GENESIS ROOTS: We are told......

Biblical key doctrines have their roots in Genesis 1-11. This is why these chapters should be defended by Christians---not undermined or ignored by them.

But as the days of Noah were,

so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 24:37

And what was it like in the Days Of Noah?

Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria

The earth also was corrupt before God,and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:11

ISIS in IRAQ

Lybia

Syria

Ukraine

Yemen

Al -Shabab attacks in Kenya

Central African Republic

Moral Corruption of Gay Marriage Sweeping Planet Earth

SDA Issues - SDA Banner

SDA Banner of the church is its name - SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST

Let it fly in the wind of the Holy Spirit for all the world to see.....

The SDA Banner

(Adventist-waiting for His advent/return)

Here is the patience of the saints:

(7th Day / the 4th commandment of the Sabbath is the only one that begins with "REMEMBER")

here are they that keep the commandments of God,

and the faith of Jesus.

Revelation 14:12

Creation Moment 6/23/2014 - Free Will Search

And the LORD God said, Behold,

the man is become as one of us,

to know good and evil:

Genesis 3:22

How long halt ye between two opinions?

 if the LORD be God, follow him:

 but if Baal, then follow him.

 And the people answered him not a word.

1 Kings 18:21

"Free will matters to children.  It had better exist.

Neuroscientists have been trying for years to locate the source of free will in the brain.  They have done this freely of their own will.  But if they ever find free will is caused by the physical brain, or has been determined by our evolutionary past, it will cease to be free.  The late Cornell evolution professor William Provine used to insist that Darwinism implied there is no free will.  Apparently he chose to say this freely by his own choice, but he understood that free will is an illusion except in the Biblical world view that he once trusted as a child.  Needless to say, preachers call on their flock to make life choices, because the Bible assumes that people can hear, understand, and respond.
Here is some food for thought on free will from the secular news.

1. Free Will May Just Be the Brain’s ‘Background Noise,’ Scientists Say (Tia Ghose at Live Science).  Despite the headline, the article does not actually say that free will is brain noise. Instead, UC Davis may think brain background noise may serve as a “carrier” much like a radio frequency on which signal is modulated. Jesse Bergson at UCD explained, “This random firing, or noise, may even be the carrier upon which our consciousness rides, in the same way that radio static is used to carry a radio station.”  This would seem to allow a soul to control the signal being conveyed.
2. ‘Nudging’ people towards changing behaviour: what works and why (not)? (Ben Newell in The Conversation). Drawing on the “Nudge” theory of Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaller on how to influence society gradually, Newell points out that nudging doesn’t always work, because people can learn to tune it out.  Regardless of what one thinks about the concept, it’s built on the concept of influencing people’s choices, assuming they can choose.  It also presupposes that the nudgers are making choices on what to nudge.
3. Political Lies, White Lies and Damned Lies (Steve Ellen in The Conversation).  Accompanying his essay on the ubiquity of lies in politics, Ellen posts a picture of the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone.  Obviously, Commandment #9 “Thou shalt not bear false witness” presupposes free will and the choice to do the right thing.  Even thought he states that lying might be necessary in our complex society, Ellen points out, “There’s some research suggesting lying is bad for your health.”  It would seem evolution would not select for low fitness.
4. How Our Brains Store Recent Memories, Cell by Single Cell (UC San Diego press release).  Neuroscientists at UC San Diego are finding more clues to how the brain uses its scratchpad memory.  The hippocampus is involved, but there’s no simple relationship between memorized words and the neurons that become active.  “Intuitively, one might expect to find that any neuron that responds to one item from the list would also respond to the other items from the list, but our results did not look anything like that,” they said.  Since the subjects were applying their minds to the experiment, the results do not bear directly on free will.  Neurons may be
   
