God Is Light

1 John 1:5

This then is the message we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all. 

    God Is Light. Jesus Is Light. There are not two Lights, but one Light. For God is Father, God is Son, and God is Spirit. One Light. One magnificent Light. 

    Isaiah 42:6

“I, The LORD, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a Light to the Gentiles."

    Isaiah 60:19, 20

No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for The LORD will be your Everlasting Light, and your God will be your splendor. Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for The LORD will be your Everlasting Light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.

    John 8:12

Then spoke Jesus to them, "I Am The Light of the world: he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have The Light of Life."

    John 9:5

"As long as I am in the world, I Am The Light of the world."

    John 12:46

"I Am come a Light into the world, that whosoever believes on Me should not abide in darkness."

    John 13:35

Then Jesus said to them, "Yet a little while is The Light with you. Walk while you have The Light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes."

    Revelation 21:23

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it: for the glory of God did Light it, and The Lamb is The Light thereof.

    Revelation 22:5

And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for The Lord God gives them Light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. 

    Everlasting Light is that which emanates from The Everlasting God, Who created all things and has caused light to radiate from Himself into a world that would otherwise be completely dark. But even more so, into this world occupied by spiritual darkness and spiritual blindness, God has sent His Everlasting Light in The Person of His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ. 

    Sent He Him here to open the eyes of the blind that we may see The Light of God's Love for ourselves. We each must make an independent, individual choice to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, and give this Light our hearts and minds, choosing to walk in His Light instead of in darkness and sin. 

    When we have The Light of God's Love shining within us, we glow with Love and God's Light shines through us. We speak of the grace which God has prepared for each one who believes, that more people would see The Light and believe It for themselves. 

    When we have The Light of God's Love filling us with Himself, He overflows into our words and our actions. We are compelled by The Love of God to go into the streets and share the gospel message of salvation through Jesus Christ and none other. We share the whys and wherefores, the how and the hope, of grace and redemption. We speak Love. We speak Light. We speak Grace, Hope, Mercy, Peace and Joy. 

    Even when we warn of the consequences of refusing God's Light, of denial of God's Love in the face of Jesus Christ, we are speaking in Love. For The Love of God both lights up a dark heart and reveals a dark heart. Light shines in the darkness and darkness cannot overcome it. [John 1:5]. Where The Light penetrates in the heart and in the mind, darkness must flee, taking its companions with it. 

    With The Love of God's Light shining brightly within us, we urge you, we beg you, Come to Jesus. Come and drink of His Living Water and live forever with Him. Come and feed on His Bread of Life and live forever with Him. Come to Jesus. Before it's too late. 

    

Warrior of The Word

 

 

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying The Words of God. 

If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to Whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

    It is not possible to speak The Word of God in Truth unless we have The Spirit of God living in us, working in and through us, to empower us with God's strength. He is the fresh Wind which blew through the upper rooms where 120 disciples of Christ waited for The Promise of The Comforter to arrive and aid them in the advancement of God's kingdom. 

    Unless He is leading us to study out for ourselves that we may know God and His Christ more fully day by day, we are reading our Bibles without understanding and our ability to learn is faulty. For we have not the Fire of God burning within us, calling us out of the darkness of our hearts and this world, into the Light of God's presence. 

    Come to the cross and see Jesus. Look up at Him and say, as the Centurion soldier did, "Truly this Man was The Son of God".  But let us say, "Truly this Man IS The Son of God!" Embrace the cross of Christ, the blood-stained symbol of humility and death and forgiveness. For it is here that we are forgiven when we repent of our sins against God. 

    Come to the garden and see Jesus. Draw near to Him, as Mary did, when He spoke her name. For He speaks your name even now. Being God and The Word of God wrapped in flesh, He was able to overcome death, hell and the grave, walking out of the tomb (leaving it empty) and into a resurrected body, a glorified body; as 'the firstfruits of God'. The only God Who died for all of us also conquered death for all of us. 

    Come to the upper room and see He Whom Jesus has sent to us. Be prepared. Out of the thousands who followed Jesus only 120 men and women were now gathered together in fellowship and prayer, waiting for the arrival of The Comforter. They did not know what or who to expect, nor how this Comforter would arrive. But they were neither afraid, nor fearful. 

    Come to Jesus. Come to The Word. Come and see. 

Statements of Faith - Accepted in The Beloved

 

EPHESIANS 1:6

To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has made us accepted in The Beloved.  

THE BELOVED

Psalm 2:7 

I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by The LORD: "You are My Son; today I have become Your Father."

Isaiah 42:1

"Here is My Servant, Whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in Whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations."

Matthew 17:5

While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!"

John 1:32

And John bore witness, saying, “I saw The Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him."

Song of Solomon 6:3

“I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine, He who pastures his flock among the lilies.”

WE ARE ACCEPTED IN HIM

Ephesians 1:7 

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.

Ephesians 2:6-9

(6) And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,  (7) in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. (8) For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, (9) not by works, so that no one can boast. (10) For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

John 1:12 

But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name: children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

 

    Believing on The Name of The LORD JESUS CHRIST for our salvation makes us acceptable in Him. It is the generous grace of God which has made this possible. Nothing we could ever do or say would help us to land this position in Christ. 

