Live to Him
‘I come that they might have life.’ 
John 10:10
God formed man from the dust and breathed into his nostrils His ‘breath of life.’ 
Genesis 2:7
Awakened by the very breath of God, into a stunningly beautiful creation of peace, beauty, glory, and wonder. 
Barefoot and naked except for the warm light of God’s love that pulsed inside and around them with every beat of their heart.
God created man in His own image.
Genesis 1:27
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And God blessed them saying, Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and rule over everything.
I have given you every plant and tree with seeds for food. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, don’t eat from it or ‘dying, you will die.’ 
Genesis 2:17
You will break your union with God: He alone is life. And your body will begin decay.
With one bite of the only fruit forbidden,
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the golden splendor of the glory of God in and around them alarmingly vanished. ‘I knew I was naked, so I hid myself.’
Think of the heartbreak of God: The ones created in His very image, and breathing His very breath, turned from Him to His enemy.
All the souls He planned to enjoy His stunningly wonderful creation were now doomed to suffer and die, ‘forever separated from the Lord and His glorious power.’
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Their union with God was broken by believing a lie. And ‘As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.’ Proverbs 23:7 
So, the way back is by believing the truth.
God doesn’t see as man sees. Man looks on the outside, but God looks at the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7
A love so deep it couldn’t let go, a promise unfathomable.
The Lord took an innocent little lamb and 
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slaughtered it before their eyes to make them ‘coats of skin to cover their nakedness.’
Genesis 3:21
Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.’ John 1:29
(Archeologists uncovered many lambs bones at the sites of ancient civilizations.)
Only the blood of an infinite, eternal being could cover all the sins of all the universe for all time and eternity.
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An astonishing promise that the Maker of all would become one of them and die in their place to right the wrong they did to God.
Infinite justice would be served, as all the punishment for every single wrong thought and deed in all the universe past, present, and future would fall on His infinitely holy, infinitely precious Son.
Man, angels, and animals are included in this: Having made peace through the blood
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of His cross, to reconcile all things to Himself in earth and in heaven. 
Colossians 1:20 
He wants you with Him so much that He considered it worth it.
Jesus lived a perfect life for you in your place. 
When death was defeated 
God raised Him up. 
It was impossible for an infinite, eternal One to be held by it. Acts 2:24 
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The infinite, eternal Almighty can be held by nothing but your love.
At dawn on first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
And there was a great earthquake for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat on it. His face was like lightning,
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his clothing white as snow as he said to the women, ‘He is not here. He is risen.’ Matthew 28:6
The resurrection of Jesus is the most astounding event in human history.
Death conquered! Evil defeated! Jesus said it and did it before the eyes of heaven and the world.
Into the mess of human history 
came the Son of God: The glory of holiness, the purity of heaven.
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Heaven stood aghast. Hell stood aghast, when Jesus stepped into the arena, a baby: God born in human flesh. 
John G. Lake
He lived 33 perfect years without one wrong thought or deed: showing His infinite power over the enemy.
Condemned in our place, crowned with thorns, the flesh whipped from His body, nailed to a cross of wood, naked, hanging between heaven and earth.
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All the wrath of God against every wrong everywhere forever, was poured into the infinitely holy body of Jesus.
Then a sword was thrust 
through His heart:
Showing forever that all His desire is toward you with a love that knows no bounds.
Three days later He was seen alive walking around whole by 
‘over 500 at one time.’ 
1 Corinthians 15:6
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Days later, ‘While they watched, He was taken up to heaven; and a cloud received him out of their sight.’ Acts 1:9
Jesus said to Martha before He raised her brother, Lazarus, from the dead, ‘
I am the resurrection, and the life: 
He that believes in Me, though he were dead, yet he will live.’ 
John 11:25

The night before His death
 Jesus told His disciples, I go to prepare a place for you, 
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I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you will be.  (The eternal throne.) John 14:3
The Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, the dead in Christ will rise first. 
Then we will be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord and will 
always be with the Lord.’
1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17
All who seek Him have joined themselves to the Eternal.