   implements the will is using, like tools on a desk.
5. Making science cool won’t win over the denialists (Chris Mooney in New Scientist).  This scientific-consensus-loving author whose hobby is to portray Republicans, conservatives and the religious right as “anti-science” is concerned that his foes are not likely to be swayed by gimmicks.  Regardless of political persuasion, though, Mooney’s whole point hinges on free will.  He likes Cosmos and other efforts to make science look cool, but “Now comes the hard part: show us not just that science is cool and fascinating, but that science denial is destructive or even immoral,” he says.  “Show us that it amounts to succumbing to one of the least flattering aspects of the human psyche: putting self-serving beliefs ahead of facts and ahead of people.”  His sermon would be different without free will.  He might want to genetically modify his opponents instead of influencing them.
6. Context effects produced by question orders reveal quantum nature of human judgments (Wang et al. in PNAS).  Now here are some scientists really out to physicalize free will.  “The findings lend strong support to the idea that human decision making may be based on quantum probability,” they boast, not aware that if that is strictly true, their own decision to do research and write their conclusions were mere quantum events (see self-refuting fallacy).

So goes the recent literature about free will.  It’s physically based, but we choose to believe in it.  Knowing that influences both subtle and overt can “nudge” us, we each feel in control of our decisions in the final analysis." CEH

GENESIS ROOTS: Get Into The ARK

Biblical key doctrines have their roots in Genesis 1-11. This is why these chapters should be defended by Christians---not undermined or ignored by them.

....and Noah only remained alive,

and they that were with him in the ark.

Genesis 7:23

And the temple of God was opened in heaven,

 and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament:

Revelation 11:19

IT ENDS AS IT BEGAN - with an "ARK". The ARK of Noah's day & in the end the "ARK" of God which contained His Holy Law.

Pagan god of Molech mentality still around....

“And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.” Leviticus 18:21
 Abortion – the murder of a living human being – has claimed more lives around the world than Hitler ever dreamed of in his most frenzied nightmare.
This story today should tell you, in no uncertain terms, what the world in general thinks of the value of human

life. The Holocaust stopped for the Jews…but it never stopped.
Telegraph UK: The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste, with some even used to heat hospitals, an investigation has found.
Ten NHS trusts have admitted burning fetal remains alongside other rubbish while two others used the bodies in ‘waste-to-energy’ plants which generate power for heat.

Last night the Department of Health issued an instant ban on the practice which health minister Dr Dan Poulter branded ‘totally unacceptable.’

At least 15,500 fetal remains were incinerated by 27 NHS trusts over the last two years alone, Channel 4’s Dispatches discovered." BIN

Pretend I'm a Tree & Save Me

IN the NEWS - Presbyterian leadership rebels against God (How else do U phrase what they did?)

"The top legislative body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted by large margins Thursday

What has happened to the once great church
founded by John Knox?

to recognize same-sex marriage as Christian in the church constitution, adding language that marriage can be the union of "two people" instead of only "a man and a woman." CBS
Apparently it's been awhile since the Presbyterian leadership has read Scripture
...for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Romans 1:26,27

SDA Issues - 1st black SDA politician elected

With all this talk of SDA Ben Carson possibly running for President, who was the first black SDA elected to a political office?

William J. Hardy (1823-1888)

"The Hardy family converted to Seventh-day Adventism (not officially incorporated at the time) in 1857-possibly the first blacks to do so-and pioneered Adventism in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area. In 1872 Hardy was elected supervisor of Gaines Township, Michigan, becoming the first black elected to office in the state of Michigan and the first Adventist politician." blacksdahistory.org

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom:

Psalm 111:10

IN the NEWS - Flurry of Faith Politics for 2016 this past week

 ....and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

2 Corinthians 3:17

You decide for yourself if any of these men are sincere or not. Some may be-others may not be.
Also, this poking-in-the-eye of Christians by the secular left during the Obama years, and using the powers of government to hurt Christians (such as fines in San Antonio for disagreeing with gay marriage publicly, the suing by state att. gens. in NM, OR, WA & CO of mom & pop businesses over not participating in gay wedding, the threat of JAIL TIME in CO over this subject, purging Christians in the military, the IRS targeting Christian groups in 2012 opposed to Obama even asking what they "pray" about, etc.) is what is fueling a lot of this push back.


