(August, 22-2016 on Monday)

John 16: ³³ “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have Peace. In this World you will have Trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the World.” (6)

Ephesians 4: ³² Be Kind and Compassionate to one another, Forgiving each other, just as in Christ GOD Forgave you. (5)

Ephesians 1: ²³ which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way. (5)

Matthew 28: ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have Commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (2)

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John 16: ²⁵ “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. (7)

²⁶ In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

²⁷ No, the Father Himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from GOD.

Ephesians 4: ²⁵ Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. (7)

²⁶ “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,

²⁷ and do not give the devil a foothold.

Ephesians 1: ¹⁶ I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. (7)

¹⁷ I keep asking that the GOD of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, so that you may know Him Better. ¹⁸ I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the Hope to which He has called you, the Riches of his Glorious inheritance in His Holy people,

Matthew 28: The Great Commission

¹⁶ Then the Eleven Disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. (7)

¹⁷ When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

¹⁸ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All Authority in Heaven and on Earth has been given to Me.

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John 16: ¹⁶ Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.” (7)

¹⁷ At this, some of His Disciples said to one another, “What does He mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

¹⁸ They kept asking, “What does He mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what He is saying.”

Ephesians 4: ¹⁶ From Him(Jesus) the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in Love, as each part does its work.

Instructions for Christian Living

¹⁷ So I tell you this, and insist on it in the LORD, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the Futility of their thinking.

¹⁸ They are Darkened in their understanding and separated from the Life of GOD because of the Ignorance that is in them due to the Hardening of their Hearts.

Ephesians 1: ⁷ In Him we have Redemption through His Blood, the Forgiveness of Sins, in accordance with the Riches of GOD’s Grace

⁸ that He lavished on us. With all Wisdom and Understanding,

⁹ He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ,

Matthew 28: ⁷ Then go quickly and tell His disciples: ‘He has Risen from the Dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him.’ Now I have told you.” (7)

⁸ So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell His Disciples.

⁹ Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” He said. They came to Him, clasped His feet and worshiped Him.

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John 16: ⁷ But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. (7)

⁸ When He comes, He will prove the World to be in the Wrong about Sin and Righteousness and Judgment:

⁹ about Sin, because people do not believe in Me;

Ephesians 4: ⁷ But to each one of us Grace has been given as Christ Apportioned it. (7)

⁸ This is why it says: “When He ascended on High, He took many Captives and gave gifts to His people.”

⁹ (What does “He Ascended” mean except that He also Descended to the Lower, earthly regions?

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John 16: ³¹ “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. (4)

³² “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for My Father is with Me.

Ephesians 4: ³¹ Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. (4)

Ephesians 1: ²² And GOD placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be Head over everything for the Church, (4)

Matthew 28: ¹³ telling them, “You are to say, ‘His Disciples came during the night and stole Him away while we were asleep.’ (4)

¹⁴ If this report gets to the Governor, we will Satisfy Him and Keep you out of Trouble.”

¹⁵ So the soldiers took the Money and did as they were Instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.

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John 16: ²² So with you: Now is your time of Grief, but I will see you again and you will Rejoice, and no one will take away your Joy. (4)

²³ In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Very truly I tell you, My Father will give you whatever you ask in My Name.

²⁴ Until now you have not asked for anything in My Name. Ask and you will Receive, and your Joy will be Complete.

Ephesians 4: ²² You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being Corrupted by its Deceitful Desires; (4)

²³ to be made new in the attitude of your minds;

²⁴ and to put on the new self, Created to be like GOD in true Righteousness and Holiness.

Ephesians 1: ¹³ And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your Salvation. When you believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the Promised Holy Spirit, (4)

¹⁴ who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are GOD’s possession—to the praise of His Glory.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

¹⁵ For this reason, ever since I heard about your Faith in the Lord Jesus and your Love for all GOD’s people,

Thanksgiving and Prayer

Matthew 28: ⁴ The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. (4)

⁵ The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was Crucified.

⁶ He is not here; He has Risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay.

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John 16: ¹³ But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will Guide you into all the Truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to Come. (4)

¹⁴ He will Glorify Me because it is from Me that He will receive what He will make known to you.

¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from Me what He will make known to you.”

Ephesians 4: ¹³ until we all Reach unity in the Faith and in the Knowledge of the Son of GOD and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. (4)

¹⁴ Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.

