THEPEARLOFGREATPRICE JESUS IS THE MERCHANT AND WE ARE THE PEARLS

JESUS WHO GOT EVERYTHING, SOLD EVERYTHING HE GOT TO BUY NOTHING & TURN NOTHING INTO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

THE MESSAGE OF RECONCILIATION

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HOSEA 1 2 WHEN THE LORD FIRST BEGAN SPEAKING TO ISRAEL THROUGH HOSEA, HE SAID TO HIM, “GO AND MARRY A PROSTITUTE, SO THAT SOME OF HER CHILDREN WILL BE CONCEIVED IN PROSTITUTION. THIS WILL ILLUSTRATE HOW ISRAEL HAS ACTED LIKE A PROSTITUTE BY TURNING AGAINST THE LORD AND WORSHIPING OTHER GODS.”

HOSEA 2 SHE SAID, ‘I’LL RUN AFTER OTHER LOVERS AND SELL MYSELF TO THEM FOR FOOD AND WATER, FOR CLOTHING OF WOOL AND LINEN, AND FOR OLIVE OIL AND DRINKS.

OURSTRUGGLE

ROMAN 7 19 FOR I DO NOT DO THE GOOD I WANT TO DO, BUT THE EVIL I DO NOT WANT TO DO—THIS I KEEP ON DOING. 20 NOW IF I DO WHAT I DO NOT WANT TO DO, IT IS NO LONGER I WHO DO IT, BUT IT IS SIN LIVING IN ME THAT DOES IT.

EPHESIANS 4 22 PUT OFF YOUR OLD SELF, WHICH BELONGS TO YOUR FORMER MANNER OF LIFE AND IS CORRUPT THROUGH DECEITFUL DESIRES, 23 AND TO BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MINDS, 24 AND TO PUT ON THE NEW SELF, CREATED AFTER THE LIKENESS OF GOD IN TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS.

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COLOSSIANS 3 5 PUT TO DEATH THEREFORE WHAT IS EARTHLY IN YOU: SEXUAL IMMORALITY, IMPURITY, PASSION, EVIL DESIRE, AND COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY… 12 PUT ON THEN, AS GOD’S CHOSEN ONES, HOLY AND BELOVED, COMPASSIONATE HEARTS, KINDNESS, HUMILITY, MEEKNESS, AND PATIENCE,

A MATTER OF BELIEF WHAT YOU BELIEVE DETERMINE HOW YOU BEHAVE

PHILIPPIANS WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING, 13 FOR IT IS GOD WHO WORKS IN YOU, BOTH TO WILL AND TO WORK FOR HIS GOOD PLEASURE.

2 PET 3:18 GROW IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.