GRACE UPON GRACE

ACTS 7:50-53 HATH NOT MY HAND MADE ALL THESE THINGS? YE STIFFNECKED AND UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART AND EARS, YE DO ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY GHOST: AS YOUR FATHERS DID, SO DO YE. WHICH OF THE PROPHETS HAVE NOT YOUR FATHERS PERSECUTED? AND THEY HAVE SLAIN THEM WHICH SHEWED BEFORE OF THE COMING OF THE JUST ONE;   OF WHOM YE HAVE BEEN NOW THE BETRAYERS AND MURDERERS: WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE LAW BY THE DISPOSITION OF ANGELS, AND HAVE NOT KEPT IT. LOVE

PSALM 40:6-8 SACRIFICE AND OFFERING THOU DIDST NOT DESIRE;   MINE EARS HAST THOU OPENED:   BURNT OFFERING AND SIN OFFERING HAST THOU NOT REQUIRED.   THEN SAID I, LO, I COME: IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME,   I DELIGHT TO  DO THY WILL,  O MY GOD:  YEA,  THY LAW  IS  WITHIN  MY HEART.   LOVE 

PSALM 35:22-23 THIS THOU HAST SEEN, O LORD: KEEP NOT SILENCE: O LORD, BE NOT FAR FROM ME. STIR UP THYSELF, AND AWAKE TO MY JUDGMENT, EVEN UNTO MY CAUSE, MY GOD AND MY LORD. LOVE

MATTHEW 13:55-58 IS NOT THIS  THE CARPENTER'S SON?  IS NOT HIS  MOTHER  CALLED MARY?  AND  HIS BRETHREN,  JAMES, AND JOSES,  AND SIMON,  AND JUDAS?  AND HIS SISTERS,  ARE THY NOT  ALL WITH US?   WHENCE THEN  HATH  THIS MAN  ALL THESE THINGS?  AND  THEY WERE  OFFENDED  IN HIM.   BUT JESUS SAID UNTO THEM,  A PROPHET IS NOT WITHOUT HONOUR, SAVE IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND IN HIS OWN HOUSE.   AND  HE DID NOT  MANY MIGHTY WORKS  THERE  BECAUSE  OF  THEIR UNBELIEF.     LOVE

MARK 2:19-22 AND  JESUS SAID UNTO THEM,   CAN  THE CHILDREN  OF  THE BRIDECHAMBER FAST,  WHILE  THE BRIDEGROOM  IS  WITH THEM? AS LONG AS  THEY HAVE  THE BRIDEGROOM  WITH THEM,  THEY CANNOT FAST.  BUT  THE DAYS WILL  COME,  WHEN  THE BRIDEGROOM  SHALL BE  TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM,  AND  THEN SHALL  THEY FAST IN THOSE DAYS.   NO MAN ALSO SEWETH  A PIECE OF NEW CLOTH  ON AN OLD GARMENT:  ELSE  THE NEW PIECE  THAT FILLED IT UP   TAKETH AWAY  FROM THE OLD,  AND  THE RENT IS MADE WORSE.   AND  NO MAN PUTTETH  NEW WINE  INTO OLD BOTTLES:  ELSE  THE NEW WINE IS SPILLED,  AND  THE BOTTLES WILL  BE MARRIED:  BUT NEW WINE  MUST BE PUT  INTO  NEW BOTTLES. LOVE

JOHN 18:37     PILATE THEREFORE  SAID UNTO HIM,  ART THOU A KING THEN?   JESUS ANSWERED,  THOU SAYEST THAT  I AM A KING.   TO THIS END WAS I BORN, AND FOR THIS CAUSE CAME I INTO THE WORLD, THAT I SHOULD BEAR WITNESS UNTO THE TRUTH.   EVERY ONE THAT  IS  OF THE TRUTH  HEARETH MY VOICE.   LOVE

PSALM 89:13-15 THOU HAST  A MIGHTY ARM:  STRONG IS THY HAND,  AND  HIGH IS THY RIGHT HAND.   JUSTICE AND JUDGEMENT  ARE  THE HABITATION  OF  THY THRONE:  MERCY AND TRUTH  SHALL GO BEFORE  THY FACE.  BLESSED IS THE PEOPLE  THAT  KNOW  THE JOYFUL SOUND:   THEY SHALL WALK,  O LORD,  IN  THE LIGHT  OF  THY COUNTENANCE.   LOVE

ISAIAH 65:23-25 THEY SHALL NOT LABOUR IN VAIN, NOR BRING FORTH FOR TROUBLE; FOR THEY ARE THE SEED OF THE BLESSED OF THE LORD, AND THEIR OFFSPRING WITH THEM. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT BEFORE THEY CALL, I WILL ANSWER; AND WHILE THEY ARE YET SPEAKING, I WILL HEAR. THE WOLF AND THE LAMB SHALL  FEED TOGETHER, AND THE LION SHALL EAT STRAW LIKE THE BULLOCK: AND DUST SHALL BE THE SERPENT'S MEAT. THEY SHALL NOT HURT NOR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN, SAITH THE LORD. LOVE

MATTHEW 16:16-19 AND  SIMON PETER  ANSWERED AND SAID,  THOU ART THE CHRIST,  THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.  AND  JESUS ANSWERED  AND  SAID UNTO HIM,  BLESSED ART THOU, SIMON BARJONA:   FOR FLESH AND BLOOD HATH NOT REVEALED IT UNTO THEE, BUT MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. AND I SAY ALSO  UNTO THEE, THAT  THOU ART PETER,  AND  UPON THIS ROCK I WILL  BUILD MY CHURCH;  AND  THE GATES OF HELL  SHALL NOT PREVAIL  AGAINST IT.    AND  I WILL GIVE UNTO THEE THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: AND WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT BIND ON EARTH SHALL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN: AND WHATSOEVER THOU SHALT LOOSE ON EARTH SHALL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN.    LOVE

EZEKIEL 7:20-23 AS FOR  THE BEAUTY  OF  HIS ORNAMENT,  HE SET IT IN MAJESTY:   BUT THEY MADE  THE IMAGES OF THEIR ABOMINATIONS  AND OF THEIR  DETESTABLE  THINGS THEREIN:   THEREFORE  HAVE I SET IT  FAR  FROM THEM.   AND I WILL  GIVE IT INTO  THE HANDS OF  THE STRANGERS  FOR A PREY,   AND TO  THE WICKED  OF  THE EARTH FOR A SPOIL;  AND  THEY SHALL POLLUTE IT.   MY FACE  WILL I TURN  ALSO FROM THEM,  AND  THEY SHALL POLLUTE   MY SECRET PLACE:  FOR THE ROBBERS  SHALL ENTER INTO IT,  AND DEFILE IT.   MAKE A CHAIN: FOR THE LAND IS FULL OF BLOODY CRIMES, AND THE CITY IS FULL OF VIOLENCE.   LOVE