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Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves because they exchanged the Truth about God for a lie, worshiped and served the creature (Satan) rather than the Creator (God) who is blessed forever! Amen.  –Romans 1:24-25

Godlessness in the Last Days

You must understand this, that in the Last Days distressing times will come. For people will be

lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their

parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of

good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!  –2 Timothy 3:1-5

The Guilt of Humankind

For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those

who by their wickedness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them

because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world His eternal power and

divine nature, invisible though they are have been understood and seen through the things He

(God) has made. So they are without excuse; For though they knew God, they did not honor

Him as God or give Thanks to Him but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless

minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools and they exchanged the glory of

the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds

or four-footed animals or reptiles.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their

bodies among themselves because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie, worshiped and

served the creature (Satan) rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen!

For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural

intercourse for unnatural and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse

with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts

with men and received in their own persons due penalty for their error.

Since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to

things that should not be done. They were filled with every kind of wickedness, evil,

covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,

slanderers, God haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward

parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. They know God’s decree, that those who practice

such things deserve to die — yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice

them.  –Romans 1:18-32

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The Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; It is able to judge the thoughts
and intentions of the heart.  –Hebrews 4:12   Image Courtesy: Delali@Twitter

All (Holy) Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching,
for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness.  –2 Timothy 3:16

The Rest That God Promised

While the promise of entering His rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should

seem to have failed to reach it. For indeed The Good News came to us just as to them but the

message they heard did not benefit them because they were not united by faith with those who

listened, For we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said:

“As in my anger I swore,

They shall not enter my rest.” (See: Psalm 95:11; Hebrews 3:11)

Though His works were finished at the foundation of the world. For in one place it speaks

about the seventh day day as follows, “God rested on the seventh day from all His works.”

(See:Genesis 2:2; Exodus 20:11; Exodus 31:17) Again in this place it says, “They shall not enter

my rest.” Since therefore it remains open for some to enter it and those who formally received

The Good News failed to enter because of disobedience, again He sets a certain day — “Today” —

saying through David much later, in the words already quoted:

“Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts.”  (See: Psalm 95:7-8)

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later about another day. So then, a

Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; For those who enter God’s rest also cease from

their labors as God did from His. Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, so that

no one may fall through such disobedience as theirs.

Indeed the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until

it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; It is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of

the heart. Before Him (God) no creature is hidden but all are naked and laid bare to they eyes

of the One to whom we (all) must render an account. (Psalm 33:13-14; Psalm 90:8;

Psalm 139:11-12; Romans 14:12; 2 Corinthians 5:10)

Jesus, The Great High Priest

Since then, we have a Great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of

God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to

sympathize with our weaknesses but we have One who in every respect has been tested as we

are, yet without sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we

may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.  –Hebrews 4:1-16

• You May Know the Joy of Salvation and Eternal Life Today
  Through The Good News of Christ Jesus!

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Who is is that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God!
This is the One who came by Water and Blood, Jesus Christ,
not with Water only but with Water and the Blood!  –1 John 5:5-6

Testimony Concerning Jesus!

The (Holy) Spirit is the One that testifies, for the Spirit is the Truth!

There are Three that testify:

The Spirit and the Water and the Blood and these three agree. If we receive human testimony,

the testimony of God is greater; For this is the testimony of God that He has testified to His

Son. Those who Believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not

believe in God have made Him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given

concerning His Son and this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life and this life is in His Son.

Whoever has the Son has life; Whoever does not have the Son does not have life.

I write these things to you who believe in the Name (Jesus) of the Son of God,

so that you may know that you have eternal life.  –1 John 5:6-13

• You May Know the Joy of Salvation and Eternal Life Today
  Through The Good News of Christ Jesus!

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