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God's Prepared Works

Psalms 92:5 How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

Our lives on this earth are about our works; we are defined in this world by the works that we do. The power of that statement should not be underestimated. The works we do can be good or bad, they can help humanity or destroy humanity.

We all associate our works with our worth as human's, we talk about our goals, dreams, and works we've done and would like to do. But here is the problem, and I will say it, it is a big problems for all of us.

So what is this problem? It is when we talk about works in our bible as Christian's we associate our works with God's works if we are trying to obey him. But the question is, are they God's works because we read and try to be a Christian's a better person does that automatically transform our works into God's works?

John 6:28 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"

Does our desires to help others make what works we do God's works? In other words, there is a very old saying; “all good is from God, and all bad is from the Devil”! Thus, any good we do, even if our life is bad, the good we do is of God?
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Does that sound Correct?

John 3:20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Conflating Works

We know there are people that have done good works their whole life, and then they make one mistake and all their good works are wiped out.

Matthew 23:3 All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.

Did the bad change all the good works? Well, that is a question we individually must wrestle with, but according to society rules as a whole yes it does for most people! So we mustn't conflate works of human's as necessarily God's works, or we are going to come up far short of God's glory.

Jeremiah 48:7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

The power of words when it comes to God's word the bible are so powerful that they literally blind ones to reality, to common sense, to where a word like “works” can be conflated to mean any work mankind does for others that is good must be from God, i.e., making ones motive into a god a good god that is like God.

John 9:39 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

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John 9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

Such think and emotions are noble; we all want others to do good, to help their neighbor and so on . . . But when we define God's works by such a broad strokes are we only adding to the problem, when we hear the scriptures read that Christ and his disciples were no part of this world! How meaningless are their words when indeed one believes all good done by any group is of God, what then is the world?

Proverbs 20:14 "It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

Proverbs 28:21 To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.

The Genesis of God's Works

First, let us state a truth, a fact. Man was created to do God's works, not his own works. Subsequently, that is why all people in one form or another want to do good works even the worst of the among mankind. Moreover, that is the reason there are advocacy groups for every good work under the Sun, and for groups doing evil by pointing out some good they are doing; it all become very confusing does it not?

Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

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Furthermore, that is why almost ever thing mankind does including the evil they do it somehow can be justified in the name of doing it for the greater good, which, in some way magically buys back, nullifies the evil done by the same person, and/or group. In other words, it is our nature to want to do good works, but it is also are nature to do evil, and all we have is our ability to justify the bad by the good we are doing or trying to do!

Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

That being said, we find at the start of God's creation of the first man, Adam; God creating him outside the Garden of God; called Eden, and then God placed him into that Garden, but for what purpose?

Gen.2:7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 2:8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

To do the works of God, and in those works of God Adam would find completed and total contentment for the purpose for his life, i.e., doing the works of God. Hence, anything outside of God's works would not bring him peace or make him complete.

Psalms 37:4 Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

But herein lays the lesson made clear by God, just as light and darkness do not mixes. Man had to be “placed” into God's works, not that mankind could do good works and that meant they were God's works; do we get the picture?

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Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Adam's works were God's works if he remained in God's works on earth, meaning, within the paradise Garden created for him from God's love that is where he must be and stay to do God's works. In that garden was the source and power of Adam's eternal life, it's where he talked to God daily, i.e., the temple of God where God's life communed with Adam's life in allowing him to be in the Garden doing God's works, those works allowed Adam his association with God, and sustained Adam's life by God's own incorruptible life.

There in the Garden was the food for life, food for eternal life, not Adam's labor to produce food, but food freely given by God for Adam spiritual health, and physical his health. Yes, God's works were perfect works of light that sustained all of Adam's needs. Nothing was lacking for Adam in God's love.

But as we know, and it is recorded for us, Adam sinned, he didn't love God freely as God had given his own loved to Adam. Thus, Adam deny God's love for the love of God's creation, Adam's wife, and he was put out of the works of God into Adam's own works for ever more!

