HAPPY SABBATH + JESUS' PEACE: Don't Give Away What You Can't Purchase!

Oh, To Be At Perpetual Rest! 

There Is Temptation From The Enemy Called Self ... Within 

And 

There Is Molestation From The Adversary, Satan ... Without! 

Sin Knocks At The Heart's Door Where We Live

And

Whenever And Wherever We Walk About!

Guard Your Heart!

Are You Tired ... And Weary

Ever Running From Known Foes!?! 

Then Rest Ye In Christ Jesus 

Who Does Your Every Sorrow Know! 

Remember That This Life Is Temporary

That Jesus Has Already Won Victory For Us 

Over The Known Adversary Our Rabid Foe 

And

Dare To Rest In The Love Of Him Who Calls Us

In Him Whose Feelings For Us Do Constantly Show! 

In Jesus Is Rest! 

In Jesus Is Our Present Peace! 

In Jesus Is Peace That Passes Human Understand 

And

Rest For The Weary-Of-Sin Soul! 

In Jesus, We Have Rest For Body, Mind And Spirit! 

We May Labor By Jesus' Faith That Cannot Fail 

And 

Dare To Longingly Look For The Rest That 

Is 

Known Eternal!

Soon Will Be Consumed That Damned Enemy Infernal! 

Trust The Lord And Obey! 

Live For Jesus And Pray! 

Walk Wisely 

And 

Dare To Look Up 

For He Who Calls You Is Coming: 

He Holds The Judgment Book 

And 

Our Great Reward! 

Beloved, 

Please Do Not Yield To What Can't Prosper Your Soul! 

Write Good In Your Book So That In The Great Day 

You Will Emerge As Gold! 

Dare To Trust The Lord Through The Eyes Of 

Living, Enduring, Working-By-Love Faith 

And

Find Sweet Rest In 

And 

On The Eternal Rock 

Firm And Secure Through Time 

And 

For Eternity To Come! 

Peace For Us Is Free

But

It Was Costly

To Our Almighty God

To Jesus Christ The Lord:

Don't Give Away

What You Can't Purchase!

Give Heed To The Holy Spirit!

VESPERS AT THE END OF THE SABBATH: FOUNDATIONS: Cornerstones

I Had Been Teaching 
A Favored Subject Of Mine!
The Question Was Put
AND
I Provided The Answer -
Teaching Subject Matter
Should Not Put One On A Congo Line
Doing Contortions
Displaying Acrobatic Skill!
Teaching Is Simple!
The One Taught Should Be Filled
AND
The Method Still True ... Is:

I Am Going To Tell You
What It Is
That I Am Going To Tell You!
- The Only Way To Get To Father God!

I Am Telling You
What It IS That I Said
I WAS Going To Tell You
 - The Only Way To Father God ...
Is Through His Only Begotten Son!

I Am Telling You
What It Is That I Said
I Was Going To Tell You
That I Told You
I Was Going To Tell
AND
I Told You!
- The Only Way To Father God...
Is Through His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ ...
Under The Agency
- The Working -
Of God's Holy Spirit!

I Am Telling You
What I Told You
That I Told You
And I Told You
AND
I Am Telling You!
Do You Understand?
What Did I Just Tell You?

Lay A Foundation!
Raise A Brick!
Add A Foundation!
(Just Look At The Twelve Foundations Of 
The Holy City!)
... And Ask A Question!
Answer A Question!
Explain Everything!
... And A Story Never Hurts!
(It's What Jesus Did!)

Every Building
That Will Strong Stand
Must Have A Corner Stone!
Every Foundational Truth Has For Its Corner
The Holy Son Of God!
The Blessed Son Of Man!

The Stone That The Earthly City Builders Rejected
Is Of The Corner
The Chief
Holding All Together
Rebuffing Roundly
The Known Salvation Thief!

That Corner Stone
Is The Solid Rock!
The Rock Of Offense!
The Burdensome Stone!
The One That Makes Wicked Men Tremble!
The One That A Repentant One Can Fall Upon
AND
Be Broken
To Be Made Truly Whole
OR
The One That Will Fall Upon
The Unrepentant One
AND
Crush Him Into
Fly-Away Dust
Making His Soul's Salvation
An Eternal Bust!

Jesus Christ Is
To Us
What We Want Him To Be
(It Doesn't Mean It Is Right!)
BUT
We Will Never Be To Jesus Christ
What We Want To Be
For
God's Will Is Sovereign!
His Love Is Our Light!
God's Word Is True!
He Is The Corner Stone
AND
From Him
All Stones Are Laid Out
Straight
Through And Through
Built Up
Solid
Worthy Of Praise
Fitly Put Together
Raising Up A True Church
Fittingly Attired
As A White-Dressed Bride
For
The Coming Christ's
Glorious Day
Which
Is Already
On The Way Here!

