Mark 15:34
And At The Ninth Hour Jesus Cried With A Loud Voice, Saying, Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani? Which Is, Being Interpreted, My God, My God, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?
Philippians 1:3-30,2:1-11
I Thank My God Upon Every Remembrance Of You, Always In Every Prayer Of Mine For You All Making Request With Joy, For Your Fellowship In The Gospel From The First Day Until Now; Being Confident Of This Very Thing, That He Which Hath Begun A Good Work In You Will Perform It Until The Day Of Jesus Christ: Even As It Is Meet For Me To Think This Of You All, Because I Have You In My Heart; Inasmuch As Both In My Bonds, And In The Defence And Confirmation Of The Gospel, Ye All Are Partakers Of My Grace. For God Is My Record, How Greatly I Long After You All In The Bowels Of Jesus Christ. And This I Pray, That Your Love May Abound Yet More And More In Knowledge And In All Judgment; That Ye May Approve Things That Are Excellent; That Ye May Be Sincere And Without Offence Till The Day Of Christ; Being Filled With The Fruits Of Righteousness, Which Are By Jesus Christ, Unto The Glory And Praise Of God. But I Would Ye Should Understand, Brethren, That THE THINGS WHICH HAPPENED UNTO ME HAVE FALLEN OUT RATHER UNTO THE FURTHERANCE OF THE GOSPEL; So That My Bonds In Christ Are Manifest In All The Palace, And In All Other Places; And Many Of The Brethren In The Lord, Waxing Confident By My Bonds, Are Much More Bold To Speak The Word Without Fear. Some Indeed Preach Christ Even Of Envy And Strife; And Some Also Of Good Will: The One Preach Christ Of Contention, Not Sincerely, Supposing To Add Affliction To My Bonds: But The Other Of Love, Knowing That I Am Set For The Defence Of The Gospel. What Then? Notwithstanding, Every Way, WHETHER IN PRETENCE, OR IN TRUTH, CHRIST IS PREACHED; And I Therein Do Rejoice, Yea, And Will Rejoice. For I Know That This Shall Turn To My Salvation Through Your Prayer, And The Supply Of The Spirit Of Jesus Christ, According To My Earnest Expectation And My Hope, That In Nothing I Shall Be Ashamed, But That With All Boldness, As Always, So Now Also Christ Shall Be Magnified In My Body, Whether It Be By Life, Or By Death. For To Me To Live Is Christ, And To Die Is Gain. But If I Live In The Flesh, This Is The Fruit Of My Labour: Yet What I Shall Choose I Wot Not. For I Am In A Strait Betwixt Two, Having A Desire To Depart, And To Be With Christ; Which Is Far Better: Nevertheless To Abide In The Flesh Is More Needful For You. And Having This Confidence, I Know That I Shall Abide And Continue With You All For Your Furtherance And Joy Of Faith; That Your Rejoicing May Be More Abundant In Jesus Christ For Me By My Coming To You Again. Only Let Your Conversation Be As It Becometh The Gospel Of Christ: That Whether I Come And See You, Or Else Be Absent, I May Hear Of Your Affairs, That Ye STAND FAST IN ONE SPIRIT, WITH ONE MIND STRIVING TOGETHER FOR THE FAITH OF THE GOSPEL; AND IN NOTHING TERRIFIED BY YOUR ADVERSARIES: Which Is To Them An Evident Token Of Perdition, But To You Of Salvation, And That Of God. For Unto You It Is Given In The Behalf Of Christ, Not Only To Believe On Him, But Also To Suffer For His Sake; Having The Same Conflict Which Ye Saw In Me, And Now Hear To Be In Me. If There Be Therefore Any Consolation In Christ, If Any Comfort Of Love, If Any Fellowship Of The Spirit, If Any Bowels And Mercies, Fulfil Ye My Joy, That Ye Be Likeminded, Having The Same Love, Being Of One Accord, Of One Mind. Let Nothing Be Done Through Strife Or Vainglory; But In Lowliness Of Mind Let Each Esteem Other Better Than Themselves. Look Not Every Man On His Own Things, But Every Man Also On The Things Of Others. Let This Mind Be In You, Which Was Also In Christ Jesus: Who, Being In The Form Of God, Thought It Not Robbery To Be Equal With God: But Made Himself Of No Reputation, And Took Upon Him The Form Of A Servant, And Was Made In The Likeness Of Men: And Being Found In Fashion As A Man, He Humbled Himself, And Became Obedient Unto Death, Even The Death Of The Cross. Wherefore God Also Hath Highly Exalted Him, And Given Him A Name Which Is Above Every Name: That At The Name Of Jesus Every Knee Should Bow, Of Things In Heaven, And Things In Earth, And Things Under The Earth; And That Every Tongue Should Confess That Jesus Christ Is Lord, To The Glory Of God The Father.
