Author: J. Palmer

Romans 12:1 (New Living Translation)

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And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.

Men and women in Christ I bring it to your attention in desperation for you to have the knowledge give your bodies to God as he gave his body for you by death on the cross to cover all for you with his life to give you life be a living sacrifice to God in honor and holiness for your bodies aren’t just a vessel but his temple also WE are the church in the day of judgement he won’t be looking at what we’ve said or done but if we’re real or fake in him give him your life as he gave to you through death, be the the one to give through life that it may be acceptable in his sight share who he is share the story of his life be pleasing to him worship him for this is truly how we worship him to give him honor is pleasing to him you can’t get life and love anywhere but from Jesus Christ he was flesh gave his life and became spirit in honor of you and his father to give YOU life worship and honor him through your life be the voice only you can no one can measure up to God be his church his temple in honor for him and your life

Pastor’s Desk – Angel Takes Flight

Pastor’s Desk – Angel Takes Flight
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My deliverer

You are he who set me free

Son of the Father

The King

My deliverer

I live in sin

You save me each time

Saving me as I follow you

You take it all away

Cleaning me white as snow

Doing so by your death on the cross

You died for all men

Setting is free

Yet if we repent

You become our Saviour

Our deliverer

Our king

For yes we are Christian

We are believers

But we also remain humans

Who live in sin

Who can be saved

We just have to ask and repent By J. Palmer

Salvation is deliverance from sin and its consequences, it is brought about by faith in Christ.

Why We Need a Saviour

We have to understand our own hearts. We have to understand our sin, its severity, its incurable power from the human perspective. We have to understand its pervasiveness, its deadliness. We have to understand sin because it’s the defining element in our universe. It’s why things are the way they are. It’s why the creation is no longer “very good,” but very bad. It’s why everything dies.

We have to understand sin because, most of all, it’s why we need a Savior. God has sent Him, the Lord Jesus Christ, to save His people from their sins. And He saves sinners who repent and ask Him for forgiveness.

How do we tell our society about a Savior who will save them from sin when their definition of sin is basically non-existent? You tell them their behavior is an affront to God’s holiness and a violation of His law, which is found in the Bible. You stress the truths of God’s holiness and His hatred of evil. You point out that God is also just and righteous, which means He cannot simply look the other way and pretend evil doesn’t exist. Although He is longsuffering, He must punish sin in the end.

That’s what the cross is all about. Christ, the only sinless Person who ever lived, took the full weight of sin’s guilt on Himself and bore the punishment for it (2 Corinthians 5:21). He died as a substitute for sinners. Those who trust Him receive forgiveness, not because God simply overlooks their sin, but because Christ has already paid for it. That’s why the cross perfectly illustrates both the wrath of God against sin and His unfathomable love for sinners. That’s the central meaning of the Gospel.

What an amazing reality! As defiling and corrupting as sin is, as openly rebellious and ungrateful as it is, God still embraces the sinner who comes in humble repentance and asks in faith for forgiveness. May God bring many sinners to repentance and salvation. And may He use us to that end, in the name of Jesus, His Son and our dear Savior. Amen.

The Nature Of Sin

Now let’s look at the nature of sin.

First, sin is defilement. It is to the soul what scars are to a beautiful face; what a stain is to white silk cloth. It is ugliness across the face of beauty. When a sinner really sees his sin, he sees it for what it is. Ezekiel 20:43 says, “There you will remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evil things that you have done” (NASB).

Second, sin is rebellion. The sinner tramples on God’s law, tramples on God’s character, willfully crosses God’s will, affronts God, mocks God. Sin is, at its core, rebellion.

Third, sin is ingratitude. Everything we have, everything we are, is from God. Paul says the wrath of God is revealed from

heaven, because “When they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful” (Romans 1:21, KJV). All the food the sinner ever eats, God gave him. All the air the sinner ever breathes, God gave him. All the joys the sinner ever experienced, God provided. The sinner eagerly embraces God’s graces and mercy and then betrays Him by being the friend of God’s enemy, Satan.

