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The Song: You're a Swan

was born on the tail end of a severe marital argument.

Two children were, as is usually the case, impacted

by the upheaval and I tried to passify them. I picked up

the story book of the Ugly Duckling and the Swan and

began to read and it did calm them.

With guitar in hand, I then walked out into the garden

of my grandfather's farm to sort myself out.

We were taking a break, from a ministry we were involved

with. "Righteousness by faith" was the core message

of the ministry. A message I needed to hear.

The following was certainly true and taught there.

1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just

to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all

unrighteousness.

The main teacher of that ministry would sometimes

relate his righteousness message to the story of he Ugly

Duckling and the Swan. Suddenly the penny dropped.

My wife was a swan. Even if I had felt she was behaving

like an ugly duckling.

I stopped judging and confessed my own sin.

I was washed, as white as snow, and I saw

her as a graceful Swan, redeemed by the blood.

"All the wasted years could come swiftly to an

end", if we could both believe and act on this.

You see, the swan eventually looks into the mirror

of the water, and sees that it is not an "ugly" duckling!

If we look into the mirror of the water of His Word, and

we do not forget what manner of man we are in Him,

we too are sons and daughters of our Father in heaven.

Whiter than snow.

Like graceful swans.

Forgiven and spotless,

Like a bride on her wedding day.

This happens, only if we confess our sin and repent of

it. Scriptural baptism, is about recognising that the old

man is being buried under the water. We come up a new

creation!

However, we both still had much to learn. Pain would

teach us. Sadly, our Father sometimes must allow

pain in our lives, either for our own good or for the sake

of others.

Heb 12:5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which

speaks to you as to sons: "MY SON, DO NOT DESPISE

THE CHASTENING OF YHVH, NOR BE DISCOURAGED

WHEN YOU ARE REBUKED BY HIM;

Heb 12:6 FOR WHOM YHVH LOVES HE CHASTENS,

AND SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."

That day, I wrote the song also with this scripture in

my mind. (One often referred to by Francois, at Elyon.)

Jas 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and

not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural

face in a mirror;

Jas 1:24 for he observes himself, goes away, and

immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

That is the sad truth for many of us, isn't it?

We forget what manner of man we are!

We forget that mercy triumphs over judgement.

We forget that the fear of Elohim is the beginning

of wisdom.

We forget the words of Yahushua!

We say that He is God, but then elevate Paul above

our God!

(At least the Paul we think we know! For, if truth be

told, we have often unknowingly twisted Paul's letters!

And when we do that, it is to our own destruction.

So says Peter - 1Pet 3:18.)

We fail to seek the whole council of God, that Paul

was keen to preach, because we also forget that:

2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,

and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for

correction, for instruction in righteousness,

We forget that ALL SCRIPTURE at that time of all

New Testament writing, referred only to the so

called Old Testament. This Included the Torah of

Moses that many of us were taught was abolished.

But that would mean that the 2 Tim scripture just

quoted, that "All scripture is God breathed and

suitable for instruction, correction etc. cannot be

scripture!

You see, these Old Testament scriptures, were meant

to be a MIRROR for us. To show us exactly what we

were meant to look like.

Yeshua was the man, who looked into the mirror and

did not forget! He walked it out to be the perfect image

of His Father. He was and is the Word made flesh.

If we want to become adult swans, we need to be like children.

Sponges that will soak up the whole council of God, seeking

Him with childlike faith :

Romans 7:4 declares:

Therefore my brethren, you also have become dead to the law

through the body of Messiah, that you may be married to

another - to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should

bear fruit to God.

We may not be under the law, even dead to it, but we are

married to another now.

Yeshua, "the Word made flesh."

The living Torah, if you will!

He who kept the law perfectly to be our passover lamb and

saviour!

We not only died to the law, but also to sin, and sin is the

transgression of the law. We died that we may become like

our saviour. To become the righteousness of God in Him!

We cannot fake anything with Him. He knows every hair on our

head. He will show us mercy, like a child He loves and

even died for.

But He will also discipline us, to teach us right from wong. To

To teach us what is of the fliesh and what is of the Spirit.

The Spirit and the Word are One as the Father and Son are One.

Therefore let us not take Him for granted! God is not mocked!

Jhn 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him,

"If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.

Jhn 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall

make you free."

We are all righteous, immediately after confession of

sin. But what if we continue to sin?

Paul said: "God forbid" that we continue to do that.

We need to get up, confess our sins, as often as needed,

and PRACTICE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, as John teaches us

in His letters.

