"AWAKE!...AWAKE, YOU WHO ARE SLEEPING, AND RISE FROM THE DEAD, AND CHRIST WILL GIVE YOU LIGHT...

SEE THAT YOU WALK CAUTIOUSLY, NOT AS FOOLS, BUT WISE...REDEEMING THE TIME, BECAUSE THE DAYS ARE EVIL...BE WISE IN UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE WILL OF THE LORD IS"... Ephesians ********************************************************************

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BELOVED...RECEIVE GOD'S GRACE, THAT YOU MIGHT REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE BY JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD...

YOU CANNOT LIVE IN SIN AND ABOUND UNTO GRACE...IF YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF DEAD WITH CHRIST THROUGH BAPTISM...BURIED WITH HIM...

YOU MUST THEN BE ALIVE UNTO HIM BY THE GLORY OF THE FATHER WHO RAISED HIM UP AND MADE HIM ALIVE!...KNOWING THAT CHRIST BEING RAISED FROM THE DEAD DIES NO MORE...DEATH HAS NO MORE DOMINION OVER HIM...FOR IN THAT HE DIED UNTO SIN...HE DID IT ONCE...AND NOW HE LIVES UNTO GOD...SO YOU TOO MUST RECON YOURSELF DEAD UNTO SIN, BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD BECAUSE OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD...

QUIT LISTENING TO THE DESTROYER OF YOUR SOUL...HE WILL BEAT YOU DOWN WITH CONDEMNATION AND ACCUSATIONS THAT WILL NEVER LET YOU RISE UP OUT OF THE SOIL YOU'VE BEEN PLANTED IN...

IF YOUR VERY HEART CONDEMNS YOU...THE LORD GOD REMAINS FAITHFUL...HE WILL NOT DENY THAT SEED THAT HAS BEEN PLANTED IN YOU...HE WILL NOT DENY HIMSELF...

BUT BE NOT DECEIVED...DO NOT YIELD YOURSELF TO SIN AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, BY THE SUBMITTING OF YOUR WILL TO IT...FOR YOU HAVE BEEN PURCHASED AT GREAT PRICE...AND GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED...

THEREFORE, NOW, YIELD YOURSELF FROM YOUR HEART TO THAT FORM OF DOCTRINE WHICH WAS DELIVERED UNTO YOU...

YOU HAVE BEEN CALLED AND MADE FREE FROM SIN, NOW, BE MADE FULLY ALIVE UNTO HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND BEAR FRUIT OF HIS HOLINESS.(gleaned from Romans 4)