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An Inspiration Of Time With God For Today

Monday, April 6th, 2020

While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now He commands all people everywhere to repent because He has fixed a day on which He will have the world judged in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed and of this He has given all assurance to all by raising Him from the dead. –Acts 17:30-31 (NRSVCE)

Righteousness Through Faith

Now, apart from The Law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed and is attested by the Law of the Prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.

For there is no distinction, since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; They are now justified by His Grace as a Gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by His blood, effective through faith. He did this to show His righteousness because in His divine forbearance He had passed over the sins previously committed. –Romans 3:21-25

Jesus The (Only) Way To The Father

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to Myself so that where I am, there you may be also and you know the way to the place where I am going.”

Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” –John 14:1-6

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An Inspiration Of Time With God For Today

Sunday, April 5th, 2020

Christ Jesus humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death – even death on a Cross. Therefore God also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name.
–Philippians 2:8-9   Image Courtesy: Fr. John Lewis

Jesus’ Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

After Jesus had spoken, He went on ahead going up to Jerusalem. When He had come near Bethpage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives He sent two of the disciples saying, “Go into the village ahead of you and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it.'”

So those who were sent departed and found it as He had told them. As they were untying the colt, it’s owner asked them, ‘Why are you untying the colt?’ They said, ‘The Lord needs it.’ Then they brought it to Jesus and after throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it. As Jesus rode along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road. As Jesus was now approaching the path down from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the deeds of power that they had seen, saying,

‘Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!

Peace in Heaven and glory in the highest Heaven’

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, order your disciples to stop.’ Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these were silent the stones would shout out.” –Luke 19:28-40

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests but to the interests of others.

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who though He was in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness and being found in human form He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross.

Therefore God also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, so at the name of Jesus, every knee should bend in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. –Philippians 2:3-11

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