In the beginning God, by His infinite power created the heavens, the earth, every living creature, every plant, and the first man and woman.

God, the Almighty God, is the creator of the universe. The universe did not just evolve from nothing by itself but was the creation of God. Furthermore, the fact of creation is supported by documented evidence of recorded history within the oldest book of mankind called the Bible.

The intricacy and intelligence within creation, moreover, the complexity and the compatibility of all life, declares the evidence that there is the supernatural power of God behind the design, birth and continual livelihood of all creation.

The personal intimacy of God's Love and favor towards Man was demonstrated when God created man in His own image according to His likeness, giving man a free will, the power to think and decide, and the capacity of moral choice.

The greatness of God's goodness was further displayed when He gave man the privilege to communicate face to face with Him in a living relationship and by God's desire to share the Joys and His creation with man.

Adam, the first man of God's creation was originally morally pure in heart. And God saw it was not good for man to be alone so God created a companion for Adam, and therefore God formed the first woman from a rib of Adam and called her Eve.

Adam and Eve lived in virtual perfect harmony with God and His creation, and Adam had dominion over all the animals and earth, till Adam disobeyed God and sinned, after Eve was deceived by Satan. This is called " The Fall of Man ".

Read and study the entire chapters of GENESIS 1 and 2

GENESIS 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

GENESIS 1:26 Then God said, " Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

GENESIS 1:27 And God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

The God of Christianity, is the Most High God with all authority far above every other so called god or gods in the universe; He is the one true God for all peoples of every nation and every island throughout the world.

The English words " God " and " Lord " are actually simple generic terms used as translations for several Hebrew names of God and also refers to the three divine persons in one Godhead. There consists three separate divine persons that reign collectively as the one true Deity: They are God the Almighty Father, called YaHWeH or " I AM ", God the Son, who is Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit.

God is the same God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is also the same God of both the Jews and Christians.

God is Love, full of care, comfort and compassion. God loves us each individually and desires that we love Him with all of our heart, mind and strength, and to love one another as ourselves, and more important in the same way Jesus loved us.

God is all powerful, He is the everlasting God, He has always existed and lives forever.

God is the Creator of the universe and everything in it. He created man and the universe for His own good pleasure. God so lovingly desires to share His creation and eternal Kingdom with anyone who will follow Jesus Christ. Everything that we say and do should glorify and bring honor to God.

God is Good and all that is within Him is wholesome, righteous and true.

All of who God is and what God has done is beyond our limited comprehension, but we still can come to know Him through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

God is Spirit; God is not anything made with human hands, nor is God any plant, animal, water, fire, or earth, nor is God a human being, except Jesus Christ who was God manifested in the flesh. Neither should any man who now claims to be Christ, except Jesus, be recognized as God, because there are many false Christs.

God sees and knows all things. His wisdom is infinite and beyond any earthly knowledge. His presence fills the universe while He reigns on a throne in Heaven. Yet God is even so intimate that He can spiritually abide in the hearts of Christians, of those who believe in Him.

God sits on a throne in the Kingdom of Heaven, and no man has seen God the Father while on the earth.

Yet God has the power also to be everywhere ( omnipresent ) at the same time by the Holy Spirit. God dwells and abides in the hearts of Christians those who accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and sincerely desire to obey His Word.

There are Holy Angels in heaven that give glory and worship to God and serve God in heaven and on earth. God has the authority over both good and bad angels, they can do nothing without God's approval.

God is a righteous, perfect and Holy God and all who want to see God and have fellowship with Him must be Holy. Holy means to pure and separated from worldliness, and living for God. Jesus Christ establishes true Holiness in a person's life if we follow Him, through His grace.

No man can hide from God nor should any man try to hide from God even though that person may have done much wrong, because God desires to help set that person free from the bondage or guilt of evil.

God knows all our weaknesses and gives us strength. God knows all of our sorrows and all of our suffering and every trial that we go through but still makes everything work for good for us who love Him.

God desires to bind up our broken hearts and set people free who are held captive by fear, oppression, depression, guilt, feelings of inadequacy etc.

God protects His children, and surely if God is for us who can stand against us. God is all-powerful and has His legions of mighty angels who defend us daily in spiritual war.

God is righteous, just and true. The Truth of God is the standard for personal success. God is Light, Holy and Pure, without any darkness of evil.

God is abounding in mercy and grace towards the humble in heart who want to depart away from evil and do what is right.

God is always faithful even when we're faithless, He completes and fulfills His promises in our lives.

God knows His own, and we only can come to Him if He draws us to Himself, then we become His children, and serve Him as a bond servant, yet He does not regard us as a slave but as a friend.

Our God knows and cares for each one of us personally. He knows every thought we think and every word we speak. He knows everything we do, right and wrong and yet when we do wrong , He does not judge us or condemns us but rather is ever so patient with us in love , helping us to change by convicting our hearts through His Holy Spirit and enabling us to overcome our evil ways. God corrects and chastens the ones He loves. God sanctifies, conforms and transforms every sincere Christian into the image of Christ, if we are willing.

God has infinite power to perform miracles but God does not always choose to do so because He does not want us to base our belief in Him on miracles. Rather, He wants a people who seek and follow after Him because they seek after God's own heart and desire to bear in their own life the same love, kindness, gentleness, righteousness, that God has.

God tests the hearts of man, to see who sincerely desires to love and to trust Him and to further determine who desires to please and to obey Him.

God hates evil, pride, and the perverse mouth. He will destroy the wicked who choose not to repent and who choose to reject His Love and Jesus Christ. However God always has love and mercy towards anyone who desires to change and God will be faithful to help them.

God is jealous for us in a good way. He doesn't have a careless attitude towards us. He sincerely loves us and is jealous for us because we are His children.

God is a faithful God, even if and when we are faithless, God will still be faithful on behalf of His children.

