To: ALL
WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From;
GOD THE FATHER, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the
HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, The Helper, that He may be with you forever. [John
14:16]
Subject:
MY WORD
1 Peter 1:12–2:5 (The Living Bible) 12
They were finally told that these things would not occur during their lifetime,
but long years later, during yours. And now at last this Good News has been
plainly announced to all of us. It was preached to us in the power of the same
heaven-sent Holy Spirit who spoke to them; and it is all so strange and
wonderful that even the angels in heaven would give a great deal to know more
about it. 13 So now you can look forward soberly and intelligently
to more of God’s kindness to you when Jesus Christ returns. 14 Obey
God because you are his children; don’t slip back into your old ways—doing evil
because you knew no better. 15 But
be holy now in everything you do, just as the Lord is holy, who invited you
to be his child. 16 He himself has said, “You must be holy, for I am holy.” 17 And remember that
your heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites when he judges. He will
judge you with perfect justice for everything you do; so act in reverent fear
of him from now on until you get to heaven. 18 God paid a ransom to
save you from the impossible road to heaven which your fathers tried to take,
and the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver as you very well know. 19
But he paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless,
spotless Lamb of God. 20 God chose him for this purpose long before
the world began, but only recently was he brought into public view, in these
last days, as a blessing to you. 21 Because of this, your trust can
be in God who raised Christ from the dead and gave him great glory. Now your
faith and hope can rest in him alone. 22 Now you can have real love
for everyone because your souls have been cleansed from selfishness and hatred
when you trusted Christ to save you; so see to it that you really do love each
other warmly, with all your hearts. 23 For you have a new life. It
was not passed on to you from your parents, for the life they gave you will
fade away. This new one will last forever, for it comes from Christ, God’s
ever-living Message to men. 24 Yes, our natural lives will fade as
grass does when it becomes all brown and dry. All our greatness is like a
flower that droops and falls; 25 but the Word of the Lord will last
forever. And his message is the Good News that was preached to you. 1
So get rid of your feelings of hatred. Don’t
just pretend to be good! Be done with dishonesty and jealousy and talking
about others behind their backs. 2 Now that you realize how kind the
Lord has been to you, put away all evil, deception, envy, and fraud. Long to
grow up into the fullness of your salvation; cry for this as a baby cries for
his milk. 4 Come to Christ, who is the living Foundation of Rock
upon which God builds; though men have spurned him, he is very precious to God
who has chosen him above all others. 5 And now you have become
living building-stones for God’s use in building his house. What’s more, you
are his holy priests; so come to him—you who are acceptable to him because of
Jesus Christ—and offer to God those things that please him.
Leviticus 11:45 (ESV) 45 For I am the Lord who
brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
Ephesians 1:18–2:10 (The Living Bible) 18 I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can
see something of the future he has called you to share. I want you to realize
that God has been made rich because we who are Christ’s have been given to him!
19 I pray that you will begin
to understand how incredibly great his power is to help those who believe him.
It is that same mighty power 20 that raised Christ from the dead and
seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in heaven, 21
far, far above any other king or ruler or dictator or leader. Yes, his honor is
far more glorious than that of anyone else either in this world or in the world
to come. 22 And God has put all things under his feet and made him
the supreme Head of the Church—23 which is his body, filled with
himself, the Author and Giver of everything everywhere. 1 Once you
were under God’s curse, doomed forever for your sins. 2 You went
along with the crowd and were just like all the others, full of sin, obeying
Satan, the mighty prince of the power of the air, who is at work right now in
the hearts of those who are against the Lord. 3 All of us used to be
just as they are, our lives expressing the evil within us, doing every wicked
thing that our passions or our evil thoughts might lead us into. We started out
bad, being born with evil natures, and were under God’s anger just like
everyone else. 4 But God is
so rich in mercy; he loved us so much 5 that even though we were
spiritually dead and doomed by our sins, he gave us back our lives again when
he raised Christ from the dead—only by his undeserved favor have we ever
been saved—6 and lifted us up from the grave into glory along with
Christ, where we sit with him in the heavenly realms—all because of what Christ
Jesus did. 7 And now God can always point to us as examples of how
very, very rich his kindness is, as shown in all he has done for us through
Jesus Christ. 8 Because of
his kindness, you have been saved through trusting Christ. And even trusting is
not of yourselves; it too is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not
a reward for the good we have done, so none of us can take any credit for it. 10
It is God himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from
Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in
helping others.
[Please Note: Always Read the Word of God in Context asking
the Holy Spirit of the Living God to give you the interpretation. 2
Peter 1:20–21 (NASB95) 20But
know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own
interpretation, 21for no
prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy
Spirit spoke from God.]
