Romans 6: 7 says - For he who has died has been freed from sin. All of you think about it. Once a man dies he will not do any sin.

Romans 6: 8 - Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him

Only those who live with Him can obtain eternal life.

Hebrews 10:38 says - Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”

Hebrews 10:39 says - But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

Whatever tribulations, difficulties, burdens, poverty, separations, sickness, pressures or distresses may come in our lives, we should never ever leave or turn back from the Lord Jesus Christ and believe in the saving of our soul.

That is why in Romans 8: 35, 37 – 39 it says - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In John 3: 16 it says - For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

What is Faith? Hebrews 11:1 says Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (God’s word which is God)

Who has Faith in them? Faith is the victory that overcomes the world. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world.

I John 5: 1 says - Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.

That is what is written in John 1: 1 – 5 that - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

He was in the beginning with God. (God’s words – Jesus Christ) 

All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1: 14 says - And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

In these days, we must all receive that glory. In these days when you are not able to come to God’s church, each one of you in own houses sit and meditate on God’s words and change our ways completely in God’s glory. So that each and every one of us is completely covered within God’s glory.

For all these things to happen in our soul we have to believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God.

I John 5: 5 says - Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Faith should be present in our works and deeds.

James 2: 17 says - Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

James 2: 19 says - You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!

Therefore, in my life and your lives if there are no works then what is the benefit? Our soul will be dead. If our soul is dead what is the use of faith?

James 2:24 says - You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

James 2:26 says - For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

How many of us will think about this today? How many of us have overcome the world?

Do you not know that friendship with the world is enemity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself and enemy of God.

Those who love the world and those in the world are called as Adulterers and Adulteresses in James 4: 4

In Ecclesiastes 3: 11 it is written that He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

Therefore, John 16:28 says I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.” We will meditate regarding this tomorrow by God’s grace.

We have to know clearly regarding Baptism. When we read and meditate Ephesians Chapter 2 we can know about this.

Let us come back and reconcile with our God so that we will be built as City of Zion, as temple of God and a dwelling place of God.

-      To be continued