Gen.3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 3:18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. 3:19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

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Gen.3:23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Subsequently, every works Adam did outside that garden was his own works, and not God's works any longer! He could love his wife, be a good father, take care of his neighbor, uphold God's righteous ways, but he was not doing God's works any longer because he was not in the place of God's prepared working any longer. Adam had to be put into God's works by God's power, Adam lost those works by his own disobedience, that is, his lack of love for God.

Unfortunately, there was no work he could do on earth after the fact of being put out of the Garden for man or God that would restore him into God's works without sin, that is, making him free of sin once again. Thus, we have found the divine template to delineated between what is of God's works, and all the other works being done under the Sun in God's name, and Christ. Now the earth is full of works done by mankind since good and evil was introduced into our world by Adam's sin that are label by almost everyone as God's works, but are they?

Matt.7:20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
7:21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 7:22 Many will tell me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?' 7:23 Then I will tell them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.'

Here we can take great offense at our analysis of God's works, and man's works that all have good and evil in them,

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but if we actually love the truth, such pure truth of God's works removes so many issues for us that we are able to finally see why there is such wide spread confusion and deceit being done in God's name, i.e., by calling mankind's works God's works. Moreover, why people are so mislead into righteous anger against religious people boasting only in their good works while covering up the bad.

The question is was God every involved in a corrupt tree claiming to produce good fruit?

2Tim. 3:1 But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. 3:2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3:3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, 3:4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; 3:5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also. 3:6 For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 3:7 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Now days people are becoming highly cynical of every form of government, religion, and commerce seeing the same old tools being uses to justify the evil they are doing by some good they boast in doings as if that lets them off the hook while the rest of us must pay the price for every problem they cause.

Works of Law

Once again lets clear this mystery up, what are works of law? Well, lets put it this way? Because Adam was the first man created directly by God, not born from earthly parents, and that he had personal contact with God.

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Let's say after Adam sinned, he created laws of what he remembered that pleased God and didn't please God for others because he was the first man, and directly talked to God. However, were those laws God's works? No, those were Adam's works after sinning that Adam did outside of God's works. Thus, if one kept those laws “perfectly” doing a good work by them for God, were those works God's work? No they weren't! Those good works would be Adam works as the law giver outside of God's prepared works Adam lost. The good coming from those works would be coined “works of law” for sinners, for all born of Adam were now sinners. Sinner trying to please God outside of his prepared works by their own works of law.

Are we seeing how the two works can be conflated into one which is a lie to God's prepared works. Such confusion and conflating causes people to deny God when man's works of law fail them because those works were not given to them by God, but man's idea of what they think will please God. Subsequently, when they fail whom do they blame, lets be honest here?

Galatians 2:16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

The fact they were recorded as God's laws by Adam did not mean whatsoever, they were the works Adam God created for Adam to do, God did not create works of law for Adam, Adam lost God's love, not works of law. His own laws could not bring him back into God's works in the Garden of Eden. No! Nor should we imagine that any of Adam's children and their children's, children's into our own times,

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could do God's works by obeying Adam's laws that he put upon mankind because he personally communicated with God at one time, while doing God's works in the Garden.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."{Deuteronomy 27:26}

In other words, Adam recording God's thoughts in cursed ground did not put him back into the Garden of Eden into uncursed ground, not unless he choose to believe the lie so he could look good to others while living in the same cursed ground they found themselves in. Preaching such a lie only appeals to those loving and living a lie, not to those that love the truth about what the uncursed ground of God was like before Adam sinned.

Works of laws, will not make us good or righteous enough to do God's works; isn't that shocking? Would a religion exist if they taught that truth?

It should be to honest hearted person? But as stated previously the power of the word “works” blinds us to the truth of God's works. The entire nation of God's people Israel failed in being put back into God's works simply because they thought the law given to Moses from God's himself put them in God's works that every thing they did in God's name by those works of law was good, hence, from God, condoned by God and justified by trying to do good works of law.

But were they God's prepared works of the Garden of Eden where the tree of life was for all mankind as some point if they hadn't sinned?

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God's people judged the Son of God, by works of law, and they missed life, they missed God's righteousness in Christ Jesus that put them into God's works for the creation love of works of law.

