Romans 8:1<\/b>\u00a0\u201cTherefore, there is now no condemnation\u00a0for those who are in Christ Jesus.\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0In walking with God, all begins with Jesus, is now because of Jesus, and forever remains because of Jesus.<\/p>\n
Revelation 1:8<\/b>\u00a0\u201cI am the Alpha and the Omega,\u201d says the Lord God, \u201cwho is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus Himself, the resurrected Jesus, reveals what had before been foretold and revealed in multiplied repetition, that Jesus was, and is God.\u00a0 He is the Son of God.\u00a0 Fully God with God the Father and with God the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 The Triune God has, in unison of thought, of will and of desire, ordained that it would be so and it was and is so.\u00a0 For us, for all of creation, yes all, this truth rings true.\u00a0 For us, everything, including life itself, began with Jesus.\u00a0 All of the universe and everything in it exists today and is held together because of Jesus. (Colossians 1:17<\/b>)\u00a0 He created it, keeps it together, and will be the One who ushers in the end of all of it.\u00a0 He created everything and everything is His. (Colossians 1:15-20<\/b>)\u00a0 It is not merely the physical that we see that He created, but He is the one through whom spiritual life is given, and exists.\u00a0 Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and Omega is the last letter of it.\u00a0 If Jesus were to come to the U.S. today, He would likely say it as He is the A and the Z, and everything in-between. \u00a0He is the beginning of all that we know exists and He rules for all time, and beyond.<\/p>\n
Revelation 21:6<\/b>\u00a0\u201cHe said to me: \u201cIt is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning\u00a0and\u00a0the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Here is the second verse where Jesus identified Himself as the Alpha and the Omega.\u00a0 Here He adds that He is the Beginning and the End.\u00a0 Yes, He truly is the great I AM as God was identified to Moses. (Exodus 3:14<\/b>)\u00a0 Jesus made this statement of Himself to the Pharisees and they clearly understood who He was identifying Himself to be as their reaction of wanting to stone Him reveals.\u00a0 They thought He was committing blasphemy by equating Himself with God.\u00a0 They clearly understood His claim of deity.\u00a0 (John 8:56-59<\/b>)\u00a0 Jesus is the great I AM, He is everything we need at all times. \u00a0He is all we need.<\/p>\n
Revelation 22:13<\/b>\u00a0\u201cI am the\u00a0Alpha\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Omega, the First\u00a0and\u00a0the Last, the Beginning\u00a0and\u00a0the End.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0This is the third time that Jesus identifies Himself as God by this statement of Himself.\u00a0 Family, we read the Word of God saying to all who will hear that He is God.\u00a0 It has many times been said by unbelievers \u201cIf God is real, let Him appear in front of me and then I will believe.\u201d\u00a0 God has appeared.\u00a0 His name was Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0 He made the way for us to be united with God.\u00a0 Yes, God already appeared before man.\u00a0 And God is not a dog that is called to obey and \u201cCome!\u201d\u00a0 He is Almighty God, and He has called for all who want to live eternally with Him to come through Jesus the Messiah, our Savior and Lord.\u00a0 \u00a0The words of Jesus call out to everyone \u201cCome to me\u2026\u201d (Matthew 11:28-30<\/b>)\u00a0 Jesus called Himself the \u201cAlpha and the Omega\u201d three times.\u00a0 If someone saw you carrying a bottle of something and said to you \u201cDon\u2019t drink that it will kill you!\u201d\u00a0 And then another person saw you pouring the drink for yourself and also warned you.\u00a0 If you continued on and were about to drink what you have been warned not to drink and a third person warns you that the drink will kill you, but you do anyhow.\u00a0\u00a0 Then how insane and foolish for you to cry out, with your dying breath \u201cThis is unfair!\u201d\u00a0 We are warned that to have Jesus is to have eternal life with God, and without Jesus the sure destiny is to perish. (John 3:16-18<\/b>)\u00a0 Three times Jesus said He is the Beginning and End.\u00a0 There is no excuse to not come and bow before Him and call Him Savior and Lord.<\/p>\n
John 1:1-4<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cIn the beginning was the Word,\u00a0and the Word was with God,\u00a0and the Word was God.\u00a02\u00a0He was with God in the beginning.\u00a03\u00a0Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.\u00a04\u00a0In him was life,\u00a0and that life was the light\u00a0of all mankind.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Jesus is the spiritual Word that was given in scripture, He is the physical image of the written Word of God.\u00a0 And He was, and is, and evermore will be.<\/p>\n
Matthew 28:20b<\/b>\u00a0\u201c\u2026And surely I am with you\u00a0always, to the very end of the age.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Always Jesus is with us.\u00a0 In every situation.\u00a0 Against all foes, seen and unseen.\u00a0 Always means He never leaves us.\u00a0 We are never alone.\u00a0 He is with all of us always.\u00a0 Yes, until the end of this age.\u00a0 But He being with us does not end there.\u00a0 He is just saying that for as long as everything that now is remains, He is with us.\u00a0 And after that?\u00a0 He is with us.\u00a0 And nothing, and no-one, can change that!\u00a0\u00a0Romans 8:38-39\u00a0<\/b>\u201c\u00a0<\/sup><\/b><\/span>For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,\u00a0neither the present nor the future,\u00a0nor any powers,\u00a039\u00a0neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God\u00a0that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 What does all this mean?\u00a0 It means that all who love Jesus have already won.\u00a0 What about those who don\u2019t love Jesus?\u00a0 Well, to those, are they still alive?\u00a0 Now is the time for change.\u00a0 Heaven waits for you and the door to Heaven is Jesus.\u00a0 Praise God that we all have the opportunity to come to God!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n P<\/b><\/span>salm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Your God<\/p>\n Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Romans 8:1\u00a0\u201cTherefore, there is now no condemnation\u00a0for those who are in Christ Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0In walking with God, all begins with Jesus, is now because of Jesus, and forever remains because of Jesus. Revelation 1:8\u00a0\u201cI am the Alpha and the Omega,\u201d says the Lord God, \u201cwho is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[1863,2257,100,101,94,1874,17,711,10],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-colossians","tag-exodus","tag-john","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm","tag-revelation","tag-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}