The Ground in which my Thoughts take Root
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What I Know
God is.
God is good/love.
Nothing will stop God.
God’s purpose is good/love.
God’s pleasure is good/love.
God’s presence is good/love.
Evil is the absence (experiential)
or the ignorance
or the forgetting of this.
Sin results from and results in evil.
Evil is “not Live”
Dead, Death.
Evil is temporary, it will cease
eternally.
Faith is the remembering
and the relying upon the
Truth of God’s goodness/love.
results in salvation
results from rebirth, Spirit
birth, baptism
happens by God’s Good
(Holy) Spirit
happens through encountering
Jesus
(God with us)
leads to renewing and
leads to righteousness
The Cross -- where evil meets good and
dies
the forgetting is
removed
we see, remember,
know God as He is
know God is good
know His power
know His love
know His giving to the utmost
convinces us
through His Holy/Good Spirit
of Who and What He is
of who and what we are
of who and what He wants
wills
intends
plans
for us to be.
The shed
blood of Jesus
The broken
body of Jesus
The Risen,
Restored, Returning Body of Jesus
is
our communion, our remembrance
of His love and His power
towards us and in us.
is
the basis of our confidence in Him
our trust in Him
our faith in Him
This is the faith which He works in us and that results
in
righteousness,
in pleasing, blessing, glorifying God,
in the righteousness of Jesus,
in faith
righteousness
which will continue eternally.