GRACE UPON GRACE

JEREMIAH 31:1-6   AT THE SAME TIME,  SAITH THE LORD,  WILL I BE  THE GOD OF ALL THE FAMILIES  OF ISRAEL,  AND  THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.  THUS SAITH THE LORD,  THE PEOPLE  WHICH WERE LEFT  OF THE SWORD  FOUND  GRACE IN THE WILDERNESS;  EVEN ISRAEL,  WHEN I WENT  TO CAUSE HIM TO REST.   THE LORD HATH  APPEARED OF OLD  UNTO ME,  SAYING, YEA,  I HAVE LOVED THEE  WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE: THEREFORE WITH LOVINGKINDNESS HAVE I DRAWN THEE.   AGAIN I WILL BUILD THEE,  AND  THOU SHALT BE BUILT,  O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL:  THOU SHALT AGAIN  BE ADORNED WITH THY TABRETS,  AND  SHALL GO FORTH  IN THE DANCES OF THEM  THAT MAKE MERRY.   THOU SHALT YET  PLANT VINES UPON  THE MOUNTAINS OF SAMARIA:  THE PLANTERS SHALL PLANT,  AND  SHALL EA...

MATTHEW 10:17-21   BUT  BEWARE OF MEN:  FOR THEY WILL DELIVER  YOU UP TO THE COUNCILS;   AND  THEY WILL SCOURGE YOU  IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES:   AND  YE SHALL BE BROUGHT  BEFORE  GOVERNORS AND KINGS  FOR MY SAKE,   FOR A TESTIMONY  AGAINST THEM AND THE GENTILES.  BUT  WHEN THEY DELIVER YOU UP,   TAKE NO THOUGHT  HOW OR WHAT  YE SHALL SPEAK:  FOR  IT SHALL BE GIVEN  YOU  IN THE SAME  HOUR  WHAT YE SHALL SPEAK.  FOR  IT IS NOT YE  THAT SPEAK,  BUT  THE SPIRIT OF YOUR FATHER   WHICH  SPEAKETH IN YOU. AND  THE BROTHER SHALL  DELIVER UP THE BROTHER  TO DEATH,  AND  THE FATHER THE CHILD:  AND  THE CHILDREN SHALL RISE UP  AGAINST THEIR PARENTS,  AND  CAUSE THEM TO BE  PUT TO DEATH.   LOVE

ZECHARIAH 14:6-9   AND  IT SHALL COME TO PASS  IN THAT DAY,  THAT THE LIGHT SHALL NOT BE CLEAR, NOR DARK: BUT IT SHALL  ONE DAY WHICH SHALL  BE KNOWN  TO THE LORD, NOT DAY, NOR NIGHT, BUT IT SHALL   COME  TO PASS, THAT AT EVENING TIME IT SHALL  BE LIGHT. AND  IT SHALL BE IN THE DAY,  THAT  LIVING WATERS SHALL GO OUT FROM JERUSALEM; HALF OF THEM TOWARD THE FORMER SEA, AND HALF OF THEM TOWARD THE HINDER SEA: IN SUMMER AND IN WINTER SHALL IT BE. AND  THE LORD SHALL BE KING  OVER ALL THE EARTH: IN THE DAY SHALL THERE BE  ONE LORD, AND HIS NAME ONE.  LOVE

Exodus 20:3 THOU SHALT  HAVE  NO OTHER  GODS BEFORE ME  LOVE

PSALMS 12:5-8   FOR  THE OPPRESSION OF THE POOR,  FOR  THE SIGHING OF THE NEEDY,  NOW WILL I ARISE,  SAITH THE LORD;   I WILL SET HIM  IN SAFETY FROM HIM  THAT PUFFETH AT HIM.  THE WORDS OF THE LORD  ARE  PURE WORDS:  AS SILVER  TRIED IN A FURNACE  OF EARTH,  PURIFIED SEVEN TIMES.  THOU SHALT KEEP THEM,   O LORD,  THOU SHALT PRESERVE  THEM FROM THIS  GENERATION FOR EVER THE WICKED  WALK ON EVERY SIDE,  WHEN THE VILEST  MEN ARE EXALTED.  LOVE

