John 3:16 - Sung to Silent Night Christmas Music! GOD'S unspeakable GIFT for ALL in RIGHTEOUSNESS!

For God so loved the world that He GAVE His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not ETERNALLY perish but have ETERNAL LIFE - JOHN 3:16

Making the supposition that Messiah Jesus taught a particular disciple (doubtless Paul in his time of instruction in the Arabian desert) for later publication for the education of Hebrew seekers:

Hebrews 10:5-7 (AV):

Wherefore when he^{Jesus, God Incarnated} cometh^arrived into the world^{at birth}, he saith^{sang His Own Christmas carol},
"Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Then said I^{Jesus, the Only Begotten-by-the-Father-in-human-flesh Son of God,}
"Lo, I come ^{(in the volume of the book it is written of me,)} to do thy will, O God."

Then once again, the response of the Perfect Servant of The Father, to be given on the Cross not of His Own determined Will (which it was), but wholly that of His Father's Will Alone, as written down for the Jews by another disciple, namely Levi:

Matthew 26:39,42 (AV):

And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying,
O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying,
"O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

And this is His Example for us from the moment of one's decision to ask The Father for a new birth in the Spirit, and forever after.

This comprises our only acceptable gift of ourselves, not any work, to The Heavenly Father in acknowledgement for His Gift of His Son to us, begun in a stable, pausing for blood-letting at Golgotha, the Place of The Skull, "Calvary"; entombed nearby; then finally reconstituted, resurrected, and now seated at the Right Hand of God until His Second Coming to reunite His Own Friends with their new bodies, then to make His enemies His footstool.

Thank you for your wise ignorance, Fisherman, my FRiend and Brother.

I'M A R(e)D(ee)M(e)D 1 (="One") Ps. 107:2

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