YOUR NEW ADDRESS

When you received your new address, did you give any thought in how you might inform others of the change? After all, changing your status from resident to visitor presents certain issues, especially when mixing with the local population.

Many of the local residents have never known anything other than where they reside right now. Some claim that such a change would be boring, no longer fun, and there is probably no MTV or cable in the new place anyway. Others have long had a desire to make the change but the investment portfolio is now producing money like never before. They'd hate to lose a penny dealing with a long-term commitment like that!

If someone were to ask me for directions to where I now reside, I would smile, and simply turn my gaze upwards. Those who know would quickly understand. Others, sadly, will never connect those dots.

Jesus said in John 8:23; You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. In verse 15:19, Jesus continued; If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

You see, when we put-off the old man, [Eph 4:22] crawling with ugly, nasty, vile and wretched sin, and put-on the new man in Christ, we gave up our residency here on earth. Under the promise and in the faith, we have brand new quarters waiting for our arrival just beyond those Pearled gates. It comes with a new, indestructible body, [1 Cor 15:54 ] eternal life with joy, wonder, and the extraordinary honor of being in the very presence of He who created it all! That, my friend, is a pretty exclusive address, and I am a proud citizen. I am just a visitor here on earth. I'm just visiting ya'all for a little while.........Are you ready to make the change?

YOUR NEW ADDRESS

When you received your new address, did you give any thought in how you might inform others of the change? After all, changing your status from resident to visitor presents certain issues, especially when mixing with the local population.

Many of the local residents have never known anything other than where they reside right now. Some claim that such a change would be boring, no longer fun, and there is probably no MTV or cable in the new place anyway. Others have long had a desire to make the change but the investment portfolio is now producing money like never before. They'd hate to lose a penny dealing with a long-term commitment like that!

If someone were to ask me for directions to where I now reside, I would smile, and simply turn my gaze upwards. Those who know would quickly understand. Others, sadly, will never connect those dots.

Jesus said in John 8:23; You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. In verse 15:19, Jesus continued; If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

You see, when we put-off the old man, [Eph 4:22] crawling with ugly, nasty, vile and wretched sin, and put-on the new man in Christ, we gave up our residency here on earth. Under the promise and in the faith, we have brand new quarters waiting for our arrival just beyond those Pearled gates. It comes with a new, indestructible body, [1 Cor 15:54 ] eternal life with joy, wonder, and the extraordinary honor of being in the very presence of He who created it all! That, my friend, is a pretty exclusive address, and I am a proud citizen. I am just a visitor here on earth. I'm just visiting ya'all for a little while.........Are you ready to make the change?

The Preeminent Glory of Christ

The Seven superiorities of Christ

Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Col 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

Colossians 1:15-18

The Preeminent Glory of Christ

The Seven superiorities of Christ

Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Col 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

Colossians 1:15-18

DATELINE:  WASHINGTON, D.C.

SUBJECT:  SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

ISAIAH 3: 6;

A MAN WILL SEIZE ONE OF HIS BROTHERS AT HIS FATHER'S HOME AND SAY,
"YOU HAVE A CLOAK, YOU BE OUR LEADER, TAKE CHARGE OF THIS HEAP OF
RUINS!"


THAT IS ALL

DATELINE:  WASHINGTON, D.C.

SUBJECT:  SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

ISAIAH 3: 6;

A MAN WILL SEIZE ONE OF HIS BROTHERS AT HIS FATHER'S HOME AND SAY,
"YOU HAVE A CLOAK, YOU BE OUR LEADER, TAKE CHARGE OF THIS HEAP OF
RUINS!"


THAT IS ALL

God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

How very wonderful it would be if the world's leaders all had access to the spiritual side of the universe. It is not as though spiritual wisdom has not been available, at least since the crucifixion and resurrection of our Christ. The issue of lack of spiritual guidance becomes more acute with each passing day. Just look at what is unfolding right before our eyes around the globe. Their ears do not hear, their eyes do not see, their minds do not understand. The Apostle Paul, while leading the church at Corinth back from heresy, offered the following insight during a time that mirror's what we are seeing unfold this very day;

[1 Corinthians 2:6-16---New International Version (NIV)]

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.9 However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[b] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.