<html><head></head><body><div><div><div><div><br></div>Romans 5;3-5<div><br></div><div><b>3. &nbsp;More than that, </b>(sharing in The Glory of God)&nbsp;<b>we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,&nbsp;</b></div><div><b>4. &nbsp;and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,</b></div><div><b>5. &nbsp;and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>God’s love has been&nbsp;poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. &nbsp;The love of God is more than just being loved by God, it is God’s love itself indwelling us by the Holy Spirit which empowers us to endure our present sufferings. &nbsp;God’s active love compels us, (the New-man) to love others, even our enemies.<br><br>Our faith beholds Christ enduring the unimaginable torments of the crucifixion and we know it is the love of God at work in Christ Jesus which empowered Him to endure unto death and the resurrection.</div><div><br></div><div>I love Hebrews 12;2, <i>“looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfect or of our faith, who for the joy that was&nbsp;set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>What was <i>“the joy set before Him”</i>? &nbsp;It was perfect oneness with His Bride the Church. &nbsp;It was our cleansing and sanctification, our perfect communion with God, Father Son and Holy Spirit, AND with each other.</div><div><br></div><div>This amounts to the full restoration of the goodness of all&nbsp;Creation before the rebellion of Satan and our fall into sin and death.</div><div><br></div><div>Even now we enjoy a foretaste of the joy, peace, and love&nbsp;of God&nbsp;in Christ. &nbsp;It&nbsp;will be completely fulfilled in the great Wedding Feast awaiting us.<br><br>Prayer: &nbsp;Merciful Father, bless us to live ever looking to Christ and the power of Your love for us and even now at work in us as we share in His sufferings. &nbsp;(see, Romans 8;16&amp;17)</div><div>In Jesus we Pray, Amen</div><div><br></div><div>Love,&nbsp;</div><div>Dad/Baba/Eric/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, as dead, utterly broken, contrite-hearted, dependent children, are His.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></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 5;3-5
3.  More than that, (sharing in The Glory of God) we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4.  and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,5.  and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.  The love of God is more than just being loved by God, it is God’s love itself indwelling us by the Holy Spirit which empowers us to endure our present sufferings.  God’s active love compels us, (the New-man) to love others, even our enemies.

Our faith beholds Christ enduring the unimaginable torments of the crucifixion and we know it is the love of God at work in Christ Jesus which empowered Him to endure unto death and the resurrection.
I love Hebrews 12;2, “looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfect or of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”
What was “the joy set before Him”?  It was perfect oneness with His Bride the Church.  It was our cleansing and sanctification, our perfect communion with God, Father Son and Holy Spirit, AND with each other.
This amounts to the full restoration of the goodness of all Creation before the rebellion of Satan and our fall into sin and death.
Even now we enjoy a foretaste of the joy, peace, and love of God in Christ.  It will be completely fulfilled in the great Wedding Feast awaiting us.

Prayer:  Merciful Father, bless us to live ever looking to Christ and the power of Your love for us and even now at work in us as we share in His sufferings.  (see, Romans 8;16&17)In Jesus we Pray, Amen
Love, Dad/Baba/Eric/Grandpa Pickle Pastor“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word.  God’s Word is our habitation, and we, as dead, utterly broken, contrite-hearted, dependent children, are His.



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