It Is Finished

Comforted to Comfort

2 Corinthians 1:3-9 Paul is revealing to the Corinthians the source and purpose of God’s Comforting. 

Thanks unto the Father

Colossians 1:12-14 Thanks be to the God head for our salvation. Man is absolutely hopeless, helpless, and without any desire to be saved without the work of God, both outwardly and inwardly. 

Children of Wrath

Ephesians 2:3 We were All, by nature, children of wrath, the wrath of God was awaiting us. Thank God for His Grace! 

Fruitful in Affliction

Genesis 41:46-57 God caused Joseph to be fruitful in the midst of trouble, sorrow, being forsaken, forgotten, and afflicted. 

Call and Communion Evidenced

Luke 5 The call of God brings dramatic changes in the life of the responders, a new Creation from God. 

Lusts and Desires

Ephesians 2:1-3 Paul has addressed man’s condition as dead, following the world, under the control of the devil. He now deals with the lust of the flesh, desires in the sensual flesh of man, and the mind.

Ignorant

Romans 10:1-5 Paul’s desire it that his own brethren in the flesh,  might be saved. Though much learned, they were ignorant of God’s righteousness, Paul himself was once in the same condition.

Except, ye be converted and become….

Matthew 18:1-5 The disciples were disputing about who would be the greatest. Jesus said, except ye be converted and become as a little child, You cannot enter the kingdom of God. To have one’s nature and character changed is a work of God.

Dead Men Walking

Ephesians 2:2 Man is dead in trespasses and sins,  yet walking as the rest of the unregenerate world does, under the control and power of Satan.

Self Destroyers

Hosea 13:9 Man in his natural condition will destroy himself, but in the Lord is our help