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3God, come back!Smile your blessing smile:That will be our salvation.
7God-of-the-Angel-Armies, come back!Smile your blessing smile:That will be our salvation.
19God, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, come back!Smile your blessing smile:That will be our salvation.
9,10Jesus said, "Today is salvation day in this home! Here he is: Zacchaeus, son of Abraham! For the Son of Man came to find and restore the lost."
37,38Right at the crest, where Mount Olives begins its descent, the whole crowd of disciples burst into enthusiastic praise over all the mighty works they had witnessed:Blessed is he who comes,the king in God’s name!All’s well in heaven!Glory in the high places!
1-3God! Please hurry to my rescue!God, come quickly to my side!Those who are out to get me—let them fall all over themselves.Those who relish my downfall—send them down a blind alley.Give them a taste of their own medicine,those gossips off clucking their tongues.
4Let those on the hunt for yousing and celebrate.Let all who love your saving waysay over and over, "God is mighty!"
5But I’ve lost it. I’m wasted.God—quickly, quickly!Quick to my side, quick to my rescue!God, don’t lose a minute.
6"‘And you, Pashur, you and everyone in your family will be taken prisoner into exile—that’s right, exile in Babylon. You’ll die and be buried there, you and all your cronies to whom you preached your lies.’"* * *
11But God, a most fierce warrior, is at my side.Those who are after me will be sent sprawling—Slapstick buffoons falling all over themselves,a spectacle of humiliation no one will ever forget.
13Sing to God! All praise to God!He saves the weak from the grip of the wicked.* * *
20Get out of Babylon! Run from the Babylonians!Shout the news. Broadcast it.Let the world know, the whole world.Tell them, "God redeemed his dear servant Jacob!"
16-19O Master, these are the conditions in which people live,and yes, in these very conditions my spirit is still alive—fully recovered with a fresh infusion of life!It seems it was good for meto go through all those troubles.Throughout them all you held tight to my lifeline.You never let me tumble over the edge into nothing.But my sins you let go of,threw them over your shoulder—good riddance!The dead don’t thank you,and choirs don’t sing praises from the morgue.Those buried six feet underdon’t witness to your faithful ways.It’s the living—live men, live women—who thank you,just as I’m doing right now.Parents give their childrenfull reports on your faithful ways.* * *
20God saves and will save me.As fiddles and mandolins strike up the tunes,We’ll sing, oh we’ll sing, sing,for the rest of our lives in the Sanctuary of God.
21,22Isaiah had said, "Prepare a poultice of figs and put it on the boil so he may recover."Hezekiah had said, "What is my cue that it’s all right to enter again the Sanctuary of God?"
1-6It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
7-10Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
11-13But don’t take any of this for granted. It was only yesterday that you outsiders to God’s ways had no idea of any of this, didn’t know the first thing about the way God works, hadn’t the faintest idea of Christ. You knew nothing of that rich history of God’s covenants and promises in Israel, hadn’t a clue about what God was doing in the world at large. Now because of Christ—dying that death, shedding that blood—you who were once out of it altogether are in on everything.
3-5What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we’ve been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for, including a future in heaven—and the future starts now! God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you’ll have it all—life healed and whole.
8,9You never saw him, yet you love him. You still don’t see him, yet you trust him—with laughter and singing. Because you kept on believing, you’ll get what you’re looking forward to: total salvation.
18-21Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ’s sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb. And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately—at the end of the ages—become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you. It’s because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God.
9,10Guide slaves into being loyal workers, a bonus to their masters—no back talk, no petty thievery. Then their good character will shine through their actions, adding luster to the teaching of our Savior God.
11-14God’s readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation’s available for everyone! We’re being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now, and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears. He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.
7Practice God’s law—get a reputation for wisdom;hang out with a loose crowd—embarrass your family.
13You can’t whitewash your sins and get by with it;you find mercy by admitting and leaving them.
18Walk straight—live well and be saved;a devious life is a doomed life.