God's faithfulness and power gives and insures preservation and perpetuation of His creation, even though man pollutes, corrupts, abuses and destroys creation. God maintains a sovereign control over His creation. This is called God's providence. God is a very caring God, He tends and cares for the entire universe and for everything on this earth. He cares and provides for mankind. He tends and cares for the vegetation, the animals, the weather and for all of nature itself.

God speaks and communicates with us in many ways. God can speak to us in an audible voice, or a small silent voice in the spirit to our heart or in dreams and visions or through another Christian and through His word.

God provides for all of our needs, but not our lusts or extravagance.

Nothing is impossible for God, but God will always provide or do something in the time that He sees and knows is best, for reasons often beyond our understanding. God's thoughts and ways are higher than ours.

God can heal any sickness, disease, or physical handicap, however God does not always choose to do so for various reasons, such as; God may want someone to get closer to Him in prayer and in their relationship with Him. God may want to touch and change the life of a doctor or nurse or family member. God may want to give other Christians the opportunity to grow in love by visiting and ministering to the sick. God may want to use a Christian to intercede and pray for that person. God may want to strengthen a person's endurance or help them to cease from sin. God may want to see if a person fully trusts in Him no matter what happens.

God gives perfect peace and rest to all those who come to Him and do His will. He knows our foolishness and brings us to maturity.

God wants us to learn and obey His ways so that we might be blessed, by having new life, and fullness of joy.

God abides spiritually within the hearts of every Christian who keeps His commandments.

God wants us to willingly give Him Glory by singing praise to His name, by giving thanksgiving for all that He has done and by worshipping and adoring Him in word and deed.

God does not want us to worship other gods or to follow false doctrines.

One day all Christians will rule and reign with God in His Heavenly Kingdom. God desires to give spiritual gifts to every Christian so that they can more effectively minister to others and so that the fullness of His love and goodness would abound to many.

The God of Christianity is so awesome mere words cannot properly and fully describe Him.

ELOHIM - HEB. ( PL) is the first usage in the bible to designate a name for God; It is used around 2500 times in the Old Testament.

ELOAH - HEB ( S ) is the singular form of ELOHIM

YHWH - EXODUS 6:3

1 JOHN 4:16 "And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us, God is Love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in Him. "

God is so awesome and the scriptures declare that He is incomprehensible to the fullest extent, however, we can come to know Him in a personal way.

JOB 11:7 Who can discover the depths of God ? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty ?

JOB 36:26 Behold, God is exalted and we do not know Him; The number of His years are unsearchable.

ROMANS 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways !

God has the ability to be present in all places at the same time; He has a universal presence.

1 KINGS 8:27 But will God abide only on the earth ? Behold, heaven and highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house I have built !

JEREMIAH 23:23,24 " Am I a God who is near," declares the Lord, " And not a God far off ? " Can a man hide himself in hiding places, so I do not see him ? " declares the Lord. " Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?" declares the Lord.

God is the All Mighty;

God has the attribute of being all powerful, with unlimited power.

GEN 17:1 Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, " I am God Almighty; walk before Me and be blameless.

God has the attribute of having infinite knowledge

PSALM 147:5 Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.

1 JOHN 3:19 We shall know by this that we are of the truth and shall assure our heart before Him,

1 JOHN 3:20 in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

God created man and woman; They did not just evolve.

GEN 1:26-27 Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female, He created them.

God always existed in the past and will always exist in the future.

DEUT 33:27 The eternal God is a dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms;

PSALM 90:2 Before the mountains were born, Or before You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

God is forever faithful, to help us who are willing to overcome any evil and to become fully established in His love, complete for every good work.

1 THES 5:24 Faithful is He that called you, who also will do it.

2 THES 3:3 But the Lord is faithful and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

God is Spirit and no one can see Him while on this earth.

1 TIM 6:16 Who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion ! Amen

1 TIM 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

EXODUS 33:20 But He said,"You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live."

JOHN 1:18 No man has seen God ( The Father ) at any time; However the only begotten God, ( Jesus ) who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

God is consistent in the goodness that He promises and gives;

MALACHI 3:6 For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

JAMES 1:17 Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

God is pure and good, therefore He is separated from all evil

REV 4:8 Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God the Almighty, Who was and Who is, and Who is to come.

LEV 19:2 You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

God is full of true justice and righteousness, along with mercy

PSALM 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne:

PSALM 145:17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways and Holy in all His works,

God has the ability of seeing and beholding everything at the same time.

God is fullness of all that is wonderful and good.

PSALM 100:5 The Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting.

God is full of glory that outshines the sun

PSALM 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handwork.

ROMANS 1:19,20 Because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so they are without excuse.

1 JOHN 2: 1-3 My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins and not for our s only, but also for those of the whole world.

And by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

1 JOHN 4:7,8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

And one who does not love does not know God, for God is love,

Satan is the primary adversary of God and Man. He is called, Lucifer, Devil, The Father of lies. Satan originally was a beautiful created angel in charge of the worship in heaven, until Satan fell from God's favor when pride was found in him, because Satan wanted to be greater than God and receive all the glory and power.

The devil is not an ugly red faced person or angel with horns, along with a pointed tail and a pitch-fork. Rather he deceptively appears as an angel of light.

Satan or Lucifer deceptively convinced one third of God's angels to betray God, these are called demons. Satan is the master deceiver of mankind;

Satan deceived Adam and Eve. Satan was also the cause that sin, disease, sickness, pain, tears, the curse of hardship, and shame came into the world.

Satan is the tempter of Christians. He will do anything to tempt a Christian away from following what is right and cause a Christian to sin.

The devil is also the accuser of the brethren. Lucifer and his demons will cause false accusations through others to be directed at Christians, to hurt, condemn and to hinder their walk.

However God will protect you by giving you ' faith ' that comes by listening to and by believing God's Word. Faith is like a spiritual shield which will quench every fiery dart or word of accusation from Satan.

God in His infinite wisdom, allows Satan and demons to have certain liberty today only to test the hearts of man till the fullness of the gentiles and Jews become Christians then Satan and his demons will be judged and sent to hell.

