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Female, Food, or Other? – Part 1
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all [2 Corinthians 13:14].
G-R-A-C-E, grace. That’s a pretty word, don’t you think? I mean, consider what it conjures in the mind. I see this pretty lady. Her name is Grace. Oh, and I envision a table full of scrumptious edibles, but I cannot have any until I “say grace”. But what does the word grace really mean?
That question makes for a profitable conversation. Let’s have a multiple choice question on this test. Does the word grace refer to a female, or to food, or to something other? What say we roll up our sleeves and get to work on answering it. The fruits of our labor will be sweet, so sweet.
Allow me to direct you to a simple understanding of the word grace, one not buried in deep and heavy theological jargon. I just finished watching a movie. It is possible, though not a frequent occurrence, that we can learn a good deal from a movie. What makes it even more enjoyable is that we don’t have to study hard and exercise the old noggin in doing so. This is a method of learning which all of us can appreciate. Am I not right?
Anyway, this movie is a Christian film about—you guessed it—grace, God’s grace, the real McCoy. Even more, it stays true to its task, viz., to teach the meaning of grace. To achieve its goal, the movie presents a story reminiscent of real life and demonstrates grace in action, grace with marching boots on.
The story flows around the life of two families, both with police husbands and fathers, but only one man has the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in his life. Catastrophe strikes the family of the police officer who hasn’t the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in him. What’s more, one family is black, the other white.
You don’t have to concern yourself with religious cliches and Hollywood hype, I promise. The show has none of that. What it has is real life and real death and real Christ. How those three intertwine and the results which follows—that is the storyline. The punchline to the conclusion of the story is, “Don’t play the race card. Play the grace card.”
And that is the name of the movie, viz., The Grace Card. You have to see it. You will love it—that is, if the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ holds any interest in your heart and mind. I won’t tell you anything more about the movie than that. I don’t want to spoil it for you. It is deeply moving and practical, life in action with no flighty Hollywood glimmer attached.
Which brings us to the Bible verse with which we began this study today. There are three concepts in the verse:
• the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
• the love of God
• the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
In those three concepts the Apostle Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, proclaimed the truth of the Trinity. The word Trinity is a compound word derived from “tri” and “unity”. The prefix “tri” occurs in the word triangle, which is defined as a shape having three sides and three angles. The prefix “tri” refers to “three” of something. The word unity emphasizes “one” of something, an indivisible union of two or more somethings.
Hence the word Trinity speaks of three somethings which are indivisible and exist as one. In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. The word Trinity means “three in one”, a Tri-unity (aka Trinity).
Let’s pause and reflect on these concepts now. Betake ourselves to the prayer closet and sit a spell at the feet of Jesus. There is only one thing needful, and Mary chose it. Let’s do so as well.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
G-R-A-C-E, grace. That’s a pretty word, don’t you think? I mean, consider what it conjures in the mind. I see this pretty lady. Her name is Grace. Oh, and I envision a table full of scrumptious edibles, but I cannot have any until I “say grace”. But what does the word grace really mean?
That question makes for a profitable conversation. Let’s have a multiple choice question on this test. Does the word grace refer to a female, or to food, or to something other? What say we roll up our sleeves and get to work on answering it. The fruits of our labor will be sweet, so sweet.
Allow me to direct you to a simple understanding of the word grace, one not buried in deep and heavy theological jargon. I just finished watching a movie. It is possible, though not a frequent occurrence, that we can learn a good deal from a movie. What makes it even more enjoyable is that we don’t have to study hard and exercise the old noggin in doing so. This is a method of learning which all of us can appreciate. Am I not right?
Anyway, this movie is a Christian film about—you guessed it—grace, God’s grace, the real McCoy. Even more, it stays true to its task, viz., to teach the meaning of grace. To achieve its goal, the movie presents a story reminiscent of real life and demonstrates grace in action, grace with marching boots on.
The story flows around the life of two families, both with police husbands and fathers, but only one man has the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in his life. Catastrophe strikes the family of the police officer who hasn’t the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in him. What’s more, one family is black, the other white.