Defining Sin

Let me give you a definition of sin. Sin is any lack of conformity to the moral character of God or the law of God. We sin by thinking evil, speaking evil, acting evil or omitting good.

Sin is further defined in Romans 14:23: “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin” (KJV). When we do something that goes against trust and faith in God, that’s sin. When we know something pleases God but don’t do it, that’s sin. And in

1 John 3:4 we read, “Sin is the transgression of the law” (KJV). So sin is any violation of God’s moral character or His law. Where is God’s law revealed? In Scripture.

What is our society’s standard today for determining what is evil? Once, our standard was the Bible, but that’s changing rapidly. As we continue to move deeper into the morass of sin and dislodge ourselves from any set standard, we have no way to define morality except to take a survey.

I think we have no other choice but to hold the Bible up as the standard and to say it is the standard because it is the Word of God. You don’t think the Bible is the Word of God? Have you read it? I have never had anybody say to me, “Yes, I’ve studied it thoroughly from cover to cover, and it’s not the Word of God.”

Talking About Sin

The public has no interest in talking about sin today. To say that we are corrupt at birth? To say we are all born with an evil bent, a desire to violate the law of God and to dethrone God and replace Him with ourselves? To say we are incapable of doing anything good? Our culture doesn’t want anything defined as sin. Everything is simply a lifestyle choice. The idea of guilt is considered medieval, obsolete and unhealthy.

Politicians, moralists, educators and sociologists try to fix society, but they can’t do it because they don’t deal with the reality of what is in the heart. All humanity has a vile, rebellious, corrupt nature. Our thought-life is corrupt; our emotions are corrupt; our will is corrupt; our behavior is corrupt.

https://decisionmagazine.com/what-is-sin/

Steps To Salvation

• Must One Confess Publicly to Be Saved?

The vast majority of verses seem to indicate that salvation is based on faith, or belief, alone, and not the result of any work or deed, including public confession.

However, a public declaration is still important for several reasons.

First, it is an outward demonstration of an inward reality.

Second, it serves to help us grow in Christ as we acknowledge Him before others, thus allowing fellow believers to come alongside us.

Third, it is important so that we may fulfill our calling to share the love of God with others. As Paul says in Romans 10:14, “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?”

Though one may be saved without public confession, it is still an important part of living a life of faith.

Billy Graham Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior.

Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ)

Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be.

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Six Steps to Salvation

• STEP ONE — ACKNOWLEDGE (To Admit, to be true or to exist) Admits you are a sinner/have sin inyour life. Romans: 3:23; Luke 18:33
• STEP TWO — REPENT (To feel sorry for having done wrong and seek forgiveness. To feelsorry, regret something done in the past.) A turning away from sin, disobedience or rebellion and a turning back to God. A change of mind. True repentance is of Godly sorrow for sin — a act of turning aroundand going in the opposite direction. Luke 13; Acts 3:19
• STEP THREE — CONFESS (To admit one’s guilt — take responsibility for your own life by acknowledging sin) Refreshing your life. I John 1:9; Romans 10:10
• STEP FOUR — FORSAKE (To give up, leave alone, abandon) Putting aside those things in your life that will hinder your walk with Christ. Isaiah 55:7
• STEP FIVE — BELIEVE (To place one’s trust in God’s truth, on who takes God at his work and trusts in him) Believers are those who have trusted God with all their will, heart and mind. John 3:16; Romans 10:9-10, I John 3:23
• STEP SIX — RECEIVE (To take something offered to you, acceptance) Receiving all of the benefits offered by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. John 1:12; Acts 17:11

Accepting Christ in your life is an extremely important task. We often feel we will give our lives to the Lord when we have “gotten ourselves together.” Do not worry about that. If you will confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus was crucified and raised from the dead for your sins, you will be saved. Do not be concerned about what your friends or family say, your salvation must be very important to you. There is also the misconception that once you are saved you must live a perfect life. We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). You must remember, Jesus Christ was the only perfect man who walked this earth. When we error in judgment, we must ask for forgiveness and learn from our mistakes.