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Where I am you will be
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Our God of 
Heaven
Give thanks to the God of heaven:
 for His faithful love endures forever. Psalm 136:26
Turn from all empty things to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, 
and the sea, and all things in them.’
Acts 14:15
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When the Lord sent Jonah to Nineveh to warn the people that He was about to destroy them for their evil, Jonah got up 
and ran the other way,
 from the Presence of the Lord, 
because the Ninevites were Israel’s 
much hated enemies.
But the Lord sent a great wind into the sea. The ship nearly broken. 
The men prayed to their gods 
and lightened the ship.
But Jonah was inside fast asleep. 
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The crew said, Let’s cast lots 
to see whose fault this is. 
The lot fell on Jonah. They asked him, Who are you? 
Where you are from? 
He said, ‘I am a Hebrew; 
and I fear the God of heaven, 
who made the sea and land.
 Jonah 1:4-8
The men were terrified saying, 
Why did you do this?
He had told them he ran away 
from the Lord. 
They asked, What can we do? 
For the sea was wild. 
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Jonah said, Throw me into the sea 
and it will be calm. 
The men rowed hard 
trying to reach land
but the storm raged. 

They prayed, Lord, don’t let us perish 
for this man's life:
 for you have done what pleased You. 
Then they threw Jonah into the sea, 
and it stopped raging.
The Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish 3 days and nights.
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Jonah prayed, All Your waves rolled over me. The weeds wrapped around my head. I went to the bottoms of the mountains.
I will pay what I vowed. 
Jonah had promised to do God’s will.
The Lord spoke to the fish, 
and it vomited Jonah onto the beach.
When Jonah got to the city 
he called out as he walked 
the 3 days’ journey across the city,
In 40 days Nineveh will be overthrown.
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The people believed God 
and proclaimed a fast. 
The king put on sackcloth, 
and sat in ashes, saying, 
Everyone turn from your evil ways, 
and your violence.
Perhaps God will see and turn 
from His fierce anger, 
and we won’t perish.
God saw that they turned from their evil, 
and He stopped His plan 
to destroy them.
That enraged Jonah.
He prayed, This is why I fled!
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I knew You are gracious and turn from doing harm. Just kill me now!
The Lord said, Is it right for you to be angry? Jonah left and made a booth for shade, to watch happened to the city.
The Lord made a plant grow over Jonah’s head. Jonah was very happy about the plant.
But in the morning God prepared a worm and it struck the plant so that it withered.
At sunrise God prepared a strong east wind.
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The sun beat down on Jonah’s head. He was faint and wished to die.
God asked, Is it right for you to be angry about the plant? 
And he said, Yes! even to death!
The Lord said, You had pity on the plant, that you didn’t grow. 
Shouldn’t I spare Nineveh, that great city, where there are more than 120,000 that can’t tell their right hand from their left 
(little children) and many animals?
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God created each person in Nineveh in His own image and promised to send His own Son to buy them back to Himself, at the greatest price 
ever to be paid for anything.
God shows His great love for us in that while we were still His enemies, Christ died for us. Romans 5:7, 8
In Babylon, after 70 years of captivity the Lord stirred up the spirit of king Cyrus, to send His children back to Israel. 
Cyrus proclaimed, 
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The God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. And charged me to build Him a house at Jerusalem.
Enemies delayed the building of the temple until Darius was king. 
Israel sent a letter asking Darius to search the archives for Cyrus’s decree 
to rebuild Jerusalem. 
The writing was found, and king Darius decreed for all those opposing, 
under threat of execution, 
‘stay far away from there' and pay all their expenses from your taxes there.
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Supply all they need, ‘day by day without fail.’ For them to offer ‘sweet offerings to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.’ Ezra 1, 6:10
God that made the world and all things in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, 
made of one blood all nations 
to dwell on all the face of the earth 
so that they would seek Him, 
though He isn’t far from anyone.
For in him we live, and move, 
and have our being.