For if we continue to sin, we are certainly not free. We cannot

be slaves to sin and slaves to righeousness, at the same time!

Jas 3:11 Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from

the same opening?

Jas 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine

bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.

Today, I know that the goal of His righteousness by faith

is not positional righteousness. He, IN US, intends to

bring us to perfect completion and holiness.

It may begin with Act 15:29

that you abstain from things offered to idols,

from blood,

from things strangled,

and from sexual immorality.

If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well...

(The leaders of the earliest "church", were pleased with this

decision, not to over burden new gentile believers, most of

whom were likely coming out of pagan practices.

They believed the Holy Spirit was pleased with this also.

Because, they said, the Torah has been and is preached

in synagogues every Sabbath.

One assumes, that they expected these new gentile converts

to start attending synagogues to learn the scriptures.

The intention is that we too will go on to perfection, and

not remain babies, needing only the milk of the Word.

Today sexual immorality is even accepted in a lot of

congregations all over the world! Not so in the early

church.

RIght off the bat, that disqualified you in the early church,

together with bowing to idols, drinking blood, etc.

Heb 6:1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary

principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again

the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith

toward God, Heb 6:3 And this we will do if God permits.

Yahshua was known as the 2nd or last Adam.

Just as bread is leavened with yeast, the first Adam

leavened the lump of mankind with sin.

The last Adam unleavened the lump by His work on

the cross.

He removed our sin, as far as the east is from the west.

He made us ...

"New Creation". HalleluYah!

But that new creation would be an empty vessel, if it

where not filled with His Spirit?

That was what was really lost in the garden. The Holy

Spirit that Yah breathed into Adam, that He may be a

living soul!

When the Spirit left Adam and Eve, they died spiritually

immediately. Then within one day, (a thousand years

being as one day to our Father - 2 Pet 3:8), they died

naturally.

Our Father wants to leaven us with His righteousness.

So Yahushua says:

Mat 6:33 But seek first the Kingdom of God and His

righteousness, and all these things shall be added to

you.

And to His disciples He says:

Act 1:4 And being assembled together with them, He

commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but

to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "

you have heard from Me;

He was, of course, speaking of the coming of His Spirit.

He said it was better for us that He would go, because

then the Spirit would come.

Our growing to perfection, is not by our works, but

by the indewelling power of His Spirit. Our faith

in His salvation opens the door for this Pentecost

experience.

To understand Pentecost better, we need to understand

what Shavuot means in the Old Testament. It is one of the

feast days of scripture, which YHVH calls: "My feasts."

It relates back to the period, if not the day, when the

Torah law was given to Moses on the mountain. It was

written by Elohim, on tablets of stone.

At the same time, below the mountain, the golden calf idol

was being worshiped, as YHVH!

3000 souls were lost that day.

But now at Pentecost 3000 souls were saved.

The old and new covenants are certainly connected.

That new, (or renewed) covenant, (see the Hebrew

of Jer 31) is just based on "better promises".

The rules, appear not to have changed. God still sees

murder, not honouring parents, not keeping His sabbath etc.,

as sins. But now there is forgiveness, even for deliberate

sin.

No sacrificial system is required, because He became

the once and for all passover lamb.

Now we love His Word and commandments. Before we

had an evil inclination that ensured we did sin.

But now we are made slaves of righteousness, having an

ability to overcome sin, that we did not have before.

Now we can confess sin and be forgiven it and return

to practice righteousness, as John says we should!

Does this not relate to the mystery that Paul was teaching

and which those at Pentecost were extatic about.

They would have understood from Deuteronomy all about the

blessings of obedience to Torah, as much as they understood

the curse of disobeying it.

Surely they would also have understood that the giving of

the Spirit, was restoring that Spirit lost in the garden.

Righteousness being restored!

I am sure that they felt it also on the inside. That same

cleaness that many exprience, when they give their lives

to our saviour.

This evaded me, most of my deceived and at times very painful

life. What started well at conversion was lost, when I sinned.

Then I became like men of old , trying to earn salvation through

my own works, only to fall repeatedly and feel condemned.

Something I did not feel when first cleansed.

How foolish, to try to overcome in the flesh, when nobody for

thousands of years were ever able to succeed. Without Messiah

Yahushua our saviour, we are doomed to failure. So many

backslide into thinking that we are not called to be Holy.

When, in fact, we are called to practice righteousness till he

comes again, and we are fully delivered from the flesh.

Without HIs Spirit it is impossible to practice righteousness.

Sadly many who claim to walk by the the Spirit, are not seeking

holiness.

