being made a perfect sacrifice, sinless, our atonement. In rising from the dead He proved God's promise were true. And in fact God is proven true in His Character as Holy, Righteous, and good in raising Christ from the dead by glory Romans 6:5,6. God's glory is the aura of surrender & wonder we have beholding the face of Jesus Christ in what God did. It's the power of the Resurrection. We are the glory of God inside by reflection and enlightenment. Have awe before Him.

Let us go on to perfection (God's kind of living-vitality of life) leaving behind the old fettered mind; We're pursuing the high call of God the prize which is the fullness of Christ. "Beat the system," for Christ has done this already for you. Don't "play the system," but let Christ beat the system through you. Be His child, a son or daughter of the King! in His rule in you by Him now.

You can live through Christ in His Risen participation in you through you but first get saved. Be His disciple. Be Christ's son or daughter and stand for Him, victor over sin, this world, and the devil, and you'll read of the place He has been preparing for you for over 2000 years hint John 14:1-4ff. Start by confessing you're a sinner and need God through the Son. I can't pray that prayer for you and convince you it's important. God can.

You need spiritual eyes to discern the spiritual truth in scripture God is asking you to believe and accept salvation as a result. Ask God for His help in that. The Holy Spirit can help you. Just ask. Make that a conversation you have between you and God. David Candel - Bethel Assembly Of God Church's Good Will Ambassador (Better is one day re:In Your Courts than thousands elsewhere.) :-))

Do you know if you're going to heaven? Do you know O Christian that you're an embodiment, living epistle or if you will a sermon 'in shoes?' God sees watchfully and cares and He knows what you're afraid of. God loves you! II Timothy 1:7 Do you not know all this? He promises Heaven to those that obey Christ's richest bottomline command for salvation but we can't walk out of the Father's hand and expect it! I expect I wish God had made me a Calvinist but He didn't so here goes: God sent you His Son, His only Begotten Son to earth for you to die for your sins on Calvary's cross as you accept Him personally for your own (Savior) to make you His own (disciple.) Jesus is able to keep you but stay under the Father's mighty Hand of rule and/or protection in His Risenness in participating in His Life as said in James and I Peter even where you encounter a place or two of narrowing (thilipsis.) If you don't learn to abide in the Son (Christ) you can't be 'elect in the Son.' For you'll be in disobedience that leads to an unfaithful way or reversal of crime before God, and doubting, and the next step is apostacy. It is a truancy of not allowing His Presence free access or full sway to your life's ?. Let Jesus and God draw you the line to apostacy. You stay far away from it. Jesus is the one to complete His mission. He's done the Mars thing and He will Phil. 1:6. Did I say I wasn't a real Calvinist? Yes, you can believe I'm not one by what I've said thus far. You can go free to heaven on God's ticket of grace to be saved but 'you should have been started already,' (a line in C.S. Lewis's book, Perelandra.) Live by faith a disciple by grace and obedience being in Christ in the relationship with God abiding growing in Him you have started now. This would be the true teaching of Calvin nonetheless. Salvation is a free gift, blessings conditional. Stay in the Father's hand and no one "is the promise" is able/capable of pulling you out. Ah but don't 'you' walk out either nonetheless.

But have you become the disciple of Christ, not living just for afluent lifestyle or natural comforts or just a follower of someone's or man's religion? Religion is a false institution, a man-made attempt at deeds to get to God, doomed to fail. Jesus will never leave ya. He will never forsake ya nor dissapoint ya. In Jesus all God's promises are yes! We say, the "amen." This can make you uncomfortable if you have not been living it. It is an uphill journey! He is our Messiah King! Have you seen His conditions for salvation and blessings? Acts 2:38; John 3:16; Eph. 2:6-10; Acts 4:12; Rev.3:20,21. These are all 'in Christ' and outside of Christ is sinking sand so stay with Him & build your life upon the Rock which is Christ Jesus. Your deeds which are good do not mix with the life of faith in and by grace (God's able help for favor,) with God & neither do your sins detract from His life according to your faith walk 'in Christ' trusting His perfection in Zoe (God's kind of living - His perfect vitality) if you know paradise restored Ephesians 2:6-10.

Jesus presented His gift/sacrifice mercy acceptably to God in the Throneroom in heaven after His Resurrection where the mercyseat saw the real satisfying of God's wrath against sin in His grace Presence and this happened once for all. It's to give you God's Presence abundant and to all as they make decisions to accept Christ as Savior. It is inside us if we receive the gift of salvation. God will fight for you (it says in Joshua 23:3-10) in life's daily battle in this Zoe life within God's Perfection but, "you must cling to Lord" (verses 3-5.) and, "Not one of any of the Lord's good promises which the Lord had made..  ..had failed but all came to pass," is the second part of highlighted promises in Joshua's Book 21st chapter, verses 43 through 45 in context I'd like to give. Look for them now in the Promised Canaan's Land of God's Victorious Christian living. We need to cling to each other tightly also to win. Do you not know this? We rise as a team even in the Olympics.

You can know for sure God is with you to the end, and He will never dissapoint you nor forsake you. You're on the road for heaven, and the Bible tells you the way (Jesus Christ,) but not the how. For you must individually finish the race in Christ where you're particularly one strong person never quitting for being in God's fight for His mercy, one in unity with the Body of Christ, particularly bent to win uniquely. There are team rewards but do not suffer blame for unrighteousness in any way by sin particularly secularly. In this way you can present every man to Christ and to God as Paul the Apostle did blamelessly. No motivation is in concentration and focus in a personal reward alone here in Biblical Salvationist's mind, but over everything you can be committed and dedicated to His cause, motivated, obeying God not man in the relationship. However God has good plans that mesh in the relationship with our praying everywhere but you must lift up holy hands without wrath or doubting Jer. 29:11; ITim. 2:8. Phil. 2:14 also says do all things without murmuring or disputing (complaining.) Do this attitude and position because with surrender and your worship and prayers to God you get God's help to do all that for God is able and worthy. God be honored, everywhere. He is faithful Almighty God & Provider.

You see mankind has been taught all over the world & over & over again from Adam's sin on through eternal time present to do surrendering of his will to do the will of God. It so in the Bible. In man's surrender to the man Jesus Christ (all mankind really (see Romans 5, 6 for jumps here)) man is inherently evil, totally depraved, and radically corrupt, don't you know? We feel man has evolved but indeed we can't make societal leaps or evolving because we suffer ill-fruitbearing ie. the same consequences for our adverse deeds and words we incur as Adam did to this day & from our own nature's lower bent. Indeed God's Word says so. Romans 3:23a says, "All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory," and Ro. 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Master.)" Read Isaiah 59:1,2; And "All we like sheep (of the shepherd) have gone astray, we have together turned aside and the Lord has laid on Him (Jesus Christ) the iniquity of us all," says Isaiah 53:6. In this failure of man's to perform God's will correctly by any one man (take heed Christ did though) one can see mankind falls short in general and by general revelation to the glory (of God,) by willfully trespass sinning. And we all fall short in correctness and holiness to the glory of God in particular (by such transgression.) But you can win if you return to the illumination of Special Revelation (The Bible,) & the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls (I Peter 2:25 says.) Let God in. He loves ya. We worship at your feet Lord Jesus and hear to obey Your Law. We lift our sights in v.2:24 of I Peter.

