Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

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Special Treat – Joyce C. Lock

February 8, 2008

The Israel No One Believed Was Israel

- The Spirit of Adoption -

They are not all Israel, which are of Israel.

They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.  Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called.  However, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Now to Abraham and (thy seed) his seed were the promises made ... which is Christ.  And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.  For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.  For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.

The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.  For all the promises of God in Christ are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.  Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.  They also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

Construction of the Temple

Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.  For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.  For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.  For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.  And, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.

It is written, That man shall not live

by bread alone, but by every word of God.

Luke 4:4

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And if I with the finger of God cast out devils,

no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

Luke 11:20

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Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God,

and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name

of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new

Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God:

and I will write upon him my new name.

Revelation 3:12

© 2008 by Joyce C. Lock, KJV

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