¹⁵ Instead, speaking the Truth in Love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him who is the Head, that is, Christ.

Ephesians 1: ⁴ For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love (4)

 ⁵ He Predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His Pleasure and Will—

⁶ to the praise of His Glorious Grace, which He has freely given us in the One He Loves.

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John 16: ⁴ I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, (4)

⁵ but now I am going to Him who sent Me. None of you asks Me, ‘Where are you going?’

⁶ Rather, you are filled with Grief because I have said these things

Ephesians 4: ⁴ There is One Body and One Spirit, just as you were called to One Hope when you were called; (4) 1 & 3 & 8; GOD & Holy Spirit & Eternal Jersalem;

⁵ one LORD, one Faith, one Baptism;

⁶ one GOD and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

John 16: ²⁸ I came from the Father and Entered the World; now I am Leaving the World and going back to the Father.” (1)

²⁹ Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech.

³⁰ Now we can See that You know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask You questions. This makes us believe that you came from GOD”

Ephesians 4: ²⁸ Anyone who has been Stealing must Steal no longer, but must Work, doing something useful with their own Hands, that they may have something to share with those in need. (1)

²⁹ Do not let any Unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is Helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who Listen.

³⁰ And do not Grieve the Holy Spirit of GOD, with whom you were Sealed for the Day of Redemption.

Ephesians 1: ¹⁹ and His Incomparably great Power for us who Believe. That Power is the same as the Mighty Strength (1)

²⁰ He exerted when He Raised Christ from the Dead and seated Him at His Right hand in the Heavenly Realms,

²¹ far above all Rule and Authority, Power and Dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the One to Come.

Matthew 28: ¹⁹ Therefore go and make Disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (1)

John 16: The Disciples’ Grief Will Turn to Joy

¹⁹ Jesus saw that they wanted to ask Him about this, so He said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me’? (1)

²⁰ Very truly I tell you, you will Weep and Mourn while the World Rejoices. You will Grieve, but your Grief will turn to Joy.

²¹ A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has Come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her Joy that a child is born into the world.

Ephesians 4: ¹⁹ Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of Impurity, and they are full of Greed. (1)

²⁰ That, however, is not the Way of Life you learned

²¹ when you heard about Christ and were taught in Him in accordance with the Truth that is in Jesus.

Ephesians 1: ¹⁰ to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in Heaven and on Earth under Christ. (1)

¹¹ In Him we were also Chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will,

¹² in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of His Glory.

Matthew 28:  ¹⁰ Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell My brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see Me.” (1)

The Guards’ Report

¹¹ While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests Everything that had Happened.

¹² When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the Soldiers a large sum of Money,

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John 16: ¹⁰ about Righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see Me no longer; (1)

¹¹ and about Judgment, because the Prince of this World now stands Condemned.

¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now Bear.

Ephesians 4: ¹⁰ He who Descended is the Very One who Ascended Higher than all the Heavens, in order to Fill the whole Universe.) (1)

¹¹ So Christ Himself gave the Apostles, the Prophets, the Evangelists, the Pastors and Teachers,

¹² to Equip His people for Works of service, so that the Body of Christ may be Built up

Ephesians 1: ¹⁰ to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in Heaven and on Earth under Christ. (1)

¹¹ In Him we were also Chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His Will,

¹² in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of His Glory.

John 16: 1 “All this I have told you so that you will not Fall Away. (1)

² They will put you out of the Synagogue; in Fact, the time is coming when anyone who Kills you will think they are Offering a Service to GOD. (Now it is happening all over the world)

³ They will do such things because they have not Known the Father or Me(Jesus).

Ephesians 4: Unity and Maturity in the Body of Christ

1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I Urge you to live a Life Worthy of the Calling you have Received. (1)

² Be Completely Humble and Gentle; be Patient, Bearing with one another in Love.

³ Make every effort to keep the Unity of the Spirit through the Bond of Peace.

Ephesians 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of GOD,

To GOD’s Holy people in Ephesus, the Faithful in Christ Jesus: (1)

² Grace and Peace to you from GOD our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ

³ Praise be to the GOD and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

Matthew 28: Jesus Has Risen

1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the First day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the Tomb. (1)

² There was a Violent Earthquake, for an Angel of the LORD came down from Heaven and, going to the Tomb, rolled back the Stone and sat on it.

³ His Appearance was like Lightning, and his clothes were White as Snow.

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