You can be alive and clean and forgiven yet alive in Remittance of your sin in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit animated whole and no more consciousness of sin left at all, well in fact. It's in a born again experience with God beginning a lifelong change first admitting you're a sinner and do sin. People tend to leave God out of it, but God is the reality, the Goal, and knowing Who God He is. God's character is righteous, Holy, & good. Jesus is Lord and Savior. All things are under His feet potentially.

You can find a place for God in your heart and be saved with certainty becoming of the Body of Christ a member of the Family of God whole. This is a true Calvin meaning (Calvin emphasis: God's Sovereignty) but Armin meaning goes along with it (Reformed Wesleyan Gospel Free Will emphasis: it's up to our response also.) It will happen if you admit you're a sinner before God and can repent meeting God's conditions for the heart bowing by grace leading eventually to a move into heaven, saved. Let's take the second step for instance: Believe on His Name (Jesus's) & believing the present activating Love of God we come to Him (Jesus Christ at the cross and empty Tomb) in your heart and life & believe Christ not Muhammad, not Krishna, not Buddha, not Ba'ai, but aware God loves you greatly, believe Him saves you. And He can take the stone away:

He can present you in freedom (the Spirit of God makes free literally) and with Holiness and blamelessness before Him without any reproach before the Father God at the Bema Judgment Seat and beginning now too in your life in God now too. Eternity begins at new birth spiritually, O immortal one. But again you have to first admit you're a sinner, you have failed God in other words, deserve hell, and accept Jesus Christ foremost and by yourself & a priority one in your heart by faith as God's payment for your sins, atonement, and follow Him, in other words trust Him implicitly as a disciple with lifestyle and life & follow. You are saved if you take His yoke upon you & do the journey thing life long. For He that endures to the end shall be saved for His yoke is easy and burden light. Hope from God floats. Do the dance. Live bones. Live. 

For all men are on one side and God is on the other side calling to us. Jesus Christ is the one and He, the only bridge you must have to cross the other side. Over the ridge you can be a bridge-builder like Barnabas (he was called son of consolation,) was in a man-made fashion too if you take God's offer of eternal life and career your heart with God doing true service as a volunteer in God's army with heaven to come, saved. John 3:17 says by the way,"For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through Him. This shows we are saved from wrath in the Son. We have participation in His substitutionary life, partners.

God said "Paid in full" and "account settled" when you would put your faith, belief, actions, and thrust of your bodywill/conscience forward: to trust in Christ's sacrifice of His body (which means, His life of 33 1/2 years) and Blood (the life is in the Blood) for salvation. That is for God to give you His Righteousness or rightness to be in right standing with God at peace in position and at peace between you and God like you're standing at attention and He blesses you showering you with His gifts.

This is to be in a relationship with God of fellowship daily drawing near of a new person in Christ with a new nature in fellowship position & love, joy, and peace showing at will on your face as you begin at being real & at being a living dwelling and embodiment for God in abiding daily for access to the Living God freely as He pours out to ya. It's by the Holy Spirit's wishes for you to be drawing near O living precious child of God by abiding in Christ your Mediator & High Priest daily learning of His Presence in other words doing right deeds from grace. You have virtue from Christ to live righteous because that's your choice now. But you have to follow Him as a disciple/learner not just a follower here and there but in holiness precept upon precept as the inner circle did (Peter, James, and John did) and like the twelve did (and the seventy in Luke 10) in training and in being faithful in the little things by faith learning God is faithful and Who God is. God will grow your knowledge & teach you what is Holy and how to wade thru to swim (through what is not.)

Romans 12:1,2. Draw near to Him as a disciple in full force of recognition of His Majesty within learning God's will for you. Stay full of God's fullness and Presence and The Holy Spirit's gifts in hope & Shekinah glory. It's by trust in God through Christ in tough times through the Holy Spirit obedient we learn to console others II Cor.1:1-3. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. David said, "I had fainted (given up) unless I had believed that I'd see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living," in Psalm 27:13. Strength will come as we wait (hope) upon the Lord (v14.) And Job said, "Shall we not accept good only from the Lord and not evil also?" Scripture says, "In this Job sinned not or charged God foolishly." Job stayed true in adverse circumstances though He repented of arrogance at the end of the testing with double what he started with in blessings and long life thereafter.

Live I say but not by religion, nor it's rules, & regulations or it's institutions. Read your Bible, pray, witness, and testify with church attendance at a Bible believing Assembly. Hope in God is a firm anticipation and expectation of/in the goodness of God as you gather and assemble in Jesus' Name. He through the Holy Spirit will give waters too. Out of your belly will flow living water, life from the Holy Spirit in wells for others in witnessing and for you to keep Divine conduit open between you and God. There is nothing more important for you in this life and the next, than to keep in daily Communion with your Heavenly Father. God answers prayer so believe as He reveals His promises to you. Life is becoming Holy and God lovely to you and awesome.

Justification: "just-as-if-I've-never-sinned" as Ephesians 1:7 says, "remit," is yours as one abiding in Christ, saved. Taking up your cross and your cross's meaning's can be seen in you individually & uniquely too. This is if you respond to God's call to salvation in coming to God through Christ. Then and only then you in joy genuinely experiencing will feel the feel grow like the flash of windshield wipers in the rain wiping endearing tender justification along life's way/journey (God's way,) (like Mr. MaGoo or the 'Flash Of Genius.') Do by all means ask Jesus inside if you haven't done so. Accept Christ and be born again. The truth shall set you free. As you read in the Bible of the surrender of all needed to follow Christ in God's way, and all the Holiest way in God entails in His yoke in this life in the New Covenant, and in the heart, read in James of an entire life (wanting nothing,) set apart for God's use. Begin to see the love of God for you more as it is, it's height, length, width and depth of experience. God's love surpasses knowledge (epignosis or intimate knowing in Greek, yada in Hebrew) and so in God's love begin to find in it: the belief of walking in obedience, experiencing God's fellowship, motivation in that access to strength, the love walk of positive grace prompts, and love from God's mercy to give you by sanctifying power to obey Christ and live in His kind gentle life side by side with & in Him but mightily conduct your works also in participation in His outward and inward life, as He lived it. 

Live like Christ does. Gently. Mightily. Obey God not men. There are rewards after death too. But practically be bearing the burdens of one another in love for each other though seated in Christ in heavenly places and dumb to this world's ways.

Lay up treasures for yourselves in heaven where no moth, neither rust, nor thieving rascal in corruption exists to diminish it. Jesus taught us to watchfully care for all around us in the Kingdom of God expanding within (by the way ask God in prayer that it will be on earth as it is in heaven and come to you.) It is truly the heavenly rule and reign of God's Spirit in you & over you by Christ's (& God's) being Lord of every aspect and area of your life. This is the Kingdom of God inside. Over time this becomes fruit that is much more fruit. Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him is Jesus's command. Get off the stage in life and come to the cross. And it's a delight for death to come to your own will in order for you to obey the will of God in subservience and adandonment because now and then you meet God's appointments more faithfully by Christ's Blood. Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him. You won't want to betray the testimony of others then at all by praying, "God, what have you done for me lately?" in a flippant fashion then O believing Maryturos (Grk. living witness.)  

