Matthew 10:22 WE

{Worldwide English/New Testament}

22/ Everyone will hate you because you are true to me. But the person who keeps on being true to me until the end, will be saved.  

OH!!! If you haven't asked Jesus to be your Lord & Savior, won't you do it now? You can call on Him & come to Him just as you are, with all of your sins that He already knows all about anyway. He will forgive them, justify you, and make you righteous. I know He will, because He did it for me! You'll never have to concern yourself about death even if your physical body expires, because Jesus gives us eternal life in the Spirit with the promise of transforming our earthly bodies into  spiritual bodies that have no death in them, at His second coming.  

Isaiah 43:25 NKJV

 25/ “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake;
And I will not remember your sins.

 Revelation 21:7, 8 NKJV

7/ He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.  

 8/ But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

God provided the way for us to escape the fate of being destroyed by death. That way is by personally receiving Jesus Christ as Lord & Savior.

 God personally knows every person ever born on earth.

• Genesis 16:13 NLT* 13/.......“You are the God who sees me.”

• Psalm 139:1-4 NLT * 1/ O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.  2/ You know when I sit down or stand up.  You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.  3/ You see me when I travel and when I rest at home.  You know everything I do.  4/ You know what I am going to say even before I say it, LORD.
•  Psalm 139:5-10 NLT * 5/ You go before me and follow me.
• You place your hand of blessing on my head.  6/ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!  7/ I can never escape from your Spirit!  I can never get away from your presence!
  8/ If I go up to heaven, you are there;
  if I go down to the grave, you are there.
  9/ If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, 10/ even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.

God  knows us better than we know ourselves:

 Luke 12:7 NIV

  7/ Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

• Psalm 139:13-18 NLT * 13/ You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
  and knit me together in my mother’s womb.  14/ Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!  Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.  15/ You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
  as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.  16/ You saw me before I was born.  Every day of my life was recorded in your book.  Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. 17/ How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! 18/ I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!  And when I wake up, you are still with me!

God is personally interested in every human being. He carefully watches over us and the things that we do. None of our thoughts, words, or deeds, are hidden from God. 

Luke 12:2 KJV

 2/ For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

When we receive Jesus, The Light of the World, and The Word of God; He overpowers and expells darkness or dark areas in our lives.  

1 Corinthians 4:5 NIV

 5/ Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes.  He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart.  At that time each will receive their praise from God. 

Psalm 139:11, 12 NLT 

 11/ I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night—
12/ but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.  To you the night shines as bright as day.  Darkness and light are the same to you.

 John 3:17-21 NIV

17/ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  18/ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.  19/ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.  20/ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.  21/ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

1 John 1:5 thru 10 NLT   Living in the Light

 5/ This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all.  6/ So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth.  7/ But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.  8/ If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.  9/ But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.  10/ If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.

 John 16:13, 14 NIV

13/ But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth.  He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.  14/ He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.

 Ephesians 4:14, 15 NLT

14/ Then we will no longer be immature like children.  We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.  15/ Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.

"THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH" 

 IS ANOTHER NAME FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT.

DID YOU RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN YOU BELIEVED? 

Acts 19:1-6 NKJV

1/ And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples 2/ he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”  So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”  3/ And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”  So they said, “Into John’s baptism.”  4/ Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”  5/ When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.  6/ And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

THE MOMENT WE RECEIVE SALVATION IN JESUS' NAME, JESUS COMES INTO OUR HEART WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT; THE FREE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE; SO THAT WHEN OUR PHYSICAL BODY EXPIRES, WE HAVE A SPIRIT THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN ETERNAL LIFE WITH GOD IN HEAVEN.  

JOHN 3:6 NLT

6/ HUMANS CAN REPRODUCE ONLY HUMAN LIFE, BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVES NEW LIFE FROM HEAVEN. 

 AT THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST, THE MORTAL BODIES WE HAVE NOW WILL BE TRANSFORMED INTO SPIRITUAL BODIES THAT HAVE NO DEATH IN THEM!

 ROMANS 8:11 KJV

BUT IF THE SPIRIT OF HIM THAT RAISED UP JESUS FROM THE DEAD DWELL IN YOU, HE THAT RAISED UP CHRIST FROM THE DEAD SHALL ALSO QUICKEN YOUR MORTAL BODIES BY HIS SPIRIT THAT DWELLETH IN YOU.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:51-54 NLT 

 51/ But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret.  We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!  52/It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown.  For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever.  And we who are living will also be transformed.  53/ For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.  54/ Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: 

THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 

IS A FIERY EXTENSION OF THE POWER, OF THE HOLY SPIRIT JESUS GIVES TO US AT SALVATION; IT ENABLES WITNESSES FOR JESUS TO OPERATE MOST EFFECTIVELY IN  SPIRITUAL GIFTS.

"John the Baptist"

speaks, in

 MATTHEW 3:11 NKJV

11/ I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

 1 CORINTHIANS 12:4-11 NKJV

4/ There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.  5/ There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.  6/ And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.  7/ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:  8/ for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9/ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10/ to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.  11/ But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. 

 The Holy Spirit, also called the "the Spirit of Truth", is:

 GOD, THE THIRD PERSON OF THE TRINITY.  THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON.  HE COMFORTS, GRIEVES, REPROVES, CONVICTS, GUIDES, TEACHES, FILLS, AND EMPOWERS CHRISTIANS.  HE IS NOT THE FATHER, NOR IS HE THE SON JESUS CHRIST.    

PAUL'S PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL WISDOM

Ephesians 1:15-23 NL

15/ Ever since I first heard of your strong faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for God’s people everywhere, 16/ I have not stopped thanking God for you.  I pray for you constantly, 17/asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.  18/ I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.  19/ I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him.  This is the same mighty power 20/ that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.  21/ Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come.  22/ God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church.  23/ And the church is his body; it is made full and complete by Christ, who fills all things everywhere with himself.

PRAYER

FOR SALVATION & HOLY SPIRIT BAPTISM

 Father God, I want to receive salvation now. I'm sorry for all of the wrong things I've done in my life. Please forgive me, and help me to forgive those who have done wrong things to me.  I believe JESUS died and was resurrected, and is alive forevermore.  I now ask JESUS to come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior.  I believe that by me receiving JESUS into my heart now, I am forgiven of all my sins, and have eternal life with you.  Please help me to learn more of you, and to diligently seek you and study your Word.  Also, please fill me with the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, to overflowing capacity.  Thank you Father God for loving me, saving me, and baptizing me in the Holy Spirit.  In JESUS name I pray.  Amen.