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At the time God<\/span> made Earth and Heaven, before any grasses or shrubs had sprouted from the ground\u2014God<\/span> hadn’t yet sent rain on Earth, nor was there anyone around to work the ground (the whole Earth was watered by underground springs)\u2014God <\/span>formed Man out of dirt from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life. The Man came alive\u2014a living soul!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Genesis 2:5-7<\/p>\n

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God sent me to announce the year of his grace\u2014
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a celebration of God’s destruction of our enemies\u2014
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and to comfort all who mourn,
\nTo care for the needs of all who mourn in Zion,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0give them bouquets of roses instead of ashes,
\nMessages of joy instead of news of doom,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a praising heart instead of a languid spirit.
\nRename them “Oaks of Righteousness”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0planted by God to display his glory.
\nThey’ll rebuild the old ruins,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0raise a new city out of the wreckage.
\nThey’ll start over on the ruined cities,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0take the rubble left behind and make it new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Isaiah 61<\/p>\n

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But the father wasn’t listening. He was calling to the servants, ‘Quick. Bring a clean set of clothes and dress him. Put the family ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Then get a grain-fed heifer and roast it. We’re going to feast! We’re going to have a wonderful time! My son is here\u2014given up for dead and now alive! Given up for lost and now found!’ And they began to have a wonderful time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Luke 15<\/p>\n

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It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.<\/p>\n

Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ephesians 2<\/p>\n

First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

1 John 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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