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	<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">God Discovered Jesus MeetUp Week 9&nbsp;</span></span></span></p>

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<p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><strong style="font-size: 14.4px;">Click the icon for the one-page, front and back, printable version of this small group lesson as</strong></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000CD;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">The Jesus MeetUp</span></span><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"> |&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Is God Mad At You?</span></span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_18)); font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"> |&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000CD;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Week 9</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(23, 138, 240); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">&nbsp;You are LOVED...believe it!</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">When you accept, by FAITH, that God is your loving Father, then does he need no further reason to love you other than because you want to be his! And accepting by faith means JUST saying in&nbsp;a quiet time: &quot;Father, I want to have faith in you, but I am not sure how or what that means. Help me, please!&quot;&nbsp; Then, spend a bit more in quiet time going about your day living in the BELIEF that you are behaving as his son/daughter!</span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">2:6.7&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry.It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love,&nbsp;while justice conditions his rejected mercy.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definition<br>
<em>wrathful: full of or characterized by intense anger.</em></span></span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">So, what is the origin of this idea?</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">It comes from the prophets in the Old Testament, which is the history of the relationship the Jews had with God. Today we understand that over our own lifetime, as little children, we are corrected by an adult. While we may be upset about the correction/punishment at the time, as an adult now, we no longer think of those times, as we grew to understand the intention behind the action designed to change wrong behavior. Add to this information, that Jesus, who WAS the revelation of the Father in his perfectly lived life, showed us in every way the LOVE of his and our Father now and forever.</span></p>

<p><img alt="" height="228" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57844/master/" width="800"><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Since God IS love, and knows not the experience of being &quot;mad&quot; or looking for ways to &quot;get even&quot;, it is inconceivable that he can be angry with you.&nbsp; &ldquo;God is love&rdquo;; therefore his only personal attitude towards the affairs of the universe is always a reaction of divine AFFECTION.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">2:5.1</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp; <strong>He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.&rdquo;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><img alt="" height="696" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57841/master/" width="475"></strong></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Do you think you fall into any of those categories? Well, now you know you&#39;re covered by his<br>
love! We ALL are! God has NO favorites. We are each loved EQUALLY, for our own individuality, how ever imperfect we are, ALL the time!</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>2:5.2&nbsp; </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>It is wrong to think of God as being coaxed into loving his children because of the&nbsp;sacrifices of his Sons or the intercession of his subordinate creatures, &ldquo;for the Father&nbsp;himself loves you.&rdquo;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Definitions:<br>
Coaxed:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>gently and persistently persuaded (someone) to do something.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Intercession:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>the action of intervening on behalf of another.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Subordinate:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>lower in rank or position; to treat or regard as of lesser importance than something<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span>else.</span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #008080;">See, it is so unlike a loving Divine Father to be influenced in any way to do something good for his children.</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_23));"><span style="font-weight: bold;">​</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">He just desires to!&nbsp; And we certainly do not need anybody to speak to our Father for us, as the clergy of the religious institutions of the world would have us believe.&nbsp; You are not lesser than these religious men and women, but are&nbsp;equal&nbsp;to them, as you are their brother/sister.&nbsp; THIS is a universe and planetary fact!</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>2:6.8</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; God loves the sinner and hates the sin...Sin is not a person. God loves the sinner because he&nbsp;is a personality reality... The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">​I hope you are getting the STRONG impression and truth-fact that any sin you are worried about<br>
is DESTROYED...in fact, look at this:</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>156:5.8&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong> &quot;Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The&nbsp;mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity&quot;.</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">We each have regrettable experiences, REALLY regrettable,&nbsp;and yet, look at what you and I are told.</span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Forgiveness?&nbsp; Fear?&nbsp; Superstition? Consider this passage. I believe it! So should you!</span></p>

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<p><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>131:6.2</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; &quot;When man looks to God for forgiveness, and when he makes bold to enjoy such liberty, he&nbsp;is thereby delivered from fear.&quot;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definition</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Liberty:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span>the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority<br>
on one&#39;s way of life, behavior, or political views.</span></span></span></em></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Let&#39;s look at this statement which Jesus identified as a true statement from the Jainist religion of<br>
2000 years ago, and see how he makes equal the ideas of being FREE and the connection to<br>
and result of FORGIVENESS. SO wonderful, isn&rsquo;t it? And then! we are freed from FEAR. Wow.</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">&quot;Fear&quot; from what, do you think? Maybe...hell?</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Will it relieve you to know that hell does not exist?&nbsp; But it is a tool to control the believers in churches? There IS a way to &quot;disappear&quot; the iniquitous ones, those who have chosen to always and only serve themselves and their own selfish ends, shall just no longer exist.</span></p>

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<p><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">174:1.3&nbsp;<strong> </strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;Divine forgiveness is inevitable; it is inherent and inalienable in God&rsquo;s infinite&nbsp; understanding, in his perfect knowledge of all that concerns the mistaken judgment and&nbsp;erroneous choosing of the child.&quot;</span></strong></p>
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<p><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Definitions</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Inevitable:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;<em>certain to happen; unavoidable.</em></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Inherent:</span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;">existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute</span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span>Inalienable:</span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;">unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor.</span></em></span></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><img alt="" height="475" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57842/master/" width="696"></span></em></span></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Can you see that there is NOTHING you have done or can do which will keep you away from<br>
receiving God&rsquo;s forgiveness. His forgiveness, based upon your ability to forgive others is open<br>
and free to you, as a permanent part of who the Father is. He knows exactly what challenges<br>
we face as imperfect humans.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>148:6.11&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong> &quot;Then Jesus made this final statement: &ldquo;The Father in heaven does not willingly afflict the&nbsp;children of men. Man suffers, first, from the accidents of time and the imperfections of the&nbsp;evil of an immature physical existence. Next, he suffers the inexorable consequences of&nbsp;sin&mdash;the transgression of the laws of life and light. And finally, man reaps the harvest of his&nbsp;own iniquitous persistence in rebellion against the righteous rule of heaven on earth. But&nbsp;man&rsquo;s miseries are not a personal visitation of divine judgment. Man can, and will, do much&nbsp;to lessen his temporal sufferings. But once and for all be delivered from the superstition that God afflicts man at the behest of the evil one.&quot;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definitions</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Afflict:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>to cause pain or suffering to; affect or trouble.</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Inexorable:</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></em></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>impossible to stop or prevent</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Iniquitous:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;<em>grossly unfair and morally wrong; as in the actions of Lucifer!</em></span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span>Superstition:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences&nbsp;of an action or event</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Behest:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>orders or command</span></span></em></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008000;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Now at least you know...</span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">that while your life may not be going as you hoped or planned, that God has NOTHING against you,&nbsp;has NEVER plotted to ruin your life with unfortunate incidents or harm.&nbsp; This is all coming from the unjustified beliefs of olden times, when those, who did not know a loving Father-God, conjured up these ideas, again, to control their social living.&nbsp; Our very own unthinking actions and decisions&nbsp;may well cause results which are impossible for God to stop as he does not interfere with our free will choices.</span></p>

