Grace and Peace and Faith and Love and Joy to you in the name of our Savior Jesus the messiah. Jesus the Son of Joseph in the flesh (So it seemed) but Son of God in truth and deed we know through faith. Amen.

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Therefore being Justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1

Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11: 1

For by it the elders obtained a good report. Hebrews 11: 2

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things, which were seen, were not made of things, which do appear. Hebrews 11:3

Faith means we have something of substance, which we can recognize as existing.  In a court you must bring tangible evidence for the Judge and Jury to see.  One form of tangible evidence is your testimony.  But you cannot give testimony about something you have not actually seen or actually experienced. You cannot give testimony about a dream or idea it must be about something tangible that occurred between you and the evidence you are testifying about.

We know that God exists because we know the tangible proof we received in our hearts and minds when we accepted Jesus as our Savior. We know it is real and not imaginary because we realize through comparing notes with other believers that each of us who have done the same thing in so far as believing in Jesus, have received the same unique peace and experience.  We realize it is so absolutely universal to be just a trick or emotional figment of our imaginations. We know it is real because of this comforting spirit (The Holy Spirit) who warms our hearts as we think on these things.  We know it is real be cause we have felt it and we continue to feel it and we recognize when we read the stories of the bible that those who were believers there had the same experience we have or one much like it.    That is why we say it is tangible.  Because even though we have not seen God we have felt him.  And something you can touch has substance it is feel-able. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for.  If you can see something then it is not something you can still hope for.   Abraham was not pleasing to God because after Isaac was Born and in Abraham’s arms that then Abraham believed God would bring about the birth of Isaac, (faith is not for something because it has already occurred) but Abraham was pleasing to God because at the time of the Promise given to him by God he believed God, even though he did not see what was promised and had much reason to doubt it could be so given the infirmities of his and Sarah’s flesh.  In fact at that time he had so much faith, his faith was so full that he was able to see God. He saw God (or Jesus in a pre-birth appearance of Jesus on the earth) and spoke to him person to person at the time of the promise.  This was pleasing to God. That Abraham had faith and believed God about Isaac even though he and Sarah were old and unable in the natural to have children.  And what was Abraham believing God for? Not just that he (Abraham would have a child of promise through Sarah) but that this child would be the Messiah or Savior or that one of his decedents through this child would be the savior and solve for all humanity the problems of sin.

How Do we I know that? Because of the fact that Abraham later offered Isaac up as a sacrifice because God told him to;  And, because in Hebrews 11 and 12 it says so.

Now we must understand that Abraham was born in to a family and culture that took the first-born male child and sacrificed it up to God.  But they actually sacrificed it up to ‘god’ with a little G because they were sacrificing it up to Satan or a demon.   It was a universal practice for the most part in the culture Abraham had been born into. And to Abraham it was disgusting.  He realized that this could not be God’s will.  Not the God he heard Noah talking about and that he heard the other persons of faith who were living talk about Noah’s son who was a true believer Shem; And, Noah’s grandson Shem’s son who also believed in the true God. Possibly he hears Enoch if our understanding that Enoch for some time re-appeared on the earth after the Flood is correct, at least until the time of the dividing of the earth mentioned briefly in the list of believers from whom Abraham descended.

The idea of sacrificing a child to God for appreciation of God’s having given the child and life and fertility was disgusting to Abraham.  It was the way of the religion of his culture. His father may have done it. Or at least believed it was correct to do. (Abortion as it is practiced today) is disgusting to God.   Only Jesus’ death means anything to God or pleases God.  Nothing else.  When we believe in his death we recognize the magnanimity of God and how good and pleasant he is. 

All of the Scripture teaches us this and about this idea. The idea that the world is lost in sin and God graciously has saved out of this world who-so-ever would believe in God and in this truth and way and life – Jesus God’s Messiah.

Abraham understood that some sinless creature (Human) would die to pay for the sins of all the world) that is why even before the law was given he sacrificed a lamb in place of his son.  Abraham knew it was not God’s intention or idea to take out his wrath on Humans but instead to provide a way out for all who would believe.  Abraham realized that the Messiah would be his son or come through his son.  He did not fully understand. We are granted to understand more of it than he did. But it is his example that teaches us also.  But God Promised Abraham that through his seed all the nations of the earth and all the people would be blessed.