You don’t have to concern yourself with religious cliches and Hollywood hype, I promise. The show has none of that. What it has is real life and real death and real Christ. How those three intertwine and the results which follows—that is the storyline. The punchline to the conclusion of the story is, “Don’t play the race card. Play the grace card.”
And that is the name of the movie, viz., The Grace Card. You have to see it. You will love it—that is, if the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ holds any interest in your heart and mind. I won’t tell you anything more about the movie than that. I don’t want to spoil it for you. It is deeply moving and practical, life in action with no flighty Hollywood glimmer attached.
Which brings us to the Bible verse with which we began this study today. There are three concepts in the verse:
• the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
• the love of God
• the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
In those three concepts the Apostle Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, proclaimed the truth of the Trinity. The word Trinity is a compound word derived from “tri” and “unity”. The prefix “tri” occurs in the word triangle, which is defined as a shape having three sides and three angles. The prefix “tri” refers to “three” of something. The word unity emphasizes “one” of something, an indivisible union of two or more somethings.
Hence the word Trinity speaks of three somethings which are indivisible and exist as one. In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. The word Trinity means “three in one”, a Tri-unity (aka Trinity).
Let’s pause and reflect on these concepts now. Betake ourselves to the prayer closet and sit a spell at the feet of Jesus. There is only one thing needful, and Mary chose it. Let’s do so as well.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Female, Food, or Other? – Part 2
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all [2 Corinthians 13:14].
In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. In our Bible verse Paul identifies these three Persons as,
• God
• the Lord Jesus Christ
• the Holy Spirit
In many places the New Testament demonstrates the simultaneous existence of all three Persons of the Godhead. They eternally exist together as one God, though they are three distinct Persons.
There are those who react to this by huffing and puffing incredulously about how they cannot understand such a concept. We respond to them, “Join the club, friends! God is far above our pay grade. Of course we cannot understand Him! We understand only a small part of time, space, and matter. How do you expect to understand the most intricate and unfathomable teachings of eternity? Preposterous to think we can, sir and madam. God understands us. We do NOT understand Him, nor can we. We can only know Him to the extent He explains Himself to us.”
I point to the evidence of the Trinity in 2 Corinthians 13:14 only because it is there. We need to recognize that God’s Word reveals this teaching to us, so we may understand Him more fully. But the study today is about grace, if you recall. So let’s touch upon the three items which accompany the three Persons of the Trinity.
The love of God. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Herein is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be a propitiation for our sins. That spells g-r-a-c-e, GRACE! Jesus offers us eternal life because He died on the cross as payment for the penalty of our sins. The grace of God comes to us via the Person of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus is grace.
The fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Jesus returned to heaven forty days after His resurrection. He sent the Holy Spirit ten days later to indwell those who believed in Him. The Holy Spirit came in power and gave birth to the Church, which is the Body of Christ on earth during this Church Age.
The Holy Spirit’s presence means that man has fellowship with God now. We are no longer at war with God. Instead we have peace WITH God, which makes it possible for us to live in the peace OF God in this world. Jesus didn’t leave us as orphans when He ascended to heaven. He sent the Holy Spirit to be our Comforter and our peace and our fellowship with the Lord.
So what say ye? Is it yea or nay to the call of God on your life? Will you receive the love of God via the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and enjoy the fellowship of the Holy Spirit? In America we can play the race card, which the politicians certainly profit from. Or we can embrace 2 Corinthians 13:14 and embrace The Grace Card instead. The Spirit calls. What is your response?
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. In our Bible verse Paul identifies these three Persons as,
• God
• the Lord Jesus Christ
• the Holy Spirit
In many places the New Testament demonstrates the simultaneous existence of all three Persons of the Godhead. They eternally exist together as one God, though they are three distinct Persons.
There are those who react to this by huffing and puffing incredulously about how they cannot understand such a concept. We respond to them, “Join the club, friends! God is far above our pay grade. Of course we cannot understand Him! We understand only a small part of time, space, and matter. How do you expect to understand the most intricate and unfathomable teachings of eternity? Preposterous to think we can, sir and madam. God understands us. We do NOT understand Him, nor can we. We can only know Him to the extent He explains Himself to us.”