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He has appointed a day 
when He will judge the world 
in righteousness 
by that man He ordained; 
and has guaranteed this to all 
by 'raising Him from the dead.’ 
Acts 17:24-3
When a man finds his lost sheep, 
he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing, 
and calls his friends saying, 
Rejoice with me for I have found 
my lost sheep. 
I say to you there is joy in heaven 
over one sinner that turns back to God.’ 
Luke 15:5-7
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What joy in heaven over these ‘120,000 that don’t know their right hand from their left.’ (and their families)
Not just saved from hell, 
but given eternal life, 
to sit with Him in heavenly places 
through ages without end.
Ephesians 2:1-6
Songs and everlasting joy.
 Isaiah 35:10
And all people will be beautiful: 
‘we will be like Him for we will see Him as He is.’ 
1 John 3:2
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The Lord is long suffering, not willing that any perish
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Our Shield of Glory
The Lord gives grace and glory
The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from those that walk uprightly.’ Psalm 84:11
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When Israel camped at mount Sinai, Moses brought the people out ‘to meet God.’ 
Exodus 19:2, 17
Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and 70 elders of Israel went up the mountain and saw God:
Under His feet was a paved work of sapphire stone as clear as heaven. 
Exodus 24:9,10
The glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain.’ 
Exodus 24:17
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The Lord said, You saw what I did to the Egyptians. I carried you 
on eagles' wings to Myself.
 That's always His desire.
When Ezekiel was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens opened, 
and I saw visions of God:
a sapphire throne. And on it a man of fiery amber gemstone flashing forth rainbows. This was the Glory of God.
Ezekiel 1:1, 26-28
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King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold 90 feet tall and 9 feet wide. He stood it in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon, saying, Whoever won’t bow and worship this will be thrown into the burning fiery furnace. 
Daniel 3:6
Three captives from Israel refused saying, ‘Our God is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
Daniel 3:17
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The flames of the fire killed the men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then the king was astonished, and said,
I see four men loose, walking in the fire, unharmed. And the fourth is like 
the Son of God.
 Daniel 3:22-25
The Angel of the Lord camps surrounding those that fear Him and delivers them.
Psalm 34:4-7
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He that dwells in the secret place of 
the Most High 
abides under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalm 91:1
I will be a wall of fire surrounding you and will be the glory in you. Zechariah 2:5
Many want you to follow them, 
but they aren’t your Source or destiny. Jesus said 17 times, Follow Me.
Doesn’t the Maker of the universe and all that is in it, know how 
to say what He means?
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We walk by faith, believing what He says, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7
So put on the whole armor of God, that you will be able to stand against 
the traps of the devil.
Wrap up in God’s truth. Wear the breastplate of His righteousness.
Above all, take His shield of faith that will quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, 
and the sword of the Spirit, 
which is the word of God.
Ephesians 6:11-17
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He is my shield and my refuge. 
You save me from violence. 
And Your gentleness has made me great.
 2 Samuel 22:3,36
You bless the righteous; 
with Your faithful love you surround him 
as a shield. Psalm 5:12
What a promise! The infinite, eternal, all powerful, all beautiful Lord 
of all the universe, 
His love surrounds us as a shield.
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Once, God came to king Abimelech in a dream saying, You are a dead man, for the woman you have taken is a man's wife. (Sarah)
As they talked, the Lord said, 
I withheld you from sinning against Me: I didn’t allow you to touch her. 
Genesis 20:3-6
There isn’t a place where God can’t protect you. ‘I am with you always.’ 
Matthew 28:20
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After defeating 4 raiding kings, Abraham feared retribution. The word of the Lord came to Him in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am your shield.
Can anything get to you if the Almighty Maker of the universe is shielding you
The Lord is my strength and my shield; 
I trust in Him and am helped. 
My heart greatly rejoices.
Psalm 28:7
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The shields of the earth, 
every form of protection, belong to God: He is greatly exalted. 
Psalm 47:9
When we wander away from Him
and trust other things, 
getting into trouble, 
God made the solution simple.
In returning and rest you will be delivered; in quietness and in confidence 
in Him will be your strength.