7,8"But blessed is the man who trusts me, God,the woman who sticks with God.They’re like trees replanted in Eden,putting down roots near the rivers—Never a worry through the hottest of summers,never dropping a leaf,Serene and calm through droughts,bearing fresh fruit every season.* * *
12,13From early on your Sanctuary was set high,a throne of glory, exalted!O God, you’re the hope of Israel.All who leave you end up as fools,Deserters with nothing to show for their lives,who walk off from God, fountain of living waters—and wind up dead!* * *
14-18God, pick up the pieces.Put me back together again.You are my praise!Listen to how they talk about me:"So where’s this ‘Word of God’?We’d like to see something happen!"But it wasn’t my idea to call for Doomsday.I never wanted trouble.You know what I’ve said.It’s all out in the open before you.Don’t add to my troubles.Give me some relief!Let those who harass me be harassed, not me.Let them be disgraced, not me.Bring down upon them the day of doom.Lower the boom. Boom!
1-3Believe me, friends, all I want for Israel is what’s best for Israel: salvation, nothing less. I want it with all my heart and pray to God for it all the time. I readily admit that the Jews are impressively energetic regarding God—but they are doing everything exactly backward. They don’t seem to realize that this comprehensive setting-things-right that is salvation is God’s business, and a most flourishing business it is. Right across the street they set up their own salvation shops and noisily peddle their knockoffs. After all these years of refusing to really deal with God on his terms, insisting instead on making their own deals, they have nothing to show for it.
4-10The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying?The word that saves is right here,as near as the tongue in your mouth,as close as the heart in your chest.It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—"Jesus is my Master"—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not "doing" anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: "God has set everything right between him and me!"
14-17But how can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it? That’s why Scripture exclaims,A sight to take your breath away!Grand processions of peopletelling all the good things of God!But not everybody is ready for this, ready to see and hear and act. Isaiah asked what we all ask at one time or another: "Does anyone care, God? Is anyone listening and believing a word of it?" The point is: Before you trust, you have to listen. But unless Christ’s Word is preached, there’s nothing to listen to.
13,14God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating.
21-23You yourselves are a case study of what he does. At one time you all had your backs turned to God, thinking rebellious thoughts of him, giving him trouble every chance you got. But now, by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you over to God’s side and put your lives together, whole and holy in his presence. You don’t walk away from a gift like that! You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly tuned in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. There is no other Message—just this one. Every creature under heaven gets this same Message. I, Paul, am a messenger of this Message.* * *
1-4It’s crucial that we keep a firm grip on what we’ve heard so that we don’t drift off. If the old message delivered by the angels was valid and nobody got away with anything, do you think we can risk neglecting this latest message, this magnificent salvation? First of all, it was delivered in person by the Master, then accurately passed on to us by those who heard it from him. All the while God was validating it with gifts through the Holy Spirit, all sorts of signs and miracles, as he saw fit.
5-9… charge of this business of salvation that we’re dealing with here. …
10-13It makes good sense that the God who got everything started and keeps everything going now completes the work by making the Salvation Pioneer perfect through suffering as he leads all these people to glory. Since the One who saves and those who are saved have a common origin, Jesus doesn’t hesitate to treat them as family, saying,I’ll tell my good friends, my brothers and sisters, all I knowabout you;I’ll join them in worship and praise to you.Again, he puts himself in the same family circle when he says,Even I live by placing my trust in God.And yet again,I’m here with the children God gave me.
14,15Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it’s logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By embracing death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil’s hold on death and freed all who cower through life, scared to death of death.
8-19Thank God! Call out his Name!Tell the whole world who he is and what he’s done!Sing to him! Play songs for him!Broadcast all his wonders!Revel in his holy Name,God-seekers, be jubilant!Study God and his strength,seek his presence day and night;Remember all the wonders he performed,the miracles and judgments that came out of his mouth.Seed of Israel his servant!Children of Jacob, his first choice!He is God, our God;wherever you go you come on his judgments and decisions.He keeps his commitments across thousandsof generations, the covenant he commanded,The same one he made with Abraham,the very one he swore to Isaac;He posted it in big block letters to Jacob,this eternal covenant with Israel:"I give you the land of Canaan,this is your inheritance;Even though you’re not much to look at,a few straggling strangers."
23-27… Get out his salvation news every day! …
28,29Shout Bravo! to God, families of the peoples,in awe of the Glory, in awe of the Strength: Bravo!Shout Bravo! to his famous Name,lift high an offering and enter his presence!Stand resplendent in his robes of holiness!
