Life Lesson (verse Ephesians 2:22)
The day you asked God to forgive you, based upon the death of Jesus upon the cross, your list of sins was torn up and your name was added to the Lambs Book of Life.
Life Lesson (verse Ephesians 2:22)
For all the things we have done wrong, we can be forgiven. For all the things that other people have done to us, we can forgive them.
Life Lesson (verse Ephesians 2:22)
First and foremost citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven so we walk in love, joy, peace.
Life Lesson (verse Ephesians 2:22)
When we walk in fear, are frantic and acting ungodly, we have forgotten our heavenly citizenship.
Selected Notes/Illustrations
2 Cor 5:17 NKJV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
1 Cor 2:16 NLT
For,
"Who can know the Lord's thoughts?
Who knows enough to teach him?"
But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.
Mark 11:26 NKJV
But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses."
Matt 6:14-15 NKJV
14 "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Eph 2:19-22 NLT
19 So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God's holy people. You are members of God's family. 20 Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. 21 We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. 22 Through him you Gentiles are also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.
Psalm 117 NKJV
1 Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles!
Laud Him, all you peoples!
2 For His merciful kindness is great toward us,
And the truth of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord!
Psalm 118:8 NKJV
It is better to trust in the Lord
Than to put confidence in man.
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