I point to the evidence of the Trinity in 2 Corinthians 13:14 only because it is there. We need to recognize that God’s Word reveals this teaching to us, so we may understand Him more fully. But the study today is about grace, if you recall. So let’s touch upon the three items which accompany the three Persons of the Trinity.
The love of God. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Herein is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be a propitiation for our sins. That spells g-r-a-c-e, GRACE! Jesus offers us eternal life because He died on the cross as payment for the penalty of our sins. The grace of God comes to us via the Person of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus is grace.
The fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Jesus returned to heaven forty days after His resurrection. He sent the Holy Spirit ten days later to indwell those who believed in Him. The Holy Spirit came in power and gave birth to the Church, which is the Body of Christ on earth during this Church Age.
The Holy Spirit’s presence means that man has fellowship with God now. We are no longer at war with God. Instead we have peace WITH God, which makes it possible for us to live in the peace OF God in this world. Jesus didn’t leave us as orphans when He ascended to heaven. He sent the Holy Spirit to be our Comforter and our peace and our fellowship with the Lord.
So what say ye? Is it yea or nay to the call of God on your life? Will you receive the love of God via the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and enjoy the fellowship of the Holy Spirit? In America we can play the race card, which the politicians certainly profit from. Or we can embrace 2 Corinthians 13:14 and embrace The Grace Card instead. The Spirit calls. What is your response?
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005PJ761C
https://sites.google.com/site/heavenl...
Female, Food, or Other? – Part 1
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all [2 Corinthians 13:14].
G-R-A-C-E, grace. That’s a pretty word, don’t you think? I mean, consider what it conjures in the mind. I see this pretty lady. Her name is Grace. Oh, and I envision a table full of scrumptious edibles, but I cannot have any until I “say grace”. But what does the word grace really mean?
That question makes for a profitable conversation. Let’s have a multiple choice question on this test. Does the word grace refer to a female, or to food, or to something other? What say we roll up our sleeves and get to work on answering it. The fruits of our labor will be sweet, so sweet.
Allow me to direct you to a simple understanding of the word grace, one not buried in deep and heavy theological jargon. I just finished watching a movie. It is possible, though not a frequent occurrence, that we can learn a good deal from a movie. What makes it even more enjoyable is that we don’t have to study hard and exercise the old noggin in doing so. This is a method of learning which all of us can appreciate. Am I not right?
Anyway, this movie is a Christian film about—you guessed it—grace, God’s grace, the real McCoy. Even more, it stays true to its task, viz., to teach the meaning of grace. To achieve its goal, the movie presents a story reminiscent of real life and demonstrates grace in action, grace with marching boots on.
The story flows around the life of two families, both with police husbands and fathers, but only one man has the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in his life. Catastrophe strikes the family of the police officer who hasn’t the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in him. What’s more, one family is black, the other white.
You don’t have to concern yourself with religious clichés and Hollywood hype, I promise. The show has none of that. What it has is real life and real death and real Christ. How those three intertwine and the results which follows—that is the storyline. The punch line to the conclusion of the story is, “Don’t play the race card. Play the grace card.”
And that is the name of the movie, viz., The Grace Card. You have to see it. You will love it—that is, if the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ holds any interest in your heart and mind. I won’t tell you anything more about the movie than that. I don’t want to spoil it for you. It is deeply moving and practical, life in action with no flighty Hollywood glimmer attached.
Which brings us to the Bible verse with which we began this study today. There are three concepts in the verse:
• the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
• the love of God
• the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
In those three concepts the Apostle Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, proclaimed the truth of the Trinity. The word Trinity is a compound word derived from “tri” and “unity”. The prefix “tri” occurs in the word triangle, which is defined as a shape having three sides and three angles. The prefix “tri” refers to “three” of something. The word unity emphasizes “one” of something, an indivisible union of two or more somethings.
Hence the word Trinity speaks of three somethings which are indivisible and exist as one. In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. The word Trinity means “three in one”, a Tri-unity (aka Trinity).
Let’s pause and reflect on these concepts now. Betake ourselves to the prayer closet and sit a spell at the feet of Jesus. There is only one thing needful, and Mary chose it. Let’s do so as well.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
G-R-A-C-E, grace. That’s a pretty word, don’t you think? I mean, consider what it conjures in the mind. I see this pretty lady. Her name is Grace. Oh, and I envision a table full of scrumptious edibles, but I cannot have any until I “say grace”. But what does the word grace really mean?
