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Grace, Hope
& Peace, Friend;
Paul's letter to the believers in Ephesus starts out with an
amazing fact:
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the
heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation
of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He
predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to
Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.
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Ephesians
1:3-5
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He chose us! Not because we WERE
holy and blameless, but to MAKE
us holy and blameless by freeing us from bondage and adopting is into His
family. (Galatians
4:1-7 & Colossians
1:13-14)
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He said to them, "So it is written,
that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and
that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to
all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem."
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Luke
24:46-47
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Jesus died to make humanity holy and
blameless before God! Repentance - simply turning back to God - makes that FACT ours! (John 3:16)
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It was for freedom that Christ set us free;
therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of
slavery.
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Galatians
5:1
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Go'Ali - My Redeemer - Thank You for making me holy and
blameless before You.
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He Himself is the propitiation for our
sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
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1
John 2:2
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Only
believe,
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