This is the blessing that Christ died and rose again to take away the sins of the world.  We who believe in that are free and free indeed so long as we remain believing in that and trust in Jesus and not our selves or anyone or anything else. And Satan will deliberately try for as long as he can to persuade us otherwise.  God allows time because he hopes for more to come to him and believe.

The two things God and Jesus knew would be strong influences to draw us away from him were that it was our natural inclination as humans to reject the simple and true Gospel and to replace it with other false gospels.  SO, he gave us a new commandment, which would have power against unbelief. 

You oh Believer.  Are you suffering guilt?  For something you have done? OR for a lifestyle you have not forsaken after you found yourself in Christ?  Is there a habit in your life or something you seem to enjoy doing that you also believe is wrong or ungodly?  Do not allow that activity or bad habit separate you form the Love of Christ and his acceptance of you.. DO not allow that weakness in your flesh to separate you from the Love of God.  It was your willingness to trust in him that brought you to him and sealed you as one of his. It was not your ability to overcome the sin you are so upset about.  Sin no longer can separate you from the Love of God. Jesus took the place of Sin and he wants you close to him as you are. He will overcome your sinful habit as you walk in the Spirit.  The fact that you recognize that habit as wrong is a good sign that you love god and seek him and his salvation through Christ Jesus.  This is not license to continue in that habit unabashedly. It is the truth  --  try as you will you can not stop sinning.  It is your nature to sin.  But you can turn from this nature to the new nature.  God sees you through that sinful habit and on the other side.  Delivered and set free from it.  Are you going to be a person of faith and see yourself there also?  Or?  Are you going to be carnal and only see yourself in the sin you have not been able to break the habit of repeating?  

But then in the midst of committing that act you swear to your self and you think to God that you will straighten it out or over come it. But you do not realize at that time you are speaking to Satan and referring to him as God.  And there you deny Christ and make his death to none effect for you because you are saying you can stop you will stop and you aver the false idea that his death can not make you just – following that reasoning - you must make yourself just by --- in your own strength and ability over coming this sin.  But you cannot do this. You will fail trying and always be frustrated.  And that will separate you from the Love of God and from the grace and goodness of God. This is not good.

Noah was righteous.  The word of God declares. 

But Noah got drunk at some time after the flood, which shows he was a sinner, Drinking alcohol may not be a sin but getting drunk is.   It reveals our fallen nature and our sinfulness as a race and as an individual.  It is harmful to us and separates us from a Sound Mind.  It reveals we are a weak in the flesh person whose heart is was at enmity with God.  Noah sinned.  He got drunk and lay in his tent naked and was in some way ungodly and debauched.  But God does not know anything about that Noah did that.  Because he says Noah is righteous.  And because God says he is he is regardless of anything else.  This is the Glory and magnanimity of God. Noah is righteous because even though his natural ways of acting by the flesh proved he was a sinner deserving of death.   He was saved by the goodness and promise of God because he believed in that promise and proved it by building the ark for 120 years and preaching the Gospel (possibly along with appearances of Enoch.  But no one came to those crusades or if they did they left empty handed (hearted). [That promise was I shall save you (Adam) through one of your decedents do not worry trust in me.]

Noah is righteous - more than that – He is righteous because God declares him righteous and God’s declaration trumps anything the devil or we can do or say. But God declares Noah righteous because even in the face of adversity Noah believes God will save him and his decedents from anything, any impending doom.   The rest of the world at that time would not believe that they needed to be saved. They refused to believe they were sinners such that they needed saving.  That is what we have today. That is the divide between believers and unbelievers. We believe Jesus’ death on the cross is the only thing that can save us and make us right with God. We believe he rose and that convinces us that we are justified before God.  Not because of what we have done but because of what we have agreed to believe.  We believe that God is and God has made a promise of saving us from sin through a Messiah, and that God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him and his truth.  We seek him and we believe.  In this we have salvation.

