Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. Matthew 5:9
“If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
“Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. Matthew 6;1
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.”
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:44-45
“You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”
If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother or sister, he or she is a liar. For anyone who does not love their brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 1 John 4:20
So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love one other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. By this, everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35
Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy. 1 Peter 1:8
Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed; but blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” John 20:29
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? Romans 8:35
“Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” My brothers and sisters in Christ, let us hold fast to the confession of our faith.
Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Ephesians 3:17
“Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be fully able, with all the saints, to comprehend what is the breadth and length and height and depth, of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
The apostles testified powerfully to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God’s great blessing was upon them all. Acts 4: 33
My brothers and sisters in Christ, we also are witnesses to the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So why are we not testifying to the resurrection? Jesus’ dying on the cross and his rising to life again is something that should we be spreading to the ends of the earth, so that God’s blessings will be upon us also.
Praise ye the Lord! Praise ye the name of the Lord! Praise him ye servants of the Lord. Psalm 135
“Ye that stand in the house of the Lord and in the courts of the house of our God. Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good! Sing praises unto his name, for it is pleasant.”
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there? Oh sometimes, it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
If someone were to ask us, “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” I am sure we would quickly answer, No! But, we may not have been to Calvary, we may not have walked with Jesus on his way to Calvary, but every time we sin and grieve his holy Spirit, we crucify him.