Author: Jim

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The Apostle seeks to atone for his first letter. (which was needed)
2 Corinthians 2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
Forgiveness includes love
2 Corinthians 2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
It’s the Love of Christ in us that should show forth.
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
Love given by the Holy Spirit is real.
2 Corinthians 6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
By God’s grace, let your love show forth.
2 Corinthians 8:7-8 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
2 Corinthians 8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
Let love guide in your giving.
2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
The apostle states, no matter, he still loves them.
2 Corinthians 11:11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
Again He states his love.
2 Corinthians 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
The Apostles final word to the Corinthians.
2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

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The Apostle quotes Isaiah 64:4… Yeah, we don’t know what Heaven will be like.
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Corinthians were departing from Paul’s teachings so ….. he writes:
1 Corinthians 4:21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
When a believer love God, it should show.
1 Corinthians 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
Hell awaits for those who don’t believe.
1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
The Apostles final word to the Corinthians.
1 Corinthians 16:24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.

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As the lord Jesus stated in John 3:16, Paul states the LOVE of God is put into the heart of all believers.
Romans 5:5 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.
A restatement of John 3:16:
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
We need to trust God in all things, He loves us.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
We are HIS forever:
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Don’t live defeated lives:
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Is this “Once saved always Saved”?
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It’s impossible for God to hate, but those who don’t believe will be punished!
Romans 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Don’t hide your love, exercise it.
Romans 12:9-10 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Paul concludes concerning the LAW “ therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”
Romans 13:8-10Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
The Apostles Paul’s final words to the Romans should also be ours to each other:
Romans 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

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A place of burial. A study of the word GRAVE as recorded in the New Testament proves to be very interesting.
Reading of Christ’s crucifixion in Matthew 27 many times causes some confusion:
Matthew 27:52-23 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
At 1st reading it looks like the graves opened and people arose on the day.
But reread vs 23; This happened AFTER HIS RESSURECTION
The Lord Jesus speaking to the religious leaders:
Luke 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
The Lord Jesus speaking to Jews who sought to kill him:
John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
The Lord Jesus Raises Lazarus from the dead John 11.
John 11:17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
John 11:31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
John 11:38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
John 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
The people started to believe Him:
John 12:17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
The Apostle Paul quotes Isaiah 5:8
1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
Although Paul does not use the word Grave, He does talk about the dead rising (from their graves) when Christ returns in the air, at the time of the Rapture. Read: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
The Apostle John writes about the two witnesses during the first half of the Tribulation:
Revelation 11:9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

Fear not the Grave! True believers go to be with the Lord when they die
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
OR are Raptured.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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