<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(144, 33, 245);">Salvation is a CHOICE</span>!<br>
<span style="color: #B22222;">Jesus said:</span></span></p>

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<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">166:3.3</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp; &quot;...I declare that salvation is first a matter of your personal choosing. ...(the door) is wide enough to admit all who sincerely seek to enter, for I am that door. And the Son will never refuse entrance to any child of the universe who, by faith, seeks to find the Father through the Son.&quot;</span></strong></p>
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<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><img alt="" height="696" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57846/master/" width="475"></span></strong></p>

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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Free will is a gift given to us by the Father, along with our personality and our own unique,&nbsp;undiluted, indwelling fragment of him in our mind. It becomes easier to choose for&nbsp;righteousness, to do the will of the Father, each day that we spend time in worship - where we&nbsp;devote our soul and mind to slowly become more like him. As we look at the perfect&nbsp;demonstration of living as shown to us by Jesus, we can personally choose to act out those&nbsp;behaviors as we see we can in our own daily life.&nbsp;Remember, he also said:</span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">180:3.7 </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;I am the way, the truth and the life. No man(woman)goes to the<br>
Father except through me. ...If you know me, you know the way to the Father.&quot;</span></strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4B0082;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>IMPORTANT: Jesus was the visible manifestation of the invisible God.</strong></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">He was a perfect revelation and reflection of our loving Father, and a perfect specimen of humanity he showed back to God. He was GOD on earth; think of it like this: If God, the Father of Love, were to come&nbsp;down from his throne on high to live his life here on earth, he would be called JESUS.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>180:3.9</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; &quot;Again do I declare: He who has seen me has seen the Father. ... Do you not believe that I am&nbsp;in the Father and the Father in me?&quot;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 56, 230);"><span style="font-size: 16px;">To fully embracing our Paradise Father&#39;s love and forgiveness&nbsp;</span> ~</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: #6699ff;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span><span>Monica Kemp</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Questions to ponder:</strong></span></p>

<ol>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">What is the first thing you need to do now to express your gratitude to God for his forgiveness?</span></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">How can you show your forgiveness to another and free that person up from fear?</span></li>
</ol>

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/questions/group/32984/all" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="250" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57852/master/" width="687"></a></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Now would be a good time for each of you to verbalize your commitments to Jesus and His True<br>
Gospel OF&nbsp;&ldquo;The kingdom of God that dwells within you.&rdquo;&nbsp;Consecrate yourselves to Him and each other.Finish off by saying&nbsp;The Lord&#39;s Prayer&nbsp;together.</span></p>

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<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Next week&#39;s lesson No. 10:&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(var(--color_28));"><span style="font-style: italic;">Meaning of the Cross</span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsuRpcs2liE&amp;feature=youtu.be</p>

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<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000CD;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">The Jesus MeetUp</span></span><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"> |&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Is God Mad At You?</span></span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_18)); font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"> |&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000CD;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Week 9</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(23, 138, 240); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">&nbsp;You are LOVED...believe it!</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">When you accept, by FAITH, that God is your loving Father, then does he need no further reason to love you other than because you want to be his! And accepting by faith means JUST saying in&nbsp;a quiet time: &quot;Father, I want to have faith in you, but I am not sure how or what that means. Help me, please!&quot;&nbsp; Then, spend a bit more in quiet time going about your day living in the BELIEF that you are behaving as his son/daughter!</span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">2:6.7&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry.It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love,&nbsp;while justice conditions his rejected mercy.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definition<br>
<em>wrathful: full of or characterized by intense anger.</em></span></span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">So, what is the origin of this idea?</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">It comes from the prophets in the Old Testament, which is the history of the relationship the Jews had with God. Today we understand that over our own lifetime, as little children, we are corrected by an adult. While we may be upset about the correction/punishment at the time, as an adult now, we no longer think of those times, as we grew to understand the intention behind the action designed to change wrong behavior. Add to this information, that Jesus, who WAS the revelation of the Father in his perfectly lived life, showed us in every way the LOVE of his and our Father now and forever.</span></p>

