BLESSINGS IN KNOWING TRUTH

My Dear Precious Child, Not long after Paul wrote his second letter to the Corinthians he went to visit with them and stayed for a while. It was while he was there that it is believed he wrote his letter to the Roman Christians, even though it was never apparent that he had evangelized them in the past. In the beginning of his letter to the Roman Christians Paul assured them that he had been called by Me to be an apostle of the gospel of Jesus Christ, called by Jesus Christ personally. First in the letter he had to establish his belief in the ministry of Christ who was a descendant of David in the flesh and made My Son in power by the Spirit of Holiness and then by His resurrection from the dead by the power of My Holy Spirit, His being My Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul claimed his true apostleship from Me so that he and the other apostles could spread the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and bring to obedient faith the Gentile unbelievers to whom he wrote would be the recipients of the letter that he was writing. (Romans 1:1-6) First of all in the letter Paul wrote that he gave thanks to Me through Jesus Christ for all of the Christians in Rome because their faith was celebrated throughout the world. He mentioned that the God that he worshiped in the Spirit by preaching the gospel of My Son would bear witness to the fact that he mentioned the Roman Christians in his prayers, praying that somehow he would be able to visit with them. He longed to see them and share some of the gifts that he had received from Me, gifts of wisdom and knowledge that would strengthen them. He also wanted to experience the encouragement that he received from them when he shared their faith. He assured the Christians in Rome that he had wanted to visit with them on many occasions but was delayed. He wanted to do some worthwhile work among them, the same ones that he had done with other Gentiles. Paul professed that he was under obligation to the Jews and to the non-Jews alike to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to them. (Romans 1:7-17) It was in Paul's letter to the Romans that he wrote the most clear definition in his writing of the gospel of Christ when he wrote that he WAS NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, explaining that IT IS MY POWER THAT BRINGS VICTORY OVER THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL IN THE EARTH TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES IN ITS SALVATION, TO JEWS AND GENTILES ALIKE. Paul went on to write that in the Gospel is revealed My justice over evil which begins with faith and ends with faith, in which he quoted from his Hebrew 10:38 and Galatian 3:11 letters. (Romans 1:16-17) Paul revealed the truth that My wrath is only against the irreligious spirits who motivate men and hinder My truth in them. He said that, in fact, whatever can be known about Me to people is clear to them because I made it so. In fact, he wrote that from the beginning of the world My eternal power and divinity had become visible through the things that I made in the world. Therefore, he explained, people are inexcusable because they certainly had some knowledge of Me, yet they did not glorify Me as their God and give Me thanks. Instead, their thankless hearts were darkened by evil. Even though they claimed to be wise, they turned into fools instead. They exchanged My immortal glory for images representing mortal man, birds, beasts and snakes. Consequently, I had to give them over to the choices they had made, which were their lusts in the unclean actions as they had enaged in the mutual degredation of their own bodies. They exchanged My truth for a lie and worshiped and served created things instead of Me, the Creator.(Romans 1:18-21) That was Paul skillfully writing about the fall from grace of people when the devil obtained control of the minds of people. The people had chosen to worship fake gods instead of worshiping Me, their Creator. Because they had made the choice of worshiping false gods, I had to take My presence away from their sinful works because Light cannot tolerate darkness. Women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural and men gave up intercourse with women and burned with lust for other men. Men did shameful things with other men and thus received in their bodies the devil's penalty for the perverseness. Because they did not acknowledge Me or choose to worship Me, I was forced to give them up to the devil's perverseness, such as every kind of wickedness, malicious behavior, greed, ill will, murder, bickering, deceit, evil craftiness, gossip, haughtiness, boasting, insolence, rebellion toward their parents and inventive in their wrongdoing. Other people see in them people without conscience, without loyalty, without genuine affection and without pity. He wrote that even though they know that such evil behavior brings death, they not only do them but they approve the same evil actions in others. (Romans 1:24-32) Paul's rendition of the downfall of people from My grace through Adam and Eve was accurate in his description, but then he was also accurate in his description of My grace entering into the world through the Lord Jesus Christ who died for those sins so that they are forgiven forever. First he wrote about the devil's motivations in the world and then he wrote about My grace in sending My Son Jesus Christ to die for those sins and redeem people from the devil's consequences for their yielding to his temptations. Jesus Christ, who never sinned, was crucified in place of all people who continually yield to sin. He was resurrected from death and hell, ascended into My heaven and sent His power source, My Holy Spirit, to live inside of people who accept Him as Savior, giving those people power and authority over the principalities and powers of hell, those being the devil's demons. That is the Truth of the Gospel, the Holy Spirit living in My children and being My power over evil that's in their world. Your Understanding and Forgiving Father