Cristy Li

Blessed are You, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, You have Revealed to Little Ones the Mysteries of the Kingdom  Image Courtesy: Jesus First Loved Us

The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world and those who live in it. For He has founded it on the seas and established it on the rivers.

 Who shall ascend the hill the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in His Holy place? Those who have clean hands and pure hearts, who do not lift up their souls to what is false and do not swear deceitfully.

They will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from the God of their salvation. Such is the company of those who seek Him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.

Lift up your heads, O gates and be lifted up, O ancient doors that the King of Glory may come in.

Who is the King of Glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle. Lift up your heads O gates and be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may come in.

Who is the King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of Glory. Psalm 24:1-10

Exhortation To Fearless Confession

“I tell you my friends, do not fear those who kill the body and after that can do nothing more but I will warn you whom to fear: Fear Him who after He has killed has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you to fear Him.

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight but even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not be afraid, you are of more value than many sparrows.

I tell you, everyone who acknowledges Me before others, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the Angels of God but whoever denies Me before others will be denied before the Angels of God and everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

When they bring you before the Synagogues, the rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you are to defend yourselves or what you are to say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what you ought to say.” Luke 12:4-12

Interpreting The Time

“When you see a cloud rising in the west you immediately say, ‘Its going to rain,’ so it happens and when you see the south wind blowing you say, ‘There will be scorching heat’ and it happens. You hypocrites. You know how to interpret  the appearance of the earth and sky but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? Luke 12:54-56

The Dangers of the Last Days

Understand this: There will be terrifying times in the last days. People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them. For some of these slip into homes and make captives of Women weighed down by sins, led by various desires. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so they also oppose the truth–people of depraved mind, unqualified in the faith but they will not make progress, for their foolishness will be plain to all as it was with those two.

Remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it and that from infancy you have known (the) Sacred Scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction and for training in righteousness, so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:1-9, 3:14-17

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