<p><img alt="" height="228" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57844/master/" width="800"><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Since God IS love, and knows not the experience of being &quot;mad&quot; or looking for ways to &quot;get even&quot;, it is inconceivable that he can be angry with you.&nbsp; &ldquo;God is love&rdquo;; therefore his only personal attitude towards the affairs of the universe is always a reaction of divine AFFECTION.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">2:5.1</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp; <strong>He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.&rdquo;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><img alt="" height="696" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57841/master/" width="475"></strong></span></p>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Do you think you fall into any of those categories? Well, now you know you&#39;re covered by his<br>
love! We ALL are! God has NO favorites. We are each loved EQUALLY, for our own individuality, how ever imperfect we are, ALL the time!</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>2:5.2&nbsp; </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>It is wrong to think of God as being coaxed into loving his children because of the&nbsp;sacrifices of his Sons or the intercession of his subordinate creatures, &ldquo;for the Father&nbsp;himself loves you.&rdquo;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Definitions:<br>
Coaxed:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>gently and persistently persuaded (someone) to do something.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Intercession:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>the action of intervening on behalf of another.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Subordinate:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>lower in rank or position; to treat or regard as of lesser importance than something<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span>else.</span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #008080;">See, it is so unlike a loving Divine Father to be influenced in any way to do something good for his children.</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_23));"><span style="font-weight: bold;">​</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">He just desires to!&nbsp; And we certainly do not need anybody to speak to our Father for us, as the clergy of the religious institutions of the world would have us believe.&nbsp; You are not lesser than these religious men and women, but are&nbsp;equal&nbsp;to them, as you are their brother/sister.&nbsp; THIS is a universe and planetary fact!</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>2:6.8</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; God loves the sinner and hates the sin...Sin is not a person. God loves the sinner because he&nbsp;is a personality reality... The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin.</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">​I hope you are getting the STRONG impression and truth-fact that any sin you are worried about<br>
is DESTROYED...in fact, look at this:</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>156:5.8&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong> &quot;Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The&nbsp;mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity&quot;.</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">We each have regrettable experiences, REALLY regrettable,&nbsp;and yet, look at what you and I are told.</span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Forgiveness?&nbsp; Fear?&nbsp; Superstition? Consider this passage. I believe it! So should you!</span></p>

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<p><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>131:6.2</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; &quot;When man looks to God for forgiveness, and when he makes bold to enjoy such liberty, he&nbsp;is thereby delivered from fear.&quot;</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definition</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Liberty:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span>the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority<br>
on one&#39;s way of life, behavior, or political views.</span></span></span></em></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Let&#39;s look at this statement which Jesus identified as a true statement from the Jainist religion of<br>
2000 years ago, and see how he makes equal the ideas of being FREE and the connection to<br>
and result of FORGIVENESS. SO wonderful, isn&rsquo;t it? And then! we are freed from FEAR. Wow.</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">&quot;Fear&quot; from what, do you think? Maybe...hell?</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Will it relieve you to know that hell does not exist?&nbsp; But it is a tool to control the believers in churches? There IS a way to &quot;disappear&quot; the iniquitous ones, those who have chosen to always and only serve themselves and their own selfish ends, shall just no longer exist.</span></p>

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<p><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">174:1.3&nbsp;<strong> </strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;Divine forgiveness is inevitable; it is inherent and inalienable in God&rsquo;s infinite&nbsp; understanding, in his perfect knowledge of all that concerns the mistaken judgment and&nbsp;erroneous choosing of the child.&quot;</span></strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Definitions</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Inevitable:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;<em>certain to happen; unavoidable.</em></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Inherent:</span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;">existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute</span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span>Inalienable:</span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;">unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor.</span></em></span></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><img alt="" height="475" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57842/master/" width="696"></span></em></span></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Can you see that there is NOTHING you have done or can do which will keep you away from<br>
receiving God&rsquo;s forgiveness. His forgiveness, based upon your ability to forgive others is open<br>
and free to you, as a permanent part of who the Father is. He knows exactly what challenges<br>
we face as imperfect humans.</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>148:6.11&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong> &quot;Then Jesus made this final statement: &ldquo;The Father in heaven does not willingly afflict the&nbsp;children of men. Man suffers, first, from the accidents of time and the imperfections of the&nbsp;evil of an immature physical existence. Next, he suffers the inexorable consequences of&nbsp;sin&mdash;the transgression of the laws of life and light. And finally, man reaps the harvest of his&nbsp;own iniquitous persistence in rebellion against the righteous rule of heaven on earth. But&nbsp;man&rsquo;s miseries are not a personal visitation of divine judgment. Man can, and will, do much&nbsp;to lessen his temporal sufferings. But once and for all be delivered from the superstition that God afflicts man at the behest of the evil one.&quot;</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definitions</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Afflict:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>to cause pain or suffering to; affect or trouble.</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Inexorable:</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></em></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>impossible to stop or prevent</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Iniquitous:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;<em>grossly unfair and morally wrong; as in the actions of Lucifer!</em></span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span>Superstition:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences&nbsp;of an action or event</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Behest:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>orders or command</span></span></em></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008000;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Now at least you know...</span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">that while your life may not be going as you hoped or planned, that God has NOTHING against you,&nbsp;has NEVER plotted to ruin your life with unfortunate incidents or harm.&nbsp; This is all coming from the unjustified beliefs of olden times, when those, who did not know a loving Father-God, conjured up these ideas, again, to control their social living.&nbsp; Our very own unthinking actions and decisions&nbsp;may well cause results which are impossible for God to stop as he does not interfere with our free will choices.</span></p>

<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(144, 33, 245);">Salvation is a CHOICE</span>!<br>
<span style="color: #B22222;">Jesus said:</span></span></p>

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<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">166:3.3</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp; &quot;...I declare that salvation is first a matter of your personal choosing. ...(the door) is wide enough to admit all who sincerely seek to enter, for I am that door. And the Son will never refuse entrance to any child of the universe who, by faith, seeks to find the Father through the Son.&quot;</span></strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><img alt="" height="696" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57846/master/" width="475"></span></strong></p>

