The Holy Bible defines grace as the Sovereign LORD God’s kindness, unmerited favor, forgiveness, goodness, blessings, salvation, and eternal love. The essence of the Holy Trinity (Triune) of God - the Sovereign LORD God, His Son Christ Jesus our Lord, and the Holy Spirit of God - means grace and peace. Grace is a good gift from God. The Holy Bible speaks of the Sovereign LORD God coming and giving His amazing grace, forgiveness, and mercy to Jacob (Israel), Israel’s children in Exodus, the prodigal sons, Apostle Paul, and many others, not because of any righteous act nor ritual but when they were dead in Satan’s darkness and bondage. The Good News (Gospel) is the message of the Sovereign LORD God’s amazing grace and love for all people by sending His Son Christ Jesus to bring salvation (healing) and a new spiritual life through faith in Him and His Son Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior. Those who have experienced the Sovereign LORD God’s amazing grace, salvation, and forgiveness receive the Holy Spirit of God with new hearts, equipping, strengthening, and transforming them to live holy lives and producing good fruits of righteousness and love within their lives and hearts. The Sovereign LORD God empowers believers in Jesus to walk with Him by humble faith from their whole hearts and live blameless lives filled with honesty, decency, and integrity. Christ Jesus declared in His teaching that living a life of mercy, forgiveness, goodness, humility, generosity, faith, and love for one another leads to God’s blessings and grace. Everyone can access the Sovereign LORD God’s abundant grace and mercy through our repentance (turning from Satan) with faith and obedience to Him and His Son, Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior. The Sovereign LORD God gives His abundant grace, favor, and inheritance to those who repent and turn from evildoing and live and walk with Him by faith in truth and goodness with a humble spirit. The New Testament writers encouraged believers of Jesus to continue living in God’s grace with obedience to Him and never abuse God’s grace with Satan’s dark living.

The Holy Bible is filled with miracles, including Israel’s exodus from Egyptian slavery and deliverance at the Red Sea, the miracles of Joshua, David versus Goliath, and the prophets Elijah and Elisha, the miraculous birth and resurrection of Christ Jesus, and the numerous miracles and wonders of Jesus and His true disciples. Miracles are extraordinary and supernatural events declaring the power and divine work of the Sovereign LORD God and His Kingdom into the human affairs of the world. Signs and wonders” are often defined and associated with miracles in the Holy Bible. Also, there are individuals with the divine gift of miracles given by the Holy Spirit of God to help strengthen, edify, and encourage the church of Jesus. Miracles are for God’s glory. However, miracles are NOT magic, but they are connected to the Sovereign LORD God’s providence - the protective care of God (fate, destiny, or divine intervention). The Sovereign LORD God can perform miracles and wonders as He controls and governs all aspects of life in the heavens and earth. The Holy Bible teaches that the Sovereign LORD God makes the rain fall, causes the grass to grow, and holds all things by His word and power. Satan and his lawless workers of darkness also perform miracles, signs, and false wonders for money, pride, and fame to take people away from the loving Sovereign LORD God Almighty and His abundant grace and goodness. Christ Jesus taught that everyone can recognize these lying demons of Satan by their bad fruit and evil deeds of darkness. The Sovereign LORD God and His Son Christ Jesus are greater, mighty, and more powerful than Satan and his evil workers of darkness. Everyone can access the Sovereign LORD God’s miracles of grace through our humble prayers, seeking Him with our wholehearted belief and faith in His goodness and grace found in Christ Jesus our Lord. Nothing is impossible nor too hard for God.

The Holy Bible states that there is ONE true and living God of heaven and earth, and He is the Sovereign LORD God and Holy Father of Christ Jesus our Lord, who is our Mediator and Peacemaker with God. The Sovereign LORD God is King of the Universe, and He is ONE with this Son, Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit of God. There are many names for the Sovereign LORD God in the Holy Bible, including Adonai, El Shaddai (God Almighty), Elohim, and the Holy One. The essence of God’s Name is Yahweh or Jehovah - translated as the LORD, meaning “the I AM WHO I AM” or “I AM the Existing One,” and He is the Father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob filled with unending love, mercy, forgiveness, and justice. The eternal Sovereign LORD God like His Son Christ Jesus is the First and Last - Alpha and Omega. Every one who loves and trusts the Sovereign LORD God is known by Him. The living Sovereign LORD God reigns and rules the world, and we can always trust in Him as our loving provider, shield, and helper. However, an idol is nothing in the world because an idol represents no real god and possesses no power, and we must NEVER worship an idol or any other god. The all-knowing Sovereign LORD God is our good and faithful Heavenly Father, and He and His Son Christ Jesus are our Savior and Creator of the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all living things that live in them - our life. The heavens and earth reveal the Sovereign LORD God’s existence and power as our merciful Redeemer, Savior, and LORD of Heaven’s Armies (Sabaoth). Finally, the Holy Bible states that everyone must love and trust but also fear the all-wise Sovereign LORD God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength as He is the King of the Universe. Let the whole earth seek and worship the Sovereign LORD God and love Him first with our hearts, and also love one another because love and goodness strengthen the church of Christ and the world.