That question makes for a profitable conversation. Let’s have a multiple choice question on this test. Does the word grace refer to a female, or to food, or to something other? What say we roll up our sleeves and get to work on answering it. The fruits of our labor will be sweet, so sweet.
Allow me to direct you to a simple understanding of the word grace, one not buried in deep and heavy theological jargon. I just finished watching a movie. It is possible, though not a frequent occurrence, that we can learn a good deal from a movie. What makes it even more enjoyable is that we don’t have to study hard and exercise the old noggin in doing so. This is a method of learning which all of us can appreciate. Am I not right?
Anyway, this movie is a Christian film about—you guessed it—grace, God’s grace, the real McCoy. Even more, it stays true to its task, viz., to teach the meaning of grace. To achieve its goal, the movie presents a story reminiscent of real life and demonstrates grace in action, grace with marching boots on.
The story flows around the life of two families, both with police husbands and fathers, but only one man has the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in his life. Catastrophe strikes the family of the police officer who hasn’t the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in him. What’s more, one family is black, the other white.
You don’t have to concern yourself with religious clichés and Hollywood hype, I promise. The show has none of that. What it has is real life and real death and real Christ. How those three intertwine and the results which follows—that is the storyline. The punch line to the conclusion of the story is, “Don’t play the race card. Play the grace card.”
And that is the name of the movie, viz., The Grace Card. You have to see it. You will love it—that is, if the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ holds any interest in your heart and mind. I won’t tell you anything more about the movie than that. I don’t want to spoil it for you. It is deeply moving and practical, life in action with no flighty Hollywood glimmer attached.
Which brings us to the Bible verse with which we began this study today. There are three concepts in the verse:
• the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
• the love of God
• the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
In those three concepts the Apostle Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, proclaimed the truth of the Trinity. The word Trinity is a compound word derived from “tri” and “unity”. The prefix “tri” occurs in the word triangle, which is defined as a shape having three sides and three angles. The prefix “tri” refers to “three” of something. The word unity emphasizes “one” of something, an indivisible union of two or more somethings.
Hence the word Trinity speaks of three somethings which are indivisible and exist as one. In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. The word Trinity means “three in one”, a Tri-unity (aka Trinity).
Let’s pause and reflect on these concepts now. Betake ourselves to the prayer closet and sit a spell at the feet of Jesus. There is only one thing needful, and Mary chose it. Let’s do so as well.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
Female, Food, or Other? – Part 2
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all [2 Corinthians 13:14].
In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. In our Bible verse Paul identifies these three Persons as,
• God
• the Lord Jesus Christ
• the Holy Spirit
In many places the New Testament demonstrates the simultaneous existence of all three Persons of the Godhead. They eternally exist together as one God, though they are three distinct Persons.
There are those who react to this by huffing and puffing incredulously about how they cannot understand such a concept. We respond to them, “Join the club, friends! God is far above our pay grade. Of course we cannot understand Him! We understand only a small part of time, space, and matter. How do you expect to understand the most intricate and unfathomable teachings of eternity? Preposterous to think we can, sir and madam. God understands us. We do NOT understand Him, nor can we. We can only know Him to the extent He explains Himself to us.”
I point to the evidence of the Trinity in 2 Corinthians 13:14 only because it is there. We need to recognize that God’s Word reveals this teaching to us, so we may understand Him more fully. But the study today is about grace, if you recall. So let’s touch upon the three items which accompany the three Persons of the Trinity.
The love of God. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Herein is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be a propitiation for our sins. That spells g-r-a-c-e, GRACE! Jesus offers us eternal life because He died on the cross as payment for the penalty of our sins. The grace of God comes to us via the Person of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus is grace.
The fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Jesus returned to heaven forty days after His resurrection. He sent the Holy Spirit ten days later to indwell those who believed in Him. The Holy Spirit came in power and gave birth to the Church, which is the Body of Christ on earth during this Church Age.
