Our good works are done because of our great love for God and the salvation that He gives in Jesus. We share His heart for all His creation knowing that He wants no one to live for eternity without Him. We love because He first loved us.
Hebrews 13:16 But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
The gospel was and will continue to be preached to all people and nations until Christ returns. By faith our forefathers obeyed God. We who have taken God at His word enter into rest.
We are saved by faith.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
In grace we live without legalism. It has nothing to do with our church attendance, monetary gifts or our good works it is everything to do with Christ. God’s Grace is alive and working in us through Holy Spirit the moment we believe.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Jesus is the Word made flesh.
Without faith it is impossible to please God for the person that comes to God must believe He exists. We take God at His word. We don’t have to defend Him all of creation speaks of His glory. We serve a living God.
We have been purchased with the precious blood of Jesus Christ.
John 19:30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!”
Everything needed for salvation was done.
“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable,” Madeleine L'Engle wrote. “But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
And there is a voice inside of me that says, “Do I have to be?”
Sometime the world hurts too much, and vulnerability is not always fun. It is in our vulnerability and humility that we find the strength and the power to take care of one another.
Here's the deal: Sometimes we need to hold someone tight, even if we don't know what to say.
Sometimes we need to let ourselves be held tightly, even if we don't believe what is whispered in our ear.
Sometimes we must be very still, for an afternoon, and use our stillness as a prayer, a silent song to the heavens.
Sometimes we need to walk the dog, fill the bird-feeders, talk with a friend, or reach out to someone who feels isolated, under a dark cloud, and alone.
Passover, in Judaism, commemorates the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt, their ultimate exodus to freedom, and the “passing over” of the forces of destruction. A story that shapes their values of religious freedom, caring for the stranger, and standing up to oppressive tyrants. The celebration of freedom. Sabbath Moments
Christ in the Scriptures
The time is coming when God would gather His children to Him again. He would establish His messianic kingdom which would last forever. The God who directs the forces of history has not deserted His people. They must continue to trust Him. His promises of preservation and ultimate restoration are sure.
Daniel pictures Jesus as the great Stone who will crush the kingdoms of this world (2:34, 35, 44). With his love of imagery, the prophet also describes the Messiah as the Son of Man who is given dominion by the Ancient of Days (7:13, 14). Jesus is also portrayed as Israel’s Deliverer who will be cut off (9:25, 26). Daniel’s dreams and visions fill his book. It is quite likely that his vision in 10:5–9 is an appearance of Christ Himself (similar to what the apostle John describes in Revelation 1:12–16). Daniel’s precise prediction is unlike any other biblical writer’s. He pinpoints the birth of Jesus five hundred years beforehand. Based on what Nehemiah tells us (Nehemiah 2:1–8), the decree about which Daniel writes in 9:25 took place on March 4, 444 b.c. The NKJV Study Bible
2:34 You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. 36 “This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. 37 You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory; 38 and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all—you are this head of gold. 39 But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. 40 And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others. 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. 44 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
7:13 “I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him. 14 Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.
9:25 “Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times. 26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
10:5 I lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz! 6 His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude. 7 And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision; but a great terror fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. 8 Therefore I was left alone when I saw this great vision, and no strength remained in me; for my vigor was turned to frailty in me, and I retained no strength. 9 Yet I heard the sound of his words; and while I heard the sound of his words I was in a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground. The New King James Version
Revelation 1:13–16 and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire
Daniel 8:18 Now, as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me, and stood me upright.
Revelation 19:12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself.
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