A servant of Lord Jesus Christ sent on a mission to you.

I bring you good news from God about the fulfillment of His promise as recorded in the Holy Scriptures by His prophets concerning His Son the Messiah, born into the family line of King David and named Jesus.

He is the one who the Holy Spirit- God's very nature - declared with power to be the Son of God by the resurrection from the dead.

and by this act was grace made manifest, grace above every grave, that now through Christ all the kindness of God has been poured out upon us, sending us out to the whole world to tell people the great things God has done for THEM so that they too will believe that He loves you and obey Him .

You also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ as grace from God and peace from Jesus is given to the beloved of God.

As i impact you with faith that helps you grow i need to be encouraged by your faith: each of up willl be a blessing to each other.

To the full extent of my ability i will teach you all about God's love for you.

For i am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes.

For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from start to finish: The righteous will live by faith

The devil said to Jesus, "if you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread"

note this: stones not just one stone, the old testament law was written on stones but God was going to write a new law upon the hearts of men.

Why did Jesus call Simon, Peter?

Simon means hearing, Peter means stone.

God told (wrote in his heart) Peter that Jesus is the Messiah, Son of Living God.
It's to him having this revelation that Jesus said Peter, upon this rock (the New Testimony/ Covenant) will i build my Church and Peter having come to understand later on in life said to those who have recieved the revelation that Jesus is the Christ, "you also, living living stones, are being built into a spiritual house..."

Why did the devil liken the law to bread? Because bread only provides satisfaction for the flesh.

And Jesus replied;

MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD

Jesus is saying the Law alone is insufficient.

note: FAITH IS HEARING GOD'S VOICE.

Faith is not what men (flesh and blood)tell you but faith is what God reveals to you.

Living in faith is not being ashamed of sharing what you have recieved from God with others. Thats why its the gospel and not gossip.

We are going to look at the fall of man as a result of man not believing God (Eve doubted God's word but Jesus didnt doubt God called him His beloved son.
Then we look the insufficiency of the law to save and redeem man and why grace is sufficient.

THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO GATHER TOGETHER TO COMMAND STONES TO BECOME BREAD IN FORM OF COMMANDING BLESSINGS.

BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SINS ARE FORGIVEN.

LET US GATHER LIKE GOD'S CHURCH AND WAIT ON HIM, TO HEAR FROM HIM, TO RECIEVE REVELATION FROM HIM AND KNOW HIS PRESENCE, WHERE OUR PRAYER SHOWS OUR HUNGER FOR GOD.

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which can be known of God is made plain to them by God.

Have you ever met someone who refuses to accept what can be known of God but like Eve, seeks to know what is not revealed by God, rejecting what God has revealed about himself instead turning to fantasies and failing to see the truth in reality?

For since the creation of the world God's qualities - his eternal power and divine nature- have been seen, being understood from what has been made, so men are without excuse.

For although they (who hold the truth in unrighteousnes - men) knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave him thanks, but became futile/vain in their thinking and their foolish hearts (saying there is no God) were darkened.

Although they claim to be wise (atheists), they became fools(religious, supersitious and vain imaginations of alternate realites of any possibility devoid of the true God) and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man, birds, animals and creeping things.

So God let them ( Adam and Eve) go ahead into every sort of sex sin, and do whatever they wanted to- yes, vile and sinful things with each other's body. Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies.

so they prayed to the things God made (idolatory), but wouldnt obey the blessed God who made all things.


The message has not ended yet, so do not assume that its all about God's wrath, yes for awhile he left not so he could judge us but save us from what we truly deserve.

Therefore God let go of them, and let them do all these evil things, so that even their women turned against God's natural plan for them indulging in sex with each other (Lesbianism). Likewise the men became homosexuals and recieved in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Since they did not wish to retain the knowledge of God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do whatever their evil minds could think of.

-it seems there is no God, because of the wickedness you see and because of that you disbelieve God's existence.-

Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness and sin, of greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, lying, bitterness, and gossip.

Backbiters, haters of God (Atheists), insolent, arrogant and boastful; mischief, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

they knew God's death penalty for these crimes, yet they went right ahead and did them anyway, [b]encouraging others to do them too.

"Well", you may say, "what terrible people you have been talking about!"

Hold on, you are just as bad. When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are talking about yourselves, for you do these very same things.

Now God's judgement is based on truth. So when you, a mere man, pass judgement on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgement?

JESUS SAID JUDGE NOT, THE MERCIFUL WILL BE SHOWN MERCY.

Now because God seem to many slow to judge, he either doesn't exist or he doesn't care. Do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience?

Don't you care? Can't you see that he has been waiting all this time without punishing, to give time to turn from sin?

His kindness is meant to lead you to repentance.

God's love to you is for you to repent, but no, you wont listen - stubborn, unrepentant and unafraid of God's coming wrath, the inescapeble judgement repaying every man for their deeds.

