105. RELATIONSHIP TO THE LORD
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And I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty (2Cor.6:18).
1. God's the Judge and the Devil's the Prosecutor and Jesus in the Defender, and we are the criminal!
2. The reason people don't want to confess that God exists is because if they do, then they have to recognize Him!--And if they recognise Him, they have to admit that they owe Him some obeisance or obedience or some kind of acknowledgment.
3. You and God Are using each other just like two people who love each other!
4. You are in God's hands, but He's also in your hands.
5. The Saved are God's body--and His prophets are the eyes of His body!
6. He is our sun! --We are His moon! We merely reflect His light!
7. Each of us is like a little sunbeam, a little ray of sunshine coming from the Lord!
8. We are part of God, His sunshine, each of us has a portion of His power!
9. If you live with God He'll rub off on you. -- Then, like Moses, your face will shine too! (Ex.34:29-35)
10. You are not a reservoir with a limited amount of resources; you're a channel attached to unlimited Divine resources!
11. You're the only face God's got.
12. As you treasure the seeds of the body, so you treasure the Words of the Lord in your heart, and so you become one with Him.
13. The Lord has His chosen, His favourites: There are only a few wise and many foolish, and the wisest have lots of oil, oil to spare, and that oil comes from the Lord by His Spirit!
14. We are in tune with the Source of all Power and the Creator of all things!
15. People can only see God as we reflect Him, like little diamonds of dust!
16. The longer that little grain of dust stays right in the Light, the longer it shines the longer it stays a diamond!
17. The Shepherd's bosom bears each lamb
O'er rock and waste and wild:
The object of that care I am
--I am the Shepherd's child.
18. He likes to give us answers to remind us that we're dependent on Him and we need Him, and besides, He likes us to love Him and appreciate His help.
19. God had to let people have their own way and free will to show them what a mess they were going to make and what a mess they'd be without Him, otherwise the Universe may never have know what evil really was like and how bad it could be and how far it could go, where man and Satan would try to destroy His whole Creation. So He just had to let it happen to show the difference between good and evil and to bring out of the mess a people unto Himself that would love Him voluntarily & serve Him voluntarily, and die for Him voluntarily if need be, and some people He could really love and show His Love for.
(See also No.A, P, T, 9, 74, 98, 117, 126, 169, 186A, 191, 231, 237, 249, 252, 254, 306, 325, 341, 384, 606, 638, 706, 721, 731, 775, 776, 1040, 1089, 1380, 1389, 1493.)
20. EXO.19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the Earth is Mine.
21. DEU.7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself,above all people that are upon the face of the Earth.
22. ISA.54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is His Name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole Earth shall He be called.
23. ISA.62:5b As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
24. JER.3:14a Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.
25. HOS.2:19,20 And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
26. PRO.14:26,27 In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and His children shall have a place of refuge. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
27. MAT.12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of My Father which is in Heaven, the same is My brother, and sister, and mother.
28. JOH.10:27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
29. JOH.15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of My Father I have made know unto you.
30. ROM.8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.
31. 1COR.2:16b But we have the mind of Christ.
32. 1COR.3:23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
33. 1COR.6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
34. 2COR.6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
35. 2COR.11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
36. GAL.4:6,7 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
37. EPH.1:22,23 And hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all.
38. EPH.5:30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.
39. COL.1:18 And He is the head of the body, the church: Who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence.
40. HEB.2:11 For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.
41. HEB.3:6 But Christ as a Son over His Own House; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
(See also.ROM.8:14-16; EPH.5:23-29.)
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