Satan and his demons have limited power to perform certain signs and wonders and evil miracles, and does so with the purpose to deceive the world and Christians if possible.

As Christians, we are presently in spiritual warfare with satanic powers; Jesus Christ along with the host of angels and believers will one day soon war against Satan at the Battle of Armageddon. And Jesus already has the victory.

Christians need to pray to God for the spiritual gift of discerning of spirits so we can rightly address each situation.

Satan constantly perverts the Word of God and attempts to steal the Word of God from a person's heart before it spiritually matures and bears various spiritual fruit in a person's life.

Satan is the father of all lies and does so to cause confusion, and disunity and hindrance among Christians and to perpetuate evil. He goes about like a roaring lion seeking who he may devour.

Behind every false religion, doctrine, idols, and occult is the influence and deception of satanic powers.

Satan will one day manifest himself into the antichrist or beast of the last days, and try to take power of the world and it's wealth under the coming of the one world government.

At the second coming of Jesus Christ, Jesus will overcome Satan and his demons and they will be bound in hell for thousand years.

JOHN 8:44 ... He, ( Satan ), was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he ( Satan ) is a liar, and the father of lies.

1 THESS 3:5 For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I also sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter, ( Satan ), might have tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

EZEK 28:12 You, ( Satan ), had the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;....

28:14 You were the anointed cherub who covers, and I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked in the midst of the stones of fire.

28:15 You were blameless in your ways, from the day you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.

28:16 By the abundance of your trade you were internally filled with violence, and you sinned; therefore I have cast you as profane, from the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

28:17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before kings, that they may see you.

28:18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade, you profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, and I, ( God ), have turned you, ( Satan ), to ashes on the earth.

ISAIAH 14:12 How you ( Satan ) have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of dawn !...

14:13 But you said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, .... 14:14 ... I ( Satan ) will make myself like the Most High.

14:15 Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.

In the beginning, man was created in God's own image, therefore man never evolved from apes or any other life form. God moreover, gave man dominion over all the animals to set man apart from just being another animal and gave him various responsibilities.

God created man with a spirit ( pneuma ), soul ( psyche ), and body ( soma.)

God wants the whole being of man to be sanctified by Jesus Christ, so that we would be blameless at His coming.

1THES. 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Man has a God given responsibility to govern the earth according to the will of God. This is a free-will choice by each man and we will either reap the benefits or consequences based upon if we individually choose to follow or reject God's design and purpose for our life.

Man is unique in comparison to any animal. The qualities within man reveal that he is created distinctly different from any animal. Man has the capacity and certain characteristics, and attributes that make him human and not a animal,

Man is a moral being, who was created with a conscience. Conscience is an human instinct which is a person's inward voice telling the personal standard of right from wrong.

No man is God, except Jesus Christ, who clearly proved that He is God.

GEN 1:26 And God said, " Let Us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle , and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."

HEBREWS 2:6-8 " What is man, that You remember him? or the son of man, that You are concerned about him? You have made him alittle lower than the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor, and have appointed him over the works of Your hands; You have put all things in subjection under his feet."

PROV 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.

In the beginning when God created the world and the universe, God also created the first man called Adam and He then created the first woman called Eve.

They lived in perfect harmony with God and nature in paradise called Eden. God allowed them to eat of every tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God warned them that if they should eat of this tree that they would surely die.

However Eve fell into the deception of Satan and Adam willfully disobeyed God and ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This was The Fall of Man from good fellowship with God and this disobedience is called the original sin.

Every man and woman is born into a sinful nature because the damaging effects of the original sin is spiritually passed on to every person. This spiritual sinful nature is what separates us from having good fellowship with God.

God has sent his Son Jesus Christ to deliver and save us from our sinful nature. Those who reject Jesus and His words will not be reconciled back to God and they are further self condemned and will face eternal destruction. However everyone who accepts Jesus Christ and His words has eternal life and is reconciled back to God.

GEN 3:1-19 READ and STUDY

ROMANS 5:12-19 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned;

5:13 for until the Law, sin was in the world but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

5:15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of

5:16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.

5:17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in the life through the One, Jesus Christ.

5:18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

5:19 For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

1 TIM 2:14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being quite deceived, fell into transgression.

GENESIS 6:5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

PSALM 14:1-3 The fool has said in his heart, " There is no God." They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good. The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one.

ROMANS 3:10-24 As it is written, " There is none righteous not even one;

3:11 There is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God;

3:12 All have turned aside, together they have become useless; There is none who does good.

3:13 Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving,' The poison of asps is under their lips."

3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;"

3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood,

3:16 Destruction and misery are in their paths,

3:17 And the path of peace have they not known."

3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes,"

3:19 Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may become accountable to God;

3:20 because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

3:21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe for there is no distinction;

3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

3:24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Sin is the disobedience of God's Word, instructions, commandments, or anything done against the will of God, or even sometimes our deliberate thoughts or words spoken can be sin or evil.

Sin is lawlessness and spiritual rebellion against God.

Sin and evil are usually very deceitful, seeming to appear as something good or pleasurable that might bring some kind of happiness to a person, but in reality any sin or evil action as only shallow, temporal and self-centered materialistic or physical vices or responses, which will not nor can not spiritually fulfill us with lasting Godly joy and true wholesome spiritual life which is eternal.

The original sin of mankind entered the world by Adam and Eve's disobedience to God's instruction in the garden of Eden. The sin nature or evil spirit of the original sin is passed on to everyone born into the world, throughout every generation.

Sin spiritually pollutes the mind, and spirit of a person, somewhat like viruses, cancer, and fatal diseases effect our physical body.

Any sin, spiritually separates any person from God and from the blessings which God desires to give to each one of us now.

Sin is also called the evil deeds of the flesh....

GALATIANS 5:19-21 " Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God."

There are many kinds of sins , and God is willing and able to forgive anyone of any sin. Some of the evil and sins that we've done seem to horrible for God to forgive and we may feel unworthy but God will forgive any of us and if we only confess our sins to God and turn away from that sinful deed. God will be faithful and just to forgive us, and thankfully, any Christian who is forgiven, will not be judged nor suffer the wrath of God.