It is important that you unite with a church body that teaches the word of God. This is how spiritual growth takes place.

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23

“While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

“We were buried with Him through baptism.” Romans 6:4

“Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” Psalm 51:7

“Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 3:18

“Be faithful until death and I will give you a crown of life.” Revelations 2:10

https://www.greatercleggs.org/six-steps-to-salvation

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We Stand On God’s Word

We Stand On God’s Word
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Romans 12:6-8

New Living Translation

6 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. 7 If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. 8 If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.

We each are given God given responsibilities and gifts free of charge given by faith yet each gift is not the same each gift should be accepted and well taken care of used right do it with honor and joy (J. Palmer)

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Malachi 2:10

Good News Translation

The People’s Unfaithfulness to God

10 Don’t we all have the same father? Didn’t the same God create us all? Then why do we break our promises to one another, and why do we despise the covenant that God made with our ancestors?

These remain good questions for we have been taught to love one another yet we work and pull against each other in God’s law we are supposed to help each other and keep the words we say true working as a team and yet we break promises and go against God’s covenant which God created long ago with our ancestors

Malachi 2:10, KJV: “Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?”

I’m another scripture Philippians 2:3-4 says it this way

Philippians 2:3-4

Good News Translation

3 Don’t do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves. 4 And look out for one another’s interests, not just for your own.

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one father?

Whether this is understood of Adam the first man, of whose blood all nations of the earth are made, and who in the same sense is the father of all living, as Eve was the mother of all living; or of Abraham the father of the Jewish people, of whom, as their father, they used to glory; or of Jacob, as Kimchi and Aben Ezra interpret it, whom the Jews used to call our father Jacob; or of God, who is the Father of all men by creation, and of the Jews by national adoption of them; and who may the rather be thought to be meant, since it follows, hath not one God created us?

either as men, or formed us as a body politic; which may serve to explain what is meant by their having one father: whichever is the sense of these words, the argument from hence is strong; that there ought to be no partiality used in the law, or any respect had to persons, in that the rich and the poor have all one Father and one Creator; see ( James 2:1-8 ) : why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother;

by perverting justice, having respect to persons, favouring one to the prejudice of another, as it follows: by profaning the covenant of your fathers?

the covenant made with them at Sinai, as Jarchi explains it; the law that was then enjoined them, particularly such as forbid respect of persons, ( Leviticus 19:15 ) ( Deuteronomy 16:19 ) some think, as Aben Ezra, that a new section here begins, and that the prophet proceeds to a new reproof, and for another sin these people were guilty of, in marrying wives of another nation, contrary to the law in ( Exodus 34:15 ) which was dealing treacherously with one another, and profaning the covenant of their fathers.

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Hebrews 4:12 (Good News Translation)

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The word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. It cuts all the way through, to where soul and spirit meet, to where joints and marrow come together. It judges the desires and thoughts of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 (The Message)

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God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. Nothing and no one is impervious to God’s Word. We can’t get away from it—no matter what.

Verse Thoughts

Jesus Christ is the Living Word of God, Who is traced to every page of the Written Word of God. All that He is, stands in stark contrast to all that we are. His penetrating eyes search out all the dross that is rooted in the fallen soul of man. His Word of Truth exposes everything in me that is not of Christ: my-self; my-hypocrisy; my-insincerity and my-unbelief.

The Word of God is living, because He is the living God, Who breathes life into us and in Whom are the WORDS of eternal life. The word of God is active. It is dynamic and miraculous. It is vigorous and lively because the Spirit of the living God is the eternal Souce of power, that moved holy men of God to pass on His supernatural message to us – through the living Word of the living God.

