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Powerful written lessons by Bishop Dr. Guy A. Cox from 2020.

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A Life Of Faith

A life of faith is critical to the human spirit because it re-establishes the questions of absolute concern. Who are and what is ultimately important to us? The word of the Lord asserts that, “The just shall live by his faith” which would allow us to understand that apart from a life of faith, the valuation of what is important to us may be severely compromised.This becomes increasingly detrimental because if our faith is misplaced, it will lead us into living lifestyles of misplaced faith which ultimately results in us living outside of the will of the Lord. This is what makes the word of the Lord true when King Jesus states, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart (life of faith) be also”. Our faith must be placed in Christ alone; for it is Christ only, who issues the apodictic command to love the Lord our God with all of our being and to love our neighbor as ourselves. This apodictic substratum (base of command) creates the model of lifestyle from which the human heart must live and thrive or risk plunging into a deathly spiral. This is what brings the word of the Lord to past when it sets forth, “The wages of sin is death” and “when sin is finished it brings forth death”. The principle of death here issues forth as a separation from the original design. The human heart was not originally designed to live outside of a loving relationship with the Lord. When it does, based upon human freedom and choice, (what the term “humanism” implies) a principle of death issues forth bringing the human heart into a place of (what continental theology would call) “Estrangement”. Upon entering this place, the human heart suffers the deathly experiences of “loneliness” and “separation” which drastically impairs its resolve to choose life. A life of faith in Christ is the absolute initiative in the human heart exiting and remaining free of the deathly place of estrangement. Isaiah 61:1-4 is the crystallization of this revelation and must be embraced by every “Born Again” believer if we are to carry out the “Great Commission” of our King and gather in the harvest! (Another Oil Point from Theology Nation)

– Bishop Dr. Guy A. Cox

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Spiritual Tapestry> Breakdown

If we walk in the pages of scripture, the degeneration we are witnessing in the world today becomes completely discernible! There is increasingly becoming an utter breakdown of the spiritual tapestry amongst mankind that is not only appearing outside of the confines of the church, but also within its very ranks! The substratum of this destruction is dualistic in its nature; it requires only the deathly amalgamation of unbridled humanism (human merit/goodness) and satanism (tempting pride)! This deathly amalgamation leads ultimately to the absence of the Lord’s presence in the human heart (estrangement) and makes for a virtual certainty that death will appear in ways and places that we have not previously considered! One of the ways this can laconically be seen is, if we were to apply the aphoristic question, “Why do good people die young?”! This question is easily answered if we place it before the forensic lens of scripture! The scripture declares that, (All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;) and (All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;)! The issue of the Kingdom of God as it relates to this subject isn’t one of right or wrong (morality), good or bad (ethics), conscience or concupiscence (psychoanalysis), left or right (politics), nor yet agreement or dispute (polemics)! The issue of the Kingdom of God, as it relates to mankind is one of “Holy” or “Unholy”! The scripture is clear in principle that, “the wicked will be cut down in their youth”! We are witnessing sore tribulation in diverse manners and places due to a lack of Holiness throughout mankind! Our sinful nature nullifies our goodness and religious effort before an Absolute and Sovereign King like the God of the bible, thus requiring, that His Holiness be ultimately answered! This answering of God’s Holiness was accomplished in Jesus Christ and Him “alone”! The reception of salvation in Christ “alone” by mankind is our only exit from this crucible of destruction! (Another reflection from Theology Nation)

– Bishop Dr. Guy A. Cox

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