However, even though we are forgiven, we may still suffer certain emotional, physical, material and spiritual repercussions, losses or penalties caused by our sinful actions, such as disease, sickness, pain, suffering, hardships. There are also sometimes losses of personal spiritual strength, confidence. Your spiritual calling and ministry could be hindered and jeopardized. There are the possible losses of health and even physical life and losses of potential eternal spiritual rewards.

Anytime a person sins it brings that person into spiritual bondage and that person becomes a slave to that sin. They have to obey the wrong direction that evil powers are taking that individual. They become obsessed, and cannot break free, it's like being in prison. A person who steals wants to steal more. A person involved in sexual immorality wants to do more sexual sins; and so forth. Sin never truly satisfies.

Jesus Christ is our Mighty Deliverer from all sin and from the bondage of all evil.

Man has caused his own sufferings. We have no one else to blame but ourselves, God warned us, to protect us, yet Adam and each one of us have still chosen at various times, to disobey God.

However God by His Steadfast love and tender mercies still desires to save us and deliver any of us out of the bondage of our sin and give us His most precious provision of Grace if we choose to believe in Jesus Christ.

There is only one sin that God cannot forgive and that is speaking a word against the Holy Spirit.

Anytime we sin or selfishly involve ourselves in the cares and pleasures of this world, some portion of the word of God is choked out of our life. We loose a measure of love, joy, peace, righteousness, light; We will also reap what we sow. Other people and the Body of Christ are hurt in some way when we sin.

A little sin can ruin the whole church. We have broken fellowship with God and other Christians when we sin.

God does not hear our prayers when we sin.

If a person chooses not to change, there will be further separation from God and eternal destruction.

Every sinful action first begins as a single thought like an evil seed, this is called a temptation or enticement either directly from satanic powers or when a person is drawn away by the lusts of his own heart brought through his sinful nature.

God is continually working within a Christian's mind and heart, to sanctify or purify any sinful spiritual nature. The words and grace of Jesus Christ washes us clean of all evil as we continue to submit ourselves to God.

A temptation will deceptively appear to be good and will appeal to our fleshly lusts, inorder to draw us away from God and from doing His will. No one is ever tempted by God.

Temptation is not sin unless we willingly choose to continue pondering and planning a certain evil deed. Every evil thought will soon grow into an sinful action unless we ongoingly reject that thought when it comes to our mind.

It is essential that we take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. In other words, as we receive a questionable thought, we should subject that thought to the righteous standard of God's Word; we should ask ourselves, ' Is what I am thinking of doing or saying, acceptable and right, according to God's Word '? What does God's commandments truly say about what I am about to do ?'

If God's Word or His Holy Spirit is convicting us of a potential sin, we must not harden our heart, to the voice of God, but rather quickly turn from all sin.

God wants to show us, just what are the specific sins and evil ways which have caused us to have broken fellowship with Him; but even more important God desires to show us how to be reconciled back to Him into a good relationship.

God's word and Holy Spirit reveals what is evil within our minds, hearts, words, and actions much like light reveals what is hidden in darkness.

God's word also instructs us " How To Be Saved " and " How To Overcome Evil ". Salvation from our sins and evil enables any person to receive the multitude of blessings of God's precious promises now and forever; and most of all to receive eternal life, joy, and peace with God.

As we learn in God's Word, just what are the various sins in our life that God wants us to turn away from, we should not feel condemned or overwhelmed, but rather allow God's Holy Spirit to convict our hearts each day and to give us the ability to overcome those sins and receive all the eternal blessings of His Love instead...

Let each of us examine our hearts and minds daily before God....

