(Amazing Grace)

"HOW   SWEET   THE   SOUND"!!!!!!!!!

While serving on a Men's retreat several years ago.....during a chapel service, the worship leader was playing his guitar and singing worship songs;.....when he began singing "Amazing Grace How sweet the sounds that saved a WRETCH like ME".....I believed that our Lord was wanting to teach me something.....so I submitted myself unto God and asked Him to teach me.....saying, "What ARE those "sweet sounds' ?"

It was music - worship music of the most holy kind -- singing TO JESUS, about His obedience to the Father's heart:

A. The percussion sounds:

1) The percussion sounds of this music were made by the hammer striking the  spikes as they were driven through Jesus' hands and his feet!!! and...

2) the cross on which Jesus hung... hitting the bottom of the hole---which caused a very intensely painful "jerking" motion as the spikes pulled on Jesus' muscles and bones!!!

B.The "string music" sound in this music was caused by the whips which  ripped chunks of muscle and flesh from Jesus' back and legs!!! (Mark 10:34)

C. The "wind instrument" sounds of this music were the throats of JESUS, of one of the criminals being crucified along with Jesus, and the Roman who was guarding JESUS.as they spoke the words:

1) (JESUS) "Not my will, but THY will be done". (Matthew 26:39

 My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?!!!?
"Why are You so far from Helping Me?, and from the words of My groaning? (Matthew 27:46)

"Then Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do' " (Luke 23:34)

(There were two criminals being crucified beside Jesus; one of the criminals believed Jesus was indeed the Messiah): And Jesus said to him " Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise." (Luke 23:43)

Jesus said to His Mother, 'Woman, behold your son' " (John 19:26) [(The term  Jesus used when He said "Woman"  is a term of respect and endearment]

Then Jesus said to the disciple (John) 'Behold your mother'.  And from that hour, the disciple (John) took (Mary) into his own home. (John 19:27)

"After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished that Scripture might be fulfilled said 'I thirst'.  (John 19:28)

"So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said 'It is finished' ". (John 19:30)

"And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, 'Father, into Thy hands I commit My Spirit.' " (Luke 23:46)


[ The roman centurion) having seen what had taken place, recognized God and thanked and praised Him and said, 'Indeed, without question, this Man was just and innocent' " (Luke 23:47)


AMAZING GRACE how  (SWEET!!!) the sounds that saved a wretch like me.

You also can be saved...JUST ASK JESUS TO SAVE YOU!!!!!!!! 

         

THE   LINE   OF   JESUS'   HOLY   LOVE!!!!!!!!!


By Holy God's loving Grace, Today I walked in the warm sunshine at the City Park in Cleveland.....
So nice!!!

Near one end of the park are two (2) beautiful Maple trees!!!

This (fall) season, the leaves of those two trees are a Glorious red, BRILLIANT RED!!!


One of those trees was planted as a memorial to a Cleveland policewoman who was killed in the line
of duty several years ago.

The other tree was planted as a memorial to a US Army Sgt. from Cleveland who was killed in the U.S. war on terrorism.


The BRIGHT SUN shining on those BRIGHT RED leaves.....reminds me of the BLOOD  that JESUS shed on His "tree" (HIS CROSS)-------not in "the line of duty" - but in the line of HOLY LOVE!!!

"O Lord, YOU are the portion of my INHERITANCE, and my cup.
"The LINES have fallen for me in pleasant places. YES, I have a GOOD INHERITANCE---(Because YOU are my inheritance!!)

"You will show me the path of life; IN YOUR PRESENCE is FULLNESS of JOY; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore"!!! (Psalm 16:5,6, and 11).


Let us PRAISE AND THANK GOD that we are in the BLOODLINE of "the LION of the tribe of Judah" !!! (JESUS)

"FEAR NOT,  FOR THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH HAS TRIUMPHED!!! (Revelation 5;5)

And we are "complete in HIM". (Colossians 2:10)

THANK YOU, OF HOLY GOD!!!!!!!       