You don't have to worry to add to your spiritual life these things, for it's your Father good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Christ did it all on the cross. Don't play the world's games of disobeying God's Voice and dimming it's going forth. Be real in your faith, impartial & daily love life for the Lord. Live Sword in hand spiritual armor on in fellowship awareness of God your inheritance in God is settled in heaven incorruptible in grace and mercy. Be richly sanctified because we can be sanctified in a moment of becoming saved and continuing thereafter becoming like Christ, in a process of holy living throughout your lifetime along with God's doing a work on you, for you, to you, and in you. Sanctification is through the Word. Jesus said of His Father and His Word, "Thy Word is truth." John 17.

Have you asked the Savior in at any time in the past? "Law came by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ," says John 1:17. We no longer look at the gospel through the eyes & the lens of the law and how to be good enough but through a microscope of what your motive is for doing, inside Galations 3 and 4; Rom.8:3,4. When you're saved you live a life more abundantly in/of Christ a little more all the time says John 10:10; Gal. 2:20. Obey Christ subservient to God of course and in prayer without ceasing and never ceasing from doing good Gal 6:7. Being human also helps in your walk with God, & to be real. You cease from strife, division, & pursue good.

Look ahead constantly continuously consistently immoveable in regard to your stand against sin. And in integrity matchless to lead in forcing a path when no one's watching and you draw close to God & live the Word of God to receive help and/or grace and mercy in time of need from God as Jesus Christ leads like a Good Shepherd or directs as One. Jesus said, "no other voice will his disciples follow." John 10:1ff. Jesus's Voice you trust like getting into His wheelbarrow for the Mighty Lalendia's trick (A mighty lifetime tightrope walk across the point of no return at Niagra Falls with you in the wheelbarrow trusting Jesus's voice.)

Jesus behaved obediently while suffering wrongfully, pleasing God pleasing Him perfectly in this efficacious deed of atonement. And He died, and arose again and is exalted. He was and is 100% man and 100% God. He silenced Himself from all pride of men so He can give an empathetic ear & be sympathetic to our weakness, meek, and lowly and we can find rest for our souls.

This great fitness of Jesus's physical aspect of obedience in Christ's joy in going to the cross was for us to escape temptation and pressing hard (Greek thilipsis, a narrowing of the way,) by going through the temptation or narrowing with Him victorious. Christ understands obedience through suffering and/or going through to God a forerunner & Captain of our human condition and veiled in flesh the Godhead seeing incarnated to stamp His image on our being & become our Savior and exalted High Priest Mediator as a breath of wind symbolizes that power of that wind in a much greater way or quantity to destroy (in a small way: a pile of leaves) (but Infinite God though decimating evil and sin wherever light shines,) & to reverse the tide of evil everywhere always. In the same fashion Jesus came to destroy totally all the works of the devil and all sin. Jesus being like a puff of wind that becomes the sum total of all cyclones, tornados, and hurried winds in their power to destroy, so Jesus came to destroy all the devils works and all the evil works of the devil caused by (one man, Adam's) sin. His Atonement (2000 years ago) has & will do this.

We must become His. Our error is in not being concerned enough with the devil or being on the other hand way too concerned with the devil. We want authority to have power but God gave the authority to the authorities whom we must obey and pray for, sinful though they may be. Some lead in right ways we should learn from. But obey the authorities nonetheless.

Jesus's life lived was obedient in a pleasing way to God. "In the Volume of the Book, 'it is written of Me,' to Do Thy will O God" Hebrews 9,10. In that normal human but God reverancing way He being a perfect living sacrifice of God's choosing without blemish and beyond any reproach: made a human being in excellence and nobly qualified to atone for all mankind's sins, Son of God honored by all. He died, arose, Christ arose because He lived an indestructible life, a holy, harmless, and undefiled life. 'You can't keep a good man down,' the saying goes. May Jesus Christ be praised & exalted. "Without the shedding of Blood there is no remission of sins."

The example God is looking for from us isn't for us to die a crucifixion death but for us to love others and God with that God-kind-of-love, His agape and phileo love of laying our life down for the lives or good of others especially the brethren.

He is a forerunner hunter forging a way into God's Presence to it's end (to bring us near) so we can partake of His life by & through His Power and be made a witness, and become a living sacrifice to obey in His life, death, and resurrection in a love walk with the Father. It's a life of love for God we have of drawing near to the nth degree to Him in an able capacity. It's only once that we get saved, but we try desperately in our need for God daily to draw near in our need to Him within by the Characterizations of God becoming known and knowing who we are, nothing without Him but in Him triumphant. But with Him we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us winners/extroverts. We are overcomers in this life through Him Who loved us Who overcame (nikao in Greek) this world (by the help of His Father.) We know Christ within & bravely to be overcomers. Knowledge of Christ within is sometimes the only victory we have, walking with Him, but let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven Mt 5:16.

Christ's Character, had Integrity, and His inner motivations, had Character. For He honestly invariably by blow of hammer to give sparks Heb. 11 did the things God is supposed to do. He healed profusely intensely personally widely profusely individually & miraculously and even healed from a distance. He demonstrated real proof & evidence of Who He is saying He is by commanding the winds, waves and weather successfully. He is Lord. He called the Twelve His disciples the Twelve Apostles individually and with His great prayful understanding. John 7:12 says, "greater things" can we do because, "I go to the Father." Everybody He came in contact with He bettered in some way and He and they left better for their interaction with Him. He was and is totally good news. He even healed on the Sabbath while the Pharisees and Sadducees take note sought to judge that. What indignation is brought out in that these religious leaders rejected His 1st coming.

If His disciples Jews of His day some say stole the body & made up the Resurrection then where is the Body? Even so, every one of them, the twelve became a martyr with fortitude through seeming insurmountable odds at adversity for their beliefs. Hence, this a historical proof of factuality of Christianity's early evidence and a defense of our hope and faith in the Gospel. 

His Divine Nature obeying faithfully took on God's wrath for our sins while He was making a Redemptive Justificative Righteous scandulous display of satan for us and over his evil reign by His Death: in a procession of slaves behind him Colossians 1,2.

Calvin believed as scripture that God is Sovereign which is the word for God's control of time and space in a continuum. Red is the color of the Blood that flowed down the face of Someone Who loved us so. Propitiation is the word for Jesus's once in eternal time's satiated satisfaction of God's paying the Price for our reconciliation back to God. He pleased God perfectly. The Hebrew word for atonement is kotar and the word for pitch is koter, one letter difference. Noah was commanded to put pitch outside and inside of the ark he built.

No one took His life from Him. Christ gave it. "For I have the Power," Jesus said, "to pick it up and I have Power to lay it down, 'My Life.'" "For He made Him sin who knew no sin for us that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him." II Cor. 5:21 We want to be found in Him not having a righteousness of our own but from Him & has its Source in Him. Phil 3:9.

God took His hand and His hat and bowed and tipped it to us calling us 'friend' in His will to choose to love. To us God's hat came off and came home with Him as well (His love is True!) He's not willing that any should perish but that all may come to repentance. God is the perfect gentleman also. God through Christ welcomes us. He never offers an invitation where He is not invited. He knocks at the door of our heart? Do we act to open it? He will come in and dine with us and we with Him & this is His promise in Rev 3:20.

