JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE & ONLY WAY TO SALVATION AND ETERNAL LIFE.

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONE & ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF THE ONE & ONLY TRUE GOD.

JESUS CHRIST WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD AND BORN FROM A VIRGIN WOMAN.

JESUS CHRIST COMMITTED NO SIN AND FULFILLED THE LAW OF GOD GIVEN THROUGH MOSES.

JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR THE SINS OF ALL MANKIND ON CALVARY'S CROSS.

JESUS CHRIST WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD AND ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND NOW SITS NEXT TO GOD ALMIGHTY UPON THE THRONE IN HEAVEN.

JESUS CHRIST SHALL RETURN TO EARTH AND RULE ALL NATIONS WITH AN IRON SCEPTER FOR ALL ETERNITY!

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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Ministers of the New Covenant

       Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of CHRIST and found that THE LORD had opened a door for me, I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-by to them and went on to Macedonia.
       But thanks be to GOD, who always leads us in triumphal procession in CHRIST and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of HIM. For we are to GOD the aroma of CHRIST among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of GOD for profit. On the contrary, in CHRIST we speak before GOD with sincerity, like men sent from GOD.
Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from CHRIST, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with THE SPIRIT of THE LIVING GOD, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
       Such confidence as this is ours through CHRIST before GOD. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from GOD. HE has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of THE SPIRIT; for the letter kills, but THE SPIRIT gives life.


Paul's 2nd Letter to the Corinthians: chapter 2, verses 12 - 17 & chapter 3, verses 1 - 6

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