Thank you, Mayor, for today's Daily Bread
Christians are to make or teach disciples the teachings of Jesus Christ. Surrounded by the worldly mores of the day and bombarded from the ungodly, the profane, the suppression placed on Christianity, in ever ... greater and greater degrees, and knowing time is short ... ‘we are to be about our Father's business’. Millions die everyday, many, many without knowing Christ Jesus, or hearing his message or the teaching of Moses and the Prophets.
We all have the same problem ... death. ‘The whole world guilty before God’. There is a way to have life eternal with the Father. Through His Son Jesus Christ, who died for our sins, to redeem the lost sheep, to deliver us from our body of sins and to give salvation to those that believe in him, and surrender their life to Him.
Jesus died was buried and on the third day rose from the dead and was seen by his apostles, and others, according to the scriptures before he rose to Heaven. This is the Gospel message. We are to be disciples, and make disciples. Tell them the story of Jesus Christ.
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Colossians 1
1.Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother,
2.To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3.We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4.Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
5.For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
6.Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
7.As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
8.Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
9.For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10.That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11.Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12.Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13.Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14.In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15.Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16.For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17.And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18.And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19.For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20.And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21.And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22.In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23.If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
24.Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
25.Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26.Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27.To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28.Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29.Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
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2 Timothy 4:1-8
1.I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2.Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3.For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4.And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5.But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
6.For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7.I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8.Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
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Amen.