We have the opportunity now for God's strong fellowship first deeper and higher by receiving Christ in our hearts and be a believer more and more ad inifinitum. The world cannot see Him or know Him but we love God and do come close to God having experienced His Kingdom manifestations and revelation inside, we drawing near, ourselves to God.  Realize that Jesus having torn the veil in the Temple that kept people from entering God's Presence during the Old Covenant & that kept us away, from the giving of the Law on has now provided the inner life to God's satisfying, pleasing, and favor. In might we have been made content from Him in Him as Christians who are born again, thankful. We can know God in a reality inside in the twentyfirst century & be near to God, because it is well with our soul in Jesus Col. 2:9,10. We are become seekers of truth and are the followers of the truth also: Jesus being truth, the way, and the life personified John 14:6,7. We can do greater things Jesus said 14:12. God is Holy and we can become some so.

God as Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. Not to appease some devil He did this but simply because He loves you so much He went the distance to save you, needing His justification to save us He provided. And we were considered God's enemies from the Fall Rom 5:6,7. For His great love wherewith He loved us God judged all our sins on Jesus instead of Adam. Jesus paid it all (an eternity of eternities in length and width of punishment on the cross of all mankind's sins past, present, & future) and we can show repentance from sin (a principle) and sins also (practices,) with a thankful heart & glorify Him and exalt His Name..together, and worship God and pray and share/work as a team.

 You see, Christianity is the only 'religion' (relationship really, with God) where God bleeds for you, not you bleeding..for God.

Then accepting Jesus Christ in our hearts we're greatly magnifying His extended nail-pierced hand's Price's ministry (It cost Him everything for our salvation. We should make this great estimation of what He did and does through His hand.) He paid it all and we live born anew a newness of life born again life and know God on a personal individual eternal time basis by continuously willingly following in the Risen Savior Jesus Christ and His Righteousness in His steps in our hearts in His Risen participation as partners saved. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast. As long as Hezekiah sought the Lord He prospered. As God revelatory meets needs day after day by our reading the Word of God we're being led by the Holy Spirit in grace and mercy into a raised life with Him. The work of salvation is finished but we day by day need to live abiding in Him, His grace and mercy (in time of need) occupying until He calls us home or The Rapture I Thessalonians 4:16,17.

The Holy Spirit is given us as a seal and our comfort for our lives in Christ to abundantly live as a witness unto Jesus Acts 1:8. The Holy Spirit is also our Comforter/Companion in Greek a 'Paracletos,' one called alongside to help running a race or marathon to tutor and coach us to the finish line. He mentors us up close and personal in our minds & in the race to be a witness, (Greek allos of the same kind allos Holy Spirit as Christ had.) His grace is enough. El Shaddai is an Old Testament revealed Name for God meaning 'All-Sufficient One' or 'Almighty.' Jehovah-Jireh is God our 'Provider.' We can't earn it, but we receive it thoroughly, freely, this gift of salvation and then receive sanctification through grace by the Holy Spirit and His Guarantee or in other words Downpayment (10%,) for the rest of our lives. His lovingkindness is better than life. And we take the words of the Gospel by faith literally, and live them anew holy as if living the impossible I Corinthians 12:12-20.

For it's impossible for a fig tree to change its nature unless it receives a graft. Then the graft (us, a wild olive shoot soon to be in Christ) can live in it and thrive being nourished at the root which is Christ.

It involves being born again and nurtured nurture at an Assembly Of God house, receiving grace in this Christian life by which we stand having admitted we've sinned and fallen short of God's glory, but asking for forgiveness of God as soon as we're made aware we've sinned and then receiving forgiveness. We love forgiveness first forgiving others if they have ought against us a benefit from God and pray I John 1:6-9. Staying in the Father's hands is in keeping Christ's commands. By keeping them we know we love God and Christ obey. We know God loves because we love Him and He loves us first.

Leaving sin behind it's daily pressing in, pressing on, praying, witnessing, pursuing His righteousness, thanksgiving, looking unto Jesus all the time, and in the Word & on our knees studying, praying. We study to show ourselves approved unto God daily or in God's sight and man's, a workman, needing not to be ashamed, reading the Word daily, renewing the mind in Him daily not being afraid to be different. We rightly divide the word of truth. Living in Him we learn progressive revelation of Christ in grace & knowledge within and Who He is.

It begins on your knees bowing for salvation to be yours before your Creator God wrestling in prayer for yourself and others. You can get on your knees in your heart to live maryturos (a living witness; in grk. sounds like the word for martyr) in your heart and lifestyle. Maryturos also means 'gain approval' not the earning attempt but by mercy & grace not deeds. In this way you will be doing due dilligence to magnify the works of God in you and to you & you will exemplify a Christlike character example all by faith. Do your 'do' dilligence to get this far I pray in God's mercy. For it's the Father's good pleasure to will and to do His motivating of you within Phil 2:12-14.

I pray you make your decision today to get saved, first.

I did it God's way (as opposed to mine,) as friends of God who do what He says. We can know what God does. In Christ we do what God does and strive for such. We dream God's dreams and pray God's prayers. We want to nobly live a godly righteous life. God demands we strive to it (in the Lord.) A death is certain in the Lord but after this the judgment so at every turn we attempt to live Holy.

I sought God though raised in a very Christian home, & was saved at a very young age. I want you to know I repented of my sins. I was convinced myself then and have been convinced/convicted (both) testifying at Bethel Assembly of God Church about it ever since that time. I never lived a life of debauchery, dissipation, nor sin but I knew Holiness was from God alone and I desperately needed to admit I was wrong before God and accepted Christ inside to be saved and needed it pronto. I made it a priority to get right with Father God at church at an altar in my heart and haven't looked back since. Jesus, our Righteous Branch (Isaiah 6) is able to save all who come to Him to find God's love real today in finding salvation even in the day of someone important dying like King Uzziah. An angel is a must to carry a coal with tongs to our lips to purge them from the embers on the altar making us clean. It's in Isaiah 6, the prophet experiences that.

Ask God to make Himself real. After that prayer for God for salvation to God will be heard. After that the sky's the limit and above it the unlimit. Get saved and God will hear you. 

But before that that's the only prayer you can pray for, salvation in Christ. Paul made a big thing about being "in Christ." Jesus is coming back for a holy, righteous church people of the world and in church, in mercy alive to Him and crucified to themselves, alive in Him, loving purely in Him with a holy purity of "without spot or blemish/wrinkle, or any such thing." Are you coming to find yourself Jesus's Bride? Come to meet the Bridegroom Jesus Christ 'The Ultimate Lover' who will present you blameless and without reproach potentially if you stay in the Father's hand  continuously. Stay serving if so be that you have tasted that the Lord is kind.

The saved will be judged by what they did with their grace in Christian life in Christ's merciful riches in purity & grace in love and holiness, and talents, time, and treasure by Him, and not by a sinful lower nature bent but by a joyous good life of obedience to Christ under it all and over it all: fruit: gold, silver, and precious stones and with the fruit of the Holy Spirit from you spouting (like a whale.) It's like the inlaid gold Moses was commanded to put all over all the outside of the Ark of the Covenant of wood cedar. Let's pray like Jesus who got up early to pray to His Father.