Now ...

I Ask You
What Did I Just Say?

The King Is Coming!

Are You Washed And Ready?

The Foundations Are Laid!

Upon What Do You Stand?

Will You Be Among
The Believing Ones
To Be Caught Away?

God's Love IS ... No Lie!

"Looking for Love!

Will Work for Love!"

Her sign held high

At the corner she stood.

"Don't look for Love!

Love makes you Cry!

Sometimes Love even makes you Die!

Love IS a Lie!"

"Oh, poor is Me!

What is it that I See?

Love dressed in Hate

Going out on a Devil Date?

Oh, Lord, help Me!"

And THEN ...

A Voice was Heard
No arrogant talker he
Gentle, compassionate
Beseeching, fervent
Yet calling ... gently:

Meet Jesus Christ!
The Lord of Love!
The Savior Redeemer sent from Heaven Above
His Love is Pure
His Love is Free
His Love has No Limits that Human Eye can See!

He Is Love Personified!
He came to Earth!
He was Baptized!
The Spirit as Dove upon Him did descend
His Father spoke of His Beloved
His Voice came from Heaven in Love for His Love!

Pure Love as Jesus ... went out to The Desert
Pure Love as Jesus ... was Sore Tempted by The Knave
But Pure Love put down 
The Hungry Temptations in 40 Days
Proving, plainly proving, that He was no Flesh Slave!

Jesus ... In Love ... Taught and Preached
And Loved, and Healed, His People!

And Jesus ... In Love
Went to The Cross That Cruel Day!

Jesus ... By Love ... was Nailed on The Tree!

Jesus ... For Love ... let Sin securely nail Him there
So that You and Me
Wouldn't Eternal Death
Have to share!

Heaven Cried ...
Satan Rejoiced ... Exultantly!

Jesus could have Stepped Down
Jesus could have Stepped Away
 ... Not been Crucified
But Jesus had come
Our Sin for to Pay!

Nails did not keep Jesus on The Cross!
Nails could not have kept Jesus on The Cross!

So ... Let Us Know and Understand and Accept this:

Love for His Lost Loved Ones

Fixed Jesus to The Cross that Day!

The Love of God
The Life of Jesus and
The Spirit's Truth 
Exploded in Three Days
And The Stone on The Tomb by The Angels
Rolled Away! 
Rolled Away!

Loving Jesus
Gentle Jesus
Lamb of The Sacrifice
In Light and Life Gloriously Re-Appeared!

And when Jesus was finally Returning to His Father
Two Angels to the Assembled Believers declared:

This Same Jesus 

That You See Ascending

Will Descend in Like Manner Again 

One Coming Day!

Love IS Alive!

Love is TRULY Alive!

Love is JESUS

And Jesus IS ALIVE!

Love Jesus 

and 

You Dear People 

Will Be Truly Alive!!

GOD'S LOVE IS NO LIE!

Thoughts of God's Love ...

I had Me a Think about God's Love - again - and - again - I am Glad that God has The Job and I do not! 

Mankind is unkind

Mankind destroys and then whines

Mankind is ungrateful

And treats God as they would a wild vine!

So, with that being said, let Me ask Us ...

Why?

Why what?

Why does God Omnipotent, God The Omniscient, God The King Omnipresent, Creator of The Universe, i.e, Heaven and Earth, tolerate us?

Why didn't God just destroy Sinful Man and Corrupt Earth - all with Finality - and Create a Brand New Earth from Scratch, and a Brand New Man from The New-Made Earth?

When we Answer these Questions, we will then Understand why We Should Reverence God.

Couldn't God have make a New Earth?
With ease!

Couldn't God have made a New Man?
Certainly, and with Pleasure, I'm sure!

So, why didn't He?
LOVE.

LOVE!?!
LOVE.

God gives us The Clue when He States in His Word ...  

He Says He Can Never FORGET Us!

Another Clue: 

Let US make Man (He already knew who we were) in OUR Image (body appearance) AND Likeness (ready/able to accept immortality; ready to be a being of His Light).

I don't know about you, but I do not want anyone that I do not love to be like (representative of) Me, and I definitely will not have them taking care of my possessions! 

Therefore, by basis of deduction, God MUST LOVE Mankind.

Third Clue ...

Since God is LOVE, and He has Thoughts Concerning Us, it is Obvious that He LOVES US!

Let us consider that BEFORE we were Made, God had The Plan of Redemption in Place!

