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Marious
Jul 9, 2008, 4:06:50 PM7/9/08
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Hi again - let's refresh....
Humanity were destined to awake to their true design. To find
themselves in the realm of a new race of people birthed through the
rescuing ability of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, through His blood
according to the riches of His grace. This is what God’s choice
embraced. (Is. 66:7-8 / Hos. 6:3 / Mal. 2:10 / Eph. 4:6-7 /Acts
17:24-30 / Is. 53:11 / Job 33:23-30 & Rom. 5:19).
God chose to deal with one Man instead of a nation of people (Jn.
11:50). God’s love compelled Him to make the ultimate choice to
demonstrate His own love towards us, in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us. God’s choice brought about a new
arangement. An arangement where mercy and truth met together; where
righteousness and peace kissed each other. God chose for every man to
see their death in the death of Christ (2 Cor. 5:4). To find their
life in the resurrected Christ. God’s choice was to remove the old
Adamic race and bring to light the new creation. (Gal. 6:15 / 2 Cor.
5:17-21 / Eph. 2:15 / Eph. 4:25 & Col. 3:10).
Because of God’s choice, - We find ourselves in His glory.
- We discover ourselves in God’s Son; Jesus Christ.
- We embrace the riches of His grace.
- We awake to righteousness.
- We decide to accept God’s opinion and estimation of our lives.
- We confess to be the new creation of God.
- We reign as kings in this life.
- We share the same quality life as Jesus Christ.
- We accommodate a God-conciousness and shun every imagination or
argument that exalts itself against the knowledge of Christ.
- We see no man according to the flesh, but we see every man according
to God’s choice, according to the truth.
- We move and live and have our being in God.
- We preach Him; Christ Jesus, warning every man in all wisdom, that
we may exhibit every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
A choice is made because favour is found in a person, and favour is
birthed out of love. When you choose, you consider it disirable and
proper to separate that which you have chosen to come into your courts
to bring delight and pleasure to your heart. Esth. 2:17 says, “The
King loved Esther more than all the other woman and she obtained grace
and favour in His sight.”
Esth. 5:2 says, “So it was, when the King saw Esther standing in the
court, she found favour in his sight, and the King held out his
scepter that was in his hand.” A scepter of righteousness is the
scepter of your kingdom.” The rod of power is Jesus Christ – check
Num. 24:17, ………”a scepter shall rise out of Israel.” God chose to
bestow grace (favour) to us before time began. God chose for us to
stand in a realm where we can now awake unto a life that has love,
mercy, kindness, righteousness, truth, peace, and joy as the
ingredients.
We are His diadem – the rod of favour in the hand of the Lord, held
out to the unbelievers to communicate God’s acceptance. Show the
fruit and beautifull character of that seed of which the ingredients
are grace and peace – to show the same fruit as Christ through whom we
were made.
Love, love, love
Marious.
Humanity were destined to awake to their true design. To find
themselves in the realm of a new race of people birthed through the
rescuing ability of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, through His blood
according to the riches of His grace. This is what God’s choice
embraced. (Is. 66:7-8 / Hos. 6:3 / Mal. 2:10 / Eph. 4:6-7 /Acts
17:24-30 / Is. 53:11 / Job 33:23-30 & Rom. 5:19).
God chose to deal with one Man instead of a nation of people (Jn.
11:50). God’s love compelled Him to make the ultimate choice to
demonstrate His own love towards us, in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us. God’s choice brought about a new
arangement. An arangement where mercy and truth met together; where
righteousness and peace kissed each other. God chose for every man to
see their death in the death of Christ (2 Cor. 5:4). To find their
life in the resurrected Christ. God’s choice was to remove the old
Adamic race and bring to light the new creation. (Gal. 6:15 / 2 Cor.
5:17-21 / Eph. 2:15 / Eph. 4:25 & Col. 3:10).
Because of God’s choice, - We find ourselves in His glory.
- We discover ourselves in God’s Son; Jesus Christ.
- We embrace the riches of His grace.
- We awake to righteousness.
- We decide to accept God’s opinion and estimation of our lives.
- We confess to be the new creation of God.
- We reign as kings in this life.
- We share the same quality life as Jesus Christ.
- We accommodate a God-conciousness and shun every imagination or
argument that exalts itself against the knowledge of Christ.
- We see no man according to the flesh, but we see every man according
to God’s choice, according to the truth.
- We move and live and have our being in God.
- We preach Him; Christ Jesus, warning every man in all wisdom, that
we may exhibit every man perfect in Christ Jesus.
A choice is made because favour is found in a person, and favour is
birthed out of love. When you choose, you consider it disirable and
proper to separate that which you have chosen to come into your courts
to bring delight and pleasure to your heart. Esth. 2:17 says, “The
King loved Esther more than all the other woman and she obtained grace
and favour in His sight.”
Esth. 5:2 says, “So it was, when the King saw Esther standing in the
court, she found favour in his sight, and the King held out his
scepter that was in his hand.” A scepter of righteousness is the
scepter of your kingdom.” The rod of power is Jesus Christ – check
Num. 24:17, ………”a scepter shall rise out of Israel.” God chose to
bestow grace (favour) to us before time began. God chose for us to
stand in a realm where we can now awake unto a life that has love,
mercy, kindness, righteousness, truth, peace, and joy as the
ingredients.
We are His diadem – the rod of favour in the hand of the Lord, held
out to the unbelievers to communicate God’s acceptance. Show the
fruit and beautifull character of that seed of which the ingredients
are grace and peace – to show the same fruit as Christ through whom we
were made.
Love, love, love
Marious.