The Holy Spirit’s presence means that man has fellowship with God now. We are no longer at war with God. Instead we have peace WITH God, which makes it possible for us to live in the peace OF God in this world. Jesus didn’t leave us as orphans when He ascended to heaven. He sent the Holy Spirit to be our Comforter and our peace and our fellowship with the Lord.
So what say ye? Is it yea or nay to the call of God on your life? Will you receive the love of God via the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and enjoy the fellowship of the Holy Spirit? In America we can play the race card, which the politicians certainly profit from. Or we can embrace 2 Corinthians 13:14 and embrace The Grace Card instead. The Spirit calls. What is your response?
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. In our Bible verse Paul identifies these three Persons as,
• God
• the Lord Jesus Christ
• the Holy Spirit
In many places the New Testament demonstrates the simultaneous existence of all three Persons of the Godhead. They eternally exist together as one God, though they are three distinct Persons.
There are those who react to this by huffing and puffing incredulously about how they cannot understand such a concept. We respond to them, “Join the club, friends! God is far above our pay grade. Of course we cannot understand Him! We understand only a small part of time, space, and matter. How do you expect to understand the most intricate and unfathomable teachings of eternity? Preposterous to think we can, sir and madam. God understands us. We do NOT understand Him, nor can we. We can only know Him to the extent He explains Himself to us.”
I point to the evidence of the Trinity in 2 Corinthians 13:14 only because it is there. We need to recognize that God’s Word reveals this teaching to us, so we may understand Him more fully. But the study today is about grace, if you recall. So let’s touch upon the three items which accompany the three Persons of the Trinity.
The love of God. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Herein is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be a propitiation for our sins. That spells g-r-a-c-e, GRACE! Jesus offers us eternal life because He died on the cross as payment for the penalty of our sins. The grace of God comes to us via the Person of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus is grace.
The fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Jesus returned to heaven forty days after His resurrection. He sent the Holy Spirit ten days later to indwell those who believed in Him. The Holy Spirit came in power and gave birth to the Church, which is the Body of Christ on earth during this Church Age.
The Holy Spirit’s presence means that man has fellowship with God now. We are no longer at war with God. Instead we have peace WITH God, which makes it possible for us to live in the peace OF God in this world. Jesus didn’t leave us as orphans when He ascended to heaven. He sent the Holy Spirit to be our Comforter and our peace and our fellowship with the Lord.
So what say ye? Is it yea or nay to the call of God on your life? Will you receive the love of God via the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and enjoy the fellowship of the Holy Spirit? In America we can play the race card, which the politicians certainly profit from. Or we can embrace 2 Corinthians 13:14 and embrace The Grace Card instead. The Spirit calls. What is your response?
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
Female, Food, or Other? – Part 1
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all [2 Corinthians 13:14].
G-R-A-C-E, grace. That’s a pretty word, don’t you think? I mean, consider what it conjures in the mind. I see this pretty lady. Her name is Grace. Oh, and I envision a table full of scrumptious edibles, but I cannot have any until I “say grace”. But what does the word grace really mean?
That question makes for a profitable conversation. Let’s have a multiple choice question on this test. Does the word grace refer to a female, or to food, or to something other? What say we roll up our sleeves and get to work on answering it. The fruits of our labor will be sweet, so sweet.
Allow me to direct you to a simple understanding of the word grace, one not buried in deep and heavy theological jargon. I just finished watching a movie. It is possible, though not a frequent occurrence, that we can learn a good deal from a movie. What makes it even more enjoyable is that we don’t have to study hard and exercise the old noggin in doing so. This is a method of learning which all of us can appreciate. Am I not right?
Anyway, this movie is a Christian film about—you guessed it—grace, God’s grace, the real McCoy. Even more, it stays true to its task, viz., to teach the meaning of grace. To achieve its goal, the movie presents a story reminiscent of real life and demonstrates grace in action, grace with marching boots on.
The story flows around the life of two families, both with police husbands and fathers, but only one man has the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in his life. Catastrophe strikes the family of the police officer who hasn’t the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in him. What’s more, one family is black, the other white.
You don’t have to concern yourself with religious clichés and Hollywood hype, I promise. The show has none of that. What it has is real life and real death and real Christ. How those three intertwine and the results which follow—that is the storyline. The punch line to the conclusion of the story is, “Don’t play the race card. Play the grace card.”