Anger EPHES 4:31, GAL 5:19

Apostasy HEB 6:4-6, 2 PET 2:20

Adultery 1 CORIN 6:9

Arrogant 2 TIM 3:2, JAMES 3:14

Astrology DEUT 4:19; 17:2,3; ISAIAH 47:13, 2 KINGS 17:16

Bitterness EPHES 4:31

Backsliding PROV 14:14

Balance, false PROV 11:1

Blasphemy ACTS 12:20-23

Boastful 2 TIM 3:2, JAMES 4:16, ROM 1:30

Boisterous PROV 7:11

Bribe DEUT 10:17

Brutal 2 TIM 3:3

Carousing ROM 13:13, GAL 5:19

Causing division 2 SAM 15:4

Charm PROV 31:30

Clamor EPHES 4:31

Coarse jesting EPHES 5:4

Complain against one another JAMES 5:9

Compromise JUDGES 2:1-3

Conceited 2 TIM 3:4

Conformed to this world ROM 12:2

Condemning the righteous PROV 17:15

Contention PROV 21:9

Covetousness 1 CORIN 6:9

Cruel PROV 11:17

Deceit, Lusts of EPHES 4:22, ROM 1:29, PROV 12:20

Denying Jesus Christ MAT 26:69-75

Despise the Word of God PROV 13:13

Despise your neighbor PROV 14:21

Devise evil PROV 6:14

Disputes GAL 5:19

Disobedience GEN 3:6, HEB 4:6

Disobeying parents ROM 1:30, 2 TIM 3:2, ROM 1:30

Dissensions GAL 5:19

Divination DEUT 18:9-13, 1 CORIN 10:20

Divorce, wrongful MAT 5:32

Doubting ROM 14:23

Drunkenness EPHES 5:18, ROM 13:13, GAL 5:19, PROV 20:1

Eating blood 1 SAM 14:33

Empty conceit PHIL 2:3

Envy TITUS 3:3, 1 PETER 2:1, ROM 1:29, GAL 5:19

Factions GAL 5:19

Faith, doing anything without ROM 14:23

Fasting, false MAT 6:16

Feet that run rapidly to evil PROV 6:18

Foolishness PROV 14:1, 14:8

Fornication 1 CORIN 6:9

Friendship with the world JAMES 4:4

Futility of their mind EPHES 4:17

False gods, worshipping EX 20:3

Gossips, malicious 2 TIM 3:3, ROM 1:29

Greed EPHES 5:3, ROM 1:29

Guile 1 PETER 2:1

Harden your heart HEB 3:15

Harlot 1 CORIN 6:15

Harsh words PROV 15:1

Hateful 1 JOHN 2:9, TITUS 3:3

Hate reproof PROV 15:10

Hater of God ROM 1:30

Hater of good 2 TIM 3:3

Haughty eyes PROV 6:17

Homosexuality ROM 1:27, 1 CORIN 6:9

Hypocrisy 1 PETER 2:1, ROM 12:9

Idolater EPHES 5:5, 1 CORIN 6:9, GAL 5:19

Immorality EPHES 5:3, GAL 5:19

Impurity EPHES 5:3, GAL 5:19

Incest GEN 19:33-38

Insolent ROM 1:30

Inventor of evil ROM 1:30

Jealousy JAMES 3:14, ROM 13:13, GAL 5:19

Judging others LUKE 6:37

Justify the wicked PROV 17:15

Lesbianism ROM 1:26

Lie to the Holy Spirit ACTS 5:3

Look to lust MAT 5:28

Lover of money 2 TIM 3:2

Lover of pleasure 2 TIM 3:4

Lover of self 2 TIM 3:1

Lover of the world 1 JOHN 2:15

Lusts, various JAMES 4:2, TITUS 3:3, 1 PET 4:2

Lustful passion 1 THES 4:5

Lying tongue PROV 6:17,19; PROV 12:19

Malice TITUS 3:3, ROM 1:29

Mocking PROV 14:9

Mocks the poor PROV 17:5

Murder LUKE 18:20, ROM 1:29,

Murmuring NUM 14:29

Not doing what you know is right JAMES 4:17

Not confess Jesus before men MAT 10:32,33

Not doing Jesusí word which you have heard MAT 7:24-25

Offering human sacrifices 2 KINGS 17:17

Partiality JAMES 2:9

Practice lawlessness MAT 7:23

Passion PROV 14:30

Perverse in heart PROV 11:20

Perversed mind PROV 12:8

Perverted in language PROV 17:20

Pride PROV 11:2; 16:18

Proud in heart PROV 16:5

Rape 2 SAM 13:14

Rebellion NUM 16, PROV 7:11, PROV 17:11

Reckless 2 TIM 3:4

Repay evil for evil 1 THES 5:15

Revilers 2 TIM 3:2

Revenge ROM 12:17,19

Rude 1 CORIN 13:5

Sacrifice of the wicked PROV 15:8, 21:27

Scoffer PROV 24:9

Self willed EZEK 28:17

Self righteousness PROV 14:12; 16:25

Selfishness PHIL 2:3

Selfish ambition JAMES 3:14,16; ROM 2:8

Sensuality 1 PET 4:3, 2 PET 2:18, ROM 13:13, GAL 5:19

Sexual immorality 1 THES 4:3, ROM 13:13

Shed innocent blood PROV 6:17

Silly talk EPHES 5:4

Slander EPHES 4:31, 1 PETER 2:1, ROM 1:30

Sluggard PROV 13:4

Sorcery GAL 5:19

Speak against one another JAMES 4:11

Steal LUKE 18:20, 1 CORIN 6:10

Stiff-necked, Stubborn ACTS 7:51

Strife ROM 1:29, ROM 13:13, GAL 5:19, PROV 6:19

Stumbling block LUKE 17:2, MAT 18:6

Swearing, making oaths ZEC 8:17

Swindler 1 CORIN 5:11

Take up a reproach against a friend PSALM 15:4

Teaching false doctrine MAT 16:6

Tongue, not bridle your JAMES 1:26

Tongue, evil speech JAMES 2:5,6

Trusting in riches PSALM 49:6

Turn one's ear from listening to the truth PROV 28:9

Treacherous 2 TIM 3:4

Uncharitable 1 JOHN 3:17

Unfaithful servant MAT 25:15

Unforgiving MAT 6:15; 18:35

Ungrateful 2 TIM 3:2

Unholy 2 TIM 3:2

Unloving 2 TIM 3:3, ROM 1:30

Unmerciful ROM 1:30, MAT 18:23-35

Unpardonable sin- Blasphemy against the Spirit MAT 12:31

Unthankfulness ROM 1:21

Untrustworthy ROM 1:30

Violence PROV 16:29, PROV 4:17

Vows, false MAT 5:33

Your yes not being yes, or your no not being no MAT 5:37

Wickedness PROV 13:6

Wisdom, earthly JAMES 3:15

Witchcraft, practicing 1 SAM 28:7-18

Witness, bear false LUKE 18:20, PROV 6:19, PROV 12:17

Worship creation ROM 1:25

The opposite of any sinful action would be demonstrating God's love in a specific way.

Turn to " LIST OF GOD'S LOVE " on Page 166

FALLING SHORT ( hamartia, hamartema, anamartetos Adj., hamartano Verb, )

This group of Greek words are used most often in the New Testament to convey the word sin, they occur over 250 times. These words literally means to " fall short " of the glory of God; or to " miss the mark."

INIQUITY ( anomia ) Means " lawlessness ", wickedness, unrighteousness

UNRIGHTEOUSNESS ( adikia ) This Greek word denotes 'injustice', or 'dishonesty'or 'unrighteousness', the state or act of not being right, either with God or with man, according to God's standard of Holiness, Truth, and Righteousness outlined in the scriptures.

( adikema ) indicates a misdeed, a wrong, or an injury

( poneria ) indicates bad, wickedness, worthless

TRANSGRESSION ( Nouns -paranomia, parabasis ) Means to cross the line which God has drawn by His commandments; it is a specific disobedience of a command.

The original sin of Adam and Eve brought devastation to all mankind and separation from God.