But the moment you seek holy cleaness by the power of His

Spirit within, the favour our Father and Saviour will pick you up

and bless you.

Many are missing out on the favour of the King, which is as

the cloud of the latter rain. The rain that brings the harvest!

Also there is a counting of 50 days required from

the feast of First Fruits to Shavuot / Pentecost.

What is that all about?

(In hind sight, we now know that this relates to Yahushua

Messiah. He literally rose on the day of the First Fruit festival

that follows passover.

The counting to 50 relates to Jubilee, when all debts were

released and slaves in Israel were set free.

That should excite us, because it is telling us that our debts

are released and we are free from slavery.

Slavery to what?

To me it is obvious. All slavery, but especially, slavery to sin.

All who practice overcoming sin, are going to gain favour

from the Father.

We have an advocate, so that if we fall, we can get up

and practice righteousness again, and enjoy uninterupted

fellowship. Sin will interupt that fellowship, even if it does

not remove our relationship with our Father or salvation!

Continuing in sin and ignoring ones concience is another

matter. It will at very least result in the end result in severe

discipline.

Ever had God go silent on you? I have. Ever heard His

rebuke? I have.

That is interupted fellowship. Ignore it and chastisement

is on its way!

The flip side, is the favour of our King, as we seek to walk in

His righteousness.

Our Father will give His Holy Spirit to all who ask. We should

ask dailiy to be filled and we should feel instant remorse if

we fail, that we may get up off our knees quickly to practice

righteousness again.

Shavuot is of course, Pentecost. The day the Holy Spirit fell

upon the believers, as tongues of fire.

To some they seemed drunk.

I believe they were ecstatic because they experienced the

filling of the Holy Spirit, but also because they recognized

the connection to Jubilee. They understood that the coming

of His Holy Spirit meant blessing and favour. The end of slavery.

Finally, we even forget the words of our saviour!

Mat 5:17 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law

or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy (abolish) but

to fulfill. ...

Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these

least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be

called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever

shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in

the kingdom of heaven.

He came in the flesh, not just to save us from the penalty

of breaking His commands, but He came to conquer our

enslavement to sin and the world. He came to condemn

sin in the flesh! To do, what the law had been unable to

do! Make us overcomers by the gift of His Spirit within us.

Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be

satisfied. They will PRACTICE RIGHTEOUSNESS. They

will experience freedom from sin, and walk it out for

longer and longer periods of time.

This brings fruits of righteousness, joy and peace and

the favour of our Heavenly Father and Saviour. The

blessing of obedience. The rest that all men yearn for.

Grace comes with a high calling.

We are called to reckon ourselves dead to sin. We also need

to be faithful to the new, or renewed, rebuilt covenant, which

writes the law on our hearts. Yes. Even the Torah laws! Not

out of compulsion, but out of love, that walks in the Spirit.

Paul says,

Rom 6:11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead

indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Would our Father, who gave the Torah to Moses, let his

only begotten son die, in order to take away the death

penalty for breaking His commandments, only to then

suddenly abolish them?

He promoted His law for thousands of years, through Moses,

the prophets, and men like King David. Just read David's

Psalm 119. The longest Psalm in the bible .

In Malachi, the last book in the old testament and in the last

chapter, he tells us...

Mal 4:4 "Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,

Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,

With the statutes and judgments.

And if you think that is just for Israel and it does not apply

to you as a gentile believer, then think again. For you have

then also forgotten Paul's letter to the Ephesians, where he

tells us that we are all adopted into the commonweath of

Israel. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, David, Miriam, Rebeccah,

Daniel, Hosea, Isaiah etc. are all our people.

Did He really then render the Torah irrelevant?

Think about it! If He indeed abolished it, it would be like

saying:

You are no longer guilty of murder, because I forgive you.

Now I am also going to render my law abolished and irrelevant.

(Remember. If there is no law, then there can be no sin!)

Is that really true

If it is, you can murder and indulge as much as you like.

He has covered your sin. Just declare that you are the

righteousness of God and believe it and you are good

to go. (I am just not sure where!) I hear many preach such

lies.

If this were true, why would Yahushua return in the

Millenium to rule with a rod of iron? What law do you

tihink He will use in that season of His reign on earth?

Does He not say:

Isaiah 2:3 ... For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the

word of Yahuah from Jerusalem."? (See also the context!)

Closer study reveals that the new covenant would write

His law / His commandments, on our hearts. ( Jer 31)

Before we look at that, note these two scriptures:

Rom 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it

says to those who are under the law, that every mouth

may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty

before God.

Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for

you are not under law but under grace.

