Heb. 13:20

20 Now [de] the God [theos] of peace [eirene], that brought again [anago] from [ek] the dead [nekros] our [hemon] Lord [kurios] Jesus [Iesous], that great [megas] shepherd [poimen] of the sheep [probaton], through [en] the blood [haima] of the everlasting [aionios] covenant [diatheke], KJV-Interlinear

20 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, NASB

The ultimate power to accomplish anything in life must come from God. He is the source and the substance of all power.

We cannot accomplish anything from our own power, nor can we discover our way through life by means of our own knowledge and will. We need to know Gods will and we need His power.

When Christ went to the Cross, He was and is both God and man. As God He has all of the attributes of God. As a man, He has all of the attributes of a human being, including a physical body, soul and spirit.

As our sacrifice, God the Father blasted Him apart sending His body into the grave, His soul into Paradise, and His spirit to heaven. Three days later, the Father together with the Holy Spirit brought Christ back together as the very first resurrected person in history. He became the first of the first fruits, the first of the harvest of saved persons. Whose pattern of resurrection we all who have believed in Christ, will follow.

God is the God of peace. Peace is not, repeat, not simply inner contentment, serenity, peace of mind, because inner contentment requires a capacity to enjoy a life free from the mental or physical pressures of life.

That capacity comes from only one source Bible doctrine resident inside of ones soul. And Bible doctrine can get into the soul only one way through a consistent daily study of the Word of God while resident inside of the fellowship sphere (or power) of God.

The reality of life is this. God provides truth Bible doctrine. God provides the means of learning that truth the Holy Spirit. God provides the mechanism for understanding truth the human spirit.

2 Cor. 3:5

5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, NASB

God is the source and power and method of our learning truth. Apart from God it is impossible to come to the knowledge of truth, any kind of truth, in life.

God was the source and power and method of judging Christ and the raising Him up in resurrection, thus defeating death (separation from life) and its strangle hold over all of creation. God is life.

God gave all of creation one true shepherd. The only shepherd over all of creation. In this universe there is none other.

God gave all of creation a contract, a covenant, a will for inheritance of eternal life, not death. That contract was executed by Jesus Christ, and no other.

God gave all of creation, light. A light with which to see the real from the false.

Without light, man is free floating in total darkness. Not knowing what is up or down, left or right, without any point of reference, man will inevitably invent his own reality which will be false. Man cannot make his own future nor does he have the power or the wherewithal to sustain any environment (much less a universe) apart from God.

There is only one means of access to God and that is through Jesus Christ. There is only one means of understanding and that is through the scriptures. There is only one means of peace and that is through a completed spiritual life. Anything else is a total waste of time.

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