And that is the name of the movie, viz., The Grace Card. You have to see it. You will love it—that is, if the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ holds any interest in your heart and mind. I won’t tell you anything more about the movie than that. I don’t want to spoil it for you. It is deeply moving and practical, life in action with no flighty Hollywood glimmer attached.
Which brings us to the Bible verse with which we began this study today. There are three concepts in the verse:
• the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
• the love of God
• the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
In those three concepts the Apostle Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, proclaimed the truth of the Trinity. The word Trinity is a compound word derived from “tri” and “unity”. The prefix “tri” occurs in the word triangle, which is defined as a shape having three sides and three angles. The prefix “tri” refers to “three” of something. The word unity emphasizes “one” of something, an indivisible union of two or more somethings.
Hence the word Trinity speaks of three somethings which are indivisible and exist as one. In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. The word Trinity means “three in one”, a Tri-unity (aka Trinity).
Let’s pause and reflect on these concepts now. Betake ourselves to the prayer closet and sit a spell at the feet of Jesus. There is only one thing needful, and Mary chose it. Let’s do so as well.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
G-R-A-C-E, grace. That’s a pretty word, don’t you think? I mean, consider what it conjures in the mind. I see this pretty lady. Her name is Grace. Oh, and I envision a table full of scrumptious edibles, but I cannot have any until I “say grace”. But what does the word grace really mean?
That question makes for a profitable conversation. Let’s have a multiple choice question on this test. Does the word grace refer to a female, or to food, or to something other? What say we roll up our sleeves and get to work on answering it. The fruits of our labor will be sweet, so sweet.
Allow me to direct you to a simple understanding of the word grace, one not buried in deep and heavy theological jargon. I just finished watching a movie. It is possible, though not a frequent occurrence, that we can learn a good deal from a movie. What makes it even more enjoyable is that we don’t have to study hard and exercise the old noggin in doing so. This is a method of learning which all of us can appreciate. Am I not right?
Anyway, this movie is a Christian film about—you guessed it—grace, God’s grace, the real McCoy. Even more, it stays true to its task, viz., to teach the meaning of grace. To achieve its goal, the movie presents a story reminiscent of real life and demonstrates grace in action, grace with marching boots on.
The story flows around the life of two families, both with police husbands and fathers, but only one man has the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in his life. Catastrophe strikes the family of the police officer who hasn’t the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ working in him. What’s more, one family is black, the other white.
You don’t have to concern yourself with religious clichés and Hollywood hype, I promise. The show has none of that. What it has is real life and real death and real Christ. How those three intertwine and the results which follow—that is the storyline. The punch line to the conclusion of the story is, “Don’t play the race card. Play the grace card.”
And that is the name of the movie, viz., The Grace Card. You have to see it. You will love it—that is, if the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ holds any interest in your heart and mind. I won’t tell you anything more about the movie than that. I don’t want to spoil it for you. It is deeply moving and practical, life in action with no flighty Hollywood glimmer attached.
Which brings us to the Bible verse with which we began this study today. There are three concepts in the verse:
• the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
• the love of God
• the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
In those three concepts the Apostle Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, proclaimed the truth of the Trinity. The word Trinity is a compound word derived from “tri” and “unity”. The prefix “tri” occurs in the word triangle, which is defined as a shape having three sides and three angles. The prefix “tri” refers to “three” of something. The word unity emphasizes “one” of something, an indivisible union of two or more somethings.
Hence the word Trinity speaks of three somethings which are indivisible and exist as one. In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. The word Trinity means “three in one”, a Tri-unity (aka Trinity).
Let’s pause and reflect on these concepts now. Betake ourselves to the prayer closet and sit a spell at the feet of Jesus. There is only one thing needful, and Mary chose it. Let’s do so as well.
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
Female, Food, or Other? – Part 2
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all [2 Corinthians 13:14].
In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. In our Bible verse Paul identifies these three Persons as,
• God
• the Lord Jesus Christ
• the Holy Spirit
In many places the New Testament demonstrates the simultaneous existence of all three Persons of the Godhead. They eternally exist together as one God, though they are three distinct Persons.
