A Verse for Today

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  Galatians 3:16

Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.             

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  (N)  Acts 3:26

Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.             

[Richard Myers]

   2 Corinthians 5:21

For he hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.               

Amen dear sister!  We need to explain this so all might understand that Jesus did not just die for us, but He had to suffer for each and every sin of every single person who ever lived on this dark spot in the universe. He was indeed made sin for us. This is why when He told Moses to make a brazen serpent and lift it up and tell the people who had been bitten by the fiery serpents that if they looked upon this uplifted serpent they would be healed. (Numbers 21:9). Many have no idea what Jesus was saying to Nicodemus and us.  There was no power in the uplifted serpent. The power that healed came from God. It was an object lesson that we might know the answer to that all important question that Nicodemus asked; How can these things be? John 3:8. How can I be born again of the Spirit. How can I be saved? "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up" (John 3:14)......that we might "look and live."  Why a brass serpent? The brass serpent represented Jesus being uplifted on the cross because He was made sin for us. The serpent represented sin that was placed on Jesus. When the Israelite brought his lamb for a sin offering, he placed his hands on the head of the lamb, confessed his sins and then killed the lamb. He  was instructed that the lamb represented Jesus, the confession of sins on the head of the lamb was representing us giving our sins to Jesus. Thus when all of the sins were accepted by Christ, He had to pay the price of all of our sins, the sins of the whole world. Yes, He was made sin and it crushed His heart, then He rested in peace. It was what He suffered before He died that allows us the opportunity to be transformed as we read in this verse:

   2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.             

Amen!  When baptized it is a symbol of this transformation wherein we are new creatures revealing to a world the power of grace to transform sinners into saints. Grace is revealed by our Savior being made sin for us and then paying the price as He hung on the cross. It is by those stripes that belonged to us that we are healed.

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Amen and thank you Richard

   Galatians 3:27

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
           

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(N)  Acts 4:12

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.  [Jesus Christ]             

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  Galatians 3:29

And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.             

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   (N)  Acts 22:16

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.             

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  Galatians 4:7

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.             

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  (N)  Acts 26:18

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. [Jesus]             

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Galatians 5:6

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.  🥰               

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  (N) Romans 4:24-25
But for us also, to whom it [righteousness] shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; [25] Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.               

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  Galatians 6:9

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.                

[Richard Myers]

Galatians 5:6

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.  🥰               

Amen dear sister!  It is that love for  us while were yet sinners that broke our hard hearts and made us real Christians. We love Him with the whole heart because we saw that He first loved us!!

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Yes Richard, thank you for your response.

   (N)  Romans 5:17

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.           

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Ephesians 1:4

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:               

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   (N)  Romans 5:18

Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.               

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  Ephesians 1:5

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,               

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  (N)  Romans 5:20

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:             

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  Ephesians 1:6

To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.             

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   (N) Romans 5:21

That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.