Chris Christie

"New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday declared his opposition to abortion, telling religious conservatives that "every life is a gift from God that's precious and must be protected."
"I believe if you're pro-life, as I am, you need to be pro-life for the whole life," Christie said at a conference of the Faith and Freedom Coalition,..." FOX




Rand Paul
"Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) addressed a chorus of conservatives and evangelicals at the Faith and Freedom

Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference Friday, proclaiming that “America is in a full-blown spiritual crisis” and touting the importance of faith in public life.
“I think that too often our culture seeks to separate faith and freedom,” Paul said. “Freedom needs virtue and virtue needs freedom.”
Later on in the speech he again addressed this theme, noting that voters should reject any politician who tells them that faith cannot be a part of public life." TheBlaze



Ben Carson (SDA)

"When asked how Christians can “show God’s love to the gay community without compromising God’s word,” Carson, an outspoken Christian, told Charisma News that he believes consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want, but that the definition of marriage shouldn’t change.

Carson went on to note that, in the Bible, God compares marriage to the relationship that the Almighty has with the church, arguing that the definition of matrimony is extremely important and shouldn’t be amended so lightly." TheBlaze



Ted Cruz
"Sen. Ted Cruz chastised the Obama administration Thursday for attacking religious liberties and for failing to help free an American imprisoned in Iran because of his Christian faith.
“At no time in our nation’s history have we seen threats to religious liberty, and every one of the Bill of Rights, more dire than they are right now,” he told a crowd at the Faith &  Freedom Coalition’s policy conference lunch.
“We have an IRS who is asking citizen groups, ‘Tell me what books you are reading, tell me the content of your prayers.’ Let me tell you something, the American government has no business asking any American that,” Cruz said,...
Cruz also railed against the “intrusions against religious liberty that are reflected in Obamacare,” walking around the stage as he spoke. The Supreme Court is expected to rule next week on a lawsuit by Hobby Lobby stores, whose conservative Christian owners assert that because of their religious beliefs, the company should not have to provide birth control coverage to employees.
Cruz said the administration is also failing to protect American religious freedom abroad and called for the release of an American pastor held in an Iranian prison, and the wife of a New Hampshire resident held in Sudan." DallasNews



Rick Perry (part 1)

"Perry was asked during an appearance in San Francisco last week whether he believes homosexuality is a disorder. He seized the opportunity to liken "the homosexual issue" with the physically debilitating disease of alcoholism.
"Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not," he said, "you have the ability to decide not to do that. I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that. And I look at the homosexual issue the same way."
CBS
Rick Perry (part 2)
“I got asked about an issue, and instead of saying, ‘You know what, we need to be a really respectful and

tolerant country, and get back to talking about, whether you’re gay or straight you need to be having a job, and those are the focuses I want to be involved with,’” he said at a Christian Science Monitor event. ”Instead of getting — which I did, I readily admit, I stepped right in it.”  msnbc
P.S. - Rick-you were right in part 1

Creation Moment 6/22/2014 - The UK government SAID

"Atheists and secularists are rejoicing in the United Kingdom after newly refined government regulations have officially banned the teaching of creationism as a scientifically valid theory in any school that receives public funding.

Under new parameters, academies and free schools (like charter schools in the U.S.) are under strict orders to teach evolutionary theory. They also must avoid touting creationism as an alternative ideal.
The regulations define creationism as, “Any doctrine or theory which holds that natural biological processes cannot account for the history, diversity, and complexity of life on earth and therefore rejects the scientific theory of evolution,” according to UPI.
As part of the justification, the government said that mainstream churches and scientific consensus agree that creationist theories don’t hold theoretical weight; the Church of England, for example, has relaxed its stance on the matter.
The secretary of state acknowledges that clauses 2.43 and 2.44 of the Funding Agreement, and clauses 23E and 23G above do not prevent discussion of beliefs about the origins of the Earth and living things, such as creationism, in Religious Education, as long as it is not presented as a valid alternative to established scientific theory.” TheBlaze
1) I thought prime minister Cameron recently declared Britian to be a "Christian" nation? Hmmm... U will know Cameron by his fruits--- hostility towards creation & his pushing through gay marriage in Britain.
2) The "government" decides what churches dictate "theoretical weight"?
3) In "religion" classes you can present creation as long as its not presented as a valid alternative to evolutionary theory? Any other dictates to a "religion" class?
4) WHY is this really happening? - Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: Romans 8:7

IN the NEWS - GREEN Global Tithing mandate called for

The price to you as a result of the fear of the GREEN prophecies could cost you $32 per ton. (All that Green tithe would wind up in somebodies pockets---greedy GREEN evangelists).

