Created to Live In Him, Through Him, For Him and By Him...

Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call on Him [for salvation] while He is near. (Isaiah 55:6)

Then you will call on Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear [your voice] and I will listen to you. Then [with a deep longing] you will seek Me and require Me [as a vital necessity] and [you will] find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:12-13)

Blessed and favored by God are those who keep His testimonies, And who [consistently] seek Him and long for Him with all their heart. (Psalm 119:2)

Blessed [anticipating God’s presence, spiritually mature] are the pure in heart [those with integrity, moral courage, and godly character], for they will see God. (Matthew 5:8)

Who may ascend onto the mountain of the LORD? And who may stand in His holy place?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart. (Psalm 24:3-4) But the goal of our instruction is love [which springs] from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. (1 Timothy 1:5) And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

This is the greatest and most important commandment.

The second is exactly like it: You must love your neighbor as yourself. (Matthew 22:38-39)

Pay your debts as they come due. However, one debt you can never finish paying is the debt of love that you owe each other. The one who loves another person has fulfilled his Teachings. (Romans 13:8)

Beloved, let us love and seek the best for one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves [others] is born of God and knows God [through personal experience].

The one who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. [He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.] By this the love of God was displayed in us, in that God has sent His [One and] only begotten Son [the One who is truly unique, the only One of His kind] into the world so that we might live through Him. (1 John 4:7-9)

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. (Ephesians 2:4-5)

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was crushed for our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing]; The punishment [required] for our well-being fell on Him, And by His stripes (wounds) we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5) He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross [willingly offering Himself on it, as on an altar of sacrifice], so that we might die to sin [becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin] and live for righteousness; for by His wounds you have been healed. (1 Peter 2:24)

We know that our old self [our human nature without the Holy Spirit] was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. (Romans 6:6)

You know that He appeared [in visible form as a man] in order to take away sins; and in Him there is [absolutely] no sin.

No one who abides in Him [who remains united in fellowship with Him—deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin. No one who habitually sins has seen Him or known Him. (1 John 3:5-6)

For if we go on willfully and deliberately sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice [to atone] for our sins [that is, no further offering to anticipate],

There remains nothing but a certain awful expectation of judgement, and the fury of a fire which before long will devour the enemies of the truth. (Hebrews 10:26-27)