All men and women are born with the same sin nature in their spirit. We all have impure spirits and we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

God is Holy, Perfect and Pure, therefore our impure spirits cannot come into His presence and have any fellowship with Him. We are spiritually separated from God.

However God wants us to be transformed from having a impure spirit, into the likeness of Jesus Christ, and so that we might have God's Holy Spirit dwell within our hearts. It is for this reason that God sent Jesus Christ into the world, so that we can be reconciled back to God the Father.

Jesus Christ is the only mediator or spiritual bridge for man to cross over back to God. If we believe in Jesus by faith and through His provision of Grace, and by the washing of God's Word, then our minds and hearts are made pure by God. Moreover, if we keep His commandments, Jesus and God the Father will dwell in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.

There could be nothing more horrible then to be eternally separated from God and that is what will happen to any person who willingly rejects the Love of God and chooses not to follow Jesus Christ.

ISAIAH 59:2 But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have caused His face to be hidden from you, so that He does not hear.

EPHESIANS 2:12,13 Remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one, and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall,

2:15 by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace.

"Salvation" is when God brings deliverance to a person's life from the illusion, misery, bondage, and potential spiritual death caused by sin which exists within our own personal lives by the evil words and actions that we've done.

God intended His gift of salvation for everyone. Everyone needs God's salvation. Every person of every race, tribe of every nation, needs God's deliverance and salvation; whether we're seemingly successful or not, rich or poor, old or young.

Every person in the world has sinned and done some evil and falls short of the Glory of God, whether they presently recognize or admit their particular sins or not.

Every man, woman and child is in desperate need for God's spiritual deliverance in their life. We need to be delivered from our sinful nature, which will bring eventual spiritual death to anyone who does not choose to accept the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

We are virtually destitute of the truth of Jesus Christ, but as we continue in God's word, His truth sets us free and delivers us from every sinful way, and brings new eternal spiritual life to all those who believe.

Most people don't recognize their need for deliverance, they are spiritually blinded and ignorant to spiritual truth. Remember when we were young and we thought we knew everything, but in reality we knew very little.

There were even times when we as children would be doing something that we thought was fine, yet was very dangerous for our lives or for those around us such as drinking something that was poisonous, or playing with matches, or running out into traffic, wandering off alone and getting lost, talking to strangers, and swimming in to deep of waters, or in storm surf.

Well the same thing happens as people get older but in the spiritual sense, until we learn God's spiritual wisdom and discretion for our lives. Wandering off alone and getting lost is what every adult does spiritually. We arrogantly think we can do our own thing and be self-willed until we find ourselves totally confused and lost.

Anytime we play with evil, it will eventually burst into an uncontrollable raging fire, that will burn us to death. Only the living water of God's word can save a person from the eternal flames of hell.

As adults we follow false teachers that appeal to our likings, like talking to a stranger who has offered us some candy and is about to do us harm.

We're having fun, not watching the warning signs till an avalanche of evil takes many lives or a tidal wave of sin kills those we love.

We go swimming out into social affairs and strive with selfish ambition for success, only to find that each one of us are spiritually drowning in our sins and problems caused by our own hand. Jesus Christ is our only lifeguard close by who can save us. God is able to pull anyone out of the quicksand and mud of our every day problems.

Jesus Christ is truly our Mighty Deliverer !

Every man and woman needs to be delivered from the bondage of sin and spiritual death. Only through an ongoing relationship with Jesus Christ can anyone be delivered from every evil way and become free from hurt and destruction caused by sin. It is vital that we each recognize our own personal need for Jesus Christ to become our Lord and Saviour, and Mighty Deliverer, and to further accept Him into our lives.

MAT 6:9 Pray, then, in this way; Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Your name....

MAT 6:13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

LUKE 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are downtrodden,

4:19 To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord."

ROMANS 11:26 and thus all Israel will be saved, just as it is written,

" The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob."

11:27 And this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.

ROMANS 8:21 That the creation itself also will be delivered from it's bondage to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

2 CORIN 1:10 Who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us.

PSALM 34:17 The righteous cry and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous; But the Lord delivers him out of them all.

COL 1:13 For He delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

1:14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

1:15 And He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation.

2 CORIN 1:9 Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves in order that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

1:10 Who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us.

First, we should no longer literally follow the written ordinances of the Mosaic law, which is recorded within the Old Testament of the Bible, as a means to be justified or saved by God. The Mosaic law is under the old covenant made by God and is now obsolete.

For anyone to purpose to be saved from their sinful nature, by futility attempting to obey the Law, would be an absolute error and against God's will, and further unattainable.

Just trying to follow the letter of the law cannot save anyone because it could not and did not give the perfect grace and mercy from God that is needed to cleanse us from all of our sins. Perfect grace and forgiveness is necessary to sanctify our lives so that we can grow up progressively in spiritual maturity and to be holy and to become pure in heart.

However this perfect grace is now made possible and available, by what Jesus Christ alone has already done.

Nor could just following the letter of the old law could anyone obtain the perfect spiritual power, ability and strength to overcome and set aside every sin and evil way within our life, as we must do.

However, the Holy Spirit, now directs and enables us, to lay aside and to overcome all of our old evil ways and helps us to do the will of God while we are under the grace of Christ.

Neither could just attempting to obey the letter of the law give the full perfect Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of Counsel, and the Spirit of Knowledge, which are all necessary to fully understand and perceive the height, and depth of true justice, the true righteousness, the true mercy, and the true love, beyond the letter of the law, which God desires us to follow and do in every circumstances.

Overall the letter of the law was very limited and inadequate in giving guidance and was without mercy and forgiveness, when and where needed; Nor could the law spiritual work within our hearts to change our lives the way the Holy Spirit is now able if we accept Jesus Christ.

The law was good and still is good to teach us what is wrong and right but within itself, the law has no spiritual power to save us from our sin.

Moreover, under the Old law, the physical rituals and animal sacrifices that were necessary to obtain righteousness, were too awkward and burdensome to continually fulfill. However the righteousness of God is now attainable by faith through the Holy Spirit, as we ongoingly repent and abide in the grace of Christ.

