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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grace[charis] of our[hemon] Lord[kurios] Jesus[Iesous] Christ[Christos] be with[meta] you[humon] all.[pas] Amen.[amen]KJV-Interlinear
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grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
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Meanwhile, grace will rule the lives of believers who are positive and genuinely pursuing their spiritual life.
Grace is a reference to the infinite love, mercy, and favor of God toward humanity. It is Gods infinite tolerance, accommodation and forgiveness policy toward humanity.
With God, nothing in truth is impossible. And for those who believe in His appointed Son and Savior, Jesus Christ, and advance in obedience toward their spiritual maturity, then everything imaginable and beyond imagination becomes very much a possibility especially in eternity. For eternity is where our destiny resides, not here and now.
As for those who are negative toward God, discipline and judgment will be their boundary markers.
Gods timeline is set. Humanity has only two choices for their future, Heaven or the Lake of Fire. You have your entire life, however long or short that might be, to establish your pattern of life, and by so doing you choose and make clear exactly what will be your destiny.
Make sure that you choose wisely.
The Bible started out with God, and ends with His policy of grace. Throughout history, all of man and angels plans, try as they may, fail time and again.
God merely presents His favor, and in that, He maintains complete control of history.
God created you as a potential. Someone that He could pour His plan into and make you complete.
Most everyone spends their entire life looking for that perfect someone or something into which they can pour their life in order to gain completion, contentment, happiness, in order to find that moment that can continue on forever, free of burdens, free of stress, free of the constant worries produced by life.
And all the while the answer is right in front of us all.
Bible doctrine is that perfect someone into which we can pour our lives, and find the ever elusive goal of happiness and completion, meaning and purpose. And all it takes on our part is to conduct ourselves in a daily study, while in fellowship, as believers in Christ.
Attainment of the most awesome objective in existence is just that simple.
However, people are determined to work and work and make themselves a burden of effort to accomplish on their own or by some invented means, that which goes absolutely nowhere.
God provides for us, everything for the very small price of listening and reading and learning and applying to our lives what we learn. Without getting bored, without seeking entertainment, without requiring that we be impressed or proven to, Gods Word stands above all the philosophies and opinions of the world.
Gods word is the authority of life. We are all students without portfolio, and have an obligation to learn that which we do not know. It is not our place to require proof of God. Merely look around and see, if you can see, the vast details and complexities of life and of the universe.
From the very moment of your birth, you have been writing your very own story, the song which defines and describes your life. At your life's end, what will your story be? One of success or one of failure?
The bible defines success and gives it freely to those who obey its mandates.
For those who try to define their own path through life, failure is their only option.
For the last two years, we have been studying this book and have now reached its completion. Life does not begin or end with the beginning or ending or any given book. Tomorrow we continue our daily study without so much as a hiccup and continue our daily lives for as long as God decides we are to be in this world.
It is best that our time in this life is used to advance in our spiritual life to maturity, and therefore assure us of certain and phenomenal success for eternity. For this life will end before you know it, and the next will begin whether you are prepared or not. Better to be prepared.
Stop worrying about anything, but in everything through prayer and supplication, with thanks, let your requests be made known unto God.
Delight thyself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way unto the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will bring it to pass.
Fear thou not for I am with you, be not dismayed for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
And the peace of God will garrison your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
For 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, for of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things, to whom be glory and majesty, dominion and power, even Jesus Christ our Lord.
Believe it.
From my family to yours, we want to thank everyone for your continued support of this study, and we wish you all the very best of life and grace from God, and the strength to continue in your quest toward completion.