Consider if you agree with me?

What the above is actually saying, is that whatever the law

says, it says to those who are not keeping the law, that

all might be guilty before God.

Hence this confirming scripture:

1 Tim 1:9 knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous

person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly

and for sinners, for the unholy annd profane, for murderers of

fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

1 Tim 1 19 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for

liars for perjures, and if there is any other thing that is contrary

to sound doctrine, ,,,

But you on the other hand, are covered if you break the law

and have repented of and confessed your sin, for you then

get up and practice not sining.

You are then not under the law or its condemnation. Sin does

not have dominion over you. That us why you are are not

under it to fear its judgement..

You keep it by nature. Grace has written it on your heart. And

that is what our Father and Yahushua are looking at our hearts.

If sin has dominion over you, you are a slave to it. And

the slave does not remain in the house forever. Only

the son does! (Jhn 8:35)

His word is near us, in our hearts and in our mouths, that we

may, by His Spirit, overcome the sin that enslaved us.

It will not have dominion over us any more.

(I am not saying we will never sin. But neither will we

continue in it, without repenting and getting up to practice

righteousness. Sin should not be normal to us.)

Oh, how I wish I had undestdood this when I was young. I

would have saved myself and others a ton of pain. I would

have heard the voice of our Father clearly and not vasilated

between right and wrong.

Sin can no longer accuse us or povoke sin in us, because we

are the righteousness of God in Him.

We are no longer in a cage of law that we want to get out of.

We have come home to the truth that Yeshua inside us loves

His own Torah, and is himself, the living walking Torah.

We want with all our hearts to be like Him, who is the very

Spirit of the law that He created.

Jud 1:24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,

And present you faultless, before the presence of His glory

with exceeding joy,

Why did I always think that walking in righteousness, could only

begin when we get to heaven?

He is saying that He is able to keep us from stumbling now

and present us faultless later, never to stumble again, for the

flesh will have been put off and immortality put on!

God's commands are who He is. Do we love Him?

Then we should keep His commandments .

If we are continuing in our sins, we need to understand

that we actually do not know or love Him.

1Jn 2:4 He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His

commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Also James teaches us that if we brake one law, it is like

breaking them all, so we are not saved by the law.

But he also encourages us to look into the Torah, the "Mirror

of the Word", that we may be changed by it, not forgetting

what manner of man we are.

We are now new creations. People who are indwelt by the

very one who kept the Torah perfectly. The spotless passover

lamb.

(Remember, when James speaks of the WORD, he is

referring to the "Old Testament". There was no" New

Testament" yet!)

Peter says, that men twist Pauls letters because they

are "unlearned" or "untaught".

He is referring to these self same old testament scriptures,

and encouraging us, that we should become learned in

them!

And when Paul says in Romans:

Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness

to everyone who believes.

That "END" he speaks of, means in the Greek: the GOAL,

as it does in old English.

So, the GOAL of the law certainly does not mean the end of

the law, as in the abolishment of the law. While the law

has the ministry of condemning the sinnner. its goal or

end point is Yahushua who walked it out and now lives

to intercde for us, that we may be like Him.

Speaking of Yahushua, John the beloved apostle makes it

abundantly clear:

1Jn 2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also

to walk just as He walked.

1Jn 2:1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that

you may not sin. (May not transgress the law).

Yahushau himself says:.

Jhn 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Jhn 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him,

"If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.

Jhn 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall

make you free."

Jhn 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in

My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and

abide in His love.

His commandments are all about love. How to love Him and

how to love our neighbour as ourself.

I hope you can see this connection between true love and

the commandments of Yahushua,and our Father in Heaven.

All 316 commandments in the old testament are worthy

of our attention.

They all teach us how to love our Father in heaven or our

neigbour on earth, as ourselves.

And they are all as much Yahushua's commandments, as

they are the Father's, for the Father and Son are One.

Our works and attempts to be righteous cannot save us!

But His works have saved us.

The least we can do is "practice His righteousness" and not

try to water it down.

Sanctification is the process of getting better and better at it

over time.

If we grow like good children should, becoming more obedient,

through practice of righteousness, then we may like Paul be able

one day to say:

1Co 4:4 For I know of nothing against myself, yet I am not

justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

Righteousness is the opposite of lawlessness and His Word

warns against lawlessness, even speaking in the end times

of the lawless one.

2Th 2:9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the

working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,

The same word translated "lawless one" above, is

translated by the Old King James as " Wicked" in the

scripture below.