And He was God submitted in His flesh getting up early to pray to gain and have strength to stay away from the sin edge, and the possibility of error. How much more do we need to get up early to pray and also continually pray without ceasing and not be quitting in performing good deeds. Believe the promises! But we must endure in a right way to Christ!

Rev. 22:1ff.(That's in The Revelation of Jesus Christ - that's in the end of the books of the Bible; check it out: we win being in Christ not in the flesh!) "There's no better place on earth than (being) on the road that leads to Heaven," (Stephen Curtis Chapman sings.) Respectfully and with Agapeon Love, Dave Candel

Bethel Assembly Of God  <---my church (what a blessing!) 

Has the reader noticed that, when the Savior was here upon earth, He was continually bringing man face to face with the impossible? He laid upon men commands which were utterly contrary to the flesh and to human understanding. They were often most unreasonable to the mind, as well as ungrateful to the flesh. How impossible and unreasonable to demand that human nature love its enemies, turn the other cheek, rejoice in suffering, in reproach, in persecution, and on through the whole list of impossibles! And what was all this for but to bring men face to face with themselves, with Diety, and with their need of His grace to do these very impossibles? The Savior was striking at the citadel of the will. He would therefore cross that human will, contradict it, and bring the individual to conviction and submission. This is the supreme reason why Christ was continually teaching His own about the Cross. By principle, and by precept, and by parable, Christ taught the Cross. Somebody has said, "God often touches our best comforts that we may live loose to them. It was the doctrine of Jesus, that if thy right hand offend thee, thou must cut it off; and if thy right eye offend thee, thou must pluck it out; that is, if the most dear, the most useful and tender comforts thou enjoyest, stand in thy soul's way, and interrupt thy obedience to the voice of God, and thy conformity to His holy will revealed in thy soul, thou art engaged, under the penalty of damnation, to part with them." This quotation may sound harsh--"a hard saying"--but Christ did not utter smooth sayings. Since "God is only our God by a birth of His own divine nature within us," the Lord Jesus sought to contradict "the natural" at every point. The Cross symbolized to a perfection that contradiction. Just as His own Cross was the supreme expression of His own perfect obedience, tried to the utmost, so must Jesus bring each disciple, through an awful process of inner crucifixion, to the end of His own self-will, and bring him to do the will of God. As has been said, Christ did not come to straighten out the natural, but to "cross" it out.

--from Born Crucified by L.E. Maxwell, pp. 110-111. Publisher, Moody Press.

       Clear conscience is from God confirming the heart. It's the word of scripture over our heart inkling in based on our belief the truth Hebrews 4:7-13. Have you ever seen a sparkling jewel in it's facets giving off light? As it diminishes we walk away. It is by the Cross of Calvary and coming to Christ in the past there is no more consciousness of sin. We're only pilgrims here. Read the Bible daily and wash your mind as God performs His work like Him giving you a towel for a good relaxing bath with soap and water, and with lean looks at the mirror, His Word, which is the law of liberty to get up, and walk out of the prison cells we make with our sin's mess James 1:22-25. Scripture says we're who we are, joint-heirs with Jesus, heirs of God. Let's let Jesus lift our sights in these trying days. Letting God search your heart and making changes accordingly is important. It is a lifeline for us. It's more than anything tangible or symbolic. It's in the spiritual fellowship with God we have through Jesus Christ our Lord Psalm 139:23,24. That 24th verse says literally for God to see if there is any way of pain in us. We need God more and more as individuals of our nation to intercede for it. Lifestyle/conduct must be sensitized by grace and mercy in time of need God making inroads in our hearts, getting His fingers in our lives letting Him have His way through our surrender to His will and ways on us. Nearer my God to Thee. Nothing in my hand I bring simply to Thy Cross I cling. God wants a pure heart with single devotion. Stay under God's hand of protection.

Admonition & Exhortation

The harvest is ripe, The laborers are few

The call comes today, What would you do?

Go forth to the reaping, While yet it is day

Night cometh soon, When no one can pray.

How aware are we of the promises of God? We should be.

Dave C

 DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE IS GOOD NEWS? IT'S SO BECAUSE IT SPEAKS OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIS GRACE WHICH IS THE GREATEST GOOD NEWS and the Old Testament which was a shadow and type in the Law of the good things to come IN CHRIST. Prophecy can be good news if you know Christ personally so here goes: The media news said: The bailout passed but... the bad news: housing downturn has to reverse for it to work ergo Freddie and Fannie have to be working better evidently. A man of dark countenance may emmerge and fierce countenance be a world leader/problem solver and may come out of the middle east or European Union and do just that: solve a major problem or hurdle to attaining peace & agreed upon answers to enable bare subsistence living (famine, Tribulation.) And in the process He might gain such notoriety with popularity for world domination that the world planet will not want to gather under him politically, neither then yet religiously, but in the end we will,  just have to (to survive take a mark on the hand or forehead.) You can read about this dire prediction that is coming true before our eyes in the Bible of the antichrist's pact with Israel for seven years in several of it's 66 books by several authors, over the span 1400 years in the writing of the Book the Bible, all saying the same thing more or less. By this time begins three and a half years of limited demolition of the planet's men & man's inhumanity to man on a larger scale but then escalating in the last half of the seven years unbearably. People will be alive nervous beyond normal tensions and wish to die. The Bible is the only source to heed and obey and not only so specially in this area of the future/present also. In Hal Lindsay's book, "The Late Great Planet Earth" he said these things over 35 yrs ago and still today. And Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins authored many accurate and fascinating novels precisely written surrounding these Biblical predictions in the last few years which are very widely read. David Wilkerson founder of Teen Challenge International, Inc. had these ideas as well in his recent writings on revival. Willard Cantelon and others wrote a book called, "The Coming Economic Earthquake." Predictions such as these in the Bible are for foretold truth (forthtold) in the Word Of God by many preacher's preaching with their  accompanying features that have come true (full circle in our lifetime or generation) and are coming true in the news. These are a few of the facts: #1) Israel becomes a nation 1948, after Major Prophets and O.T.& N.T. predict their ingathering & coming together, then #2) famines, earthquakes, pestilences,  wars, and rumors of wars will take place, and love of most will grow cold, while apostacy will be happening. "Like it was in Noah's days, 'people will be marrying and giving in marriage'" & 'carrying on business as normal' , "until the time Noah and his family went into the ark and were safe." Daniel's book says that knowledge will increase and travel will be quick. Open the morning paper to know the sum of these things have taken place already in partial fulfillments. #3) Jesus, our Messiah lived a God-fearing perfect Holy pleasing Holy leaving an up-to-God's discretion Life perfectly (lived to death by the cross) 2000 years ago on the cross & arose to establish God's New Covenant. God wanted a family. His birth, life, death, resurrection, ascension, glorification, and seating at the Father's right hand eventually were literally foretold in the Bible hundreds of years before it happened with inerrancy and were proved true by taking place as predicted. (see Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22) and #4) His Second Coming will be just as surely taking place and set to occur soon and we believe this eschatology will take place in one generation (from the start of the birth of Israel) and in two phases: The Gathering called the The Rapture, before The 7 yr. Tribulation: All Christians will make a disappearance from earth through the clouds of heaven to meet Jesus in the air for a Marriage Supper. Preceding that almost simultaneously to it, all the righteous dead who died 'in the Lord' righteously will awaken and ascend in glorified bodies through the clouds and then we also who are alive will be caught up with them at His coming to rise to be with Him forever. In the twinkling of an eye this will take place. We'll have an engagement with our Lord, the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ seven years away from this planet. And the second phase of His Coming takes place at the end of the seven year period when all descriptions of the Kingdom of God (Kingdom of Heaven, the same thing) as explained in the Bible throughout it's Book's chapters will come true as Jesus returns to end the 7 year reign of Antichrist over all the earth by the War of Armageddon. Jesus will come back through the blue and us His Children will be with Him on white horses (chargers) (He in front in fact on a white horse and with His vesture dipped in Blood and He called the Lamb of God (Word of God) with His sword in His mouth) and with the angels & we will follow to come back to earth (literally He to set his foot on the Mt. of Olives once again and split it) to end all wars and begin with the 1000 years: the angels will set up The 1000 year Peaceful Reign Millenium, as The Kingdom of God on earth. Literally that will be fulfilled on earth as it is in heaven where peace and safety be the order of the day and righteousness and justice will abound and rightness of God's will. Wait, it gets better: Just as if that weren't enough, a Satellite will come to earth suspended over it which is The New Jerusalem, (City of God (or Mt. Zion as it's called in Hebrews) like a sparkling jewel coming down from God out of heaven.) Peace and justice will be the rule and reign of the day as Jesus lays down the (New Covenant law of love) principle, in treatment of others with equity and fairness of each other with/by a rule of iron in equality & Righteousness! Benefits to come: The wolf will lay down with the lamb, men will turn their swords into plowshares, and men shall not learn war anymore. The lion will eat straw like the ox. A little child shall play on a cockatrice's den and a child shall lead them. All the righteous nations (those left who are righteous after the war's end) will bring their glory into it (The New Jerusalem.) You can find those words inscribed at The United Nations Building in New York City, New York. The primary Biblical portions that you can find all this Prophecy in are: Revelations (chapter 1:7, 4-22); Daniel 1-12 chapters; Matthew 24,25; Luke 17:22ff.;21:15ff. Mark 13:24ff.; II Peter 1-3; I & II Thessalonians; I Corinthians 15, 16; Isaiah 29-66; Ezekiel 38,39; And Many Of The Minor Prophets and conclusively all of scripture given in it's 66 books.