Isaiah 30:15
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You don't need to fight; stand still and see the deliverance of the Lord. 
2 Chronicles 20:17
I go to prepare a place for you. 
I will come to receive you to Myself; 
that where I am you will be. 
John 14: 2, 3
The Lord will descend from heaven 
with a shout, and we will be caught up 
to meet the Lord in the air: 
and will always be with the Lord. 
1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17
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Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, and firstborn from the dead. 
The Prince of the kings of the earth.
Who loves us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 
and made us kings and priests to God,
 His Father; to Him be glory and dominion through ages without end.' Revelation 1:4,5
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Glory without end
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White as Snow 
Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Isaiah 1:18
Hear, O heavens, and earth: for the Lord says, I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me.’ Isaiah 1:2
You are gods. All of you are children of the Most High.’ 
Psalm 82:6
The greatest honor in the universe, made in the image of the Almighty Creator, Maker of heaven and earth.
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The majesty and splendor of creation is His invitation for all to seek Him and receive His gifts of love.
They have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. Jeremiah 17:3
I will cleanse away what is worthless and restore you as at first (made in the image of God. Genesis 1:27)
Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. John 15:3
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In the last days the mountain of the Lord's house will be established in the top of the mountains and all nations will flow into it.
Many people will say, Come, let’s go up to the house of God, 
He will teach us His ways.
He will judge among the nations and rebuke many people: and they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks and won’t learn war anymore.
Isaiah 2:2-4 
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Enter the rocks, hide in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and the Glory of His majesty.
Mankind will be humbled whose doings are against the Lord, who rebel against ‘seeing His Glory.’ Isaiah 3:8
The Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and earth’s fruit excellent and beautiful.
The Lord will create ‘on every dwelling a cloud by day, and the brightness of fire by night, a defense.’ Isaiah 4:5
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I will be a wall of fire surrounding her 
and Glory in the midst.
Zechariah 2:5
My well Beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: He fenced it, and cleared it, and planted it with the choicest vine.
He built a tower and made a winepress. He watched for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth poison berries.
My people have gone into captivity
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because they have no knowledge (of God). The eyes of the mighty and lofty will be humbled.
But the Lord of hosts will be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy will be sanctified in righteousness.
Isaiah 5:13-6
The One who never did wrong, but made everything beautiful and wonderful for them, is restoring it perfectly, never to be ruined again.
Those that call evil good, and call pain, pleasure, bring on themselves cries of grief.
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The flame consumes the chaff because they despised the word of the Holy One. Isaiah 5:24
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and exalted, and the hem of His robe 
filled the temple.
Seraphim, awesome six-winged angels of light, hovered above saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.’ Isaiah 6:3
Sanctify the Lord to revere only Him.
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And He will be a sanctuary. 
For unto us a child is born, a Son is given. And the government will be on His shoulder: His name will be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, established with justice through eternal ages. Isaiah 9:6, 7
Disasters come so they will set their hearts on the Lord, the Holy One, in truth.
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The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the calf with the young lion, and a little child will lead them. Isaiah 6:6
Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters 
cover the sea. 
The nations will seek Him and His rest will be glorious. Isaiah 11:9, 10
Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy loaded and I will give you rest.
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Listen, learn of Me, for I’m humble and low in heart, and you will find rest. What I require is easy and light. 
Matthew 11:28-30
Bless the Lord, bless His holy name, who forgives all our sins, heals all our diseases, crowns us with His love. And renews our youth like the eagle’s. 
Psalm 103:3-5
Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens. Hebrews 7:26 
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Who by offering Himself, perfected forever those being sanctified.’ 
Hebrews 10:14
That all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they may be one in Us.  John 17:21
Forever.
When Lazarus died, Jesus told Martha, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes in Me, though he were dead, he will live.  John 11:25
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The hour is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and live.
John 5:25
The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trumped of God.
The dead in Christ will rise first. 
Then we will be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and always be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17 
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He will swallow up death in victory and will wipe away tears from all faces. 
