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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Monday, June 10, 2019

Unity in the Body of CHRIST

As a prisoner for THE LORD, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of THE SPIRIT through the bond of peace. There is one body and one SPIRIT--just as you were called to one hope when you were called--one LORD, one faith, one baptism; one GOD and FATHER of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
       But to each one of us grace has been given as CHRIST apportioned it. This is why it says:

       "When HE ascended on high,
          HE led captives in HIS train
          and gave gifts to men."

(What does "HE ascended" mean except that HE also descended to the lower, earthly regions? HE who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) It was HE who gave some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare GOD'S people for works of service, so that the body of CHRIST may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of THE SON OF GOD and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of CHRIST.
       Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into HIM who is THE HEAD, that is, CHRIST. From HIM the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.


Paul's Letter to the Ephesians: chapter 4, verses 1 - 16

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