THE IMPORTANCE OF SCRIPTURE:  PART IV

In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight… Ephesians 3.4

In reading Scripture, we gain understanding of God’s grace, it’s power, purpose, and provision.

God’s grace

and the gift that came by the grace

of the one man, Jesus Christ,

overflows to the many!

Those who receive God’s provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one Man, Jesus Christ!

Grace reigns through righteousness to bring eternal life

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The righteous requirement of the Law is fully met in us, who….live according to the Spirit…

in accordance with the Spirit…

with their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him,

graciously give us all things?”\

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? 

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 5.15, 17, 21

8.4-5, 32, 31

It is in the process of read to learn to obey that the grace of the glory of God is revealed to us and then through us.  We see the gloriousness of God, and we are changed by that glory which we see.  This change in us will glorify Christ in the eyes of all who know us.

We, who with unveiled faces, contemplate the Lord’s glory,

are being transformed into His image

with ever-increasing glory,

which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3.18

To behold the glory of God is a transforming experience. 

We behold the glory of God when we set our minds on what the Spirit desires.  Romans 8.5

What the Spirit desires is revealed in Scripture.

The Holy Spirit gave us all Scripture—“given by inspiration of God”—2 Timothy 3.16—and uses it all for our being able to see the glory of God.

God has made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.

2 Corinthians 4.6

This is the amazing promise of God—If we will look for the glory of God in the glory of Christ, we will see the Father in the Son. 

Luke tells us that Jesus came to reveal the glory of the Father (Luke 4.18-19) so we can be like an oak of righteousness for the display of His splendor (Isaiah 61.1-3).

We have the glory of Christ shown to us in the Gospels.

We have the glory of Christ explained to us in the Epistles.

We have the glory of the Father revealed to us in the glory of Christ.

In reading, we see the glory of our God and Savior,

the Lord Jesus Christ.

We are transformed in this experience.