      Keep in mind this all could happen at anytime immanently. Prophecy has been fulfilled so far presently for a (twelve o'clock hour)  immanent scenario that could kick in at any time in crescendo escalating fashion. Larry Norman, a pioneer in Contemporary Christian Music wrote a poiniant song, called, "I Wish We'd All Been Ready." Let's truly be ready by accepting Christ in our hearts as our Personal Savior and Lord and become His disciple to the death. Let's do it God's way! There is no smooth talking method, no other way to be prepared for you to be saved from that judgment of sin and it's penalty in that moment of time than to be saved. A Blood-washed born again relationship with God is what you decide you got to have. He's not dead. He's alive! Jesus is alive! The Tomb is empty. The King is coming! Let's be witnesses of those things Jesus did, and observe to work at and for, the salvation of others by witnessing personal testimony in healing, compate (Grk. compassion for others) to witness to them and do our due dilligence also: healing miracles as He (Jesus) performed and even greater things like souls saved although Jesus does the saving! John 14:12 Dave C.  PS The joy of the Lord is my strength Neh. 9:10; This a Pre-Millenial Pre-Tribulation Perspective, a literalist view as the Bible clearly portrays. Dave Candel 12/08

WHAT ALLOWS A CLEAR CONSCIENCE? IS IT THE "OUGHT" OR IS IT SOME MAN-MADE REGULATION THAT IS SUPERFLUOUS TO OBEYING  GOD'S LAWS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?

YOU KNOW RELIGION IS MAN'S ATTEMPT AT ASSUAGING HIS CONSCIENCE THROUGH DEAD WORKS?

BUT GOD USING YOU THROUGH A BORN AGAIN HEART HAS GIVEN YOU (IF YOU'VE SAID YES TO CHRIST AS THE WAY OF SALVATION,) EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN ABUNDANCE OF GRACE TO ABOUND TO EVERY GOOD WORK. IF YOU'VE RECENTLY SAID YES TO CHRIST AND ARE SAVED YOU ARE PROMISED GOD HIMSELF WILL WORK IN YOU THIS NEWNESS OF LIFE THAT SEEKS HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH YOU'RE OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST. THOUGH DILIGENT IN YOUR EFFORTS TO DAILY LIVE FOR GOD'S WILL BY DAILY BIBLE READING, DOING RIGHT, AND SEEKING HIS FACE YOU ALLOW GOD TO DRAW YOU CLOSE MATTHEW 6:33. GOD IS PLEASED WITH YOU THEN AS YOU HAVE A RIGHT STANDING BY FAITH ROMANS 5:1. THIS COMES FIRST AS WE RECOGNIZE WE'RE SINNERS. BUT SHALL WE JUSTIFY OURSELF AND NOT GOD JUSTIFY? NO, LET GOD DO IT.

YOU NEED GOD'S GRACE TO KNOW IT IS A GIFT (SALVATION IS) AND THAT IT IS GOD NOT YOU LIVING THROUGH YOU. READ GALATIONS 2:20 FOR THE NEW YOU, (ALSO EPHESIANS 2:1-10.) "STUDY TO SHOW YOURSELF APPROVED OF GOD, A WORKMAN WHO NEEDS NOT TO BE ASHAMED BUT ACCURATELY HANDLING THE WORD OF TRUTH" II TIMOTHY 2:15. BELOVED YOU'RE LOVED FOR GOD IS LOVE.

FOR A GOOD TREE TO GROW IT HAS TO BEAR FRUIT AND FOR THAT TO HAPPEN SOMETHING HAS TO DIE. THE SEEDS HAVE TO FALL AND GERMINATE AND DIE. BUT IN THE SPIRITUAL LIFE THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS ALSO: WE GIVE UP OUR WILLS SO GOD'S WILL CAN TAKE OVER UNDER CHRIST'S LORDSHIP AND TO BEAR MUCH FRUIT. THIS IS THE KINGDOM LIFE OF GOD REIGNING OVER YOU AND YOU LIVING IN IT. ROMANS SAYS, IT'S "RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT," AND THE RULE & REIGN OF THE SPIRIT OVER EVERY AREA.

WE SEEK THE TRUTH AND ARE AT THE SAME TIME FOLLOWERS OF IT.

"WE ARE CRUCIFIED UNTO THE AFFECTIONS AND LUSTS, (IF WE BELONG TO CHRIST,)" AND GIVE NO PLACE TO IT. GALATIONS 5:24.

ONE SUCH PROMISE SAYS,  'EYE HATH NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER HATH IT ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM," I COR. 2:8-10. WE SHOULD BE REDEEMED TO KNOW THIS MUCH BETTER.

IF YOU'VE HAD THIS HEART TRANSPLANT JESUS TALKED ABOUT OF BEING BORN AGAIN YOU HAVE DISCERNMENT TO 'SEE' THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND TO 'ENTER' THE KINGDOM OF GOD 'IN' THE WORLD BUT NOT 'OF' IT, AND GOD REVEALS THEM TO YOU, EVEN DEEP THINGS JOHN 3:3-21.