Lydia
Sep 8, 2008, 7:58:41 AM9/8/08
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Dear Marious
quickly going thru some of my old mail this morning - we might as well be
refreshed again... what a glorious Gospel
xxxx we love you guys so much enjoy all the planning.....
quickly going thru some of my old mail this morning - we might as well be
refreshed again... what a glorious Gospel
xxxx we love you guys so much enjoy all the planning.....
Paula and Don Louw
Sep 9, 2008, 1:08:33 PM9/9/08
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Mercy and peace met...and righteousness and truth kissed!
That says so much!
That says so much!
Paula and Don Louw
Sep 9, 2008, 11:37:41 PM9/9/08
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Fulfil the Law? Is that all you want?
Juan Carlos Ortiz
''For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and
not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year,
which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near'' (Hebrews
10:1 NASB).
The written Law is the shadow of the reality. The Reality is the Spirit. It
is the dynamic, actual, working Spirit of Truth. The Letter cannot make
perfect. But the reality, yes! The Spirit can make perfect--that was the
promise of the Father. ''I will show you how to walk in my ways and you
will keep my ordinances.''
Too much consciousness of the letter, gives the letter the wrong place, so
that the letter becomes an end in itself rather than a pointing finger to
the real thing. We find a sign that says: ''Oregon, 200 miles.'' That sign
is supposed to help us get to Oregon, but it is going to be a hindrance if
we say, ''Oh, wonderful! See, it's Oregon! Let's put our camper here.'' But
that's not Oregon. It is just a sign saying that to get to Oregon you have
to keep going. If you stay there, the sign that was supposed to help you
becomes a hindrance. Even so, we can become letter-centred.
Wherever I go I have my wife's picture. Every time I pack my suitcase, my
wife makes sure that I have the picture. I set it up in my room on the
table, and every night I look at the picture and write a letter. One letter
a day goes to Martha. But suppose when I come home I keep on looking at the
picture, writing letters, and don't pay any attention to her? She would
say, ''Juan, give me back that picture. I'm here!'' I think the Father is
tired of our obsession with His PICTURE when He is alive and within us.
What is the fulfilment of the Law? Love. And love is much, much more than
the fulfilment of the Law. It goes far beyond the Law. The Law said, ''Thou
shalt not covet.'' But the Law never demanded, ''Thou shalt have peace.
Thou shalt have meekness.'' Never. The fruit of the Spirit is much, much
more.
The disciples at Pentecost. What was the result? They stayed together; they
prayed; they loved everyone; they were fearless; they had fellowship with
one another. Miracles were done. They lived together. They had their things
in common. They sold their property and goods and brought the proceeds to
the feet of the apostles. They shared with all who were in need. They
persevered in accord. They ate together. Their love was contagious and
worth dying for. What came naturally to them was much, much more than the
requirements of the Law.
The Law never asked them to sell their goods. The Law never said they had
to live together, to perform miracles, to go into all the world and be
expendable for others. Never. This life in the Spirit is much more than the
Law because Pentecost is the reality foreshadowed. It is the new heart--the
new creation--with the Father's desires built in, at home in the heart of
the believer who has been born anew from Above. It is rivers of living
water flowing out to every community and nation.
> Num. 24:17, ŠŠŠ²a scepter shall rise out of Israel.² God chose to
Juan Carlos Ortiz
''For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and
not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year,
which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near'' (Hebrews
10:1 NASB).
The written Law is the shadow of the reality. The Reality is the Spirit. It
is the dynamic, actual, working Spirit of Truth. The Letter cannot make
perfect. But the reality, yes! The Spirit can make perfect--that was the
promise of the Father. ''I will show you how to walk in my ways and you
will keep my ordinances.''
Too much consciousness of the letter, gives the letter the wrong place, so
that the letter becomes an end in itself rather than a pointing finger to
the real thing. We find a sign that says: ''Oregon, 200 miles.'' That sign
is supposed to help us get to Oregon, but it is going to be a hindrance if
we say, ''Oh, wonderful! See, it's Oregon! Let's put our camper here.'' But
that's not Oregon. It is just a sign saying that to get to Oregon you have
to keep going. If you stay there, the sign that was supposed to help you
becomes a hindrance. Even so, we can become letter-centred.
Wherever I go I have my wife's picture. Every time I pack my suitcase, my
wife makes sure that I have the picture. I set it up in my room on the
table, and every night I look at the picture and write a letter. One letter
a day goes to Martha. But suppose when I come home I keep on looking at the
picture, writing letters, and don't pay any attention to her? She would
say, ''Juan, give me back that picture. I'm here!'' I think the Father is
tired of our obsession with His PICTURE when He is alive and within us.
What is the fulfilment of the Law? Love. And love is much, much more than
the fulfilment of the Law. It goes far beyond the Law. The Law said, ''Thou
shalt not covet.'' But the Law never demanded, ''Thou shalt have peace.
Thou shalt have meekness.'' Never. The fruit of the Spirit is much, much
more.
The disciples at Pentecost. What was the result? They stayed together; they
prayed; they loved everyone; they were fearless; they had fellowship with
one another. Miracles were done. They lived together. They had their things
in common. They sold their property and goods and brought the proceeds to
the feet of the apostles. They shared with all who were in need. They
persevered in accord. They ate together. Their love was contagious and
worth dying for. What came naturally to them was much, much more than the
requirements of the Law.
The Law never asked them to sell their goods. The Law never said they had
to live together, to perform miracles, to go into all the world and be
expendable for others. Never. This life in the Spirit is much more than the
Law because Pentecost is the reality foreshadowed. It is the new heart--the
new creation--with the Father's desires built in, at home in the heart of
the believer who has been born anew from Above. It is rivers of living
water flowing out to every community and nation.
Francois du Toit
Sep 2, 2011, 5:47:18 PM9/2/11
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powerful stuff Marious!
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