and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,
and like the wind our sins sweep us away."
Romans 8:29-31: "For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?"
Matthew 9:11-13: "When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
How encouraging. If you feel like you don't measure up, you're right. Fortunately, Christ came to preach and reach out to the sick. He came to "chill" with the sinners, untouchables, and flagrantly disliked peoples of this world. He came for you and He came for me.
Christ wants us to have mercy on others as He has/had mercy on us. When asked how many times we are to forgive, Jesus tells His disciple 70 times 7. That's mercy.
Best of all; GOD HAS GOTTEN ME THUS FAR. :-)
And if God is for us, who can be against us? What can mortal man do to us?
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from the Parable of the Samaritan
"'Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?' He said, 'The one who showed him mercy.' And Jesus said to him, 'You go, and do likewise.'"
~Luke 10:36-38
Now that we've been shown great mercy, let us "go and do likewise."
"What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:31-32,37-39
John 1:16, 17:
"16From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. 17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."
PRAISE JESUS! :-)
Thank you guys. . .gotta love the joy the Word brings.
Wonderful! We love because He first loved us. (1 Jn. 4:19)
John 3:16-18:
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
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