Ephesians 1:3 says we are "blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms IN CHRIST".  

    In Christ we are made perfect though our perfection cannot yet be seen with earthly eyes. We are not 'holier than thou' people of God: we are repentant sinners, who know and acknowledge that we need a Savior to save us from the penalties of our sins. And In Christ we are forgiven: our sins have been washed away by the blood which He shed on the cross that day on Golgotha. 

    In Christ we are loved by God, for God sees His children when He looks on us, because we have Christ in us. When we come to Jesus for the salvation freely offered, God covers us with the blood of His precious Lamb and makes our souls clean. 

    In Christ we are being built up into living stones - 1 Peter 2:5 - to be God's house, His dwellingplace. Our Foundation is Christ and each believer is a living stone built upon The Living Word of God, The Rock of Our Salvation. 

    If you are not In Christ, you are not in The Word, and you will not be finding yourselves in a very happy place; in fact, it is dark in hell, it smells in hell, it is hot in hell -- with no cool water for relief --and the sounds will tear through you: not just the screams and cursings from other people in hell, but from the fallen angels who will join you on their judgment day. 

    God is to be feared and revered. His holiness demands it. No sin can be in His presence. Remember Christ on the cross and the skies got very dark (Matthew 28:45, 46), Jesus Christ out to His Father, for now He was alone upon the cross. When the soldier thrust his spear into Jesus' side, where His heart was, water and blood came out (John 19:34). for our Savior's heart was broken. Sin had been laid upon Him and He became sin for us. In light of this knowledge we remember that sinfulness cannot be in the same vicinity as God, and therefore, neither could Jesus Christ at that time. 

    Through His obedience even to the point of death, Christ surrendered Himself to His Father. And though He knew that day was coming, He also knew that He would remain on the cross and in the grave until His work was done. 

    We who are In Christ have Christ in us through our faith in God's Word, God's Son, God's Beloved. We who are In Christ are saved by grace, filled with The Spirit of God and rest in God's peace. We beg you who are not, Come to Jesus and be healed, forgiven, loved and accepted.

JESUS PAID IT ALL - Fernando Ortega 

NEAR THE CROSS 

 

Statements of Faith - Sanctified and Set Apart

 

Ephesians 5:25-27

Husband, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of The Word,That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

SANCTIFIED

    When Jesus prayed for you and I in the garden on the night of His arrest (John 17:17), He prayed for God to sanctify us with His Truth, with His Word. It is only with God's Word that we can be saved, sanctified and set apart for Himself. 

    To ignore or disregard The Word of God is to bring condemnation on one's self. To remove any part of The written Word from The Scriptures or to add anything to The written Word is to bring judgment and destruction upon one's self (Revelation 22:19).

    God's Word is powerful:  Hebrews 4:12. It burns:  Jeremiah 23:29; Psalm 97:5 & Nahum 1:5; Malachi 3:1-3; 4:1. God's Word increases and spreads: Acts 12:24. The Word of God is Alive and lives in every believer: 1 John 2:14. 

    The Word of God sanctifies ( purifies, makes holy) the hearts of every believer who has The Word living in him or her. The Word is holy and demands a holy dwellingplace. He cannot live where sin dwells: only in a righteous man or righteous woman or righteous child. The Word of God cannot reside in anyone who declares themselves to be other than what God has made them to be. Be warned: God will not be mocked. 

    You who think you can live any lifestyle you want to and still make it to heaven are only fooling yourselves. The day will come when they who live in sin will be judged by God for their self-centered lifestyles. Everything that is not of God will be burned up by His holy fire. Now is the day of repentance. Now is the time to answer God's call on your lives to turn from sin and turn to God. 

    Today is the day of salvation for someone reading this. Today is the day of reckoning and getting our hearts right with The Word of God. Tomorrow is not promised. We can pray anywhere, so whenever you make your way to the cross where Christ died for our sins, that is the right time to confess our sins and receive forgiveness from God. No man or woman can forgive us. absolve us,  for the sins we have committed against The Word: only God can forgive those who sin against Him. 

SET APART

    Every believer of The Word of God is not only sanctified by The Word but we are set apart by The Word. We are different from the world (John 17:14). We are strange and peculiar people (1 Peter 2:9). We are called by God to listen to Him and to Love like him: (1 John 4:6) and (John 13:34). 

    In this Love of God expresses through God's Word we are able to love like God. We show compassion and mercy and lovingkindness to everyone we meet, even if they don't love us back. We love anyway. We are bold in The Spirit for The Spirit of God is with us. We are fearless for our God is always with us. We are Christians, faithful followers of Christ Jesus, and we serve a risen Savior and coming King. 

    While we pray, Come, Lord Jesus, come, we also pray for the salvation of souls who need Jesus. We pray for the salvation of Israel (Romans 9:33 - 10:1) and the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122:6). We are praying people because we have a God Who hears us and answers our prayers. Especially the prayer that brings us into His kingdom. 

    So we beg you, Come to Jesus. Come today. 

    ANCIENT WORDS

IN CHRIST ALONE

ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER .