GRACE UPON GRACE

 DEUTERONOMY 32:30-34   HOW SHOULD ONE CHASE A THOUSAND,  AND TWO PUT  TEN THOUSAND TO FLIGHT,  EXCEPT THEIR ROCK HAD SOLD THEM,  AND  THE LORD HAD SHUT THEM UP?  FOR  THEIR ROCK IS NOT AS OUR ROCK,  EVEN OUR ENEMIES THEMSELVES  BEING JUDGES.  FOR THEIR  VINE IS OF THE VINE OF SODOM,  AND  OF THE FIELDS OF GOMORRAH:  THEIR GRAPES ARE GRAPES OF GALL,  THEIR CLUSTERS ARE BITTER:  THEIR WINE IS THE POISON OF DRAGONS,  AND  THE CRUEL VENOM OF ASPS.  IS NOT THIS LAID UP IN STORE WITH ME,  AND SEALED UP AMONG MY TREASURES?   LOVE

 MATTHEW 23:37-39   O, JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM,  THOU THAT KILLETH THE PROPHETS, AND STONEST THEM WHICH  ARE SENT UNTO THEE, HOW OFTEN WOULD  I HAVE GATHERED THY CHILDREN TOGETHER,  EVEN AS A HEN GATHERETH HER CHICKENS UNDER HER WINGS,  AND YE WOULD NOT! BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT  UNTO YOU DESOLATE. FOR I SAY UNTO YOU,  YE SHALL NOT SEE ME HENCEFORTH,  TILL YE SHALL SAY, BLESSED IS HE THAT  COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.     LOVE  

1 SAMUEL 8:4-20 THEN ALL  THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL  GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER,  AND CAME TO SAMUEL UNTO RAMAH, AND SAID UNTO HIM,  BEHOLD, THOU ART OLD,  AND THY SONS WALK  NOT IN THY WAYS:  NOW MAKE US A KING  TO JUDGE US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS. BUT THE THING  DISPLEASED SAMUEL,  WHEN THEY SAID,  GIVE US A KING TO JUDGE US.  AND SAMUEL PRAYED  UNTO THE LORD. AND  THE LORD SAID UNTO SAMUEL,  HEARKEN UNTO  THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE  IN ALL THAT THEY SAY  UNTO THEE: FOR THEY HAVE  NOT REJECTED THEE,  BUT THEY HAVE REJECTED ME,  THAT I SHOULD  NOT REIGN OVER THEM. ACCORDING TO ALL  THE WORKS WHICH THEY  HAVE DONE SINCE THE DAY  THAT I BROUGHT THEM  UP OUT OF EGYPT EVEN  UNTO THIS DAY,  WHEREWITH THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND SERVED  OTHER GODS, SO DO THEY  ALSO UNTO THEE. NOW THEREFORE HEARKEN  UNTO THEIR VOICE: HOWBEIT YET  PROTEST SOLEMNL...

1 SAMUEL 2:1 AND HANNAH PRAYED,  AND SAID,  MY HEART REJOICETH IN THE LORD ,  MINE HORN IS EXALTED  IN THE LORD:  MY MOUTH IS  ENLARGED OVER MINE ENEMIES;  BECAUSE  I REJOICE IN THY SALVATION.   LOVE

REVELATION 5:1-5 AND I SAW IN THE RIGHT HAND  OF HIM THAT SAT ON THE THRONE  A BOOK WRITTEN WITHIN  AND ON THE BACKSIDE,  SEALED WITH SEVEN SEALS.  AND   I SAW A STRONG ANGEL  PROCLAIMING WITH A LOUD VOICE,  WHO IS WORTHY TO OPEN THE BOOK,  AND TO LOOSE THE SEALS THEREOF? AND NO MAN IN HEAVEN,  NOR IN EARTH, NEITHER  UNDER THE EARTH,  WAS  ABLE TO OPEN THE BOOK,  NEITHER TO LOOK THEREON.   AND I WEPT MUCH,  BECAUSE  NO MAN WAS FOUND WORTHY  TO OPEN AND TO READ  THE BOOK, NEITHER TO  LOOK THEREON.  AND  ONE OF THE ELDERS  SAITH UNTO ME,  WEEP NOT: BEHOLD,  THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH,  THE ROOT OF DAVID,  HATH PREVAILED  TO OPEN THE BOOK,  AND  TO  LOOSE THE SEVEN SEALS THEREOF . LOVE

 PSALM 43 JUDGE ME, O GOD,  AND PLEAD MY CAUSE  AGAINST AN UNGODLY NATION:  O DELIVER ME FROM  THE DECEITFUL AND UNJUST MAN.  FOR THOU ART  THE GOD OF MY STRENGTH:  WHY DOST THOU CAST ME OFF?  WHY GO I MOURNING BECAUSE  OF  THE OPPRESSION OF THE ENEMY?  O  SEND OUT THY  LIGHT AND THY TRUTH:  LET THEM LEAD ME;  LET THEM BRING ME  UNTO THY HOLY HILL,  AND TO THY TABERNACLES.  THEN WILL I GO UNTO  THE ALTAR OF GOD,  UNTO GOD MY EXCEEDING JOY:  YEA, UPON THE HARP WILL  I PRAISE THEE, O GOD MY GOD. WHY ART THOU CAST DOWN, O MY SOUL?  AND WHY ART THOU DISQUIETED  WITHIN ME?  HOPE IN GOD:  FOR I SHALL YET PRAISE HIM,  WHO IS THE HEALTH OF  MY COUNTENANCE, AND MY GOD. LOVE