GRACE UPON GRACE

LUKE 16:16-17   THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS  WERE UNTIL JOHN:  SINCE THAT TIME  THE KINGDOM OF GOD  IS PREACHED,  AND  EVERY MAN  PRESSETH INTO IT.  AND  IT IS EASIER  FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH TO PASS,  THAN  ONE TITTLE OF THE LAW TO FAIL.    love

ROMANS 16:17-20   NOW I BESEECH YOU,  BRETHREN,  MARK THEM WHICH CAUSE DIVISIONS AND OFFENCES CONTRARY TO THE DOCTRINE WHICH YE HAVE LEARNED; AND AVOID THEM.  FOR THEY THAT ARE SUCH SERVE NOT OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BUT THEIR OWN BELLY; AND BY GOOD WORDS AND FAIR SPEECHES DECEIVE THE HEARTS OF THE SIMPLE. FOR  YOUR OBEDIENCE IS COME  ABROAD UNTO ALL MEN.   I AM GLAD THEREFORE  ON YOUR BEHALF:  BUT YET I WOULD HAVE  YOU WISE UNTO  THAT WHICH IS GOOD,  AND  SIMPLE  CONCERNING EVIL.  AND  THE GOD OF PEACE  SHALL BRUISE SATAN  UNDER YOUR FEET SHORTLY.  THE  GRACE OF OUR LORD  JESUS CHRIST  BE WITH YOU.  AMEN.     LOVE  

ISAIAH 26:18-21  WE HAVE BEEN WITH CHILD,  WE HAVE BEEN IN PAIN,  WE HAVE AS IT WERE  BROUGHT FORTH WIND;  WE HAVE NOT WROUGHT  ANY  DELIVERANCE IN THE EARTH;  NEITHER HAVE  THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD FALLEN.  THY DEAD MEN SHALL LIVE,  TOGETHER WITH MY  DEAD BODY SHALL THEY ARISE.  AWAKE AND SING,  YE THAT DWELL IN DUST:  FOR THY DEW IS AS  THE DEW OF HERBS,  AND  THE EARTH SHALL CAST  OUT THE DEAD.  COME, MY PEOPLE,  ENTER THOU INTO THY CHAMBERS,  AND   SHUT THY DOORS ABOUT THEE:  HIDE THYSELF  AS IT WERE  FOR A LITTLE MOMENT,  UNTIL THE INDIGNATION  BE OVERCAST.  FOR, BEHOLD,  THE LORD COMETH OUT OF HIS PLACE  TO PUNISH  THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH  FOR THEIR INIQUITY:  THE EARTH ALSO SHALL  DISCLOSE HER BLOOD,  AND  SHALL  NO MORE COVER HER SLAIN.    love    

HEBREWS 3:12-15 TAKE HEED,  BRETHREN,  LEST THERE BE  IN ANY OF YOU  AN EVIL HEART  OF UNBELIEF,  IN DEPARTING  FROM  THE LIVING GOD.  BUT EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY, WHILE IT IS CALLED TO DAY:   LEST ANY OF YOU  BE HARDENED THROUGH THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN.  FOR WE ARE MADE PARTAKERS OF CHRIST, IF WE HOLD THE BEGINNING OF OUR CONFIDENCE STEDFAST UNTO THE END; WHILE IT IS SAID, TO DAY IF YE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE, HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS, AS IN THE PROVOCATION.   LOVE

JOHN 16:7-12   NEVERTHELESS I TELL YOU THE TRUTH; IT IS EXPEDIENT FOR YOU  THAT I GO AWAY:  FOR IF I GO NOT AWAY,  THE COMFORTER WILL NOT COME  UNTO YOU;  BUT IF I DEPART,  I WILL SEND HIM UNTO YOU.  AND when he is COME,  HE WILL REPROVE  THE WORLD OF SIN,  AND OF  RIGHTEOUSNESS,  AND OF  JUDGMENT:  OF SIN,  BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE NOT ON ME;  OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,  BECAUSE I GO TO MY FATHER,  AND  YE SEE ME NO MORE;  OF JUDGMENT,  BECAUSE THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD IS JUDGED. I HAVE YET MANY  THINGS TO SAY TO YOU,  BUT YE CANNOT BEAR THEM NOW.    LOVE    