JESUS SAID, COME FOLLOW ME...

"I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME"  JOHN 14:6-15.

HOW CAN JESUS BE GOD? HE DOING THE THINGS GOD DOES, AND JESUS DID THOSE THINGS. IF YOU CAN BELIEVE GOD IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO HIS MAN, HE ALSO SAYS, "I AM A HOLY," AND JUST, MERCIFUL, AND GOOD, GOD. GOD HAS TO BE GOOD TO BE HOLY AND TO BE JUST HE HAS TO BE WRATHFULLY HOLY BUT HE HAS TO PUNISH SIN TOO. GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIFTED UP IN THIS. HIS GOODNESS AND MERCY FOLLOW US ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIFE BY PROVIDING THE SATISFACTION OF HIS JUSTICE AND HOLINESS OVER SIN BY HIMSELF. HE GAVE A LAMB.

THE PROBLEM IS THE WAY HE DID HE IT. HOW DO WE APPRECIATE IT? HE BECAME A MAN AND JOINED UP OUR FLESH TO GO THROUGH WHAT WE DO SO HE COULD BE LEGAL RULER WITH THE OWNERSHIP RIGHTS BY OUR ACCEPTING REDEMPTION OF US. HE DID IT BY SERVING AND THEN CRUCIFIXION FOR A MOTIF THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURE WHICH IS "WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS OF SIN" HEBREWS 9:12-28.

GOD CAN THUS BE JUST AND JUSTIFIER ROMANS 3:20-31;8:1-4.

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO LOOK UP THE SCRIPTURE REFERENCES I'VE GIVEN AND IT WILL FEED YOUR SPIRIT AND SOUL. SOME ARE LONG PASSAGES BUT THEY ALL COME TOGETHER TO PREACH JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED AND RISEN. THIS IS GREAT GOOD NEWS FOR US!

WE LIVE WITH A CLEAR CONSCIENCE BY DRAWING NEAR TO GOD FOR DOING HIS WILL AND THUS GLORIFY HIM AND WE WANT TO KNOW HIM INTIMATELY. THE WAY IS BY CHRIST, SERVING AND LOVING GOD IN A RAISED, RISEN, VICTORIOUS LIFE THROUGH CHRIST. A NOBLE CHRISTIAN LEARNS FAITHFULNESS TO FINISH THE RACE STRONG TO THE END LOOKING UNTO JESUS. HEBREWS 11:38-40; 12:1-6; 13:5,16,20-25.

"NOTHING IN MY HANDS I BRING, SIMPLY TO THY CROSS I CLING."

GOD IS SO THRILLED WITH EVERY VISIT WE PAY HIM. THROUGHOUT THE DAY TALK WITH HIM AND DIALOGUE ABOUT EVERYTHING BECAUSE HE RESPONDS SO TREMENDOUSLY TO EVERY WILLINGNESS WE HAVE IN PRAYERS TO VISIT AND DO JUST THAT!

DAVID CANDEL

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In Christ we want as believers and true disciples to know more better of the Father through revelation of the Son in the Holy Spirit. All this takes place in Scripture which reveals Christ within as we read of the Gentle Savior and make the heart abandoned connection to commit and abandon all to follow this Risen Christ Jesus, our Savior. Having surrendered, confessed we are sinners first and having been saved by grace thereafter we worship God giving all the glory to Him. Kingdom of God life principles Jesus taught in the Parables give us cause to reflect and apply to our lives then as we want to become sanctified. We want ears that hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. By a new and living way opened by His Blood we are drawing near to God through the Son, the Christ in the New Covenant. We have this hope as an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast. His Body was Given for us that we might be made whole complete.

Have you met this Friend in person? There is a song called, "I am the Friend of God,... He calls me Friend!!!!" ...It goes, "Who am I that You are thinking of Me, that you love me..." I'm sorry excuse me folks, but I get enormously emotionally stirred and so elated happy when I think in awe how God can be my friend.  And He is, for I'm born from above. In heaven I will never think a wrong thought and I'll love everbody and be able to walk through walls and be completely free of this life's encumbrances and entanglements of sin. Can we make the sure Word apply more practically and list encumbrances and entanglements that tempt us as well? Can we not say by this list, "Following Jesus is no easy smooth picnic but we know Eternal Life is a gift of God by faith through grace, to those gifted (by becoming saved) who call on the Name of the Lord." Daily we seek to be clothed with this gift. The race must be won to the end (Greek Teleiosis for the end of the process - perfection, in eternity) and that means follow to Christ with your heart withersoever He goes and heartily with purity before God. It's not He that ends with the most toys wins. It's He that ends at ends enduring to the end. It's living up to the Holy Standards of God's Holiness until Christ calls us home without slip ups and loopholes. We need Christ's help through the Holy Spirit effectually efficaciously for this. Until that time of confirmed righteousness (in eternity) when lamb will lay down with lion just look unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith and be holy as He is Holy as a sought state or condition. (In hell they will lift their head in torment where the fire is not quenched and the worm does not die. Worm is awareness.) Be one (homotheumadan-Grk. for one in heart) and love others with God's love by compassion and sacrifice. God gave us natural life and counts on us to be reborn to a New You, Holy, Righteous, Abundant, in Life in His Son, the King of Kings, Christ Jesus. Born once, die twice (hell and the lake are the second death.) Born twice, die once (natural death or the Rapture.) "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, a bulwark never failing, He our helper amidst the flood of mortal ills prevailing."

Dave C.

Bethel Assembly Of God Church<-link to click

The Gospel is good news! Is your's a life telling prose of poetry story of a youthful though at times tragic-filled story of God's Agape love, mercy, glory and victory? It can. God loves you. He has good plans for you. Plans to give you future and a hope in His grace.

God is not the same man trying to make his way home on a bus (remember The Odd Couple TV comedy and Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison?) But what if He 'became' one of us? I mean really become a human being and dwell with us mortals? He did. He moved in on our sinful condition with compassion. He intervened to us out of pity on us like a good Father. And He led, from the very glorious start of His Nativity inglorious though it was in a merely human way, not like a CEO but like a Good Shepherd should. He led people to the fountain of His life in His own strong and meek but humble yet mighty way. He loved us in a way that liberated us to become His own creature unto His praise. Not likening us to live a selfish way of life but a totally radical call to be made in His image and to follow Him and worship Him as a learner/follower/disciple. You may wonder why people sacrifice so much to serve this Christ Jesus individually and as a team member when they can't see Him finally with the naked eye but discern and then they wiggle out of the cocoon to find a change is available into a butterfly they begin transitionally to serve in his ways and live by faith transformational toward God and Jesus as if they were possessed of another Spirit of His Kind, the Holy Spirit and not just narcissism. Yes Jesus came, and in a way they didn't expect the first occurance although they know He would fulfill prophecy when He did come. Three hundred thirty three or some odd scripture verses point (literally they foretold) His coming in details not possible to write (as some try to write the future,) accurately but 27 authors were born along of the Holy Spirit to write as God gave them the essence, breath and the words. They looked forward in hope and anticipation, we look back in certainty. Praise God! There is more evidence for the life of Jesus Christ than of anyone in history of this one solitary life. He came at the fullness of time. He says in the historical dramatic present, "Ask of Me, and I will give you the heathen as your inheritance." The early church had many Jewish believers in Jesus their Messiah and in Christ persuasively convinced many Jews and many Gentiles shared their faith as well as they were come to know God too through the Savior Christ Jesus. The Gospel was well believed when it became known individually realized because these things were not done "in a corner," but out in the open. The Resurrection Day of Christ Jesus was a realization of God's purpose of mercy as well as God's Presence confirmation all over the whole world of saving salvation grace by infilling.