The Gospel message of Jesus is the righteousness and goodness of God that brings everyone salvation and holiness from heaven. Salvation has many different meanings, but biblical salvation means redemption, deliverance, or lifeline from Satan’s evildoing and its consequences. Our salvation and holiness that brings new Kingdom life from heaven come to everyone through our repentance with faith and obedience to the living Sovereign LORD God and His Son, Christ Jesus, as our Lord and Savior. The Sovereign LORD God and His Son Christ Jesus are our Savior. Everyone who repents and turns from Satan’s evildoing, confesses wholehearted faith to the Sovereign LORD God and His Son, Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior, and believes in God’s grace through Christ Jesus’s death and resurrection for their sinfulness will be declared righteous and saved. The Holy Bible declares that everyone is saved and delivered from Satan’s wrath, condemnation, and eternal death by living and walking in continual faithfulness and obedience to the Sovereign LORD God and His Son, Christ Jesus as Lord. Our salvation through repentance with faith and obedience to Christ Jesus includes forgiveness of all our past sinfulness and evildoing, present deliverance from Satan’s dark living and our holiness (sanctification) into a new life from heaven, and future glorification when Christ Jesus returns from heaven in the Glory Cloud of God.

Biblical salvation requires humility with repentance and turning from Satan’s dark and evil living, which leads to depression, despair, and death. Believers of Jesus must no longer follow Satan’s lies, hatred, lawlessness, adultery, and greed but instead produce the fruit of righteousness and goodness in the world for God’s glory. Here is the Good News: the Sovereign LORD God through His Son Christ Jesus sends the Holy Spirit of God as our Helper and Guide to live inside our hearts and minds. The Trinity of God - God the Father, God the Son Jesus, and God the Holy Spirit are all involved in our salvation, justification (righteousness), and holiness (sanctification). As our Helper and Guide, the Holy Spirit empowers and strengthens believers in Jesus to produce good and righteous fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control toward others in the world for God’s glory. In other words, the Holy Spirit of God is living inside the hearts and minds of believers of Jesus, empowering us to live in obedience to the Sovereign LORD God and practice righteousness with holiness so we no longer walk in Satan’s dark and evil living.

Our faith and belief in Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior gives everyone a fresh start and new beginnings with a new heart. As believers in Christ, we have been given a new nature and new birth from heaven by the Holy Spirit of God. With these new beginnings, we become believers in Jesus, Jesus’ disciples, and importantly citizens and family members inside God’s Kingdom.

As Kingdom citizens, Jesus calls believers in Him to walk faithfully and obediently to Him and His Holy Father - the Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth with truth, humility, gentleness, patience, peace, goodness, and importantly love towards one another. Daily, believers of Jesus must turn away and flee from Satan’s dark and sinful living filled with lies, stealing, greed, hatred, witchcraft, sexual sins, anger, filthy talk, crime, and drunkenness, as such dark living removes us from the living Sovereign LORD God’s abundant grace and blessings and brings God’s wrath. Also, these dark and evil deeds were part of our old self before our faith and obedience in Christ Jesus as our Lord. Believers of Jesus must walk in the newness of life with Christ Jesus as Lord with the Holy Spirit as our Helper and Guide so we can live our best life now on earth and for all eternity with joy and peace. Living our best lives means walking and living each day with love and obedience to the Sovereign LORD God and His Son Christ Jesus and love, goodness, patience, kindness, and forgiveness towards one another, even our enemies. Also, living our best lives means being good to our spouses and children, the best workers at our jobs, and good neighbors in our communities. Our Kingdom's deeds of goodness and love shine the light of God for God’s glory and bring God’s grace and blessings into our lives.

Finally, Christ Jesus has given believers in Him spiritual weapons and the armor of God to defeat Satan and his evil attacks so we can live our best life. As believers in Christ Jesus, we have truth, goodness (righteousness), peace, faith, God’s Word, salvation (victory), and prayer we can use daily to defeat Satan’s spiritual and physical attacks so we can live our best life now on earth and for all eternity. These spiritual weapons and the armor of God strengthen believers in Jesus with strength and power by the Holy Spirit of God living inside our hearts and minds through our continual faithfulness and obedience to Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior. Let everyone live their best life with Jesus!

