Volume 2 Chapter 5 Page 12
Friday December 15, 2006 24 Kislev 5767
"Standing in HIS Grace!"
The Apostle Paul tells believers that are our Hope in Christ will never disappoint us because God has poured into our hearts through Holy Spirit, HIS Love.
I must rejoice then, in both my Hope and my sufferings, for my sufferings produce perseverance.
Perseverance then produces character, which in turn produces Hope.
Believers in Christ have gained access to stand in God's Grace by our Faith in the Savior, who out of HIS great Love for us, became the ultimate sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sin.
My character is produced when I suffer and persevere through those same sufferings which Christ said I must endure for HIS Name, where God says that my righteousness is as filthy rags, it is by my Faith in Christ that I then become HIS righteousness through the transforming Power and Work of Holy Spirit in and upon all aspects of my life.
There are many who feign the Peace, Love and Joy of God, claiming also suffering as a Believer in Christ, but it is by the products of their Faith which Jesus said would distinquish the TRUE Believer from those of the world that surrounds HIS Faithful but they do not do the Work of God, who gave HIS Spirit to bear and be a witness of both Christ and the Heavenly Father.
