God helps us to excel in everything we do for Christ

God helps us to excel in everything we do for Christ

2 Cor 8:7

⁷ But since you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you^[a]—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

Rom 15:14

¹⁴ I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another. 

1 Cor 1:5

⁵ For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge

1 Cor 12:8

⁷ Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. ⁸ To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit

1 Cor 13: 1, 2

If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Cor 14:6

⁶ Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you and speak in tongues, what good will I be to you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or word of instruction?

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  God helps us to excel in everything we do for Christ

2)  We are to be filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another.

3)  For in Christ we have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge

4)  If we have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if we have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, we are nothing.

5)  We have to encourage people with some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or word of instruction

Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit perfecting holiness out of reverence for God

Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit perfecting holiness out of reverence for God

2 Cor 7:1

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

1 The 4:7

⁷ For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. ⁸ Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.

1 Pet 1: 15, 16

¹⁵ But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; ¹⁶ for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”^[a]

We learn the following from the above verses

1)     Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit perfecting holiness out of reverence for God

2)    For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

3)    But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;

We are sons and daughters of our God

We are sons and daughters of our God

2 Cor 6:18

“I will be a Father to you,
    and you will be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”

Ex 4:22

²² Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son, ²³ and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.”

2 Sam 7:14 (Nathan’s word to David on how God will bless his offspring’s)

¹⁴ I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands. ¹⁵ But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

 Isa 43:6

⁶ I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
    and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring my sons from afar
    and my daughters from the ends of the earth—

⁷ everyone who is called by my name,
    whom I created for my glory,
    whom I formed and made.”

Rom 8:14

¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  We are sons and daughters of our God

2)  We are God’s firstborn

3)  We are God’s children and God’s love will never taken away from us

4)   Everyone Who is called by God’s name,  whom God created for His glory and whom God made and formed are God’s sons and daughters

5)   Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God

God will walk among us and we will be His people

God will walk among us and we will be His people

2 Cor 6:16  

For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will live with them
    and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.”

Lev 26:12

¹² I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.¹³ I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

Jer 32:28

²⁶ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ²⁷ “I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me? ²⁸ Therefore this is what the Lord says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.

Eze 37:27

²⁷ My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Rev 21:3

³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)  God will walk among us and we will be His people

2)  I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians

3)  Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:  “I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?

4)  God dwells among us

5)  Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God

God has helped us in the day of salvation

God has helped us in the day of salvation

2 Cor 6:2

As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. ² For he says,

“In the time of my favor I heard you,
    and in the day of salvation I helped you.”

Isa 49:8

⁸ This is what the Lord says:

“In the time of my favor I will answer you,
    and in the day of salvation I will help you;
I will keep you and will make you
    to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land
    and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
⁹ to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’
    and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’

Psalm 69:13

¹³ But I pray to you, Lord,
    in the time of your favor;
in your great love, O God,
    answer me with your sure salvation.
¹⁴ Rescue me from the mire,
    do not let me sink;
deliver me from those who hate me,
    from the deep waters.

Isa 55:6

⁶ Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call on him while he is near.

We learn the following from the above verses

1)    God has helped us in the day of salvation

2)    In the time of God’s favor He will answer us,
    and in the day of salvation He will help us

3)    God will keep us and will make us
    to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land
    and to reassign its desolate inheritances

4)    God answers us with His sure salvation in the time of His favor

5)    We are to seek the Lord while He may be found and
    call on Him while He is near

Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation; the old has gone and the new has come

Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation; the old has gone and the new has come

2 Cor 5:17

¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here!

John 1:13

¹² Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

Rom 6:4

⁴ We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Gal 6:15

¹⁵ Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.

 We learn the following from the above verses

1)    Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation; the old has gone and the new has come

2)    Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God

3)    Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

4)    Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.