We will grow in righteousness by faith, as the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ and His provision of grace, spiritually takes effect upon the lives of those who believe. Therefore, under the New Covenant, we are no longer obligated to do the various obsolete ordinances or rituals as they were literally written in the Old Law.

However we are commanded to love in the new covenant, and all the law and prophets are fulfilled in love, therefore the law of the old testament does not pass away, rather it becomes fulfilled more perfectly as God writes His Law of Love on our hearts and thereby only by God's Holy Spirit working through our lives can we demonstrate true righteousness, in giving the same love of Jesus Christ to others.

HEBREWS 8:4 Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;

8:5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, " See," He says, " That you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."

8:6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for the second.

8:8 For finding fault with them, He says, " Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will effect a new covenant with the house of Judah;

8:9 Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in My convenant, and I did not care for them, says the Lord.

8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord; I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God and they shall be My people.

8:11 And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,' declares the Lord,'

8:12 ' For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more. '

8:13 When He said, " A new covenant," He has made the first ( covenant ) obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

EPHES 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one, and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall,

2:15 by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace,

2:16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.

GAL 3:21 Is the law then contrary to the promises of God ? May it never be !

For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.

3:22 But the scripture has shut up all men under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

3:23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed.

3:24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, that we may be justified by faith.

3:25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

God has a steadfast Love for every person, in every nation throughout the world. We should observe just how much God loved us, by what He gave to us;

God gave what was most precious to Him, which is His very own Son, Jesus Christ, to lay down His life to save us.

How many fathers and families can identify with this, whom have sent sons to war, to save and protect the welfare other people and the children of their nation; ? And when a family has lost the life of their son, they really know the extent of the love that he had for them. And furthermore the love that the father and families had for the one who gave his life for many is fully manifested and fills their hearts forever.

ROM 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

JOHN 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting Life.

NEH 1:5 Then I said, " O Lord, God of Heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of Love with those who Love you and obey your commands."

PSALM 86:5 You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you.

EPHES 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great Love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ; ( By Grace you have been saved.)

2 THES 2:16,17 Now may the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

1 JOHN 4:9,10 In this the Love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is Love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

SALVATION - To be set free from the spiritual death deserved because of our sins

To be delivered from the bondage and detrimental effects of sin.

The grace of Jesus Christ is the free gift from God which brings salvation to all men who choose to believe and regard Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

ROM 5:15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if the by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

5:16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.

5:17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in the life through the One, Jesus Christ.

EPHES 2:4 But God being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

2:5 even when we were dead in our transgressions made us alive together with Christ ( by grace you have been saved ),

2:6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus,

2:7 in order that the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God.

TITUS 3:5 Not by the works of righteousness that we have done, but according to his mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit

3:6 Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour

3:7 That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

" Incarnation " refers to the act of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, assuming a human body and human nature, yet while He was still divine.

Although Jesus took on a human body, still He was without sin.

The incarnation includes the miraculous conception and birth of Jesus Christ.

MAT 1:20 But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, " Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

1:21 And she will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for it is He who will save His people from their sins.

The transfiguration will always be to Christians one of the most wonderful events in the life of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It was the glorification of the Son by the Father, and the revealing to three human witnesses - Peter, James and John - one of the most absolute evidences of Jesus' divine majesty. The transfiguration took place on Mount Hermon.

MARK 9:2 And six days later, Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John, and bought them up to a high mountain by them themselves. And he was transfigured before them;

9:3 And His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

9:4 And Elijah appeared to them along with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus.

9:5 And Peter answered and said to Jesus, " Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles, one for You , and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

9:6 For he did not know what to answer; for they became terrified.

9:7 Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, " This is My beloved Son, listen to Him."

9:8 And all at once they looked around and saw no one with them anymore, except Jesus alone.

The Cross of Jesus Christ is very significant in the life of a Christian.

However to fully understand the spiritual significance of the Cross within each Christian's life, we must learn about two main areas of scripture relating to...

1) WHAT JESUS CHRIST ACCOMPLISHED BY DYING ON THE CROSS

2) WHAT IT MEANS FOR US TO TAKE UP OUR OWN CROSS DAILY AND TO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST.

1 PETER 2:21-24 For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself ( Jesus ) to Him ( God the Father ) who judges righteously; And He ( Jesus ) Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness for by His wounds you were healed.

When Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins, this was the greatest act of love and victory over sin and death.

Our God is a very loving and merciful God; yet God is also very righteous and requires justice.

In God's perfect balance of life and justice, every sin and wrongful deed requires a just ransom or recompense to be paid, to compensate for the wrong done.

The results of sin brings spiritual death, so to show man just how spiritually hurtful and damaging our sin is and to make just restitution. God required a physical death for the spiritual hurt and death caused by a sin or sins.

Under the Old Covenant of the law, repeated animal sacrifices were needed to atone or to cover over sin. This was only temporal at the time and now is obsolete.

HEBREWS 10:8,9 " Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them. ( which were offered according to the law )

Then He said," Behold I have come to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

Under the New Covenant, Jesus became the one perfect sacrifice at the cross for all of our past, present and future sins, no other sacrifice or ransom is needed to be paid in God's eyes.

HEBREWS 10:10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

We each deserved punishment and death for the wrongs that we've done, but God's love for us is so great that Jesus Christ came down from heaven and died in our place. What awesome Love.

He bore our sins and paid the penalty of our sins with His own life.

However Jesus rose again from the dead and is alive today !

We can now have hope and obtain victory over sin and death by having faith in Jesus Christ.

Salvation for anyone who would desire to repent, was only made possible by what Jesus Christ alone achieved by giving His sinless life at the cross.

1 CORIN 1:17,18 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to peach the gospel, not with words of wisdom, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.

1 CORIN 2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Jesus was the only person who could fulfill God's requirement of justice for the sins of the world, because He was the only one who lived without sin, who was concieved by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, therefore He did not have the sin nature of Adam and Eve.

