Cristy Li

Whoever believes in Him (Jesus) may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have Eternal Life. –John 3:15-16
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God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through Him. Those who believe in Him (Jesus) are not condemned but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the Name of the only Son of God and this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed but those who do what is true come to the light so that it may be clearly seenthat their deeds have been done in God.  John 3:17-21

Prayer for the Restoration of God’s Favor

Lord, You were favorable to Your land;

You restored the fortunes of Jacob.

You forgave the iniquity of Your people;

You pardoned all their sin.

You withdrew all Your wrath;

You turned from Your hot anger.

Restore us again, O God of our salvation

and put away Your indignation toward us.

Will You be angry with us forever?

Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?

Will You not revive us again,

so that Your people may rejoice in You?

Show us Your steadfast love, O Lord

and grant us Your salvation.

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,

for He will speak peace to His people,

to His faithful, to those who turn to Him in their hearts.

Surely His salvation is at hand for those who fear Him,

that His glory may dwell in our land.

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;

Righteousness and peace will kiss each other.

Faithfulness will spring up from the ground

and Righteousness will look down from the sky.

The Lord will give what is good

and our land will yield its increase.

Righteousness will go before Him

and will make a path for His steps.  Amen!  –Psalm 85:1-13

• GOOD NEWS! You May Have the Joy of Salvation
  and Assurance of Eternal Life Today in Christ Jesus!

For the wages of sin is (eternal) death
but the FREE GIFT of God is ETERNAL LIFE
in Christ Jesus our Lord!  –Romans 6:23

• GOOD NEWS! You May Have the Assurance of Salvation
  and Peace of Everlasting Life in Christ Jesus Today!

Dying and Rising With Christ

What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him by baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with Him in death like His, we will certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be destroyed and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For whoever has died is freed from sin. If we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. We know that Christ being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. The death He died, He died to sin, once for all; the life He lives, He lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under Law but under Grace.

Slaves of Righteousness

What then? Should we sin because we are not under Law but under Grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience which leads to righteousness? Thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted and that you having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. Now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death but the FREE GIFT of God is ETERNAL LIFE in Christ Jesus our Lord!  –Romans 6:1-23