<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Free will is a gift given to us by the Father, along with our personality and our own unique,&nbsp;undiluted, indwelling fragment of him in our mind. It becomes easier to choose for&nbsp;righteousness, to do the will of the Father, each day that we spend time in worship - where we&nbsp;devote our soul and mind to slowly become more like him. As we look at the perfect&nbsp;demonstration of living as shown to us by Jesus, we can personally choose to act out those&nbsp;behaviors as we see we can in our own daily life.&nbsp;Remember, he also said:</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">180:3.7 </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;I am the way, the truth and the life. No man(woman)goes to the<br>
Father except through me. ...If you know me, you know the way to the Father.&quot;</span></strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4B0082;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>IMPORTANT: Jesus was the visible manifestation of the invisible God.</strong></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">He was a perfect revelation and reflection of our loving Father, and a perfect specimen of humanity he showed back to God. He was GOD on earth; think of it like this: If God, the Father of Love, were to come&nbsp;down from his throne on high to live his life here on earth, he would be called JESUS.</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>180:3.9</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; &quot;Again do I declare: He who has seen me has seen the Father. ... Do you not believe that I am&nbsp;in the Father and the Father in me?&quot;</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 56, 230);"><span style="font-size: 16px;">To fully embracing our Paradise Father&#39;s love and forgiveness&nbsp;</span> ~</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: #6699ff;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span><span>Monica Kemp</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Questions to ponder:</strong></span></p>

<ol>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">What is the first thing you need to do now to express your gratitude to God for his forgiveness?</span></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">How can you show your forgiveness to another and free that person up from fear?</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Now would be a good time for each of you to verbalize your commitments to Jesus and His True<br>
Gospel OF&nbsp;&ldquo;The kingdom of God that dwells within you.&rdquo;&nbsp;Consecrate yourselves to Him and each other.Finish off by saying&nbsp;The Lord&#39;s Prayer&nbsp;together.</span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000CD;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">The Jesus MeetUp</span></span><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"> |&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Is God Mad At You?</span></span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_18)); font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"> |&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000CD;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Week 9</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(23, 138, 240); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">&nbsp;You are LOVED...believe it!</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">When you accept, by FAITH, that God is your loving Father, then does he need no further reason to love you other than because you want to be his! And accepting by faith means JUST saying in&nbsp;a quiet time: &quot;Father, I want to have faith in you, but I am not sure how or what that means. Help me, please!&quot;&nbsp; Then, spend a bit more in quiet time going about your day living in the BELIEF that you are behaving as his son/daughter!</span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">2:6.7&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry.It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love,&nbsp;while justice conditions his rejected mercy.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definition<br>
<em>wrathful: full of or characterized by intense anger.</em></span></span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">So, what is the origin of this idea?</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">It comes from the prophets in the Old Testament, which is the history of the relationship the Jews had with God. Today we understand that over our own lifetime, as little children, we are corrected by an adult. While we may be upset about the correction/punishment at the time, as an adult now, we no longer think of those times, as we grew to understand the intention behind the action designed to change wrong behavior. Add to this information, that Jesus, who WAS the revelation of the Father in his perfectly lived life, showed us in every way the LOVE of his and our Father now and forever.</span></p>

<p><img alt="" height="228" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57844/master/" width="800"><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Since God IS love, and knows not the experience of being &quot;mad&quot; or looking for ways to &quot;get even&quot;, it is inconceivable that he can be angry with you.&nbsp; &ldquo;God is love&rdquo;; therefore his only personal attitude towards the affairs of the universe is always a reaction of divine AFFECTION.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">2:5.1</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp; <strong>He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.&rdquo;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><img alt="" height="696" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57841/master/" width="475"></strong></span></p>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Do you think you fall into any of those categories? Well, now you know you&#39;re covered by his<br>
love! We ALL are! God has NO favorites. We are each loved EQUALLY, for our own individuality, how ever imperfect we are, ALL the time!</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>2:5.2&nbsp; </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>It is wrong to think of God as being coaxed into loving his children because of the&nbsp;sacrifices of his Sons or the intercession of his subordinate creatures, &ldquo;for the Father&nbsp;himself loves you.&rdquo;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Definitions:<br>
Coaxed:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>gently and persistently persuaded (someone) to do something.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Intercession:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>the action of intervening on behalf of another.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Subordinate:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>lower in rank or position; to treat or regard as of lesser importance than something<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span>else.</span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #008080;">See, it is so unlike a loving Divine Father to be influenced in any way to do something good for his children.</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_23));"><span style="font-weight: bold;">​</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">He just desires to!&nbsp; And we certainly do not need anybody to speak to our Father for us, as the clergy of the religious institutions of the world would have us believe.&nbsp; You are not lesser than these religious men and women, but are&nbsp;equal&nbsp;to them, as you are their brother/sister.&nbsp; THIS is a universe and planetary fact!</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>2:6.8</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; God loves the sinner and hates the sin...Sin is not a person. God loves the sinner because he&nbsp;is a personality reality... The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin.</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">​I hope you are getting the STRONG impression and truth-fact that any sin you are worried about<br>
is DESTROYED...in fact, look at this:</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>156:5.8&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong> &quot;Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The&nbsp;mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity&quot;.</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">We each have regrettable experiences, REALLY regrettable,&nbsp;and yet, look at what you and I are told.</span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Forgiveness?&nbsp; Fear?&nbsp; Superstition? Consider this passage. I believe it! So should you!</span></p>

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<p><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>131:6.2</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; &quot;When man looks to God for forgiveness, and when he makes bold to enjoy such liberty, he&nbsp;is thereby delivered from fear.&quot;</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definition</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Liberty:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span>the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority<br>
on one&#39;s way of life, behavior, or political views.</span></span></span></em></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Let&#39;s look at this statement which Jesus identified as a true statement from the Jainist religion of<br>
2000 years ago, and see how he makes equal the ideas of being FREE and the connection to<br>
and result of FORGIVENESS. SO wonderful, isn&rsquo;t it? And then! we are freed from FEAR. Wow.</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">&quot;Fear&quot; from what, do you think? Maybe...hell?</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Will it relieve you to know that hell does not exist?&nbsp; But it is a tool to control the believers in churches? There IS a way to &quot;disappear&quot; the iniquitous ones, those who have chosen to always and only serve themselves and their own selfish ends, shall just no longer exist.</span></p>

