Bowels of Mercies

[Ramon]

Isa 63:15 ¶Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? *
Isa 63:16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. *
Isa 63:17 ¶O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Phil 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Phil 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Phil 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Col 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Col 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Col 3:14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

HAHA! THE LORD IS PERFECT!! HAHA! But I will talk about these bowels of mercies later. PERFECTION HERE PEOPLE!!! HAHA. HALLELUJAH!! WOW!!! I JUST SAW THAT 3:14 SAID BOND OF PERFECTNESS! HAHA!!

May Jesus bless you!!!

 

[VW]

Perfected in love.

I love that passage from John.

Three times did God give the Law, which was the first covenant, to the children of Israel.
Three times, on that night before Jesus was betrayed, did He give His new commandment, which is that we love one another even as He has loved us.
Under the new covenant, because we love each other in the love of God, with the love of God, by the Spirit of God, we become one with each other, in God.
In Jesus Christ, we are perfect, and we are being perfected in His love.

So much more to say on this.
InChrist and in His love,

 

[Meridoc]

Did you know that historically that in that area of the world the Bowels were the seat of emotion. Weird eh

 

[Red33]

Perfected in love.

I love that passage from John.

Three times did God give the Law, which was the first covenant, to the children of Israel.
Three times, on that night before Jesus was betrayed, did He give His new commandment, which is that we love one another even as He has loved us.
Under the new covenant, because we love each other in the love of God, with the love of God, by the Spirit of God, we become one with each other, in God.
In Jesus Christ, we are perfect, and we are being perfected in His love.

So much more to say on this.
InChrist and in His love,

You should practice this new commandment toward the church and body of Christ until the Lord comes. God had practiced this love toward Israel who has been a rebellious people and stopped listening to the voice of God, but God has been very longsuffering toward them. The church is the pearl of great price and is precious in God's sight. When we think of the church we should think and purpose to edify and build it up through mercy and grace and not pronounce judgment upon that which God has purchased and redeemed with His own blood.

To be holy as the Lord is holy we need to be exercised in being gracious and merciful for these speak of God's holiness. The throne is established in mercy (Is 16:5) for it is a throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need (Heb 4:16). If we would practice mercy instead of judgment we would see the fruit of our labour in men seeking the Lord and mercy would rejoice over judgment. Judgment will come but we are to judge nothing before that time (1Cor 4:5).

MERCY, through the blood of the cross, has taken away what we deserve as sinners alienated from the life of God. And GRACE is what God gives to that sinner through faith, who does not deserve it. In both mercy and grace God is plenteous and is always super-abounding toward all men, even the wicked and the unrighteousness. You should read (Psalm 107), it will build you up in the truth. If God is going to turn away unrighteousness from Jacob (Israel) surely He is able to turn it away from both the Jew and the Gentile that make up the church through the sacrifice of His Son.

 

[Ramon]

You should practice this new commandment toward the church and body of Christ until the Lord comes. God had practiced this love toward Israel who has been a rebellious people and stopped listening to the voice of God, but God has been very longsuffering toward them. The church is the pearl of great price and is precious in God's sight. When we think of the church we should think and purpose to edify and build it up through mercy and grace and not pronounce judgment upon that which God has purchased and redeemed with His own blood.

To be holy as the Lord is holy we need to be exercised in being gracious and merciful for these speak of God's holiness. The throne is established in mercy (Is 16:5) for it is a throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need (Heb 4:16). If we would practice mercy instead of judgment we would see the fruit of our labour in men seeking the Lord and mercy would rejoice over judgment. Judgment will come but we are to judge nothing before that time (1Cor 4:5).

MERCY, through the blood of the cross, has taken away what we deserve as sinners alienated from the life of God. And GRACE is what God gives to that sinner through faith, who does not deserve it. In both mercy and grace God is plenteous and is always super-abounding toward all men, even the wicked and the unrighteousness. You should read (Psalm 107), it will build you up in the truth. If God is going to turn away unrighteousness from Jacob (Israel) surely He is able to turn it away from both the Jew and the Gentile that make up the church through the sacrifice of His Son.

The Love of God is this:

Jesus died for the transgressions of the world that anyone who comes to him will have eternal life. But what if someone did not receive that life? The penalty is eternal damnation.
If ANYONE is covered in his blood let that man flee from sin and keep a good conscience with the Lord God, or else the God of that man will come quickly and destroy him.

1Pet 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1Pet 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Pet 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

May Jesus bless you.

 

[Red33]

Rom 14:7- 13

7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8 For whether we live , we live unto the Lord; and whether we die , we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die , we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ both died , and rose , and revived , that he might be Lord both of the dead and living .
10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written , As I live , saith the Lord , every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.