AMOS 3:3-8   CAN TWO  WALK TOGETHER,  EXCEPT THEY  BE AGREED?   WILL A LION ROAR  IN THE FOREST,  WHEN HE HATH NO PREY?  WILL A YOUNG LION CRY  OUT OF HIS DEN,  IF HE HAVE TAKEN NOTHING?  CAN A BIRD FALL IN A SNARE  UPON THE EARTH,  WHERE NO GIN IS FOR HIM?  SHALL ONE TAKE UP A SNARE  FROM THE EARTH,  A N D  HAVE TAKEN NOTHING AT ALL?  SHALL  A TRUMPET  BE BLOWN  IN THE CITY,   AND  THE PEOPLE NOT BE AFRAID?   SHALL THERE BE  EVIL  IN A CITY,  AND  THE LORD HATH NOT DONE IT?   SURELY  THE LORD GOD  WILL DO NOTHING,  BUT  HE REVEALETH  HIS SECRET  UNTO HIS SERVANTS  THE PROPHETS. THE LION HATH ROARED,  WHO WILL NOT FEAR?   THE LORD  GOD HATH SPOKEN, WHO CAN BUT PROPHESY? LOVE

JEREMIAH 20:10-13  BUT  THE LORD IS WITH ME  AS A MIGHTY TERRIBLE ONE:   THEREFORE  MY PERSECUTORS  SHALL STUMBLE,  AND  THEY  SHALL NOT PREVAIL:  THEY  SHALL BE  GREATLY ASHAMED;  FOR  THEY SHALL NOT PROSPER;   THEIR  EVERLASTING CONFUSION  SHALL NEVER  BE FORGOTTEN .   BUT,  O LORD OF HOSTS,  THAT TRIEST  THE RIGHTEOUS,  AND  SEEST  THE REINS  AND  THE HEART,   LET ME SEE  THY VENGEANCE  ON THEM:   FOR UNTO THEE HAVE I OPENED MY CAUSE.   SING UNTO THE LORD,  PRAISE YE THE LORD:   FOR  HE HATH DELIVERED THE SOUL OF THE POOR FROM THE HAND OF EVILDOERS. LOVE

ISAIAH 42:8-12   I AM THE LORD: THAT IS MY NAME: AND MY GLORY WILL I NOT GIVE TO ANOTHER, NEITHER MY PRAISE TO GRAVEN IMAGES.   BEHOLD  THE FORMER THINGS  ARE COME TO PASS,  AND  NEW THINGS DO I DECLARE: BEFORE THEY SPRING FORTH I TELL YOU OF THEM.   SING UNTO THE LORD  A NEW SONG,  AND  HIS PRAISE FROM  THE END OF THE EARTH,  YE THAT GO DOWN  TO THE SEA,  AND ALL  THAT IS THEREIN,  THE ISLES,  AND  THE INHABITANTS THEREOF.  LET THE WILDERNESS AND THE CITES  THEREOF  LIFT UP THEIR VOICE,  THE VILLAGES THAT KEDAR  DOTH INHABIT:  LET  THE INHABITANTS  OF  THE ROCK SING,  LET THEM SHOUT FROM  THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAINS.  LET THEM GIVE GLORY  UNTO THE LORD,  AND  DECLARE HIS PRAISE IN THE ISLANDS.   LOVE

ISAIAH 45:8-12   DROP DOWN,  YE HEAVENS,   FROM ABOVE,  AND  LET THE SKIES POUR  DOWN  RIGHTEOUSNESS:   LET THE EARTH OPEN,  AND  LET THEM BRING FORTH  SALVATION,  AND  LET RIGHTEOUSNESS  SPRING UP TOGETHER; I THE LORD HAVE CREATED IT.   WOE UNTO HIM  THAT STRIVETH  WITH HIS MAKER!  LET THE POTSHERD STRIVE  WITH THE POTSHERDS OF THE EARTH.  SHALL THE CLAY SAY TO HIM  THAT FASHIONETH IT,  WHAT MAKEST THOU?  OR THY WORK, HE HATH NO HANDS?   WOE UNTO HIM THAT SAITH  UNTO HIS FATHER,  WHAT BEGETTEST THOU?  OR TO THE WOMEN,  WHAT HAS THOU  BROUGHT FORTH?  THIS SAITH THE LORD,  THE HOLY ONE  OF ISREAL,  AND  MAKER,  ASK ME OF THINGS TO COME CONCERNING MY SONS, AND CONCERNING THE WORKS OF MY HANDS   COMMAND YE ME.  I HAVE MADE THE EARTH,  AND...