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<p><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">174:1.3&nbsp;<strong> </strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;Divine forgiveness is inevitable; it is inherent and inalienable in God&rsquo;s infinite&nbsp; understanding, in his perfect knowledge of all that concerns the mistaken judgment and&nbsp;erroneous choosing of the child.&quot;</span></strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Definitions</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Inevitable:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;<em>certain to happen; unavoidable.</em></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Inherent:</span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;">existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute</span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span>Inalienable:</span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;">unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor.</span></em></span></p>

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<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Can you see that there is NOTHING you have done or can do which will keep you away from<br>
receiving God&rsquo;s forgiveness. His forgiveness, based upon your ability to forgive others is open<br>
and free to you, as a permanent part of who the Father is. He knows exactly what challenges<br>
we face as imperfect humans.</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>148:6.11&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong> &quot;Then Jesus made this final statement: &ldquo;The Father in heaven does not willingly afflict the&nbsp;children of men. Man suffers, first, from the accidents of time and the imperfections of the&nbsp;evil of an immature physical existence. Next, he suffers the inexorable consequences of&nbsp;sin&mdash;the transgression of the laws of life and light. And finally, man reaps the harvest of his&nbsp;own iniquitous persistence in rebellion against the righteous rule of heaven on earth. But&nbsp;man&rsquo;s miseries are not a personal visitation of divine judgment. Man can, and will, do much&nbsp;to lessen his temporal sufferings. But once and for all be delivered from the superstition that God afflicts man at the behest of the evil one.&quot;</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definitions</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Afflict:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>to cause pain or suffering to; affect or trouble.</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Inexorable:</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></em></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>impossible to stop or prevent</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Iniquitous:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;<em>grossly unfair and morally wrong; as in the actions of Lucifer!</em></span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span>Superstition:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences&nbsp;of an action or event</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Behest:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>orders or command</span></span></em></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008000;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Now at least you know...</span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">that while your life may not be going as you hoped or planned, that God has NOTHING against you,&nbsp;has NEVER plotted to ruin your life with unfortunate incidents or harm.&nbsp; This is all coming from the unjustified beliefs of olden times, when those, who did not know a loving Father-God, conjured up these ideas, again, to control their social living.&nbsp; Our very own unthinking actions and decisions&nbsp;may well cause results which are impossible for God to stop as he does not interfere with our free will choices.</span></p>

<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(144, 33, 245);">Salvation is a CHOICE</span>!<br>
<span style="color: #B22222;">Jesus said:</span></span></p>

<blockquote>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">166:3.3</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp; &quot;...I declare that salvation is first a matter of your personal choosing. ...(the door) is wide enough to admit all who sincerely seek to enter, for I am that door. And the Son will never refuse entrance to any child of the universe who, by faith, seeks to find the Father through the Son.&quot;</span></strong></p>
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<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><img alt="" height="696" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57846/master/" width="475"></span></strong></p>

<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Free will is a gift given to us by the Father, along with our personality and our own unique,&nbsp;undiluted, indwelling fragment of him in our mind. It becomes easier to choose for&nbsp;righteousness, to do the will of the Father, each day that we spend time in worship - where we&nbsp;devote our soul and mind to slowly become more like him. As we look at the perfect&nbsp;demonstration of living as shown to us by Jesus, we can personally choose to act out those&nbsp;behaviors as we see we can in our own daily life.&nbsp;Remember, he also said:</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">180:3.7 </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;I am the way, the truth and the life. No man(woman)goes to the<br>
Father except through me. ...If you know me, you know the way to the Father.&quot;</span></strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4B0082;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>IMPORTANT: Jesus was the visible manifestation of the invisible God.</strong></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">He was a perfect revelation and reflection of our loving Father, and a perfect specimen of humanity he showed back to God. He was GOD on earth; think of it like this: If God, the Father of Love, were to come&nbsp;down from his throne on high to live his life here on earth, he would be called JESUS.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>180:3.9</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; &quot;Again do I declare: He who has seen me has seen the Father. ... Do you not believe that I am&nbsp;in the Father and the Father in me?&quot;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 56, 230);"><span style="font-size: 16px;">To fully embracing our Paradise Father&#39;s love and forgiveness&nbsp;</span> ~</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: #6699ff;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span><span>Monica Kemp</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

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<span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Questions to ponder:</strong></span></p>

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	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">What is the first thing you need to do now to express your gratitude to God for his forgiveness?</span></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">How can you show your forgiveness to another and free that person up from fear?</span></li>
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<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Now would be a good time for each of you to verbalize your commitments to Jesus and His True<br>
Gospel OF&nbsp;&ldquo;The kingdom of God that dwells within you.&rdquo;&nbsp;Consecrate yourselves to Him and each other.Finish off by saying&nbsp;The Lord&#39;s Prayer&nbsp;together.</span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000CD;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">The Jesus MeetUp</span></span><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"> |&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Is God Mad At You?</span></span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_18)); font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"> |&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000CD;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Week 9</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(23, 138, 240); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">&nbsp;You are LOVED...believe it!</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">When you accept, by FAITH, that God is your loving Father, then does he need no further reason to love you other than because you want to be his! And accepting by faith means JUST saying in&nbsp;a quiet time: &quot;Father, I want to have faith in you, but I am not sure how or what that means. Help me, please!&quot;&nbsp; Then, spend a bit more in quiet time going about your day living in the BELIEF that you are behaving as his son/daughter!</span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">2:6.7&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry.It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love,&nbsp;while justice conditions his rejected mercy.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definition<br>
<em>wrathful: full of or characterized by intense anger.</em></span></span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">So, what is the origin of this idea?</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">It comes from the prophets in the Old Testament, which is the history of the relationship the Jews had with God. Today we understand that over our own lifetime, as little children, we are corrected by an adult. While we may be upset about the correction/punishment at the time, as an adult now, we no longer think of those times, as we grew to understand the intention behind the action designed to change wrong behavior. Add to this information, that Jesus, who WAS the revelation of the Father in his perfectly lived life, showed us in every way the LOVE of his and our Father now and forever.</span></p>

