Christ had no sin. But God made him become sin. God did this for us so
that in Christ we could become right with God. – 2 Corinthians 5:21
Jesus tells us… I understand you completely and love you unconditionally.
Jesus encourages: Let these facts soak into your soul. Let them warm your heart and soothe away the bumps and bruises this world has given you. Dare to see yourself the way I see you: shining in the light on My righteousness, washed completely clean by My blood.
Jesus explains: I see you as the one I created you to be – the one you will really be when heaven becomes your home.
Jesus reminds us: I have given you the gift of My Spirit, who lives inside you. Be grateful. He is there to guide you, strengthen you, and comfort you. Call on Him whenever you need help or guidance. Little by little, as you cooperate with Him, you grow more into the person I created you to be.
2 Corinthians 5:21; Psalm 34:5;
2 Corinthians 3:18; Galatians 5:25 Study Notes
Footnotes 2 Corinthians 5:21; This is the mystery of the cross: reconciliation is not achieved without voluntary victims who take on themselves the hatred and the sin of humankind. He himself became a curse for us and redeemed us from the curse of the law, so that we could become, through Him, God’s righteousness.
Passage Psalm 34:5; Fix your gaze on Yahweh and your face will grow bright, you will never hang your head in shame.
Footnotes Psalm 34:5; God is near to those who have no other support but Him. In the time of trouble, when the heart is sad, the countenance is sorrowful and a dark cloud apparently seems having come over all things, if one thus looks to God, the burden is removed from the heart and the countenance becomes radiant with hope and joy.
Passage 2 Corinthians 3:18; And all of us, with our unveiled faces like mirrors reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the image that we reflect in brighter and brighter glory; this is the working of the Lord who is the Spirit.
Footnotes 2 Corinthians 3:18; Through God’s Spirit, we know ourselves and act towards God like sons and daughters and free persons. To find the Lord is to receive the Spirit and live in the Spirit. As in a mirror, they receive the glory of the risen Jesus and reflect it on others. Furthermore, by contemplating Christ, the image of the invisible God, they are transformed into the same “image” of Him, through the action of the Holy Spirit.
Passage Galatians 5:25; Since we are living by the Spirit, let our behavior be guided by the Spirit
Footnotes Galatians 5:25; Pettiness, attachment to our privileges, rivalry, envy are sins of the flesh, that is of people alien to the Spirit. What happens in a man without the Spirit no longer applies to the Christian. Of course, this is not due to the will of man, but to the new life according to the Spirit, of which he participates.
If we look for Jesus…we will see His Story!
BILLY GRAHAM HELPED MAKE THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY THE GREATEST PERIOD OF CHRISTIAN EVANGELIZATION SINCE SAINT PAUL SET OUT ON FOOT
BILLY GRAHAM Born Nov 7th 1918 Died February 21st 2018
In 1960 during one of his evangelical journey’s, Graham holds hands with children in a western Nigerian village near Ibadan
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The late Ruth Graham once said that her husband “wanted to please God more than any man I’d ever met.” Hundreds of thousands of others who have been in the presence of Billy Graham or heard him in radio and television broadcasts would agree with her assessment. Graham is possessed of a powerful charisma and a tangible sincerity. It is clear he believes profoundly in the message he conveys. Born into the Presbyterian faith in North Carolina, as a young man Graham was told by Bob Jones Sr., founder of the Christian university that bears his name, “You have a voice that pulls. God can use that voice of yours. He can use it mightily.” Graham began preaching while still in college, began his radio ministry in 1944, and found his calling as an evangelist when hired to be the traveling preacher for Youth for Christ International. In the Autumn of 1949, he had a breakthrough with an eight-week series of revival meetings in Los Angeles.
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It could be said that in the subsequent six decades he became what President George H.W. Bush once called him: America’s pastor. Professor Harold Bloom of Yale University, literary critic and author of The American Religion, among other books, wrote in Time magazine in 2000 that “Graham has ministered to a particular American need: the public testimony of faith. He is the recognized leader of what continues to call itself American evangelical Protestantism, and his life and activities have sustained the self-respect of that vast entity. If there is an indigenous American religion—and I think there is, quite distinct from European Protestantism—then Graham remains its prime emblem.” Graham does so in an era that includes such powerful evangelical figures as Rick Warren and Pat Robertson, and he does so around the globe. Billy Graham helped make the second half of the 20th century the greatest period of Christian evangelization since Saint Paul set out on foot.
Source; Life Magazine 100 People Who Changed The World