Rom.10:1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. 10:2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
10:3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God. 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
God's Works

If one has a tree full of good and delicious fruit, and its is the only tree God says is his, how can being part of another tree be of God's? Some think God created all trees so it got to be God's fruit. However, God has a prepared work, not of mankind's will power or hands.

In other words, all that is in God's tree are his works of his will, of his planting, he places his name upon that one tree that is the only tree that is his, not all the trees that each person plants and has fruit upon can all somehow becomes God's personal planting, like the tree of life, (what tree planted by man gives us eternal life?) not even speaking about the tree of life gives us eternal life only the tree of life gives us eternal life, isn't that true? Lets look at all mankind planting that they call God's works has any given mankind eternal life yet? Neither does doing good works give us the tree of life.

If Adam was put out of eternal life into his own judgments of good and evil producing weeds and thorns, how can we expect any human work stating it is God's works not to produce weeds and thorns, can we not see the truth of simple fruit by the lie of Satan?
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Matt.7:15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 7:16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 7:17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit. 7:18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

Now that is a very simple analogy, but let us not mock it is God truth of His word if we uses the original template found in the Garden of Eden we can't be fooled about God's works. In that garden was God's works, which were Adam's life the life is was created in, that is, for doing God's works. Nothing outside the garden was God's work even though God created our earth, and every thing in it, don't be confused a worship of creation is not God prepared works, it is a lesser worship of idols.

God had a definite purpose for mankind once he stopped creating our earth. He had one special place where he put his present, where he put his works for man to do God's works spreading his garden for God throughout the earth. Adam could not spread God's works, the Garden of Eden, once outside of it by his disobedience, nothing in Adam own good efforts no matter how sincerer his emotions were in wanting to do God's works allowed him anymore to do God's works.

God's prepared works for Adam could not do anything but bring Adam peace, love, and give life to everyone having part in it. Once Adam rebelled against God's purpose his love for the human race, Adam the father of the human race spread his own works into mankind producing substituted kingdom's, paradise, religion, commerce, and governments, but none of Adam's works, not one of those works, were God's works any longer, nor have any of those works put man back into God's works.

Let us ask ourselves do we get the full import of that statement? Our being in God's works means we are no part of this world, or the works of Adam, no matter if they are good or bad, they are not of his works in the Garden of Eden, any longer, they are not any part of this world as Adam's works were no part of the world outside of the Garden of God, Eden!

John 18:36 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

John 18:37 Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."

God has not seized the earth from Adam's offspring, he has let their works go on, and on, into all form of works good and bad. However, few have found God's works, all the while many think they are doing God's works by obeying works of law, by reading about God and his works, going to a certain religion, but none have been put into God's works by their own efforts, or they are lying, and acting like an angel of light while living in cursed ground!

James.1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. 1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

The Prepared Works of God

God had a prepared work for Adam, not prepared by human hands, but by God's own will, and his own hands, in Spirit and truth. Adam was placed into the Garden of Eden, Adam did not create the Garden of Eden by his hard work in obeying God, his zeal for God's works or his emotions did not qualify him for God's works, it was God that created him for his works that put him into those works.

Hebrews 10:5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

1 John 4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.

But what are God's prepared work for us Christian's? Well, for sure we must stop and desist from our own works to be “placed” into God's prepared works without human hands. That is our being placed into God's tree of life for us. We must be grafted into a life giving tree having the works of God as its fruit upon it, Jesus Christ!

Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."{Isaiah 64:4}

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Romans 9:23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory.

Romans 11:16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

Romans 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

John.15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
15:2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 15:3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

Herein, we find the problem, mankind is a justifier of himself and other peoples works that is his nature, but why?

It is because he cannot stop sinning, he is forced into lying, because the fallen flesh was created from the first lie. So he spends his life justifying the wickedness in his own heart by his good works, his good motives, his best intention, but none of that is God's works.

James.3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

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Heb. 4:9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 4:10 For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
4:11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

1 Corinthians 15:50 Now I say this, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

If we lust, if we are greedy, if we look at the opposite sex, if we are jealous and envy we are the fruit of our own tree, which if one wants to be seen as better than the lust in ones own heart they must justify evil with some good, that is, lie to justify the lie the evil fruit upon their tree they are saying that a evil tree can produce good fruit, the that fruit lost in the Garden of Eden, by some healing balm, which is snake oil!

