<html><head></head><body><div><div><div><div><br></div>Romans 1;8<div><br></div><div><b>8. &nbsp;First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.</b></div><div><br></div><div>The Phrase, <i>“through Jesus Christ” </i>is no empty, technical, theological&nbsp;formality. &nbsp;It is the meta-physical reality of all who are baptized <u>into</u>&nbsp;Christ. &nbsp;We now live in and through Christ Jesus, who is with His church, each one of us personally. &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The divine union of true&nbsp;God and true&nbsp;man united&nbsp;in the Person of&nbsp;Jesus Christ,&nbsp;is not limited to Jesus only.</div><div>But now, our Lord Jesus is also within His Church of all true Believers, each one of us, personally. &nbsp;He dwells in us, by the Holy Spirit, true God and man now made One. &nbsp;We the Church, are His Body, He is our Head.</div><div><br></div><div>When Paul says, <i>“I thank my God through Jesus Christ” </i>he literally means it. &nbsp;All we do now, we do in divine communion with our Lord. &nbsp;And, it is because of Jesus Christ that all our doings and life are acceptable to the Father. &nbsp;If we were not in Christ, nothing we ever do would be pleasing to the Father.</div><div><br></div><div>Furthermore, the joy Paul is expressing to the Roman Believers&nbsp;saying, <i>“because&nbsp;your faith is proclaimed in all the world” &nbsp;</i>is not Paul’s joy coming out of his own person, but it is Christ’s own joy, filling Paul fully. &nbsp;As Jesus said, <i>“These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” &nbsp;</i>(John 15;11). This joy of the Lord is even seen by God’s holy angels, <i>“Just so, I tell you there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” &nbsp;</i>(Luke 15;10)</div><div><br>The great driving desire of God is that, <i>“all men be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth”</i></div><div>(note: Jesus <u>is</u>&nbsp;the Truth). &nbsp;Therefore, when the faith of the Roman Church, (the very heart of the whole empire, the ‘center’ of the Gentile world so to speak), “<i>is being reported everywhere”</i>, Christ our Lord Himself rejoices, and in Him so does Paul, and so do we&nbsp;the whole Body of Christ. &nbsp;His joy is our joy, for we are one with a Jesus and with each other.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Please meditate on Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer, John 17, especially&nbsp;consider verses 11-23.</div><div><br></div><div>Prayer: &nbsp;Merciful Father, increase our understanding of what it means to be ‘<i>in Christ’ &nbsp;</i>(by the Name you have given us, the Name we are baptized into). &nbsp;Bless us Father with wisdom to abide in Your Word of Life.&nbsp;In Jesus we pray, Amen.</div><div><br></div><div>Love,&nbsp;</div><div>Dad/Baba/Eric</div><div>Grandpa Pickle Pastor</div><div>“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word. &nbsp;God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”</div><div><br><div><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&amp;c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&amp;af_sub1=Acquisition&amp;af_sub2=Global_YMktg&amp;af_sub3=&amp;af_sub4=100000604&amp;af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>


Romans 1;8
8.  First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
The Phrase, “through Jesus Christ” is no empty, technical, theological formality.  It is the meta-physical reality of all who are baptized into Christ.  We now live in and through Christ Jesus, who is with His church, each one of us personally.  
The divine union of true God and true man united in the Person of Jesus Christ, is not limited to Jesus only.But now, our Lord Jesus is also within His Church of all true Believers, each one of us, personally.  He dwells in us, by the Holy Spirit, true God and man now made One.  We the Church, are His Body, He is our Head.
When Paul says, “I thank my God through Jesus Christ” he literally means it.  All we do now, we do in divine communion with our Lord.  And, it is because of Jesus Christ that all our doings and life are acceptable to the Father.  If we were not in Christ, nothing we ever do would be pleasing to the Father.
Furthermore, the joy Paul is expressing to the Roman Believers saying, “because your faith is proclaimed in all the world”  is not Paul’s joy coming out of his own person, but it is Christ’s own joy, filling Paul fully.  As Jesus said, “These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.”  (John 15;11). This joy of the Lord is even seen by God’s holy angels, “Just so, I tell you there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”  (Luke 15;10)
The great driving desire of God is that, “all men be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth”(note: Jesus is the Truth).  Therefore, when the faith of the Roman Church, (the very heart of the whole empire, the ‘center’ of the Gentile world so to speak), “is being reported everywhere”, Christ our Lord Himself rejoices, and in Him so does Paul, and so do we the whole Body of Christ.  His joy is our joy, for we are one with a Jesus and with each other.

Please meditate on Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer, John 17, especially consider verses 11-23.
Prayer:  Merciful Father, increase our understanding of what it means to be ‘in Christ’  (by the Name you have given us, the Name we are baptized into).  Bless us Father with wisdom to abide in Your Word of Life. In Jesus we pray, Amen.
Love, Dad/Baba/EricGrandpa Pickle Pastor“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word.  God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”
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