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Looking Unto Jesus

🎵"My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness:
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name."🎵
(Hymn: 'My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less')

Hebrews 12:2 NKJV
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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Luke 24:26
“Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”

Psalm 69:7,19
Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Shame has covered my face.
You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor; My adversaries are all before You.

Philippians. 2:8
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

Hebrews. 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.

Psalm 110:1
The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

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"Looking unto Jesus — αφορωντες. Looking off and on, or from and to; looking off or from the world and all secular concerns to Jesus and all the spiritual and heavenly things connected with him. This is still an allusion to the Grecian games: those who ran were to keep their eyes fixed on the mark of the prize; they must keep the goal in view. The exhortation implies, 1. That they should place all their hope and confidence in Christ, as their sole helper in this race of faith. 2. That they should consider him their leader in this contest and imitate his example."
©Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on Hebrews 12:2".
Source: StudyLight

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Amanda Wait - All To Jesus I Surrender

Take Up Your Cross

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Give Yourself as a Living Sacrifice

John 13:12-17 NKJV‬

¹² So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?  

¹³ You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.  

¹⁴ If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.  

¹⁵ For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.  

¹⁶ Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.  

¹⁷ If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 

This☝️ is another example of taking up our cross when we follow Jesus.👇

‭Matthew 16:24-26 NKJV‬

²⁴ Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.  

²⁵ For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.  

²⁶ For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?  

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The Gift of God

Someone once wrote in a comment to justify her tithing, that it is the least she can do for what Christ did for her.  Holy Spirit immediately brought to my mind that what Christ did for us, is impossible for us to pay Him back and that His gift of salvation is a FREE gift!  God bought us back from slavery to sin, not with silver or gold, definitely not with money, but at a high price, the precious Blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son.  We cannot pay anything for our salvation.  We are saved not by our works, but by the Blood of Christ, a free gift.

How do we obtain that free gift of salvation?  We have to receive it by faith!  That's it!  We are saved by grace through faith.

For thus says the LORD:  "You have sold yourselves for nothing, And you shall be redeemed without money."

•~Isaiah 52:3

For you were bought at a price;  therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

•~I Corinthians 6:20

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

•~Ephesians 1:7

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves;  it is the gift of God,

not of works, lest anyone should boast.

•~Ephesians 2:8-9 

"He who believes in the Son has everlasting life;  and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."

•~John 3:36

Art:  Richard Gunther