<p><img alt="" height="228" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57844/master/" width="800"><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Since God IS love, and knows not the experience of being &quot;mad&quot; or looking for ways to &quot;get even&quot;, it is inconceivable that he can be angry with you.&nbsp; &ldquo;God is love&rdquo;; therefore his only personal attitude towards the affairs of the universe is always a reaction of divine AFFECTION.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">2:5.1</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp; <strong>He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.&rdquo;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><img alt="" height="696" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57841/master/" width="475"></strong></span></p>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Do you think you fall into any of those categories? Well, now you know you&#39;re covered by his<br>
love! We ALL are! God has NO favorites. We are each loved EQUALLY, for our own individuality, how ever imperfect we are, ALL the time!</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>2:5.2&nbsp; </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>It is wrong to think of God as being coaxed into loving his children because of the&nbsp;sacrifices of his Sons or the intercession of his subordinate creatures, &ldquo;for the Father&nbsp;himself loves you.&rdquo;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Definitions:<br>
Coaxed:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>gently and persistently persuaded (someone) to do something.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Intercession:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>the action of intervening on behalf of another.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Subordinate:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>lower in rank or position; to treat or regard as of lesser importance than something<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span>else.</span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #008080;">See, it is so unlike a loving Divine Father to be influenced in any way to do something good for his children.</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_23));"><span style="font-weight: bold;">​</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">He just desires to!&nbsp; And we certainly do not need anybody to speak to our Father for us, as the clergy of the religious institutions of the world would have us believe.&nbsp; You are not lesser than these religious men and women, but are&nbsp;equal&nbsp;to them, as you are their brother/sister.&nbsp; THIS is a universe and planetary fact!</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>2:6.8</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; God loves the sinner and hates the sin...Sin is not a person. God loves the sinner because he&nbsp;is a personality reality... The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin.</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">​I hope you are getting the STRONG impression and truth-fact that any sin you are worried about<br>
is DESTROYED...in fact, look at this:</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>156:5.8&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong> &quot;Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The&nbsp;mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity&quot;.</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">We each have regrettable experiences, REALLY regrettable,&nbsp;and yet, look at what you and I are told.</span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Forgiveness?&nbsp; Fear?&nbsp; Superstition? Consider this passage. I believe it! So should you!</span></p>

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<p><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>131:6.2</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; &quot;When man looks to God for forgiveness, and when he makes bold to enjoy such liberty, he&nbsp;is thereby delivered from fear.&quot;</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definition</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Liberty:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span>the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority<br>
on one&#39;s way of life, behavior, or political views.</span></span></span></em></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Let&#39;s look at this statement which Jesus identified as a true statement from the Jainist religion of<br>
2000 years ago, and see how he makes equal the ideas of being FREE and the connection to<br>
and result of FORGIVENESS. SO wonderful, isn&rsquo;t it? And then! we are freed from FEAR. Wow.</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">&quot;Fear&quot; from what, do you think? Maybe...hell?</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Will it relieve you to know that hell does not exist?&nbsp; But it is a tool to control the believers in churches? There IS a way to &quot;disappear&quot; the iniquitous ones, those who have chosen to always and only serve themselves and their own selfish ends, shall just no longer exist.</span></p>

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<p><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">174:1.3&nbsp;<strong> </strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;Divine forgiveness is inevitable; it is inherent and inalienable in God&rsquo;s infinite&nbsp; understanding, in his perfect knowledge of all that concerns the mistaken judgment and&nbsp;erroneous choosing of the child.&quot;</span></strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Definitions</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Inevitable:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;<em>certain to happen; unavoidable.</em></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Inherent:</span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;">existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute</span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span>Inalienable:</span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;">unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor.</span></em></span></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><img alt="" height="475" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57842/master/" width="696"></span></em></span></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Can you see that there is NOTHING you have done or can do which will keep you away from<br>
receiving God&rsquo;s forgiveness. His forgiveness, based upon your ability to forgive others is open<br>
and free to you, as a permanent part of who the Father is. He knows exactly what challenges<br>
we face as imperfect humans.</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>148:6.11&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong> &quot;Then Jesus made this final statement: &ldquo;The Father in heaven does not willingly afflict the&nbsp;children of men. Man suffers, first, from the accidents of time and the imperfections of the&nbsp;evil of an immature physical existence. Next, he suffers the inexorable consequences of&nbsp;sin&mdash;the transgression of the laws of life and light. And finally, man reaps the harvest of his&nbsp;own iniquitous persistence in rebellion against the righteous rule of heaven on earth. But&nbsp;man&rsquo;s miseries are not a personal visitation of divine judgment. Man can, and will, do much&nbsp;to lessen his temporal sufferings. But once and for all be delivered from the superstition that God afflicts man at the behest of the evil one.&quot;</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definitions</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Afflict:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>to cause pain or suffering to; affect or trouble.</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Inexorable:</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></em></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>impossible to stop or prevent</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Iniquitous:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;<em>grossly unfair and morally wrong; as in the actions of Lucifer!</em></span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span>Superstition:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences&nbsp;of an action or event</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Behest:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>orders or command</span></span></em></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008000;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Now at least you know...</span></span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">that while your life may not be going as you hoped or planned, that God has NOTHING against you,&nbsp;has NEVER plotted to ruin your life with unfortunate incidents or harm.&nbsp; This is all coming from the unjustified beliefs of olden times, when those, who did not know a loving Father-God, conjured up these ideas, again, to control their social living.&nbsp; Our very own unthinking actions and decisions&nbsp;may well cause results which are impossible for God to stop as he does not interfere with our free will choices.</span></p>

<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(144, 33, 245);">Salvation is a CHOICE</span>!<br>
<span style="color: #B22222;">Jesus said:</span></span></p>

