God’s Purpose

Date
January 9, 2022
Speaker
C. William Roberts, Pastor

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2 Timothy 1:8-9 (KJV)

⁸Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

⁹Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Romans 8:28 (KJV)

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Habakkuk 2:14 (KJV)

¹⁴For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

1 Corinthians 6:20 (KJV)

²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (KJV)

³¹Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

John 15:16 (NKJV)

¹⁶You did not choose Me, but I chose you andappointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Fatherin My name He may give you.

Luke 8:15 (KJV)

¹⁵But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

James 1:21 (KJV)

²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 (KJV)

¹³For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

1 Corinthians 15:10 (KJV)

¹⁰But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Hebrews 13:15 (KJV)

¹⁵By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV)

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
²³Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Colossians 1:10 (KJV)

¹⁰That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Proverbs 11:30 (KJV)

³⁰The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

Romans 6:22-23 (KJV)

²²But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
²³For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Mark 4:26-29 (KJV)

²⁶And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
²⁷And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

²⁸For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

²⁹But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

John 15:5 (KJV)

⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Ephesians 1:22-23 (KJV)

²²And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
²³Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

1 Corinthians 3:11 (KJV)

¹¹For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 5:23 (KJV)

²³For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Ephesians 5:28-30 (KJV)

²⁸So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

²⁹For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

³⁰For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Colossians 2:19 (KJV)

¹⁹and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

Colossians 2:19 (KJV)

¹⁹And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

John 4:24 (KJV)

²⁴God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Psalm 119:2 (KJV)

²Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

Psalm 119:58 (KJV)

⁵⁸I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

Jeremiah 10:10 (KJV)

¹⁰But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

Psalm 145:18 (KJV)

¹⁸The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

Psalm 15:1-2 (KJV)

1Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
²He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

Psalm 51:6 (KJV)

⁶Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Psalm 51:9 (KJV)

⁹Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Psalm 51:10 (KJV)

¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 139:23-24 (KJV)

²³Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
²⁴And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 66:18 (KJV)

¹⁸If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

Psalm 119:160 (KJV)

¹⁶⁰Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Proverbs 28:9 (KJV)

⁹He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

Psalm 86:11-12 9 (KJV)

¹¹Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
¹²I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

Isaiah 14:24 (KJV)

²⁴The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Matthew 6:1 (KJV)

1“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

1 Timothy 2:3-4 (KJV)

³For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

⁴Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV)

¹¹I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Romans 8:28 (KJV)

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Ephesians 5:17 (KJV)

¹⁷Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

2 John 2:17 (KJV)

²For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

Colossians 4:2 (KJV)

²Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

Colossians 3:16 (KJV)

¹⁶Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Colossians 3:12-14 (KJV)

¹²Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
¹³Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
¹⁴And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Acts 2:42 (KJV)

⁴²And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

Acts 2:47 (KJV)

⁴⁷Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

John 3:19-20 (KJV)

¹⁹And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
²⁰For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

1 Peter 4:3-4 (KJV)

³For 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 idolatries:

⁴Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV)

¹⁴But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Isaiah 61:1-3 (KJV)

1The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
²To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
³To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

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