The wonder and power of God's mercy and grace
Is found in Saul renamed Paul whom God chose and placed
The very man that caused christians to be killed in past days
Called to preach the gospel to those he had previously disgraced
Can any of us imagine the task at hand
Known as the greatest persecutor through out the land
The epidemy of religion and great scholar of the law
To put aside his past doctrine to preach the grace of God to all
I once was blind but now I see...
Paul would be the poster child for this saying
Not only blind spiritually but Jesus blinded him physically
Can you imagine the wake up call that would be?!
In Pauls' eyes he thought his actions were forthright
Instead he entered into his own plight,through God's chastisement
What the enemy meant for harm God would make right
Paul regained both physical and was given spiritual insight
By the Lord Jesus Christ , Paul was given revelation
We can see this in Gal.1:11-12 and the 3rd chapter of Ephesians
Writing 13 books of the New Testament if Hebrews then fourteen
The total depth of " The Message of the Cross" was made known to him
If we won't quit,God won't quit on us
The faith you see needed IS Christ and His finished work at the Cross
When Jesus carried the cross He stumbled too
Pick up your cross daily and just continue
Don't put the cross aside and try to move beyond it
For it is faith in Christ finished work that gives the Holy Spirit
latitude to finish the work Jesus said would be done in you
By not trusting in what He done will only defeat and birth self righteousness
Therefore if we could sanctify ourselves then the Cross was in vain
God wants all glory and honor and praise for the FREE GIFT given
Like the children in the wilderness we choose to walk around the mountain
When taken out of Egypt,it seems harder to take Egypt out of man
Mankind constantly wanting to revise God's salvation plan
Jesus was the perfect sacrifice that HE alone we must have faith in
By doing man made traditions and humanistic psychology is sin
Jesus said will I find faith when I return? " Faith in Him " ?
Lovingly In His Service ;Pastor Linda Begley
8-28-13
My Dear Readers, after posting this truly the depths
of the "message of the Cross" is thoughout all of Paul's writings.
Rom.chapter 6 thru Rom.chapter 8 takes us into even more depths of this
great revelation given to the Apostle Paul.The ONLY Faith important and
acceptable to God IS our Faith in Christ and His Finished work on the Cross,
To God Be All the Glory,AMEN!This alone is the Truth
(John 8:32)and(John 3:16)
that brings freedom for the Holy Spirit to complete a work in me and you.
King James Version (KJV)
Luke 18:7-9
7 And shall not God avenge his own elect,
which cry day and night unto him,
though he bear long with them?
8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?
9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in
themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
1 Cor.1:17-19
17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel:
not with wisdom of words,
lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;
but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Ephesians 3:1-12
3 For this cause I Paul,the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God
which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery;
(as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,
as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs,
and of the same body,
and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister,
according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by
the effectual working of his power.
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints,
is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles
the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God,
who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers
in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 According to the eternal purpose which
he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Gal.3:1-6
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,
that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ
hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn of you,
Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit,
are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit,
and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith?
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Gal.1:14-17
14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals
in mine own nation,
being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb,
and called me by his grace,
16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen;
immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me;
but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Heb.10:11-14
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes
the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever,
sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.