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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (4631)4/9/2000 1:02:00 AM
From: Colleen M  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4775
 
It's Isaiah 40:1-31. I find it interesting the way the prophets of old foretold exactly what would happen in the New Testament of the Bible. This proves to me all the more that Jesus Christ came to this world to pay the ultimate price for us.

40:1
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

40:2
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.

40:3
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

40:4
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

40:5
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

40:6
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

40:7
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

40:8
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

40:9
O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

40:10
Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

40:11
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

40:12
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

40:13
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

40:14
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

40:15
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

40:16
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

40:17
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

40:18
To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

40:19
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

40:20
He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

40:21
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

40:23
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

40:24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

40:25
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

40:26
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

40:27
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

40:28
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

40:29
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

40:30
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.



To: 2MAR$ who wrote (4631)4/9/2000 1:17:00 AM
From: Colleen M  Respond to of 4775
 
If you loved that one, you'll probably enjoy this as well. It's very uplifting. I will try to find more to share with you.

8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

8:4
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

8:5
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

8:6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8:8
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

8:9
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

8:10
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

8:12
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

8:13
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

8:15
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

8:16
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

8:17
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

8:18
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

8:19
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

8:20
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

8:21
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

8:22
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

8:24
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

8:25
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

8:27
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

8:30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

8:31
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

8:33
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

8:34
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

8:37
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

8:38
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

8:39
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.