In Christ Jesus, the living Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth blesses everyone with blessings and grace through our repentance of sins with faithfulness and obedience to His Son, Christ Jesus as our Lord and Savior. In Christ means we become united, baptized, and reconciled with Christ Jesus and His Holy Father as One by the Holy Spirit of God. In Christ Jesus, the Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. Through our faithfulness and obedience to Christ Jesus, we are

• Adopted into the Kingdom family of God as Jesus’s co-heirs, Jesus’ fellow brothers and sisters, and Abraham’s seed with Abraham’s blessings.
• Loved by the Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth.
• Saved from Satan’s condemnation, darkness, depression, disease, and death.
• Receive the Holy Spirit of God with an inpouring of God’s love into our hearts and our outpouring of God’s fruits of the Holy Spirit - fruits of righteousness.
• Rebirth and renewal from heaven by God’s Holy Spirit so you are reborn and renewed with a new heart and new life. In other words, you are a new creation!
• Declared holy and sanctified by the washing and cleansing of God’s Holy Spirit. In other words, you are a saint with God’s seal of approval!
• Redeemed and declared righteous and no longer guilty of Satan’s sinfulness.
• Become wise with heavenly wisdom. In other words, you become smarter!
• Forgiven of sins and healed.
• Victorious and made more than conquerors with spiritual weapons of warfare.
• Access to God’s abundant grace and mercy for help during the time of need.
• Spiritual gifts for service in God’s Kingdom to serve Jesus and help others.

All these blessings and gifts in Christ require our repentance by turning from Satan’s lies, dark living, and evildoing and turning by faith with a heart of obedience to the Sovereign LORD God and His Son Christ Jesus. Repentance with faithfulness and obedience to the Sovereign LORD God and His Son Jesus are the keys to a blessed life! Here is the Good News… the Holy Spirit of God is God’s Helper that comes inside our hearts to help and strengthen us to walk faithfully with obedience in Christ. Let everyone come to and live in Christ Jesus by faith and obedience and receive all these heavenly blessings!

Grace and peace to you from God our Holy Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. Romans 1:7

Have a blessed day and blessed week in Jesus!

Christmas Promise

John 1

The story of Christmas is the Sovereign LORD God’s great gift to world of salvation and His great promise

• Story
  • The story of Christmas is the Sovereign LORD God coming into the world in His Son Jesus the Messiah. John 1:14.
• God
  • Jesus is God and the Word of God. John 1:1-2.
• Light and Life
  • He came from heaven to bring us Light and Life of heaven so that we would no longer walk in Satan’s darks and despair. John 1:3-5; John 3:19-21, 36.
• Creator
  • Jesus is the Creator of the world and all creation was created through Him. John 1:3, 10; Colossians 1:16-17.
• Truth and Grace
  • Jesus is filled with the truth and abundant grace. John 1:14, 16-18; John 14:6.
• John the Baptist
  • Jesus’s cousin John the Baptist announced to the world Jesus’s gift of life and light to everyone from His Holy Father who believes and accepts Jesus so they can come into God’s Kingdom and become a member of God’s family. John was a voice sent to announce Jesus’s coming. Matthew 3:3; Luke 1:36; John 1:6-9, 12-13, 23; Galatians 3:26-29.
  • Predicted by the Old Testament prophet Isaiah. Isaiah 40:3-5.
• Holy Spirit
  • Jesus baptists and cleanses with the Holy Spirit of God. Matthew 3:11; John 1:26.
  • Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit of God. John 1:33.

• Lamb of God
  • Jesus is the Old Testament Passover Lamb of God that takes away the sins of all the world. John 1:29, 36; 1 John 2:24.
  • Predicted by the Old Testament prophet Isaiah. Isaiah 53:5.
• Jesus
  • Son of the living God. Matthew 16:16; John 11:27.
  • Great Rabbi - Teacher. John 1:38.
  • Savior. His Name means salvation. Matthew 1:21.
  • Messiah - Christ - Anointed One of God. Matthew 1:1, 16-17; Mark 1:1; John 1:41.
  • Promised from the Old Testament Scriptures. John 1:45; Zechariah 6:12.
  • Jewish - an Israelite filled with all truth. John 1:47.
  • True King of Israel and the World. Matthew 2:2; John 1:49.
• Vine:
  • Jesus is the Vine and Way that connects everyone to His Holy Father - the Sovereign LORD God of heaven and earth. John 1:51; John 14:6; John 15:1-17.
• Prays
  • Jesus prays for us to His Holy Father that we can share His glory and become one with God. John 17:20-26.
• Peace:
  • Jesus gives us heaven’s peace and joy through His Holy Spirit. Isaiah 9:6-7; John 14:27; John 16:33.