While God so loved the world and Jesus came and died at cross for everyone, so that they might be saved, it's still necessary for each person individually, to accept, and appropriate God's Grace and Salvation by sincerely asking and believing in Jesus Christ.

If anyone does not believe they are condemned already.

Anyone's sin can be forgiven if that person believes and accepts what Jesus Christ alone accomplished at the Cross.

HEB 9:26,28 ...But now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And it is appointed for men to die once , but after this, the judgment. So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him, He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

HEB 10:10-14 By that we will have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

But this Man, ( Jesus ) after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God; from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

COLOSSIANS 2:13 And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

2:14 Having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

2:15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them through Him.

MARK 8:34 And He summoned the multitude with His disciples and said to them, " If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. "

God is not asking us to take up a physical cross but rather a spiritual cross. What this means is that we must continue daily to put to death or crucify our selfish and sinful desires and to follow the example of how to live that Jesus Christ demonstrated. If we spiritually die to ourselves with Jesus, we will also live with Jesus because He rose from the dead.

GAL 5:24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with it's passions and desires.

GAL 5:19-21 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

ROMANS 12:1,2 I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

ROMANS 6:5-11 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin;

For he who has died is free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we should also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

For the death that He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

GAL 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and delivered Himself up for me.

MATTHEW 10:38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake shall find it.

MATTHEW 16:24,25 Then Jesus said to His disciples, " If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake shall find it.

LUKE 14:27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

GAL 6:14 But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Jesus Christ was the first and only person who ever died and rose again alive in a glorified physical body.

This is called the resurrection.

JOHN 2:19 On the third day after Jesus Christ was crucified, died, and was buried in a sealed tomb, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found it empty.

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Jesus had arose from the dead and later she had seen Him personally. There were also over 500 witnesses who personally saw Jesus Christ alive after He died. Jesus' own disciple Thomas was a skeptic but when he saw the wounds in the hands and side of Jesus then He knew for sure that He was looking at our risen Savior Jesus.

The hope is that one day very soon, all the believers in Jesus Christ who have died already, will also rise from the dead at the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ ascended into heaven where He physically is in His glorified body, however Jesus Christ spiritually lives in the hearts of every Christian, by the Holy Spirit.

JOHN 5:25-29 Truly, truly. I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear shall live. 26 For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; 27 and He gave Him authority to execute judgment because He is the Son of Man.

28 Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, and those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.

JOHN 11:25,26 Jesus said to her," I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this ?

1 THES 4:13,14 But we do not want you to be uniformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve, as do the rest who have hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

PHIL 3:10,11 That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead

JOHN 6:39,40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.

For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him, may have eternal life; and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.

The Ascension refers to when Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, physically, after He rose again from the dead.

To the Christian the ascension of Jesus Christ will always be an event to be comtemplated with awe, and reverence.

Not only was it the final and irrevocable proof of His divinity, but it was the logical sequence of His glorious resurrection and final triumph of His mortal ministry. Besides it fulfilled the ancient prophecies. It occurred forty days after He rose from the dead. The evidences were many and complete.

ACTS 1:9 And after He had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

1:10 And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was departing, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them;

1:11 ans they also said, " Men of Galilee, why do stand looking into the sky ? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into Heaven. "

MARK 16:19 So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

LUKE 24:50 And He led them out as far as Bethany and He lifted up His hands and blessed them.

24:51 And it came about that while He was blessing them, He parted from them.

God truly blesses and prospers His people with the spiritual riches of the Kingdom and provides for our earthly needs. Spiritual blessings from God are eternal.

He will also not allow His children to remain in poverty lacking basic food, clothing or adequate shelter and other pertinent needs. However, we must be faithful to labor with our own hands in the work that He provides.

God will prosper us with sufficient sustenance to meet our true needs and the needs of others through us. The blessings and prosperity which comes from God can encompass many different areas as He prescribes to each person, such as spiritual, financial, health, etc.....

According to God's word, there are many blessings, Godly promises and spiritual gifts that are unconditionally given to all true disciples of Christ.

Then there are many other promises of God which are given by God under certain conditions as specified in the Word of God and made available to all true disciples of Christ.

Then there are particular gifts and blessings which are only disbursed to certain Christians, as God alone freely wills.

Financial prosperity from God is not obtained by just naming and claiming various scriptures. Nor are vast earthly riches earned from God by our righteous actions. Niether is God obligated to give anyone material riches in return for a person "tithing" their money to a church. Although God does bless in many ways those who charitably give from a pure heart to the needs of church and beyond.

If God chooses to prosper and entrust much finances to an individual, then this individual has a godly responsibility not to selfishly spend those monies on excessive pleasures for himself, beyond his basic needs, and furthermore as a good and faithful servant, he is obligated to use those additional finances to assist the needs of the brethren, to help the poor, and to further the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In summary, we can clearly recognize and affirm that God has and will prosper his people in so many immeasurable ways, which are outlined in the scriptures. Above all, we are obligated to maintain an UNSELFISH LOVE, as Christ commanded, and thereby we should be wise and faithful in sharing all that God gives us to one another.

God has made a new and better covenant with all believers of Jesus Christ, and all Christians today receive the benefits of this new covenant.

The old covenant is now obsolete and was only necessary until the new covenant was declared by God. The new covenant is far more complete and perfect, and is able to be fulfilled in our lives by the power of the Holy Spirit. God has made this covenant with us and He will be faithful to do everything that He has promised.

JEREMIAH 31:33,34 But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, "declares the Lord, ' I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God and they shall be My people. And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,' declares the Lord,' For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more.

HEBREWS 8:4 Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;

8:5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, " See," He says, " That you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."

8:6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for the second.

8:8 For finding fault with them, He says, " Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will effect a new covenant with the house of Judah;

8:9 Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in My convenant, and I did not care for them, says the Lord.

8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord; I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God and they shall be My people.

8:11 And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,' declares the Lord,'

8:12 For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more.

8:13 When He said, " A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.