You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth.
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Brethren [adelphos], the grace [charis] of our [hemon] Lord [kurios] Jesus [Iesous] Christ [Christos] be with [meta] your [humon] spirit [pneuma]. Amen [amen]. KJV-Interlinear
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grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen. NASB
This daily study has been around a very long time, and online for about fifteen years now. The recent explosion of interest through facebook alone is phenomenal. It is all designed to help you have a convenient method for advancing your life to the greatest heights possible and more. And with the internet, having a daily study and an opportunity to advance yourself, is probably the easiest it has ever been in all of human history.
But, you are the one who has to dedicate yourself to your own advancement and growth. You have no excuse if you fail. All the tools are right here. And you have to read the studies in full. You just have to want them, more than you want your excuses. Selecting an internet link to complete the daily study is no effort at all. Why would anyone refuse to do that. Blessings are waiting. Are you going to let them pass by?
And finally the greatest hope of all, in all of existence. A hope that is not of wishes or luck, which is all that people have, who do not pursue their daily bible instruction, but a hope that consists of confidence supported by the substance of doctrine in the soul, derived by the dedication to a daily bible study, which this daily study provides (if you read it daily).
The grace of God, who is Jesus Christ, is Gods work in action in your behalf.
Grace is Gods favor, and there is no one else's favor that is better than Gods, who is able to do and accomplish anything and everything beyond imagination. Who can do this better for you?
But God does not favor unbelievers who reject truth.
God does not favor disobedient believers who are indifferent toward, or play games with, truth.
God does not favor believers who pretend or otherwise ignore His requirements of the spiritual life.
Gods favor is applied to your spirit, which herein refers to the very essence, the very core, the very substance of your existence and your life.
The subject of Galatians is works verses faith.
Works is everything that you do that is in opposition to that which God wants. And God wants you to study the scriptures daily. Not just read, but learn through instruction. No one can be self-made. No one can simply open up the bible and read and understand it all. The spiritual life and growth was not designed for that.
So, refusing to study daily, refusing to submit yourself under the authority of an instructor, refusing to follow the mandates that God has placed on each one of us, is in effect saying that you have a better way, and that is works. God rejects works, because works is arrogance, the arrogance of one trying to out-do God.
Works prevents you from the phenomenal blessings that God has waiting for you. If your life is difficult, then perhaps it is you who are preventing something better.
A wrong thing (works) done in a wrong way (human effort) is wrong.
A wrong thing (works) done in a right way (human sincerity) is wrong.
A right thing (human sincerity) done in a wrong way (works) is wrong.
A right thing (obedience to Gods mandates) must be done in a right way (the spiritual process) in order to be right (faith).
The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two edged sword. Piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit and the joints and the marrow, and is a critic of thoughts intent of the heart. All scripture is God breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof , for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God might be mature, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Study to show thyself mature, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Delight thyself unto the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way unto the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will bring it to pass. For He will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusts in Thee. Trust in the Lord, for in the Lord is everlasting strength. Cast your burdens upon the Lord and He will sustain you, He will never suffer the righteous to be moved. Stop worrying about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God which passes all understanding will garrison your hearts and minds, through Christ Jesus.
And now to Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you without blemish before the presence of His glory, with exceeding joy. To the only wise God, even Jesus Christ or Lord, to whom be glory, and majesty, dominion and power, forever. Amen. Believe it!