God will give eternal life to those who patiently do the will of God- which is seeking God's kingdom and righteous-, seeking for the unseen glory, honor and eternal life that he offers.

But to them that fight the truth and walk in evil ways - God's anger will be poured out on them, there will be sorrow and suffering for all who keep on sinning.

But there will be glory, honor and peace from God for all who obey him. For treats everyone the same .

So those who have the law, will be judged by the law but those who do not have the law will be judged outside the law based upon their conscience as a witness to accuse or defend them.
Salvation is not given to those who know what to do, unless they do it.

The day will come when Jesus Christ will judge the secrets of men, that's the gospel.

If you rely on the law and brag about your relationship with God; If you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law even from your youth.

You are so sure of the way to God that you could point it out to a blind man. You think of yourselves as beacon lights directing men who are lost in darkness to God. You think that you can guide the foolish and teach even children the affairs of God, for you really know his laws. which are full of all knowledge and truth

Yes, you teach the law to others, do you teach yourselves? You preach it, don't steal, don't commit adultery but do you do them? You say, 'dont pray to idols', and then make money your god instead.

You are so proud of knowing the law, you brag about it, do you dishonor God by breaking it?

No wonder the scriptures say that the world speaks evil of God because of you.

You who preach a law you can't keep.

Remember those sinners, those people you call terrible by the standard of the law while you feel special because of the circumcision, which has value only if you obey God's law; but if you dont, you are no better than those sinners.

Now if those sinners, who dont have the circumcision, have the fulfillment of the law (keep it's requirements and none broken), wont God give them all the rights and honors he planned to give you?

[b]NOW I HAVE BEEN SPEAKING TO YOU WHO HAVE AND TEACH THE LAW

You see your not better off than them, your not a believer because your parents are believers nor because of the religious ceremonies performed at your infancy.

A REAL BELIEVER - I.E ONE THAT BELONGS TO GOD - IS ANYONE WHOSE HEART IS RIGHT WITH GOD

God isn't looking for those who have performed physical religious indentification but for those with changed hearts and minds; an indentification of the Spirit and not of the law, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

What therefore is the value of the law if God knows we'll break it?
Yes the law is valuable because God gave it to us. Yes men broke the law but that doesnt mean God will become unfaithful and break his promises; though men lie, God will not lie for he is the righteous judge.


"But", some say,"our breaking faith with God is good, our sins serve a good purpose, for people will notice how good God is and see his righteousness more clearly when they see how bad we are. Isn't God being unjust judging us?"

God forbid! God is not unjust. What kind of God would he be, to overlook sin?

I mean, if my lies and falsehood enhances God's truth, increases his glory, why am i judged a sinner? when our sins are still helping him, by pointing to his honesty in contrast to our lies (the way some talk, thinking good needs evil to exist)

Some claim that this is what i preach! If your idea is this: let us do evil that good may come, then your damnation is just.

I preach grace from sin, not to sin.

The conclusion is: all men are sinners and none is righteous

Have you seen anyone who has not lied, cursed, spoken bitterly or hated someone who disagrees with them? The sins of men are numerous, but do they care what God thinks?

NOW we know that whatever the law says, it says to those under the law so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.

- (the value of the law)
we now know THE CURSE - DEATH
THE CAUSE - SIN

we know what THE COURSE is not, the law is not the way out, just a mirror reflecting who we are and our state.

so what is THE COURSE - the way out - ?

The Law reveal us as sinners BUT NOW God has shown us a different way to heaven - not by "being good enough" and trying to keep his laws, but a new way (to which the Law and the Prophets testify).

Which is faith in Jesus Christ. God will declare us righteous, accept us and declare us "not guilty" if we trust Jesus Christ to take away our sins. We can all be saved the same way, by coming to Christ, no matter who we are or what we have been like.

We all sinned and fell short of God's glory and are justified freely by grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

For God sent Jesus Christ to take the punishment (curse-death) for our sins (the course) as a sacrifice of atonement. God used Christ's blood and our faith as the means of saving us from his wrath.(THE COURSE).

In this way God being entirely fair did not punish those who sinned in the past, for he was waiting for when Christ would come and take away those sins.

Isn't this unfair for God un let criminals go free. and say they are innocent? No, for he does it no the basis of their trust in Jesus who took their sins away.

Then what can we boast about doing, to earn salvation? Nothing at all. Why? Because our acquittal is not based on our good deeds; it is based on what Christ has done and our faith in him. So it is that we saved by faith in Christ and not by the good things we do. This is applicable to everyone.

Do we nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law because it's only when we trust Jesus can we truly obey him.

Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. He didnt earn his right to heaven by the good things he did.

For being saved is a gift; if a person could earn it by being good, then it wouldn't be free - but it is!