Does this not suggest that God was making Defective Merchandise?
Not by a long shot!

This is clearly telling us that despite our Anticipated Willfulness, and in spite of The Anticipated Sacrifice of Personal Blood, The Godhead knew us in ... LOVE!

If we look to Lucifer - another Personally Created and Crafted Individual - and his Jealousy-inspired Rebellion, and the subsequent War, and the resultant Expulsion from Heaven, we would see, again, the Answer.

LOVE.

I will venture to say that God said in His Heart: "Let My Love for My Creatures Lead them into My Light," and it is so. 

The Almighty God ALWAYS GIVES US TIME to choose to OR to choose not to be cared for, and guided, by Him.

God's Creatures will either Love Him because of WHO HE IS to them OR Hate Him because of WHO HE REFUSES TO BECOME for them.

God's Love, or The Expansiveness of God's Love, is Unknowable for a Finite Creature.

God's Love REQUIRES Choice on the part of the Creature Receiving that Love.

God's Love contains The Patience Of The Eternal.

God's Love contains God's Measurement in Eternal Time.

God's Love contains God's Blessed Hope 

Which is Measured by God's Faithfulness 

To Constantly Plead with Us Out Of His Love For Us 

UNTIL 

His Measure of Time Convinces Us to 

See, Experience, Understand and Accept 

His Love and His Way 

OR

Because of Sinful, Willful Self, Selfishness and Greed

See, Experience, Deny and Summarily Reject 

His Love and His Way as Contemptible.

In short, God's  Love IS The True Transcript of God's Character which character is showered upon us UNTIL ... The Appointed Time ... which we cannot apprehend.

There is an old expression: 

TIME IS LONGER THAN TIME!

The God Of Love 

who sheds 

The Love of God Abroad

and 

Who Made Time

but 

Who Is Not Constrained By Time 

gives 

The Time-Bound 

Time Not Measured by Man 

but by 

The Eternal God

To See and To Know and To Decide 

To Love God As Lord.

God Made Mankind 

Out Of 

His Love

In 

His Time

For 

His Pleasure!

God's Love contains His Grace
God's Love contains His Mercy
God's Love contains His Justice
God's Love contains His Hand of Provision
God's Love contains His Peace
God's Love contains His Pardon
God's Love contains His Compassion
God's Love contains His Caring, and
God's Love contains His Pathway To Our Perfection.

God's Love is Infinite
God's Love is Free
God's Love is Overflowing
God's Love is Faithful
God's Love is Truth
God's Love is Light.

God's Love Seeks after His Children.
God's Love Seals His Children from Sin and Death.
God's Love Sanctifies His Children unto Himself.
God's Love Saves His Children from That Separating Line.

God's Love Heals
God's Love Helps
God's Love Holds, and
God's Love Hands Us Hope.

God's Love Pleads
God's Love Leads
God's Love Feeds, and
God's Love IS The Steed Which Will Get Us Home.

God Gave Man 

A Free Will

and 

A Personal Choice!

Will You Exercise Your Free Will 

and 

Personal Choice

and

Bless God

and

Return His Love For You? Today?

I Have! Please Join Me!

God's Love is Costly Array

and is

Fashioned 

out of

The Holy God

The Living God

The Eternal God

The God called Man's Savior Friend

and

The God Who Will Succor His People

Until Life's Journey's End!

MARANATHA!

At The End Of It All God's Love Is All!

God's Love IS All ...

So, Please, Drop Satan's Shiny Deception Ball

And

Get Over Adam's Ignominious Fall

And

Recognize That We Sinned -

You and Me and One and All

And

Confess and REPENT

And Accept God's Forgiveness

And

Stand Tall

And

Give To Jesus Christ Your Body and All

And 

Do The Good Works By Faith

And

At The End of It All

When The Last Trumpet Shall Loudly Call

He Will Your New Name Lovingly Call 

Before

Almighty God 

And 

The Angels All!

God's Love For Me Is Eternal! + Prayer: Thanks!

God's Grace gives Me Access

God's Mercy gives Me Hope

God's Love for Me is Eternal

And for this I don't have to Vote!

I send a Prayer up to Heaven

With Full Knowledge of The Power of Jesus' Blood

For The Blood of His Great Sacrifice

Assures Me an Answer from God Above!

I will Pray to God without Ceasing
I will Pray when it seems This Life is Me Defeating
I will Pray for My Days on Earth are Fleeting
I Will Pray ... I WILL PRAY!

Jesus+Saves

Heavenly Father,

Thanks for the Benefits You Bestow

Thanks for The Love that Shows

Thanks for Forgiving The Balance I Owe

I Give You Praise!

Amen.