MARK 4:30-32   AND HE SAID,  WHEREUNTO SHALL WE  LIKEN  THE KINGDOM OF GOD?  OR WITH  WHAT COMPARISON  SHALL WE COMPARE IT?    IT IS LIKE  A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED,  WHICH, WHEN,  IT IS SOWN IN EARTH,  IS LESS THAN ALL  THE SEEDS  THAT BE IN EARTH:  BUT WHEN IT IS SOWN,  IT GROWETH UP, AND BECOMETH GREATER THAN ALL HERBS, AND SHOOTETH OUT  GREAT BRANCHES;  SO THAT  THE FOWLS OF THE AIR  MaY LODGE UNDER  THE SHADOW OF IT.  and with many  such  parables spake  he  the word unto them  as they were  able to hear it.    love    

MICAH 3:5-12 THUS SAITH  THE LORD CONCERNING  THE PROPHETS  THAT MAKE  MY PEOPLE ERR,  THAT BITe WITH THEIR TEETH,  AND CRY, PEACE;  AND BE  THAT PUTTETH NOT  INTO THEIR MOUTHS,  THEY EVEN PREPARE WAR AGAINST HIM.   THEREFORE  NIGHT SHALL BE UNTO YOU,  THAT YE SHALL NOT  HAVE A VISION;  AND  IT SHALL BE DARK UNTO YOU,  THAT YE SHALL NOT DIVINE;  AND  THE SUN SHALL GO DOWN  OVER THE PROPHETS,  AND  THE DAY SHALL BE DARK  OVER THEM.  THEN SHALL  THE SEERS BE ASHAMED,  AND  THE DIVINERS CONFOUNDED:  YEA, THEY SHALL ALL  COVER THEIR LIPS;  FOR  THERE IS NO ANSWER OF GOD.  BUT  TRULY  I AM FULL OF POWER  BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD,  AND  OF JUDGMENT,  AND OF MIGHT,  TO DECLARE UNTO  JACOB HIS TRANSGRESSION,  AND  TO ISRAEL HIS SIN.  HEAR THIS, I PRAY YOU,  YE HEADS OF THE HOUS...

DEUTERONOMY 11:26-28 BEHOLD, I SET BEFORE YOU THIS DAY A BLESSING AND A CURSE; A BLESSING, IF YE OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD GOD, WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY: AND A CURSE, IF YE WILL NOT OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, BUT TURN ASIDE OUT OF THE WAY WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY, TO GO AFTER OTHER gods, WHICH YE HAVE NOT KNOWN. LOVE

 ACTS 2:38-40 THEN PETER SAID  UNTO  THEM,  REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, AND  YE SHALL RECEIVE  THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST.  FOR  THE PROMISE IS UNTO YOU, AND TO YOUR CHILDREN, AND TO ALL THAT ARE AFAR OFF, EVEN AS MANY AS THE LORD OUR GOD SHALL CALL. AND  WITH MANY OTHER WORDS  DID HE TESTIFY AND EXHORT,  SAYING,  SAVE YOURSELVES  FROM THIS UNTOWARD GENERATION.    LOVE

1 CORINTHIANS 4:7-16  FOR WHO MAKETH THEE  TO DIFFER FROM ANOTHER?  AND  WHAT HAST THOU THAT  THOU DIDST NOT RECEIVE?  NOW IF THOU DIDST RECEIVE IT,  WHY DOST THOU GLORY,  AS IF THOU HADST  NOT RECEIVED IT?  NOW YE ARE FULL,  NOW YE ARE RICH,  YE HAVE REIGNED  AS KINGS WITHOUT US:  AND I WOULD TO GOD  YE DID REIGN,  THAT WE ALSO MIGHT  REIGN WITH YOU.  FOR I THINK THAT GOD HATH SET FORTH US THE APOSTLES LAST, AS IT WERE APPOINTED TO DEATH: FOR WE ARE MADE A SPECTACLE UNTO THE WORLD, AND TO ANGELS AND TO MEN. WE ARE FOOLS FOR CHRIST'S SAKE,  BUT YE ARE WISE IN CHRIST;  WE ARE WEAK,  BUT YE ARE STRONG;  YE ARE HONORABLE,  BUT WE ARE DESPISED.  EVEN UNTO THIS PRESENT HOUR  WE BOTH HUNGER,  AND THIRST,  AND ARE NAKED,  AND ARE BUFFETED,  AND HAVE NO CERTAIN  DWELLINGPLACE;  AND LABOUR,  WORKING WITH OUR OWN HANDS:  BEING REVILED...