<html><head></head><body><div><div><div><div><br></div>Romans 10;16&amp;17<div><br></div><div><b>16. &nbsp;But they have not all heeded&nbsp;the gospel; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”</b></div><div><b>17. &nbsp;So Faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the&nbsp;preaching of Christ.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>This is the ‘batteries included’ passage. &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>For as the Gospel of Christ is proclaimed, God the Holy Spirit attends the Word of the Gospel. &nbsp;The Spirit of God confirms the truth of the Good News in our hearts and souls. &nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>We do not ‘decide’ to believe in Jesus, our soul&nbsp;‘recognizes’ the arrival of the gift of&nbsp;faith which came along with the Truth of the Gospel just heard.</div><div><br></div><div>When an infant is baptized, the Word of Life spoken by the preacher, ‘I baptize you, <i>“in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.”</i>&nbsp; These are Gods own inspired, authoritative, life-giving Words.</div><div>They are not dead word&nbsp;but living, Life-Giving Word. &nbsp;They are the <i>“Seed of the Sower</i>, they are the <i>“woman’s Seed ,&nbsp;</i><span>they are the </span><i>“Grain of Wheat which falls to the earth and dies, bringing forth much fruit.”</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><span>These Words produce fruit. &nbsp;We are just the soil, the Life is in the Seed.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Prayer: &nbsp;Merciful Father, make us to be Good Soil, soil broken and harrowed by Your Law and the gift of repentance, soil cleansed of stony shallowness, and worthless thorniness, soil&nbsp;</span><span>cleansed and made ‘good’ which faithfully holds the precious life-giving Seed and patiently brings&nbsp;&nbsp;forth abundant fruit; all to Your glory, the building of Your Kingdom, and our own joyful participation in the Divine Nature, through Jesus Christ our Lord, the Word/Seed made flesh we pray, Amen.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Love,</span></div><div><span>Dad/Baba/Eric/Grandpa Pickle Pastor</span></div><div><span>“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word. &nbsp;God’s Word is our habitation, and we, broken-hearted, contrite, forgiven, be</span><span>Iieving children, are His.”</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><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 10;16&17
16.  But they have not all heeded the gospel; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”17.  So Faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ.
This is the ‘batteries included’ passage.  
For as the Gospel of Christ is proclaimed, God the Holy Spirit attends the Word of the Gospel.  The Spirit of God confirms the truth of the Good News in our hearts and souls.  
We do not ‘decide’ to believe in Jesus, our soul ‘recognizes’ the arrival of the gift of faith which came along with the Truth of the Gospel just heard.
When an infant is baptized, the Word of Life spoken by the preacher, ‘I baptize you, “in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.”  These are Gods own inspired, authoritative, life-giving Words.They are not dead word but living, Life-Giving Word.  They are the “Seed of the Sower, they are the “woman’s Seed , they are the “Grain of Wheat which falls to the earth and dies, bringing forth much fruit.”
These Words produce fruit.  We are just the soil, the Life is in the Seed.
Prayer:  Merciful Father, make us to be Good Soil, soil broken and harrowed by Your Law and the gift of repentance, soil cleansed of stony shallowness, and worthless thorniness, soil cleansed and made ‘good’ which faithfully holds the precious life-giving Seed and patiently brings  forth abundant fruit; all to Your glory, the building of Your Kingdom, and our own joyful participation in the Divine Nature, through Jesus Christ our Lord, the Word/Seed made flesh 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, broken-hearted, contrite, forgiven, beIieving children, are His.”


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