Matthew 23:25 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.{TR reads "self-indulgence" instead of "unrighteousness"}

James.3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

That healing balm for most of us is God's word the bible when we mixed into the lie by saying our good works is a good tree we worship ourselves are works,

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which quickly become a works of law something we are doing to prove we don't have evil fruit in our own hearts, a fruit that is an evil fruit that did not exist in God's works in the Garden of Eden.

Moreover, that is why the flesh quickly become offend because it believes the lie that it has earned merit by trying to be good, and by doing good, thus, we deserve better for our hard works of law which can't put us into God, the God Adam lost, but our hard work fools us in pride, we become very angry when our motives are impuned over our good works.

James.1:19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 1:20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God. 1:21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls{or, preserve your life.}. 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

However, those good works are not God's prepared works, they are not God's finish works, i.e., his prepared works for us found in Christ Jesus. Let us note here, there were no works found in Adam's flesh once he sinned that were found in the Garden of Eden without sin, God did not prepare the Garden for sinners. Adam did not experience jealousy, lusting for some other woman in his heart, he did not want to covet what was God's, nor was he jealous or envious of anyone in the Garden of Eden or he would not have been there for he would of had already sinned in his heart and in that condition of evil he would not have been able to commune in God's Holy Spirit.

Matt. 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'{Exodus 20:14}
5:28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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It was only after he was put out into his own works that he experienced the works of his flesh.

Yes, he could of, as we all do brag and lie against that truth of paradise as if to justify ourselves so we may appear more good and righteous to others in our flesh than we really are, and/or we can tell the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

John 17:19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

What was God's, had none of Adam in it after he sinned, and we should know that, and what is in us, our flesh, if we are in Christ Jesus our paradise our flesh outside the garden of Eden in no part of God either it is dead in Christ, and Christ is in God.

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

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Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Communication That Saves us

Imagine if Adam would have waited until God communicated with him at the end of that terrible day of what Eve had done? All the fears and wickedness he was feeling from his wife sin, would have been cleared up, by God's comfort of him by Holy Spirit. Soon the mountain would have been removed and God would have had so much more in store for Adam that Adam could have never imagined in his worst trial; he would have of learned how love of God cannot fail, but exceeds our greatest dreams.

1 John 2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

1 John 4:17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Rom.8:32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
8:33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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8:36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."{Psalm 44:22}
8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So to for those in Christ, as their vine, if they can wait upon their master in their sinful flesh in its dread of fear and darkness, but dead to God who is light, freed in Christ from judgment, they will find the same comfortable beyond all human reasoning and judgments of their flesh in God's love.

Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

1 John 3:19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

1 John 3:21 Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

What is at warring in us is not in Christ, what evils thoughts we have are not of God's or does he condone them in Christ; our feeling we have are not in Christ,, and neither is it in our spirit life hid in Christ freed from judgments of our flesh, we belong to Christ, not this world, those things are of this world we have been delivered out of this world, into God's paradise in Christ. How have we been delivered out of this world, do you honestly know how?

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Because we have been delivered out of our flesh. Yes, delivered out of the judgment of our flesh having our life transferred into Christ life, that is, the kingdom of Christ love.

Ephesians 1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

Ephesians 1:21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

Ephesians 3:7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

Ephesians 3:16 that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

We suffer, and suffer in wars and tribulation in our flesh, but they are not accounted, they are allowed to perfect what Adam lost, the love of God in all circumstance we come off victorious not in our works, but in Christ works, i.e., God's prepared works. God is forming us as clay into Christ for his purposes to fill the heavens, that is, the new heavens and earth with the works of his new creation in Christ life, his personality.

John 14:2 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

John 14:3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

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2 Peter 3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action,{literally, "gird up the waist of your mind"} be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

Be of good courage in Christ power, not the power of our flesh, in the power of Christ that will finish this good works in us that God has prepared from the founding of this world.

Rom.8:16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
8:23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
8:24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
8:25 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.
8:26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.
8:27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}
8:30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Completed: July 07, 2018

by: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus

http://jwsstraighttalk.squarespace.com/

See also: nu-truth.com

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