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Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:27, ESV
God’s commands are based on His nature, and His example is caring for widows and orphans in His holiness. He call us to the same standard helps us to love others.
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
Proverbs 23:24, ESV
God gives commands according to His nature and our good. He makes us righteous when we believe in His only Son, the Wisdom of God who guides us.
And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”
Mark 2:27, ESV
We were created to be the glory of God, and He created a time of rest for us. We ultimately find that rest in Christ, the full glory of God who dwells in those of us who believe.
In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 4:8, ESV
Our sovereign God is the source of all peace, and, when we are found in Christ, we can know that He is in control and watching over us at every moment
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Romans 8:6, ESV
When we are wrapped up in ourselves or the troubles of this world, we are easily made anxious. When we are focused on our sovereign God and His goodness and awesomeness, we can have peace knowing He has overcome the world and death.
“I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God. Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”
Isaiah 43:12-13, ESV
The only thing we have to declare is that there is only the one, true God, who alone offers salvation through His Son. He draws us to Himself by the Holy Spirit, and His calling is forever!
I, I am the Lord,
Isaiah 43:11, ESV
and besides me there is no savior.
There is only one way to eternal life with our Creator, the only God, and that is through God the Son and by the filling of the Holy Spirit. Believe in the One who alone calls us and is worthy of worship, and let us proclaim Him to the world.
“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.”
Isaiah 43:10, ESV
There is only one, true God, and He has redeemed and restored us to right relationship with Him through the Son, and He calls us to declare this truth to the world by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears! All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
Isaiah 43:8-9, ESV
Our God as restored us and redeemed us. Though we have been spiritually blind and deaf, He calls to us through the gospel that we might hear Him and the truth of the cross. We then share this truth with the world.
“I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Isaiah 43:6-7, NIV
Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth — everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
God has restored us to Himself through the Son who died on the cross. Now, by His Holy Spirit and the spreading of the Gospel, He calls us to Himself for eternal life. Believe in the One who has even restored the nation of Israel after 1900 years!
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