Noah’s son Ham was not simply mocking Noah when he laughed at him and said “ This is the one God declares righteous?” “Look at him. Drunk and Naked.”  Ham was not rejecting Noah but “God and Christ”.  After all the scripture says that all the accusations laid against us (the believers) fall on him (Christ). When you are living as a believer and accusations are sent against you in your mind and heart they fall on Christ and have no effect on you.  Unless you entertain (pay attention to) them when you are in the flesh and carnal realm then you hear the accusations and believe them. They are lies because God has said they are all forgotten in the sea of His forgetfulness.  But you do not believe this at that time. You are not even remembering it.  You are remembering in stead that you participated in that ungodly act.  You are not in the Spirit at this time you are in the Flesh. The Flesh is not that part of you that wants to have sex or get high it is the part of you that wants to believe that God hates you and wants to reject you.  That is the lie. It is the Big LIE.  IF God was out to get us we would all be gone.  We would all hove been gone a long time ago.  God exists outside of Time.  And he exists inside of time.  He is God. HE created all things that were created through Jesus the Christ.   Nothing that was created was created without Jesus participating. God created the creation through speaking and Jesus is the spoken word of God.   He did not create the world with the intention to destroy it.  In fact he made sure that if anything would go awry that he had a rescue plan.  God did not cause sin or create it but he made sure he had a perfect solution for it.  Jesus.   God did create Lucifer and iniquity was found in him (related to pride and haughtiness) and what Satan intends for evil, God turns to good to those who love him and are called to his purpose.  God calls us but he gives us the power to reject or accept his calling. 

We who believe are those who have accepted his calling and his solution to the problem of sin. But then the cleverest beguiling tries to draw us away from that truth even after we have accepted it.

Ezekial 18:23 “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” Saith the Lord God: “and not that he should return from his ways and live?”

Read also Ezekiel 18:20 and 21.  If the sinner repents of his unbelief and turns to following God - God will not remember his past sins. They (the sins) shall be forgotten by God, but not by our carnal nature, which hates the idea that God might forgive us and forget our sin.  We want to think we are Good and God is Bad.  We want to blame God for what we have done and think ourselves to be righteous self-righteous.  This is the essence of Satan. We got this from the day he tricked or fooled Adam our ancestor into this way.  Adam believed Satan and disbelieved God.  However before this all happened Christ had already died for us his enemies and then declared us his friends if we believe.  Before the foundations ( or some texts say before the destruction of the foundation of) the worlds Christ died for the Ungodly.) In heaven no one will say” I got here by doing what was right.”  (Perhaps no one except Enoch and any one who followed his example or way.) Or, “I am here because I lived righteously on my own ability”.  In heaven everyone will say “It is He” (Pointing to Christ ) “Who got me here.”  and then “Wasn’t that wonderful of him to do that for me”.  He will receive all the credit and rightly so for he did it all.  And this brings Christ Glory and it swells the heart and feelings and emotion of God his Father to see the success of and triumph of his Beloved Son.  His Son was obedient to His Father to the death.  The Father loves us too and wants us to be His friends and to love and revere Him. Do we want to do this?  As believers? Yes. When we are walking in the Spirit we do. And then when we walk in the flesh or carnally we do not.  Ad just as it is impossible to be in the Spirit and Sin it is impossible to be in the Flesh and not sin and not see the sin bring fruit, which is the idea in us that we are hopelessly lost and separated from the Love and Salvation of God. SO what is the Use?  This is the frustration that leads us away form Hope and Christ said in the Synagogue when he read from Isaiah. I am the hope of the world. I have come to bring hope to those without hope.   Do you want to be some one he saved or someone he did not save?  DO you want to be like those who crucified him whom he asked his father to forgive?  Or do you not want to be forgiven.  You want forgiveness, which is why you chose Christ to begin with.   Now does God consider you so worthless after his Son saved you that he should quickly discard you because the same sinful habits Christ died for when you were his enemies still haunt you? God forbid. Christ seeks for you to be delivered form those habits. IN fact bread in the scripture represents the deliverance of God’s children form death and demonic activity. Deliverance from the carnal nature, “Line by line and precept upon precept” Christ will deliver you from it.   You must continue to believe and strive to walk in the spirit.  The works of faith are not works to prove you righteous they are all activities that help bring hope to other humans.  So they might see that God has not forsaken them and that God has not rejected them and that there is hope for them.  The works of Christ are charity and forgiveness manifest. They are encouraging those in despair. If you are struggling with any sinful habit you are struggling with it because you see it as ungodly and desire to be more like him.   That is a good sign and tells that you are in his Kingdom. Now do not make the error of leaving his kingdom by deciding that there is something you can do to deliver yourself of whatever demonic habits you practice. Instead turn to him and trust him and realize that this is his battle not yours.  Submit to the spirit make it a habit of walking in the Spirit (as you know how to do) allow this walking to become a tangible real experience. Stop thinking of Christ and God as mystical or distant, realize that is Satan’s view and the one that will be possessed by each person in the abyss.  Realize that God became flesh and experienced the same desires to fulfill wrongful sexual activities and to do immoral things and to reject the father and the truth but Christ did not fail.  IN him and in his success we move and live and have our being.  He is our hope. His Spirit is our comfort.  It is not our responsibility to figure out how to overcome Sin. It is our responsibility to believe and to trust in him and to see him overcome the flesh. Then it is our job to give him praise and honor and glory.  Not only to God who deserves it without having done a thing to deserve it but also God in Christ who as Father and Son has done many things to prove he deserves this praise and honor and Glory.  He did these things in a tangible way so they would have substance and we could realize them even if not by sight.   However one promise is that he gives sight to the Blind. He writes his laws on our hearts and causes us to desire to do them. That is where we are and what is happening.  We want to do what is right well what is most right is to trust him that he is our savior and he accepts us as we are and if we let him he will change us into his perfect likeness.  There is not pit so deep what God is not deeper still.