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<strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">166:3.3</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp; &quot;...I declare that salvation is first a matter of your personal choosing. ...(the door) is wide enough to admit all who sincerely seek to enter, for I am that door. And the Son will never refuse entrance to any child of the universe who, by faith, seeks to find the Father through the Son.&quot;</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Free will is a gift given to us by the Father, along with our personality and our own unique,&nbsp;undiluted, indwelling fragment of him in our mind. It becomes easier to choose for&nbsp;righteousness, to do the will of the Father, each day that we spend time in worship - where we&nbsp;devote our soul and mind to slowly become more like him. As we look at the perfect&nbsp;demonstration of living as shown to us by Jesus, we can personally choose to act out those&nbsp;behaviors as we see we can in our own daily life.&nbsp;Remember, he also said:</span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">180:3.7 </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;I am the way, the truth and the life. No man(woman)goes to the<br>
Father except through me. ...If you know me, you know the way to the Father.&quot;</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4B0082;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>IMPORTANT: Jesus was the visible manifestation of the invisible God.</strong></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">He was a perfect revelation and reflection of our loving Father, and a perfect specimen of humanity he showed back to God. He was GOD on earth; think of it like this: If God, the Father of Love, were to come&nbsp;down from his throne on high to live his life here on earth, he would be called JESUS.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>180:3.9</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; &quot;Again do I declare: He who has seen me has seen the Father. ... Do you not believe that I am&nbsp;in the Father and the Father in me?&quot;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 56, 230);"><span style="font-size: 16px;">To fully embracing our Paradise Father&#39;s love and forgiveness&nbsp;</span> ~</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: #6699ff;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span><span>Monica Kemp</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

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<span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Questions to ponder:</strong></span></p>

<ol>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">What is the first thing you need to do now to express your gratitude to God for his forgiveness?</span></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">How can you show your forgiveness to another and free that person up from fear?</span></li>
</ol>

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<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Now would be a good time for each of you to verbalize your commitments to Jesus and His True<br>
Gospel OF&nbsp;&ldquo;The kingdom of God that dwells within you.&rdquo;&nbsp;Consecrate yourselves to Him and each other.Finish off by saying&nbsp;The Lord&#39;s Prayer&nbsp;together.</span></p>

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<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000CD;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">The Jesus MeetUp</span></span><span style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96); font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"> |&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Is God Mad At You?</span></span><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_18)); font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;"> |&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000CD;"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Week 9</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(23, 138, 240); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">&nbsp;You are LOVED...believe it!</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">When you accept, by FAITH, that God is your loving Father, then does he need no further reason to love you other than because you want to be his! And accepting by faith means JUST saying in&nbsp;a quiet time: &quot;Father, I want to have faith in you, but I am not sure how or what that means. Help me, please!&quot;&nbsp; Then, spend a bit more in quiet time going about your day living in the BELIEF that you are behaving as his son/daughter!</span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">2:6.7&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry.It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love,&nbsp;while justice conditions his rejected mercy.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definition<br>
<em>wrathful: full of or characterized by intense anger.</em></span></span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">So, what is the origin of this idea?</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">It comes from the prophets in the Old Testament, which is the history of the relationship the Jews had with God. Today we understand that over our own lifetime, as little children, we are corrected by an adult. While we may be upset about the correction/punishment at the time, as an adult now, we no longer think of those times, as we grew to understand the intention behind the action designed to change wrong behavior. Add to this information, that Jesus, who WAS the revelation of the Father in his perfectly lived life, showed us in every way the LOVE of his and our Father now and forever.</span></p>

<p><img alt="" height="228" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57844/master/" width="800"><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Since God IS love, and knows not the experience of being &quot;mad&quot; or looking for ways to &quot;get even&quot;, it is inconceivable that he can be angry with you.&nbsp; &ldquo;God is love&rdquo;; therefore his only personal attitude towards the affairs of the universe is always a reaction of divine AFFECTION.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">2:5.1</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp; <strong>He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.&rdquo;</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><img alt="" height="696" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57841/master/" width="475"></strong></span></p>

<div>&nbsp;</div>

<div>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Do you think you fall into any of those categories? Well, now you know you&#39;re covered by his<br>
love! We ALL are! God has NO favorites. We are each loved EQUALLY, for our own individuality, how ever imperfect we are, ALL the time!</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>2:5.2&nbsp; </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>It is wrong to think of God as being coaxed into loving his children because of the&nbsp;sacrifices of his Sons or the intercession of his subordinate creatures, &ldquo;for the Father&nbsp;himself loves you.&rdquo;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Definitions:<br>
Coaxed:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>gently and persistently persuaded (someone) to do something.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Intercession:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>the action of intervening on behalf of another.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Subordinate:&nbsp;</span></span></span><span><span>lower in rank or position; to treat or regard as of lesser importance than something<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span>else.</span></span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #008080;">See, it is so unlike a loving Divine Father to be influenced in any way to do something good for his children.</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><span style="color: rgb(var(--color_23));"><span style="font-weight: bold;">​</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">He just desires to!&nbsp; And we certainly do not need anybody to speak to our Father for us, as the clergy of the religious institutions of the world would have us believe.&nbsp; You are not lesser than these religious men and women, but are&nbsp;equal&nbsp;to them, as you are their brother/sister.&nbsp; THIS is a universe and planetary fact!</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>2:6.8</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; God loves the sinner and hates the sin...Sin is not a person. God loves the sinner because he&nbsp;is a personality reality... The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin.</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">​I hope you are getting the STRONG impression and truth-fact that any sin you are worried about<br>
is DESTROYED...in fact, look at this:</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>156:5.8&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong> &quot;Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The&nbsp;mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity&quot;.</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">We each have regrettable experiences, REALLY regrettable,&nbsp;and yet, look at what you and I are told.</span></span></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Forgiveness?&nbsp; Fear?&nbsp; Superstition? Consider this passage. I believe it! So should you!</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>131:6.2</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; &quot;When man looks to God for forgiveness, and when he makes bold to enjoy such liberty, he&nbsp;is thereby delivered from fear.&quot;</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definition</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Liberty:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span>the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority<br>
on one&#39;s way of life, behavior, or political views.</span></span></span></em></p>