Jesus will come back a second time not for sin's demise as a Lamb of God but as a warrior King flamboyantly to command liberation of creation from the bondage of futility and corruption to the glorious freedom of the children of God in a further demise of sin. Have you made it to the cross and through it to the Empty Tomb: right standing with God this King of Kings, Jesus, Who is God?

Personally have you had a personal crisis and confessed things are not as they ought and you've failed and you were wrong before your Creator God and then asked for His forgiveness and received it for a new birthed spiritual beginning with faith now and permenantly in the Son of God/Son of Man, Jesus Christ? Hebrews 11:1 talks about 'now' faith and John 3 about "entering" God's Kingdom. In order for God's love to truly perpetrate and penetrate the eighteen inch barrier between your head and your heart you need to experience that crisis of soul and want to follow Christ as Savior and Lord individually and with no strings attached and with all your heart, soul, mind, & strength first confessing you're a sinner at His feet. Obey God not man and pray to repent: and to live out your faith in newness life in God's Risen Son raised to a born again Zoe (God kind of life) vitality. Be His follower with obedience to a raised Risen life with Christ. "Against You and You only have I sinned," David penned in the Psalms (51.) God's Voice is spoken in a still small voice. Will you let the son of man in? The Holy Spirit's prompts you with His Voice to change your heart & life. And this setting apart of you to seek the Christ daily through the Spirit as you read His Word daily with a mind to follow and obey His words will follow justification before God. You will find in your vitality in Him God's joy in loving God today a new model and a new motive to really live. You find a supernatural love for your fellow man in you that is motivated in God's agape love (His love's brand) and remaining at the cross of Christ in your soul. You will take up your cross and follow Christ as Jesus said to do. God wants you to worship daily, pray, read the Word, and witness. God does a work on you to inside you heal your emotions and spirit with His two-edged sword to bless, & save. The Word Of God, according to Hebrews 4:12, is it's tool to perform heart surgery on you giving you by His scalpel a new heart that doesn't sin. Or more precisely, one that will not want to sin and will not habitually practice sinning anymore. God will give you a mirror to throw back up inside your reflective heart objective truth outside of you to look at of yourself of where to follow and where to change re: your heart, life (vitality,) and conduct (lifestyle.) God will give you victory inside you for your going through adversity clinging to His Absolute authoritative Word. I John 1:9 will get you help and prepare your heart to keep you in good strong fellowship with Father in heaven and good shape as you pray daily. You will look forward to every fresh revelation of Christ inside and progressively to grow in grace & knowledge of Christ as a Christian. Jesus is the only way, the only Mediator to God. You remember that fact. He's the way, truth, the only true abundant life. Jesus Christ is in fact the loving heart of God the Father expressed in a way we can know. He's the practical essence & expression of the God Father God and His heart of inexpressible love. O how He loves you and me! For God is love! This is from God's heart to your need! Nothing's too hard for God.

And when you stand before Him someday you will hear, "Come you, enter, good and faithful servant. For you did what I asked you to, to those who were the unfortunate, those who were widows and orphans: to the rest, on My right hand," who obeyed Me and you will welcome Him and He will say, "Enter," and escort you in.

This is in a one on one relationship with God. "There are pleasures at His right hand forevermore. In His Presence is fullness of joy." You'll want to talk with God moment by moment day by day for there is nothing as important as your daily communion with your Heavenly Father. Let it be a a delight of unbroken fellowship in Paradise. That's in prayer approaching Jesus and everyone (else) on your knees. Don't get caught up in material things. Let Jesus answer the door, stay praying. Every day will have enough troubles of its own. Hold lightly to the things of this earth. So be it. That's just one more thing to trust God for. Amen to this at all times incomprehensible God of God, who moved first and intervened in mankind's misery be glory, honor.. I say incomprehensible because say for instance, isn't the theology of the Trinity difficult for our minds to grasp? Also, a headache for minds to fathom is how God had to kill Himself in human form to satisfy His own justice!?! He did. That's not open to interpretation for it all through scripture, a truth to transform you. He did it all to pay for us and above that He pleased the Father doing it. There's more in that for us to learn. Praise Jesus!

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Live as though salvation is a Gift of God today truly anticipating and growing in character with faith and patience and integrity, with your zeal and efforts to live for God and give God's glory to Him with gazelle intensity inside and out. Inside you will be blessed according to God fighting your battles and leading you to overwhelmingly triumph in Christ in every situation with super victory (hupernikao In Greek)! Hebrews 6:10-20; Romans 8:37; Ephesians 2:7,8,9 and Joshua 1:9 and Phillipians 1:6;1:21;3:10;4:7,8,19. God loves you and so do I.

Dave Candel  -   Viva La Vida En Jesus Christ

p.s. Christ is how God will be revealed to us even in eternity. Are you washed in the Blood? If God be for us who can be against us? You say you want more? Read His Word, the Bible and see what God will make of you!!!!

God loves you. He really does. Jesus is Risen. He is not here, He arose. Believe in the God who believes in you. Accept Christ as Your Savior and Lord. God is offering you a chance. God is offering you a narrow way but at times steep, rocky crags, and good but plain way through Christ to heaven and salvation first. Every good person needs Jesus. We as believers even have to repent of our pharisaism and churchianity and religiousity lest we become as the scriptural Pharisees were (indifferent to people's needs.) But if God does not know you if you do not multiply your light and see Jesus Christ is the way to God so you obey Him then that life in the end, it was a life in vain lived.

That is why we need to read the Bible to know if it is God and God's way in our culture. The Bible is true to the one looking to know God in its portrayal of a Holy good God who hates evil and is wrathfully jealous because of His Holiness, jealous over/for the good of His children. How are we with His Name? Hope in God is a confident firm anticipation in the goodness of God on tip toes. God is good above our highest known or unknown concept of goodness. God is not unjust to love you nor unrighteous to love you to purify your heart and to remember to give you space to repent Heb. 6:10; I John 1:9. Oh to know His goodness from leading kindness!

We all need to repent. It's a one-eighty. God looks for the first sign of our repentance, change of mind. In some ways we can repent before God first for our whole nation, America, who used to be great for the stand she took for God. But this is after you're saved in intercession to intercede in a fruitbearing for other's harvest. Save yourself from this untoward generation and understand that life is short. Accept Christ. The trouble is we are caught in time and limited to it. Don't limit God to time. A short work God will make on the earth Romans 9. We need life in the Son to obtain the Father's approval. Life is short, inheritances are fleetingly difficult to obtain. Limits of stock are in quailty, quantity, and short stock on temporary abundance, but God is good. Jesus came to give us life and that more abundantly. He asks us what do we want and promised heaven and opened an ear in Paradise and held out His arms to welcome mankind, and we crucified Him nailing Him to a tree cross because of our sin. We didn't then know the time of our visitation. The Bible says, "Cursed is everyone who h