The Word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword. It is like the razor-sharp blade of a double-edges sword, with the ability to cut into the deepest recesses of all that is spiritual and divide it from that which is soulical. It can differentiate between words, actions, thoughts, and motives that are looking to Jesus and words, actions, thoughts, and motives that have placed self on the throne of their life.

So penetratingly piercing is the Word of God that it has the ability to separate the soul of man from the born-again spirit, just as the butcher’s razor-sharp blade slices the joint of meat from the marrow-bone. The Spirit of the living God is able to judge the deepest thoughts and intentions of the heart of every man.

Every spoken word from the lips of Christ are Life and Truth. All the written words of Scripture give wholeness and health to those who believe. How vital to take His Word deep into our hearts. God’s purpose, for all who believe, is to conform us into the image and likeness of Christ, and the stark reality of Scripture is the contrast of God’s amazing grace towards us… with our own rebellion. It contrasts His faithfulness with our unbelief.

The Word of truth exposes our deceitfulness and our unworthiness. It can cut our evil hearts to the quick just as the penetrating look of the Lord Jesus brought His denying disciple into the depths of distress and repentance. Gazing deep into the powerful Word of God is a penetrating, soul-searching exercise, for it cuts away any foolish boasting in ourselves and exposes any prideful perceptions of our own worthiness!

The action of the Word of God on the spirit and soul of every believer is a life-long process that continues to cut away all that is of the old man and conform the new life we received at Salvation into the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an ongoing operation in the inner recesses of every believer, which will be fully and finally completed at the rapture/ resurrection of the Church, when we shed the last renmants of our old fallen self, through our transformation into the image and likeness of the lovely Lord JESUS.

Throughout this life, the Word of God in all its fullness, continues to lay bare the truth, in the inward parts of man, silencing forever our own weak protests and unjustifiable defences. The razor-sharpness of God’s Word can crush, to the uttermost, all that is of our old fallen flesh, and bring the believer’s old sin-nature to the end of itself.

It is in His gracious, loving-kindness that God brings each of us to face such depths, so that He can purge out the old Self and form in us the pure and holy nature of the Lord Jesus. The sharp; active; living; powerful; wonderful Word of God is used by the Holy Spirit, in each of our lives to convict, convert, comfort and conform us into Christ’s likeness and to prepare us… during our lifetime, for the spiritual rest, eternal life and future glory, that is laid-up for us in heaven.

The word of God will continue in each of our lives to be living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword as we sojourn in a land that is not our home. The Word of God will never stop piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, on this earthly journey to our heavenly home. It will never cease splitting the good from the evil, the heavenly from the world, right from wrong, faith from fear – and that which is of Christ from that which is not – for the word of God is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of every heart.

Let us, in humility of heart, and patient endurance, permit the testing work of the Holy Spirit to penetrate deeply into the depth of our being as He examines truth in the inward parts and lays bare the hidden thoughts and intentions within. Let us embrace the everlasting truth that God’s word is living and active, powerful and sharp… and allow Him to complete the good work He has started within. May we rejoice that God’s WORD is sharper than any two-edged sword and cuts deeply, to the place where soul and spirit meet, the place where joints and marrow meet – for our eternal good and for His greater glory.

Source: https://dailyverse.knowing-jesus.com/hebrews-4-12

The word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. It cuts all the way through, to where soul and spirit meet, to where joints and marrow come together. It judges the desires and thoughts of the heart.

The Word of God is the most sold book in the world with five billion copies sold

Wikipedia fact

According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed.

God is always making himself known with his believers teaching others and with his own miracles changing every life in one way or another his words reach right to the souls of the spirit within us touching home sharp like a dagger so intense we can’t hold back it teaches God’s word in very obvious blunt ways reaching into the bones he once created for we are his kingdom our body is his vey kingdom the word of God judges the desires and thoughts of the heart when we fully live in it changing our own perspective and making us change our thought