<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Let&#39;s look at this statement which Jesus identified as a true statement from the Jainist religion of<br>
2000 years ago, and see how he makes equal the ideas of being FREE and the connection to<br>
and result of FORGIVENESS. SO wonderful, isn&rsquo;t it? And then! we are freed from FEAR. Wow.</span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">&quot;Fear&quot; from what, do you think? Maybe...hell?</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Will it relieve you to know that hell does not exist?&nbsp; But it is a tool to control the believers in churches? There IS a way to &quot;disappear&quot; the iniquitous ones, those who have chosen to always and only serve themselves and their own selfish ends, shall just no longer exist.</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><br>
<span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">174:1.3&nbsp;<strong> </strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;Divine forgiveness is inevitable; it is inherent and inalienable in God&rsquo;s infinite&nbsp; understanding, in his perfect knowledge of all that concerns the mistaken judgment and&nbsp;erroneous choosing of the child.&quot;</span></strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Definitions</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Inevitable:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;<em>certain to happen; unavoidable.</em></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>Inherent:</span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;">existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute</span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span>Inalienable:</span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp;</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;">unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor.</span></em></span></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><img alt="" height="475" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/57842/master/" width="696"></span></em></span></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Can you see that there is NOTHING you have done or can do which will keep you away from<br>
receiving God&rsquo;s forgiveness. His forgiveness, based upon your ability to forgive others is open<br>
and free to you, as a permanent part of who the Father is. He knows exactly what challenges<br>
we face as imperfect humans.</span></p>

<blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>148:6.11&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong> &quot;Then Jesus made this final statement: &ldquo;The Father in heaven does not willingly afflict the&nbsp;children of men. Man suffers, first, from the accidents of time and the imperfections of the&nbsp;evil of an immature physical existence. Next, he suffers the inexorable consequences of&nbsp;sin&mdash;the transgression of the laws of life and light. And finally, man reaps the harvest of his&nbsp;own iniquitous persistence in rebellion against the righteous rule of heaven on earth. But&nbsp;man&rsquo;s miseries are not a personal visitation of divine judgment. Man can, and will, do much&nbsp;to lessen his temporal sufferings. But once and for all be delivered from the superstition that God afflicts man at the behest of the evil one.&quot;</strong></span></p>
</blockquote>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>Definitions</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Afflict:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>to cause pain or suffering to; affect or trouble.</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Inexorable:</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></em></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>impossible to stop or prevent</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span>Iniquitous:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;<em>grossly unfair and morally wrong; as in the actions of Lucifer!</em></span></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span><span>Superstition:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences&nbsp;of an action or event</span></span></em><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>Behest:</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span>orders or command</span></span></em></p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008000;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Now at least you know...</span></span></span></span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">that while your life may not be going as you hoped or planned, that God has NOTHING against you,&nbsp;has NEVER plotted to ruin your life with unfortunate incidents or harm.&nbsp; This is all coming from the unjustified beliefs of olden times, when those, who did not know a loving Father-God, conjured up these ideas, again, to control their social living.&nbsp; Our very own unthinking actions and decisions&nbsp;may well cause results which are impossible for God to stop as he does not interfere with our free will choices.</span></p>

<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14)); text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(144, 33, 245);">Salvation is a CHOICE</span>!<br>
<span style="color: #B22222;">Jesus said:</span></span></p>

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<strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">166:3.3</span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&nbsp; &quot;...I declare that salvation is first a matter of your personal choosing. ...(the door) is wide enough to admit all who sincerely seek to enter, for I am that door. And the Son will never refuse entrance to any child of the universe who, by faith, seeks to find the Father through the Son.&quot;</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Free will is a gift given to us by the Father, along with our personality and our own unique,&nbsp;undiluted, indwelling fragment of him in our mind. It becomes easier to choose for&nbsp;righteousness, to do the will of the Father, each day that we spend time in worship - where we&nbsp;devote our soul and mind to slowly become more like him. As we look at the perfect&nbsp;demonstration of living as shown to us by Jesus, we can personally choose to act out those&nbsp;behaviors as we see we can in our own daily life.&nbsp;Remember, he also said:</span></p>

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<p><strong><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">180:3.7 </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">&quot;I am the way, the truth and the life. No man(woman)goes to the<br>
Father except through me. ...If you know me, you know the way to the Father.&quot;</span></strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4B0082;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>IMPORTANT: Jesus was the visible manifestation of the invisible God.</strong></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">He was a perfect revelation and reflection of our loving Father, and a perfect specimen of humanity he showed back to God. He was GOD on earth; think of it like this: If God, the Father of Love, were to come&nbsp;down from his throne on high to live his life here on earth, he would be called JESUS.</span></p>

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<p><span style="color: #696969;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><strong>180:3.9</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>&nbsp; &quot;Again do I declare: He who has seen me has seen the Father. ... Do you not believe that I am&nbsp;in the Father and the Father in me?&quot;</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(var(--color_14));"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 56, 230);"><span style="font-size: 16px;">To fully embracing our Paradise Father&#39;s love and forgiveness&nbsp;</span> ~</span>&nbsp;<span style="color: #6699ff;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span><span>Monica Kemp</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

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<span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Questions to ponder:</strong></span></p>

<ol>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">What is the first thing you need to do now to express your gratitude to God for his forgiveness?</span></li>
	<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">How can you show your forgiveness to another and free that person up from fear?</span></li>
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<p><br>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Now would be a good time for each of you to verbalize your commitments to Jesus and His True<br>
Gospel OF&nbsp;&ldquo;The kingdom of God that dwells within you.&rdquo;&nbsp;Consecrate yourselves to Him and each other.Finish off by saying&nbsp;The Lord&#39;s Prayer&nbsp;together.</span></p>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Next week&#39;s lesson No. 10:&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(var(--color_28));"><span style="font-style: italic;">Meaning of the Cross</span></span></span></span></p>

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