Genesis 50:19-20
And Joseph Said Unto Them, Fear Not: For Am I In The Place Of God? But As For You, YE THOUGHT EVIL AGAINST ME; BUT GOD MEANT IT UNTO GOOD, To Bring To Pass, As It Is This Day, To Save Much People Alive.
Romans 5:1-5
Therefore Being Justified By Faith, We Have Peace With God Through Our Lord Jesus Christ: By Whom Also We Have Access By Faith Into This Grace Wherein We Stand, And Rejoice In Hope Of The Glory Of God. And Not Only So, But We GLORY IN TRIBULATIONS Also: Knowing That Tribulation Worketh Patience; And Patience, Experience; And Experience, Hope: And Hope Maketh Not Ashamed; Because The Love Of God Is Shed Abroad In Our Hearts By The Holy Ghost Which Is Given Unto Us.
Not Everything That Seems Bad Is Punishment From God;
What Looks Like Evil, Or God Forsaking Us, Can Sometimes Be For The Furtherance Of Salvation, For Strengthening Us To Be Able To Share The Gospel Of Jesus Christ. I Would Love To Let This Study Stop Here, But I Would Be Remiss If I Did Not Give The Whole Word Of God.
We Do, However, Need To Know The Difference Between Chastisement Of God And Strengthening Because God Will Punish Us As His Children For Their Disobedience.
Hebrews 12:5-17
And Ye Have Forgotten The Exhortation Which Speaketh Unto You As Unto Children, My Son, Despise Not Thou The Chastening Of The Lord, Nor Faint When Thou Art Rebuked Of Him: For Whom The Lord Loveth He Chasteneth, And Scourgeth Every Son Whom He Receiveth. If Ye Endure Chastening, God Dealeth With You As With Sons; For What Son Is He Whom The Father Chasteneth Not? But If Ye Be Without Chastisement, Whereof All Are Partakers, Then Are Ye Bastards, And Not Sons. Furthermore We Have Had Fathers Of Our Flesh Which Corrected Us, And We Gave Them Reverence: Shall We Not Much Rather Be In Subjection Unto The Father Of Spirits, And Live? For They Verily For A Few Days Chastened Us After Their Own Pleasure; BUT HE FOR OUR PROFIT, THAT WE MIGHT BE PARTAKERS OF HIS HOLINESS. NOW NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS, BUT GRIEVOUS: NEVERTHELESS AFTERWARD IT YIELDETH THE PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO THEM WHICH ARE EXERCISED THEREBY. Wherefore Lift Up The Hands Which Hang Down, And The Feeble Knees; And Make Straight Paths For Your Feet, Lest That Which Is Lame Be Turned Out Of The Way; But Let It Rather Be Healed. Follow Peace With All Men, And Holiness, Without Which No Man Shall See The Lord: Looking Diligently Lest Any Man Fail Of The Grace Of God; Lest Any Root Of Bitterness Springing Up Trouble You, And Thereby Many Be Defiled; Lest There Be Any Fornicator, Or Profane Person, As Esau, Who For One Morsel Of Meat Sold His Birthright. For Ye Know How That Afterward, When He Would Have Inherited The Blessing, He Was Rejected: For He Found No Place Of Repentance, Though He Sought It Carefully With Tears.
Now The Chastisement Of God Is For Our Good Also And Is For Our Profit, That We Might Be Partakers Of His Holiness. Now No Chastening For The Present Seemeth To Be Joyous, But Grievous: Nevertheless Afterward It Yieldeth The Peaceable Fruit Of Righteousness Unto Them Which Are Exercised Thereby.
Philippians 1:2
Grace Be Unto You, And Peace, From God Our Father, And From The Lord Jesus Christ.
Donna K Purifoy
1/27/2024
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