"Paris - A global carbon price of at least $32 (24 euros) per tonne is needed by 2015 to apply an effective brake on global warming -- almost five times today's European market rate, a study said Monday.
Co-authored by British economist Nicholas Stern, an authority on the costs of climate change, the report reviewed a widely-used model for assessing risk and found it led to a "gross underassessment" of danger.

This beefs up the case for strong cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, helped by a carbon price "in the range of $32-103 per tonne of CO2 (tCO2) in 2015", said the study carried by The Economic Journal.

Such a price should limit the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to 425-500 particles per million, the level required to contain global warming to 1.5-2.0 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), said the report.

The study was co-authored by Stern's colleague, Simon Dietz, at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have also this year called for the introduction of a universal price on carbon -- the most common greenhouse gas blamed for climate change." Yahoo

-------------------SIDE NOTE-------------------

It was the IMF & World Bank that encouraged the idea that Greece go to a 6 day work week as part of their austerity measures (which Greece has so far said no to). I ask a simple question: If they ever enforce a global austerity package which includes a 6 day work week---which day will they set aside for most people (government & private sector) to be off? Sunday? As an attempt to reduce our so-called carbon footprint, one can see how spiritual "Egypt" could co-operate with spiritual "Babylon" in setting aside a false day of rest. 

And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels,

Go your ways,

and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

Revelation 16:1

These " vials" are poured out on the very earth man worships. And there is NO amount of mandated tithing (carbon tax) by the GREEN Religion that will stop it.....

GENESIS ROOTS: Only A Remnant Saved

Biblical key doctrines have their roots in Genesis 1-11. This is why these chapters should be defended by Christians---not undermined or ignored by them.

And Noah went in,
and his sons,and his wife,
and his sons' wives with him,

into the ark, 
because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:7

Like in the days of Noah, when only a remnant were saved, so too in the end will only a remnant on earth be saved. It Ends As It Began

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Romans 11:5

And the dragon was wroth with the woman,

and went to make war with the remnant of her seed,

which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:17
rem·nant
a usually small part, member, or trace remaining

Philippians: Stand fast

PHILIPPIANS: Stand fast

(in Unity, Humility, Justification & the Peace of God)

Therefore,

my brethren dearly beloved and longed for,

my joy and crown,

so stand fast in the Lord,

my dearly beloved.

Philippians4:1

PHILIPPIANS---written by Paul from Prison

Chapter 1

(Stand fast in Unity)

UNITY

....that ye stand fast in one spirit,

with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

And in nothing terrified by your adversaries:

vs. 27,28

Paul's shares his own internal dilemma

(But demonstrates Peace of Mind over the matter)

For I am in a strait betwixt two,

having a desire to depart,

and to be with Christ;

which is far better:

Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

But I would ye should understand,

brethren,

 that the things which happened unto me

have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

vs. 23,24,12

Chapter 2

(Stand fast in humility)

Humility towards each other

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory;

 but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Look not every man on his own things,

 but every man also on the things of others.

vs. 3,4

The humility of Christ

Let this mind be in you,

which was also in Christ Jesus:

Who, being in the form of God,

thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

But made himself of no reputation,

and took upon him the form of a servant,

and was made in the likeness of men:

And being found in fashion as a man,

he humbled himself,

and became obedient unto death,

even the death of the cross.

vs. 5-8

Chapter 3

(Stand fast in Justification through Christ)