Blessed are they whose sins are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.

Now the question: Is this blessing given only to those who have faith in Christ but also keep the jewish laws, or is the blessing also given to those who do not keep the jewish rules, but only trust in Christ?

Abraham received God's blessing through faith, for it was before he became a jew by circumcision. The sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness he had by faith before that day of the circumcision.

So Abraham is the spiritual father of those who believe and are saved without obeying jewish laws. We see then that those who do not keep these rules are justified by God through faith.

For the promise; that he should be the heir of the world, was not given through the law to Abraham nor to his seed but through the righteousness of faith.

For if those who live by law are heirs, faith has no value and the promise is worthless, because law brings wrath and where there is no law there is no transgression.

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all.

God made this promise to Abraham, to make him a father of nations, and bless all people through him. For God who makes the dead live again and speaks of the future with perfect certainty.

Against all hope, for Abraham knew in him the difficulty of such promise yet he believed in God's possibility, he became the father of many nations. Being strong in faith he didn't worry about how old he was nor consider his body or that of Sarah too dead to give birth.

Abraham believed God, grew strong in faith and praised God for this blessing even before it happened.

He was well sure that God was able to do anything he promised and because of this faith God forgave his sins and declared him not guilty.

Just as it was for Abraham, so it is for us, assuring us that God will accept us the same way he accepted Abraham, - when we believe the promises of God who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. Jesus died for our sins and rose again to make us right with God, filling up with God's goodness.

We have peace with God because of what Jesus has done, in which we also get access by faith into this grace and privilege we stand upon.

Which is our hope of the glory of God - we confidently rejoice looking forward to actually becoming all that God has planned for us to be.

We also rejoice in our sufferings, which make us persevere and in our perseverance we develop character. This character in us helps us trust God till our hope and faith are strong and steady.

Then, when that happens, we are confident and know all is well, for we know how dearly God loves us, and we feel this love everywhere within us because God has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

When we were helpless with no way of escape, Christ came at the right time and died for us sinners who had no use for him. It's not like you would easily find anyone willingly to die for a good man not to talk of a guilty man but God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

Since he did this for us while we were guilty he will do so much more now that he has made us innocent, HE WILL save us from the coming wrath of God.

WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE AND WE AWAIT REDEMPTION WHICH IS STILL BY THE ACTS OF CHRIST. YOU ARE NOT EXPECTED TO SAVE YOURSELF FROM GOD'S WRATH, CHRIST IS WHO SAVES YOU.

Oh what blessings God must have for us now that we are his friends, and he is living within us! Now we rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God - all because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done in dying for our sins, if it's our doing we won't be grateful for it -
making us friends of God.

When Adam sinned, sin entered the entire human race. His sin spread death throughout all the world, so everything began to grow old and die, for all sinned.

People were sinning from the time of Adam until Moses, God did not in those days judge them guilty of death for breaking the laws - because he had not yet given his laws to them, nor told them what he wanted them to do. So when their bodies died it was not for their own sins since they themselves had never disobeyed God's special law against eating the forbidden fruit, as Adam did.

The CURSE came through Adam while the CURE came through Jesus.

The free gift (cure) is different from the sin (cause of death). For if the sin of one many died, how much more did God's grace and the gift (cure) that came by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ (course), overflow to many!

Adam's one sin brought the penalty of death(curse) to many, while Christ freely takes away many sins and gives glorious life (cure) instead.


The sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to reign over all, but all who will take God's gift of forgiveness and acquittal reign in life because of this one man, Jesus Christ.

Yes, Adam's sin brought punishment to all, but Christ's righteousness makes men right with God, so that they can live.

[i]Adam caused many to be sinners because he disobeyed God, and Christ caused many to be made acceptable to God because he obeyed.

The Ten Commandments were given so that all could see the extent me their failure to obey God's law. But the more we see our sinfulness, the more we see God's abounding grace forgiving us.

Before, sin ruled over all men and brought God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? Of course not! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

For sin's power over us was broken when we became Christians and were baptized to become a part of Jesus Christ; through his death the power of your sinful nature was shattered.

Your old sin-loving nature was buried with him by baptism when he died, and when God the Father, with glorious power, brought him back to life again, you were given his wonderful new life to enjoy.

For you have become a part of him, and so you died with him when he died; and now share his new life, and shall rise as he did.

Your old evil desires were nailed to the cross with him; that part of you that loves to sin was crushed and fatally wounded, so that your sin-loving body is on longer under sin's control, no longer needs to be a slave of sin; for if any be dead such is free from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

Christ rose from the dead and will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. He died ONCE for all to end sin's power, but now he lives forever in unbroken fellowship with God.

Count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not let any part of your bodies become tools of wickedness, to be used for sinning; but give yourselves completely to God to be used for his good purposes. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law but under grace.