FIXED FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Holy Message of GOD'S BEAUTIFUL LEAVES!!!

THE HOLY MESSAGE OF GOD'S LEAVES

This time of year HOLY GOD displays His Sublime Artistry in the autumn leaves.  His colors range from brown, to green, beautiful orange, bright yellow (similar to many butterflies), and beautiful reds!!!

His leaves display His beautiful colors-----AND each leaf carries a Holy message for us:

The reds remind us that Jesus Christ shed His Holy Blood on His Cross---to save us from our sins. (John 3:16)

The green leaves remind us of His Everlasting (and Ever present) Love!!!(Jeremiah 31:3)

Again, EVERY leaf carries a Holy Message for EACH of us.


HOW MANY leaves are there?  SO MANY that they cannot be counted!!!

And, every spring-another "crop" of leaves is added---so many that we cannot calculate them!!!


Let EVERY LEAF remind us that GOD says: "I WILL NEVER leave you nor forsake you". (Hebrews 13:5)

I love you with such GREAT LOVE I give you COUNTLESS numbers of leaves to remind you!!!!!!!


There will be times when we will (feel) "left", or "forsaken"-----But our feelings do not always lead us to the truth.

Let us accept the WORD of the "ONE TRUE GOD" (JOHN 17:3), and HIS SON JESUS (THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE /John 14:6).

Enjoy the leaves, and Let us THANK HIM and PRAISE HIM, and "...REJOICE IN HIM ALWAYS" (Philippians 4:4)

HE IS FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD (2 Timothy 2:13), and WORTHY of all praise and Thanksgiving!!!!!!!
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ANOTHER THOUGHT:

1 (one) Carpenter and 3 nails FIXED EVERYTHING!!!!!!!
    

mSONS OF KORAH........FROM REBELLION.....TO REDEMPTION!!!!!!!!

In the Bible, the name KORAH is most often associated with a man who led 250
(Two hundred fifty) men in a rebellion against Holy God's  designated leaders---Moses and Aaron.

"Listen" to God's response through Moses: (Numbers 16:30-33)   "...If the LORD creates a new thing, and the earth opens it's mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the LORD.

Now it came to pass, as He finished speaking these words, that the ground split apart under them,

And the earth opened it's mouth and swallowed them up, with all their goods and households.

So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly."


Later passages (See Numbers 26:11) show that Korah's FAMILY WAS  NOT WITH HIM WHEN "the earth swallowed him."


As we move on through the Old Testament to the book of Psalms...we find that at least ten chapters of the book of Psalms were written by the Holy Spirit through "The sons of Korah"!!!

The book of Psalms is one of the MOST WIDELY-READ portions of the Bible...So Holy God is CONTINUING to touch many lives through that which was written through "the sons of Korah"!!!!!!!

ALL of US have rebelled against God at some point in our lives. Some of us had parents , or other relatives who rebelled against God.

What a HOLY, WONDERFUL, AND GLORIOUS BLESSING it is.....that things associated with our human family.....do NOT determine our present life, and our future in JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!

BUT WHEN WE HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST as our Saviour and Lord, that makes us belong to
 Holy God our Father.........and He has CHOSEN us each, ADOPTED us and forever ACCEPTED us as HIS-IN-JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!! (Ephesians 1:1-6) 

That makes both  our PRESENT, and our FUTURE - filled with Holy God our "ABBA" FATHER'S Holy plans and glorious promises (Ephesians 3:20)

BUT GOD -  If any person will confess their sins to God, repent (change, and give their life to JESUS).....HOLY GOD can, and WILL USE US for His kingdom, and HIS GLORY!!!!!!!

Just read the story of Saul---who became Paul - through whom God wrote MUCH of the NEW TESTAMENT!!!!!!! (BEGIN READING AT ACTS 9:1-31).

HOW PERFECT GOD'S LOVE IS!!!  HOW POWERFUL THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST IS!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY GLORY TO HIM FOREVERMORE!!!!!!!