Self-Justification then

Circumcised the eighth day,

of the stock of Israel,

of the tribe of Benjamin,

an Hebrew of the Hebrews;

as touching the law, a Pharisee;

Concerning zeal,

persecuting the church;

touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

vs. 5,6

Justification through Christ now

(Paul's Peace of Mind)

And be found in him,

not having mine own righteousness,

which is of the law,

but that which is through the faith of Christ,

the righteousness which is of God by faith:

vs. 9

Chapter 4

(Stand fast in the Peace of God)

Contentment of the Peace of God

....for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

vs. 11

The God of Peace

Those things,

which ye have both

learned,

and received,

and heard,

and seen in me,

do:

and the God of peace shall be with you.

vs. 9

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And the peace of God,

which passeth all understanding,

shall keep your hearts and minds

through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:7

IN the NEWS -GREEN High Priest lists his hopes

The High Priest of the GREEN Religion -AL Gore- lists his hopes......

"Exxonmobil, Shell and many other holders of carbon-intensive assets have argued, in essence,
that they simply do not believe that elected national leaders around the world will ever reach an agreement to put a price on carbon pollution.
But a prospective global treaty (however likely or unlikely you think that might be) is only one of several routes to overturning the fossil-fuel economy.

In the struggle to solve the climate crisis, a powerful, largely unnoticed shift is taking place. The forward journey for human civilization will be difficult and dangerous, but it is now clear that we will ultimately prevail. The only question is how quickly we can accelerate and complete the transition to a low-carbon civilization.

Five years earlier, denialists accused me of demagogic exaggeration in an animated scene in my documentary An Inconvenient Truth that showed the waters of the Atlantic Ocean flooding into the 9/11 Ground Zero Memorial site. But in Sandy's wake, the Atlantic did in fact flood Ground Zero – many years before scientists had expected that to occur.

Syria is one of the countries that has been in the bull's-eye of climate change. From 2006 to 2010, a historic drought destroyed 60 percent of the country's farms and 80 percent of its livestock – driving a million refugees from rural agricultural areas into cities already crowded with the million refugees who had taken shelter there from the Iraq War. As early as 2008, U.S. State Department cables quoted Syrian government officials warning that the social and economic impacts of the drought are "beyond our capacity as a country to deal with." Though the hellish and ongoing civil war in Syria has multiple causes – including the perfidy of the Assad government and the brutality on all sides – their climate-related drought may have been the biggest underlying trigger for the horror.

We need to establish "green banks" that provide access to capital investment necessary to develop renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and forestry, an electrified transportation fleet, the retrofitting of buildings to reduce wasteful energy consumption, and the full integration of sustainability in the design and architecture of cities and towns. While the burning of fossil fuels is the largest cause of the climate crisis, deforestation and "factory farming" also play an important role.

The American poet Wallace Stevens once wrote, "After the final 'no' there comes a 'yes'/And on that 'yes' the future world depends." ......before the quickening global recognition of gay and lesbian equality, ........ Though a great many obstacles remain in the path of this essential agreement, I am among the growing number of people who are allowing themselves to become more optimistic than ever that a bold and comprehensive pact may well emerge from the Paris negotiations late next year, which many regard as the last chance to avoid civilizational catastrophe while there is still time." bits 'n pieces from a RollingStone article by AlGore


Response to this non-sense....
1) A Global Treaty? Could spiritual "Egypt" be preparing to join with spiritual "Babylon" for setting aside a sacred day. "Babylon" to appease an angry "Father God" & "Egypt' to appease an angry "mother earth"? Or at least laying the groundwork?
2) Sorry Al, Sandy did NOT fulfill your prophecy about ground zero....just saying.....
3) The Syrian civil war is a multi-party war between various sides for power. Mostly rooted in the religion of Islam. There were record droughts recently in Panama, Botswana, Mexico & Texas. But no war erupted.
4) "Green Banks"? Meddling in who can buy or sell are we?
5) Paris talks are NOT the last chance for civilization Al....sorry dude....