There are those who react to this by huffing and puffing incredulously about how they cannot understand such a concept. We respond to them, “Join the club, friends! God is far above our pay grade. Of course we cannot understand Him! We understand only a small part of time, space, and matter. How can we expect to understand the most intricate and unfathomable teachings of eternity? Preposterous to think we can, sir and madam. God understands us. We do NOT understand Him, nor can we. We can only know Him to the extent He explains Himself to us.”
I point to the evidence of the Trinity in 2 Corinthians 13:14 only because it is there. We need to recognize that God’s Word reveals this teaching to us, so we may understand Him more fully. But the study today is about grace, if you recall. So let’s touch upon the three items which accompany the three Persons of the Trinity.
The love of God. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Herein is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be a propitiation for our sins. That spells g-r-a-c-e, GRACE! Jesus offers us eternal life because He died on the cross as payment for the penalty of our sins. The grace of God comes to us via the Person of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus is grace.
The fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Jesus returned to heaven forty days after His resurrection. He sent the Holy Spirit ten days later to indwell those who believed in Him. The Holy Spirit came in power and gave birth to the Church, which is the Body of Christ on earth during this Church Age.
The Holy Spirit’s presence means that man has fellowship with God now. We are no longer at war with God. Instead we have peace WITH God, which makes it possible for us to live in the peace OF God in this world. Jesus didn’t leave us as orphans when He ascended to heaven. He sent the Holy Spirit to be our Comforter and our peace and our fellowship with the Lord.
So what say ye? Is it yea or nay to the call of God on your life? Will you receive the love of God via the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and enjoy the fellowship of the Holy Spirit? In America we can play the race card, which the politicians certainly profit from. Or we can embrace 2 Corinthians 13:14 and embrace The Grace Card instead. The Spirit calls. What is your response?
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
In terms of God, the word Trinity means there are three Persons who exist as God, but there is only one God. In our Bible verse Paul identifies these three Persons as,
• God
• the Lord Jesus Christ
• the Holy Spirit
In many places the New Testament demonstrates the simultaneous existence of all three Persons of the Godhead. They eternally exist together as one God, though they are three distinct Persons.
There are those who react to this by huffing and puffing incredulously about how they cannot understand such a concept. We respond to them, “Join the club, friends! God is far above our pay grade. Of course we cannot understand Him! We understand only a small part of time, space, and matter. How can we expect to understand the most intricate and unfathomable teachings of eternity? Preposterous to think we can, sir and madam. God understands us. We do NOT understand Him, nor can we. We can only know Him to the extent He explains Himself to us.”
I point to the evidence of the Trinity in 2 Corinthians 13:14 only because it is there. We need to recognize that God’s Word reveals this teaching to us, so we may understand Him more fully. But the study today is about grace, if you recall. So let’s touch upon the three items which accompany the three Persons of the Trinity.
The love of God. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Herein is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be a propitiation for our sins. That spells g-r-a-c-e, GRACE! Jesus offers us eternal life because He died on the cross as payment for the penalty of our sins. The grace of God comes to us via the Person of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus is grace.
The fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Jesus returned to heaven forty days after His resurrection. He sent the Holy Spirit ten days later to indwell those who believed in Him. The Holy Spirit came in power and gave birth to the Church, which is the Body of Christ on earth during this Church Age.
The Holy Spirit’s presence means that man has fellowship with God now. We are no longer at war with God. Instead we have peace WITH God, which makes it possible for us to live in the peace OF God in this world. Jesus didn’t leave us as orphans when He ascended to heaven. He sent the Holy Spirit to be our Comforter and our peace and our fellowship with the Lord.
So what say ye? Is it yea or nay to the call of God on your life? Will you receive the love of God via the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and enjoy the fellowship of the Holy Spirit? In America we can play the race card, which the politicians certainly profit from. Or we can embrace 2 Corinthians 13:14 and embrace The Grace Card instead. The Spirit calls. What is your response?
To further research this issue, I direct you to my book Deuteronomy: Volume 5 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes. To purchase my books please go to:
http://www.amazon.com/Randy-Green/e/B...
