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Righteousness/Substitute

Righteousness is right doing. Whatever standard of right doing that man may set up, if it is contrary to, or does not align with, God’s standard of righteousness, or even if it does align with God’s standard, but is set out to be achieved or accomplished in man’s own strength; that righteousness is considered man’s and is described as filthy rags. However, when man obeys God’s standard of righteousness, which is His law, and which can only be obeyed by man, as he permits the Spirit of God to dwell within him: this righteousness, should not be, nor can it be, described as filthy rags. For to do so, is to diminish the righteousness of God’s law, and discredit the power of the Holy Spirit, which would be tantamount to blasphemy against the Spirit; for His power and work is being credited to man. In addition, this is the righteousness that God requires so He can impute the righteousness of Jesus on man. When a man accepts Jesus as Lord and Saviour, and is baptised with the Holy S

TRUE LOVE

God is love. He first loved mankind, and desires mankind to love Him in return. However, for true love to exist, both parties must be given the opportunity to say, ‘No.’ God has given His intelligent creation this opportunity. The chief cause of problems and distresses in our world is, the poor choice made when it comes to this quality called love. The quality from which all that is good is derived. In reality, most people do not make love their choice. Instead, they choose lust, control, passion, money, infatuation, status, pity, convenience, even idolatry, and these are mistaken for love, and are termed, love. However, selfishness is at the root of all these that pose as love. Rightly defined, love is godly principle that is interwoven with threads of fond feeling, and is activated solely by freedom of choice. A choice that develops into relationships that are affectionately principled. This is true love – the love that never fails. This is the love that God des

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IN THE BEGINNING THE WORD

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. John 1:1, 3, 14 Jesus is God the Word, who in the beginning created all things. He spoke and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. Every sound that came from His mouth, and everything in creation that those sounds produced or created bears His name – WORD; and consists of Him. In the Scripture Jesus declares himself to be Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending of the alphabet from which words are formed, and from which the name of everything created, whether visible or invisible, is composed and recorded. Jesus says that without Him man can do nothing, and nothing means absolutely nothing. In Him man lives, and moves, and have his being. Those who refuse to recognize and acknowledge Jesus, the Word, as the Creator of all things, and who misconstru

Death

"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." Ecclesiastes 9:5 The first lie uttered on the earth began with a question initiating doubt in God’s expectations (Genesis 3:1). Planting this seed of doubt in God’s clear instructions opened the door for the longest sustained lie on the earth – “Ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:4). At the foundation of this and all lies is a distrust of God’s word. To overcome all lies we must come to a full belief in all of God’s Words. God had formed man from the dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7). After forming the man God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life” this animated the man making him a living being. Because God is life anything that comes out of Him carries life with it – breath, word, etc. (John 14:6). When Adam sinned, the consequence was that he would return to the dust from which he came (Genesis 3:19). As

Best Laid Plans

“A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.” Proverbs 16:9 It is in the nature of humanity to make plans for the future. We observe how life functions, we see a way of life that appeals to us and then we spend the first two to three decades working towards that goal. Ideally these ends align with God’s will for our lives; however, most times our life plans place God as a side note. Paradoxically, even when our goal is to fulfil His directives. Let’s look at a classic example of the from Scripture. Moses was born into slavery, and a death decree (Exodus 1:11-16, 22). By Divine providence he was adopted by the daughter of the king who had his people in bondage and had ordered that he was to die at birth (Exodus 2:2-6). Moses was raised and trained by his own mother until he was 12-years old then he went to live in the palace, where he received an education to be the next ruler of Egypt (Exodus 2:7-10). Deep in his mind he knew, from his mother’s train