...who exchanged the truth of God for the lie,

 and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator,

Romans 1:25

Creation Moment 6/21/2014 - Big Bang team was WRONG due to "Dust Up"

"American astrophysicists who announced just months ago what they deemed a breakthrough in confirming how the universe was born now admit they may have got it wrong.

The team said it had identified gravitational waves that apparently rippled through space right after the Big Bang.

If proven to be correctly identified, these waves -- predicted in Albert Einstein's theory of relativity -- would confirm the rapid and violent growth spurt of the universe in the first fraction of a second marking its existence, 13.8 billion years ago.

The detection was made with the help of a telescope called BICEP2, stationed at the South Pole.
In a summary, the team said their models "are not sufficiently constrained by external public data to exclude the possibility of dust emission bright enough to explain the entire excess signal," as stated by other scientists who questioned their conclusion." Yahoo

The foolishness of man perverteth his way:

Proverbs 19:3

GENESIS ROOTS: Tree of Life

Biblical key doctrines have their roots in Genesis 1-11. This is why these chapters should be defended by Christians---not undermined or ignored by them.

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Genesis 3:22

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

Revelation 22:14

With access to a TREE OF LIFE - IT ENDS AS IT BEGAN

The Ephesians Breakdown: CHRIST

The Book of Ephesians
And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted,
forgiving one another,

even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Ephesians 4:32

Chapter 1

(He is the Unifying Factor)

Having made known unto us the mystery of his will,

vs. 9

    ------Which is------

In whom we have

1) redemption through his blood,

2) the forgiveness of sins,

according to the riches of his grace;

vs. 7

All united in & through & by CHRIST

That in the dispensation of the fulness of times

he might gather together in one all things in Christ,

both which are in heaven,

and which are on earth;

even in him:

vs. 10

Chapter 2

(Before & After HIS Grace)

....Before HIS Grace....

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, ...

Among whom also we all had our conversation

in times past in the lusts of our flesh,

fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind;

vs. 2,3

....After HIS Grace....

Even when we were dead in sins,

hath quickened us together with Christ,

(by grace ye are saved;)

vs. 5

UNITED around the Promised Messiah (Christ)

Both true believing Jews & gentiles brought together

to form this new Church

.......Before Christ.......

That at that time ye were without Christ,

being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,

and strangers from the covenants of promise,

having no hope,

and without God in the world:

vs. 12

.......After Christ.......

But now in Christ Jesus

ye who sometimes were far off

are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

vs. 13

The BREAKDOWN

 ...and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

vs. 14

Chapter 3

(The Love of God)

Paul humbly demonstrates the Love of God

as in the Law (for God & his neighbor--for that is what the Law hangs on)

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you,

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

vs. 13-15

Understanding the measurement of Love

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;

that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

May be able to comprehend with all saints

what is the breadth,

and length,

and depth,

and height;

And to know the love of Christ,

which passeth knowledge,

that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

vs. 17-19

Chapter 4

(One Image--HIS)

....One....
One Lord,
one faith,
one baptism,
vs. 5

He ascended to heaven (as many of us will one day at the resurrection)

When he ascended up on high,

he led captivity captive,

vs. 8

But first He descended into the grave (as many of us will one day)

 what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

vs. 9

SANCTIFICATION (Being modeled in the image of God)

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

And that ye put on the new man,

which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

vs. 23,24

Chapter 5

(God's Laundromat-Wrinkle Free)

That he might present it to himself a glorious church,

not having spot, or wrinkle,

or any such thing;

but that it should be holy and without blemish.

vs. 27

How to be WRINKLE free

And walk in love,

as Christ also hath loved us,

and hath given himself for us an offering

and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,

but rather reprove them.

vs. 2,11

Chapter 6

(The Armor of God)

Put on the whole armour of God,

that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth,

and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Above all, taking the shield of faith,

wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

And take the helmet of salvation,

and the sword of the Spirit, 

which is the word of God:

vs. 11,14-17

Know your ENEMY

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,

but against principalities, against powers,

against the rulers of the darkness of this world,

against spiritual wickedness in high places.

vs. 12

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That in the ages to come
he might shew the
exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:7