The Wisdom of God-Pt 2

For this reason our Lord Jesus Christ gave us this prayer,"Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your Name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one." Jesus also said,"For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.(Matt6:9-15)

There is not a person on earth this prayer does not apply to knowing we are all sinful it becomes a matter of grace, which has been provided for by Christ so that all sinners may receive mercy. So now we have mercy, in order to receive it, we must give it. What you sow is what you reap. Mercy and forgiveness reaps the same, and it's fruit is love. The kingdom of God is within us and it grows like a mustard seed that will fill the entire earth.

The Lord said he did not come to bring peace, but to bring division, to bring fire upon the earth.(Luke12:49-51) What is justice? It is punishment for those who do wrong, and if all are equal, then all will be punished for all do wrong. So God sent his Son to die and take the eternal punishment in our place, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Our sinful nature still dies, but our spirits live because of Jesus. The fire Jesus brought is to purify those who belong to him. The anger and rage I see in the world is mostly due to people feeling an injustice done to them. They do not see the injustices they perpetuate in their own lives. If we continue to burn in anger we will burn up. Mercy must prevail. Anger and rage reaps anger and rage, mercy and forgiveness reaps mercy and forgiveness, We are all under the bondage of death, a reason for rage, but we are freed from this bondage through the grace of Christ given freely to those who believe what he mercifully and compassionately did for us. You must however, believe that Christ lived our life and went to the depths of hell and death to retrieve us; so that we now pass over from death to life. After death we do not go down to the depths of hell, we now sleep while we wait for our Redeemer. We have already been redeemed. Paul said,"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life has set us free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do, in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.(Romans8:1-4)And how we know we are living in the Spirit is by the fruit of our lives.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such as these there is no law.(Gal5:22,23)The eternal question of what love is, is also given to us. Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.(1Cor13:4-8)