34-36Give thanks to God—he is goodand his love never quits.Say, "Save us, Savior God,round us up and get us out of these godless places,So we can give thanks to your holy Name,and bask in your life of praise."Blessed be God, the God of Israel,from everlasting to everlasting.Then everybody said, "Yes! Amen!" and "Praise God!"* * *
1,2I, Jude, am a slave to Jesus Christ and brother to James, writing to those loved by God the Father, called and kept safe by Jesus Christ. Relax, everything’s going to be all right; rest, everything’s coming together; open your hearts, love is on the way!
3,4Dear friends, I’ve dropped everything to write you about this life of salvation that we have in common. I have to write insisting—begging!—that you fight with everything you have in you for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish. What has happened is that some people have infiltrated our ranks (our Scriptures warned us this would happen), who beneath their pious skin are shameless scoundrels. Their design is to replace the sheer grace of our God with sheer license—which means doing away with Jesus Christ, our one and only Master.
24,25And now to him who can keep you on your feet, standing tall in his bright presence, fresh and celebrating—to our one God, our only Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Master, be glory, majesty, strength, and rule before all time, and now, and to the end of all time. Yes.
1-5They arrived on the other side of the sea in the country of the Gerasenes. As Jesus got out of the boat, a madman from the cemetery came up to him. He lived there among the tombs and graves. No one could restrain him—he couldn’t be chained, couldn’t be tied down. He had been tied up many times with chains and ropes, but he broke the chains, snapped the ropes. No one was strong enough to tame him. Night and day he roamed through the graves and the hills, screaming out and slashing himself with sharp stones.
34Jesus said to her, "Daughter, you took a risk of faith, and now you’re healed and whole. Live well, live blessed! Be healed of your plague."* * *
1Listen to this, Israel. God is calling you to account—and I mean all of you, everyone connected with the family that he delivered out of Egypt. Listen!
8The lion has roared—who isn’t frightened?God has spoken—what prophet can keep quiet?* * *
12God’s Message:"In the same way that a shepherdtrying to save a lamb from a lionManages to recoverjust a pair of legs or the scrap of an ear,So will little be saved of the Israeliteswho live in Samaria—A couple of old chairs at most,the broken leg of a table.
18-20Jesus said, "I know. I saw Satan fall, a bolt of lightning out of the sky. See what I’ve given you? Safe passage as you walk on snakes and scorpions, and protection from every assault of the Enemy. No one can put a hand on you. All the same, the great triumph is not in your authority over evil, but in God’s authority over you and presence with you. Not what you do for God but what God does for you—that’s the agenda for rejoicing."
28"Good answer!" said Jesus. "Do it and you’ll live."
33-35"A Samaritan traveling the road came on him. When he saw the man’s condition, his heart went out to him. He gave him first aid, disinfecting and bandaging his wounds. Then he lifted him onto his donkey, led him to an inn, and made him comfortable. In the morning he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take good care of him. If it costs any more, put it on my bill—I’ll pay you on my way back.’
1-7So, my son, throw yourself into this work for Christ. Pass on what you heard from me—the whole congregation saying Amen!—to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others. When the going gets rough, take it on the chin with the rest of us, the way Jesus did. A soldier on duty doesn’t get caught up in making deals at the marketplace. He concentrates on carrying out orders. An athlete who refuses to play by the rules will never get anywhere. It’s the diligent farmer who gets the produce. Think it over. God will make it all plain.
8-13Fix this picture firmly in your mind: Jesus, descended from the line of David, raised from the dead. It’s what you’ve heard from me all along. It’s what I’m sitting in jail for right now—but God’s Word isn’t in jail! That’s why I stick it out here—so that everyone God calls will get in on the salvation of Christ in all its glory. This is a sure thing:If we die with him, we’ll live with him;If we stick it out with him, we’ll rule with him;If we turn our backs on him, he’ll turn his back on us;If we give up on him, he does not give up—for there’s no way he can be false to himself.
14-18Repeat these basic essentials over and over to God’s people. Warn them before God against pious nitpicking, which chips away at the faith. It just wears everyone out. Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won’t be ashamed of, laying out the truth plain and simple. Stay clear of pious talk that is only talk. Words are not mere words, you know. If they’re not backed by a godly life, they accumulate as poison in the soul. Hymenaeus and Philetus are examples, throwing believers off stride and missing the truth by a mile by saying the resurrection is over and done with.