2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the

Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall

destroy with the brightness of his coming:

The new King James replaces "WICKED" with

"LAWLESS ONE",

Strong's reveals the meaning of this word G459 as follows:

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3551;

lawless,

that is, (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law;

(by implication a Gentile), or (positively) wicked: -

without law, lawless, transgressor, unlawful, wicked.

Now consider these scriptures:

Mat 7:23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you;

depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'

Mat 13:41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and

they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend,

and those who practice lawlessness,

Rom 1:32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God,

that those who practice such things are deserving of

death, not only do the same but also approve of those

who practice them.

We are not told to seek FIRST the Kingdom and HIs

righteousness for nothing. It is a foundational principle.

A kingdom has rules and He has shown in the "Old

Testament" what these rules are! Yahushua said he

did not come to abolish them.

In fact, He made clear that the letter of the law which killed us,

is actually not strong enough! It does not get to the Spirit of the

law. So He says:

Mat 5:28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a

woman to lust for her has already committed adultery

with her in his heart.

Yet one hears Christians say. I can look at the menu.

I just cannot eat! No you cannot afford to look at the

menu!

Do not fool yourself.

You will cry later, if you do not look away!

Sin begins with our thoughts.

So practice now and hunger for your deliverance, pleading

for His help. It is His good pleasure to give you the

Kingdom with all its laws and the ability to keep them!

If His Spirit lives in us, we should love His laws by nature.

He is in you to conquer all evil and will certainly help a

sincere cry to overcome sin.

If you want to escape hell, but love sin, you have problem!

God is not mocked.

But if you are humble and contrite and cry out to him, He

will not turn you away.

Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in

sin that grace may abound?

Rom 6:2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin

live any longer in it?

This is the true gospel of the Kingdom:

One that is gentle with new believers, but inspires us all to

the perfection of our high calling.

To a life where we are not only forgiven, but where we

are no longer slaves to sin, but inherit the promises, as

overcomers do.

Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do in that it was

weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own

Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin:

He condemned sin in the flesh, ...

This is the great answer in Romans 8 to the cry, in

Romans 7:

Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me

from this body of death?

Thanks be to God, it is Messiah in us, whose Spirit overcomes,

so that we might come out of this world, the law being written

on our hearts, as prophesied. We are changed from glory to glory

as we look into the mirror of His Word and do not forget

what manner of man we are!

Jer 31:31 "Behold, the days are coming, says Yahuah, when I

will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with

the house of Judah—

Jer 31:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their

fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them

out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke,

though I was a husband to them, says Yahuah.

Jer 31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house

of Israel after those days, says the Yahuah: I will put My law in

their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God,

and they shall be My people.

On this hangs our freedom and all the promises that are

"Yes" in Yahushua Messiah. (Do you now see why so

few are actually inheriting the promises?) People are

forgiven their sins, but they are not seeking His Kingdom

or His righteousness.

MERCY WITHOUT TRUTH IS A ONE WINGED BIRD.

IT CANNOT FLY.

I know. I crashed many times, till the pain was unbearable,

God knows that it is a process, but many have not been taught

to practice righteousness, but rather to make excuses for sin.

Whereas the word clearly says:

2Ti 2:19 Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands,

having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His,"

and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart

from iniquity.

May we all find His favour in these last days. Behold, He is

coming soon. He wants to be our husband and is coming

for a bride without spot of blemish.

May we be ready when He comes like a thief in the

night!

May our light be shining and be listening for that Shofar blast

that will announce: The bridgroom is coming. In fact, these

shofar blasts we have heard more often in recent church

history, could well be trying to tell us, the King is coming.

GET READY!

Consider the foolish virgins. They bang on the closed door

of the wedding feast, where they had the potential to be

the bride! They are not even guests! And Yahushua says

to them, "I do not know you!"

That, as we have seen, equates to: You did not keep my

commandments. You were lawless. (1 John Ch 2)

Finally, remember that Jesus said:

Jhn 8:35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever,

but a son abides forever.

May we not be found slaves of sin, but slaves of righteousness.

For many will think they did this or that for Him, but on the day,

their deeds will not be considered, for they practiced

lawlessness instead of practicing righteousness.

Mat 7:22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we

not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name,

and done many wonders in Your name?'

Mat 7:23 And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you

who practice lawlessness!'

Luk 12:45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My master

is delaying his coming,' and begins to beat the male and

female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

Luk 12:46 the master of that servant will come on a day

when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is

not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his

portion with the unbelievers.

Thanks for reading to the end. You must surely be a Swan.

Rev 22:14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that

they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter

through the gates into the city.

HalleluYah!

In His love

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