Tuesday, June 2, 2020

People who have no foundation






















People who have no foundation in the God of the Bible are like a tree with shallow roots receiving no nutrients.  Their lives go on in fruitless pursuits which they truly believe are good, but in actuality their roots hang with no supports, no nutrients.

As for the people who have the LORD God of the Bible as their foundation, they are connected, sustained, nourished, protected, dearly loved, saved by the Almighty. 

Ephesians 2
 "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 
in which you formerly walked according to the course of this 
world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the
spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, 
indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by 
nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love 
with which He loved us, even when we were dead in 
our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ 
(by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with 
Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in 
Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show 
the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward 
us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and 
that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a 
result of works, so that no one may boast. 

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for 
good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we 
would walk in them.

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, 
who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,” 
which is performed in the flesh by human hands— remember 
that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded 
from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the 
covenants of promise, having no hope and without God 
in the world.

But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off 
have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into 
oneand broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, 
by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in 
Himself He might make the two into one new man, 
thus establishing peace, and might reconcile them both 
in one body to God through the cross, by it having put 
to death the enmity.

And He came and preached peace to you who were far 
away, and peace to those who were near; for through 
Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you 
are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s 
household,having been built on the foundation of the 
apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the 
cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted 
together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, 
in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling 
of God in the Spirit."
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