Isaiah 25:8
There will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain: for the former things are passed away.
And He that sat on the throne said, I make all things new. 
These words are true and faithful
Revelation 21:4, 5
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All things new
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As He is Holy
My joy is the joy of all of you
As Jesus is, so are we in this world. 
1 John 4:17
The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
Imagine the world with no sin and nothing bad. That’s what God, from His infinite love, made as a gift for all His creation, a universe of peace, beauty, 
and grand wonders everywhere.
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God said, Let us make man 
in our image. Genesis 1:27
There is no greater honor in creation. 
Can anyone make a better creation, a better plan, than the infinite genius, power, and love of Almighty God? 
Being made in God's image 
means having freewill. 
Adam chose against God's will, (pride), and ate the only single fruit forbidden. 
'The woman whom You gave 
to be with me, 
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she gave me of the tree, and I ate.'
From His love, God sent man out of paradise to sweat for his food, 
Genesis 3:12,19
He brought down their heart with labor.
Psalm 107:12 
(so they would turn back to Him who is life, and be saved)
Then the Lord God made coats of skins 
and clothed them.
Genesis 3:21
The death of the innocent lamb 
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showed the great price the Lord was willing to pay to restore communion with man. Without the shedding of blood there is no removal of sin. Hebrews 9:22
Only the blood of an infinitely, eternally pure being could cleanse the entire universe, forever.
Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. John 1:29 
The greatest price ever paid for anything!
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And He placed at the east of the garden of Eden, Cherubim, (awesome four-winged beings of light) and a flaming sword, to keep (guard) the way of the tree of life. They won't eat from the tree of life (Jesus  first in their hearts until cleansed from pride. 
God hasn't left man but won't force 
man back to Him. 
What fellowship (communion) can light have with darkness? 
2 Corinthians 6:14
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Archaeologists record many lamb’s bones at the sites of ancient civilizations.
Twenty times in Leviticus the people who brought a sacrifice to the tabernacle to ‘draw near to God’ were told to place their hand on the head of the offering. This symbolized the transfer of all their bad into the animal and all the good of the sacrifice into them. Making them holy ‘as He is holy.’
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He who took all our bad and offers to replace it with all His infinite glory is the great I am who upholds all things by the word of His power. (Jesus)
Colossians 1:12-27
We give thanks to the Father, who has made us fit to share the inheritance of the saints in light: Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of His dear Son:
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In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins:
Who is the image of the invisible God, 
the firstborn of every creature:
For by Him all things were created that are in heaven, and in earth, visible and invisible, whether they are thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, 
and for Him:
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And He is before all things, 
and by Him all things are held together. Colossians 1:12-27
He restores our fallen natures by inseparably joining them into His own infinitely holy nature: a living, eternal, precious reality. A. Murray
In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And you 
are complete in Him 
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who is the head of all principality and power:
Made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses. 
Colossians 2:13
Jesus, wearied from His journey, sat on Jacob’s well. A woman came to draw water: Jesus said to her, Give me a drink?
She said, You, a Jew, ask me a Samaritan for a drink?
Jesus said, If you knew 
the gift of God,
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and who it is that asks you, you would ask Him, and He would give you 
living water. 
Whoever drinks this water will thirst again: but whoever drinks the water that I give will never thirst; but the water I give will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman said, Sir, give me this water. Jesus said, Go, call your husband. She said, I have no husband. 
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Jesus said, You have had five husbands and the one you have now isn’t yours.
'I will betroth You to Me forever. I will betroth you to Me in righteousness, in justice, and faithful love; 
and You will know the Lord. 
Hosea 2:19, 20
Keep yourselves in the love of God. 
Jude 1:21
For your Maker is your husband. The God of the whole earth.
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Jesus raised His eyes to heaven and said, Father, You have given Me power over all flesh, to give them eternal life, to know You, the only true God.
Holy Father, guard them, sanctify them through Your truth: Your word is truth:  that they all may be one; 
as You, Father, are in Me, 
and I in You 
that they also may be one in Us.
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One in Us