I can't change anyone, including myself. That actually does mean that I'm powerless in and of myself. I can be an instrument of change only because Jesus has made His home within me. Nothing is impossible with Him. We all want someone to fix our crap...as long as we don't have to change. We want to remain victims; we hate being responsible...evidence that the Garden of Eden wasn't a myth after all. But there is hope to be freed from our well-crafted self-centered prisons. Through His sacrifice and resurrection, Jesus Christ offers us true humanity, restored identity, worth, purpose and meaning that have no reference to the evaluative tools of culture. The Holy Spirit comes to permanently live in all who will believe this Good News and He works the change and enables you to cooperate in His work of healing and restoring the broken Image of God in you to wholeness again.
HE IS RISEN! IT IS FINISHED! After the Israelites had passed through the Red Sea by God opening the way for them to be saved, the whole of Pharoah's army, his horsemen and chariots pursued God's people into the opened way. Once they were all in, the waters flowed back into their place with suddenness and fury. Not one of the enemies survived. All perished in those waters. When Jesus Christ hung on the cross, all that sin contained, the full measure of the rebellion of mankind for all time, all the wickedness that was ever in human hearts were absorbed into the Lamb of God as He died our death, received our just judgement from God for all time, taking all that sin and death contained. In Him, sin and death died once and for all. They were overwhelmed, covered and drowned in the sea of His precious blood, poured out for the sin of the whole world. Not one enemy remained alive, all were stripped of their power to hold us in slavery to sin any longer. All their weapons were confis...

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