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[ Created: 2023-05-27 07:38:32  Updated: 2023-05-27 07:46:07 Owner: rl ]
Title: More than enough, pressed down and overflowing    
     
     
     
     
 
    
 
     
     
     
     
 

 

Wherefore, if the Lord so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
The Lord wants to glorify us with His glory just as He did for Christ Jesus.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask him?
Most human parents give to their children what they ask if they can.     Our heavenly Father is not limited on resources and so He will give us whatsoever we ask of Him.     

It is interesting that Mary heard Jesus say something that Matthew did not .      What was that?     That our Heavenly Father will give Himself to those who ask for Him.     It is out of His presence and power in our lives that all good things flow.     

The way our Lord gives us good things is through His Holy Spirit in us.     

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your Heavenly Father give Himself to them that ask him?
The Holy Spirit is the Gift Of Christ.     

To receive Christ is to receive His Holy Spirit.     

The Holy Spirit is so much more loving and giving than the best of parents.     He will give Himself to anyone who asks Him.     

The reality is that many believers do not want to manifest as Sons Of The Holy Spirit.     They are content to just miss hell and enter heaven when they die.     

But without the baptism of the Holy Spirit believers are ineffective as witnessed by the decline of the church and the secularization of society.     

Jesus commanded the disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until they received the power of the Holy Spirit.     Only then were they to go forth preaching the Gospel of the kingdom.     

If the disciples who walked with Jesus needed Spirit Baptism, on what basis do believers think that they do not?

Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and the Lord feeds them: how much more are you better than the fowls?
The Lord really wants us to walk in supernatural provision.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Being justified implies we have already been judged and found innocent through the blood of Jesus.     So, there is no wrath in our future.     

The greatness of Christ's accomplishment for us is almost too good to be true.     It is why our lives are to be filled with His praise and glory for all eternity.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to the Holy Spirit by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
We needed Jesus to die and we needed Him to rise again to life.     In so doing we are justified and regenerated.

But not as the offence, so also is the free gift.     For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of the Holy Spirit, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded unto many.
Only the blood of the Lord Himself could cover the sins of the world.     

Grace is now available to all humanity through Christ Jesus.     

Grace provides for all our needs - not just forgiveness, but also healing and prosperity.

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ).
yes!     We reign in life.     We are more than conquerors.     We are now Sons Of The Holy Spirit.     We have the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead.     We can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens us.

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound.     But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Entrance of the law brought awareness of sin and the associated condemnation.     Christ Jesus made Grace available to us which far exceeds the power of sin.     

The implication is that there is nothing that can separate a person from the Lord who believes on His love as manifested in Christ Jesus.

For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
The law and commandments was a ministry of condemnation.     Christian ministers who emphasize the power of sin are ministering condemnation.     Such ministry does produce results.     

However, the real power of the Gospel is in the fact that Christ Jesus
    has covered all sin by His own blood,
    has imputed His righteousness to us by faith and
    has filled us with His Holy Spirit.     

The power of sin is miniscule compared to the unlimited power of a transformed life.

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.

By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Jesus is our guarantee of the covenant of Grace.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to the Lord, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living Holy Spirit?
Our conscience is our heart, Our hearts were corrupted by the Sin Nature.     Christ Jesus has made us a New Spirit being through the New Birth by the Word and Holy Spirit.     

God does not want us to experience guilt.     guilt undermines faith.     This is why we have to believe that Christ Jesus has taken all sin and all the guilt associated with it and all the punishment for it upon Himself.     

Without complete exoneration we could never walk in Newness Of Life.     

Believe and walk in eternal, abundant life.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
The power that works in us is the Holy Spirit who is the Gift Of Christ.     

Our Lord is only able to do these wonderful things by His Holy Spirit in us while the Holy Spirit power is effective only to the extent that we submit to Him.     

Consider also the following verses: