GRACE UPON GRACE

1 PETER 4:1-5 FORASMUCH  THEN AS CHRIST HATH SUFFERED FOR  US  IN THE FLESH,  ARM YOURSELVES LIKEWISE  WITH THE SAME MIND:  FOR  HE THAT HATH SUFFERED  IN  THE FLESH HATH CEASED FROM SIN;  THAT HE  NO LONGER SHOULD  LIVE THE REST OF HIS TIME  IN THE FLESH TO THE LUST OF MEN,  BUT TO THE WILL OF GOD.  FOR  THE TIME PAST OF OUR LIFE  MAY SUFFICE US TO HAVE WROUGHT  THE WILL OF THE GENTILES,  WHEN WE WALKED IN LASCIVIOUSNESS,  LUSTS, EXCESS OF WINE, REVELLINGS,  BANQUETINGS, AND ABOMINABLE  IDOLTRIES:   WHEREIN THEY THINK IT STRANGE  THAT YE RUN NOT WITH THEM  TO THE SAME EXCESS OF RIOT,  SPEAKING EVIL OF YOU:  WHO SHALL GIVE  ACCOUNT TO HIM  THAT IS READY  TO JUDGE  THE QUICK AND THE DEAD.    for this cause  was the gospel preached also  to them that are dead,  that they  might be judged  according t...

 jeremiah 12:12-17 THE SPOILERS ARE COME UPON HIGH PLACES THROUGH THE WILDERNESS: FOR  THE SWORD OF THE LORD SHALL DEVOUR FROM THE ONE END OF THE LAND EVEN TO THE OTHER END OF THE LAND: NO FLESH SHALL HAVE PEACE. THEY HAVE SOWN WHEAT, BUT SHALL REAP THORNS: THEY HAVE PUT THEMSELVES TO PAIN, BUT SHALL NOT PROFIT: AND  THEY SHALL BE ASHAMED OF YOUR REVENUES BECAUSE OF THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD. THUS SAITH THE LORD AGAINST ALL MINE EVIL NEIGHBOURS, THAT TOUCH THE INHERITANCE WHICH I HAVE CAUSED MY PEOPLE ISRAEL TO INHERIT: BEHOLD, I WILL PLUCK THEM OUT OF THEIR LAND, AND PLUCK OUT THE HOUSE OF JUDAH FROM AMONG THEM. AND IT  SHALL COME TO PASS, AFTER THAT I HAVE PLUCKED THEM OUT I WILL RETURN, AND HAVE COMPASSION ON THEM, AND WILL BRING THEM AGAIN, EVERY MAN TO HIS HERITAGE, AND  EVERY MAN TO HIS LAND,  AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IF THEY WILL DILIGENTLY LEARN THE WAYS OF MY PEOPLE, TO SWEAR BY MY NAME, THE LORD LIVETH; AS THEY TAUGHT MY PEOPLE TO SWEAR BY BA...

JAMES 2:5-10 HEARKEN,  MY BELOVED  BRETHREN,  HATH  NOT GOD CHOSEN THE POOR OF THIS WORLD  RICH IN FAITH,   AND  HEIRS OF THE KINGDOM  WHICH HE HATH PROMISED  TO THEM  THAT LOVE HIM?  BUT YE HAVE  DESPISED THE POOR.  DO NOT  THE RICH MEN OPPRESS YOU,  AND  DRAW YOU BEFORE  THE JUDGMENT SEATS?  DO NOT THEY  BLASPHEME THAT WORTHY  NAME BY THE  WHICH YE ARE CALLED?  IF YE FULFIL  THE ROYAL LAW  ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE,  THOU SHALT LOVE  THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF,  YE DO WELL:  BUT IF YE HAVE  RESPECT OF PERSONS,  YE COMMIT SIN,  AND ARE  CONVINCED OF  THE LAW AS TRANSGRESSORS.  FOR WHOSOEVER  SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW,  AND  YET OFFEND IN ONE POINT,  HE IS GUILTY OF ALL.    LOVE

Amos 9:13-15 BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT THE PLOWMAN SHALL OVERTAKE THE REAPER, AND  THE TREADER OF GRAPES  HIM  THAT SOWETH SEED;  AND  THE MOUNTAINS SHALL DROP SWEET WINE,  AND ALL  THE HILLS SHALL MELT.  AND  I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY  OF  MY PEOPLE OF ISRAEL,  AND  THEY SHALL BUILD THE WASTE CITIES,  AND  INHABIT THEM;  AND  THEY SHALL PLANT VINEYARDS,  AND  DRINK THE WINE THEREOF;  THEY SHALL ALSO  MAKE GARDENS  AND  EAT THE FRUIT OF THEM.   AND  I   WILL PLANT THEM UPON THEIR LAND,  AND  THEY SHALL NO MORE  BE PULLED UP OUT OF THEIR  LAND WHICH  I   HAVE GIVEN THEM,  SAITH  THE LORD THY GOD. LOVE