I am not ashamed of the Gospel - for it really is the power of God - in it, the leniency of Your version of Righteousness

Two weeks ago (15.7.16), there was a sudden series of hasty knocking on my apartment door early in the morning at 8am. They said they were police and showed up with a search warrant of approx 50-60 items listed and spent 3hrs-ish raiding the entire house for every item which they carefully bagged and labelled and photographed. Then one of the housemates got taken away.

In the light of this, I had a chance to tell that housemate today, that at the end of each of our lives, this situation will happen to each of us -- and who can stand guiltless and free from accusation? But He has more grace -- He who will hold us accountable is also He who can appeal for us to lighten our sentence. Reading Romans 1:16-17 -- I found -- a rich leniency in His version of Righteousness...

What mercy was revealed. What Righteousness and peace! Only when you understand what it feels like to be accused before the Law will you understand His leniency. And heaven can't contain the Glory of the Son -- Jesus is the Christ: The saving one. And, heaven can't contain the glory of The Son -- Jesus *is* The Christ: The Saving One. 

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When the music fades, all is stripped away, and I simply come...
looking just to bring something that's of worth, that will bless Your heart.
I'll bring you more than a song -- for a song in itself, is not what You have required. You search much deeper within, through the way things've appeared: You're looking right into my heart.

And who shall stand when He appeareth? For He is like a refiner's fire.

In this sinful city of Melbourne like in Rome -- I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it really is -- the power of God for the salvation of every single person who believes -- starting with the Jew and then outspread to the gentiles.

And it is amazing -- the richness of Your version of Righteousness -- such that after having our entire life stripped bare naked with all its shame -- yet we find hope and grace and solace... and salvation.

I am not ashamed of the gospel for it really is the power of God.
我不以福音为耻：这福音本是神的大能，要救一切相信的，先是犹太人，后是希利尼人。

Praise God for You have more grace. 爱既大，就遮掩许许多多的罪来。爱既大，赦免也就大。（29.7.2016）

And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down -- that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
"Now have come the salvation AND the power AND the Kingdom of our God, AND the authority of His Christ.
For the accuser of our brothers -- the one who accuses them before our God all day and night -- has been hurled down.

They were able to overcome Him, (not by their own strength), but by the blood of the Ram and by the Word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death -- even to the death.

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is very short; Very short indeed."

..and the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out two-by-two ahead of Him to every town and every place He was about to go. He told them, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. So ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest field....'When you enter a town and are welcomed,.. heal the sick and tell them, 'The Kingdom of God is near you. .. But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, 'Even the dust of your town that sticks to your feet we wipe off against you. Yet: be sure of this -- The Kingdom of God is near.' I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
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..The seventy-two returned with joy and said, 'Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your Name.' He replied, "(while you were doing this,) I was watching and saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.'
Then at that time, Jesus was filled with joy through the Holy Spirit and said, "I Praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for it is Your delight and good pleasure to do so.....
...Then, He turned to His disciples and said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it."