Yes, My Lord. It’s me standing in the need of Your consultation and prayers. Why is this so? Because three weeks ago I lost my last male sibling who died professing his loyalty to God alone but not ever acknowledging God’s Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

Where did my brother go, my Lord? I need your wisdom and closure. (Speak, Holy Spirit. My prayer for our session is in the song lyrics below. Please click, hear my plea for direction, and console me.)

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I remember vividly that Monday afternoon on June 27, 1983, (some 40 years ago) while visiting my brother in Michigan (USA). I guess you can say we were having a heated discussion on the subject…’How can a person believe in God but not his Son, Jesus Christ.‘ My brother was more confident in his persuasiveness in our discussion than I was in mine. (He had been apostatized*.) He could talk louder and had a better track record for followers of the ‘God alone’ theory than I had in effectively leading others to become followers of Christianity. Which for me is the only true Gospel.

I recall that our conversation had become so toxic that I fled the living room, ran upstairs, fell on my knees in my bedroom and sobbed uncontrollably.

In due time, I received several revelations from God on this subject and I began to keep a diary of my thoughts. Now, some 40 years later, I would like to share with my blog followers and others, just how God dealt with me through his holy word. The telling of this saga (which will be presented in parts) will no doubt extend through the remaining Fridays in 2023. So stay tuned.

And God said to the Apostle Paul, His prisoner… (Column 1.)

And God said to me, His prisoner…(Column 2.)

1. Therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2. With all lowliness and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love. 3. Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.		Even though you disagree, disagree in love. Don’t allow your thoughts and actions to divide the Spirit. For the Spirit is one and the Spirit is peace. So if you go away “Mad” the Lord was not at all in your conversation.
4. There is one body, and one Spirit even as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.		Even as ye are called in one hope of your calling… Even though we are called, not all answer. But as we are all called, God hopes that we all will answer.

7. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8. Wherefore he said, ‘When he ascended up on high he led a host of captives, and gave gifts unto men’. 9. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10. He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11. And he gave some apostles. and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, Note: All eleven points are excerpts from the Holy scriptures Ephesians 4:1-11 (Written by the Apostle Paul)

But now “grace” is something different. You can’t have grace unless you accept, belief in Christ and along with grace comes a gift. In other words, you receive a two-fold package. Christ is the keeper of all gifts and when He gives freely and we receive it and some of us ask, “What have I to do with this?” “What have I done to receive a gift?” And Christ answered, When I went up on high I lead the Prisoners of the Lord (the Captives) (those persons who believe in the “one faith, one baptism, Lord, etc.) and I freely gave them a gift once we got there. All the gifts Christ gave out were vocations. In other words, the gifts called for interacting with others. Sharing the “One’s” or sharing the “Good News”.

Part 2 will be presented next Friday.

Part 2 will continue to show you how God revealed it is impossible to only believe in him and not his Son, Jesus Christ.

(*) NOTE: apostatized means renounce a religious or political belief or principle.

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