The evidence we have today about what we believe is the fact that we have each experienced the ‘Peace of God’ in our hearts at the moment of our conversion and have continued to some degree to experience that again and again through our walk as believers.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.  Hebrews 11:6

Read the 11^th chapter of Hebrews. [[Understand that the writer is implying that each of these persons of faith believed God existed although they mostly had not seen evidence of God, and had not received the benefits of their faith.  Still they heard the testimony of previous believers and decided it made sense and was true and then they experienced some evidence whether it be a pre-birth manifestation of Christ or God in the Flesh showing his backside to three hundred thousands of them because of the faith of a little girl, Mary (Miriam) who floated the basket of Moses down the stream, nevertheless they realized there was a promise of a Messiah who would solve their individual problems with sin and the whole worlds problem caused by sin.]]

Wherefore –           Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. Romans 4:25

(Abraham) Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

Romans 4: 18

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: Romans 4:19

He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; Romans 4:20

And being fully persuaded that, what he promised he was also able to perform.

Romans 4:21

And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness Romans 4:22

Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him; Romans 4:23

But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Romans 4:24

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised for our justification. Romans 4:25

Therefore being justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5: 1

There is therefore now no condemnation to them, which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. Romans 8:1

For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made us free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:2

For what the law could not do, in that is was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh: Romans 8:3

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. Romans 8:4

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit ( do mind implied) the things of the Spirit.  Romans 8:5

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Romans 8:6

Because the carnal mind is in enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.  Romans 8:7

So they that are in the flesh can not please God. Romans 8:8

But ye are not in the Flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.  Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Romans 8:9

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Romans 8:10

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Romans 8:11

Skipping verses.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ( Daddy! Daddy! With rejoicing in our hearts [ implied] ) Romans 8:15

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the Children of God. Romans 8:16

So this is a common experience among believers.  Paul always lamented the fact that he (Had in the past) stood over and approved of and gave legal permission to the stoning and death of many of Christ’s followers while he was in Darkness.

Peter lamented his rejection of Christ till Peter himself was crucified and we believe his request to be crucified upside down was drawn from that ‘guilt.’  (Or maybe it was not guilt but a final recognition that he was sinful even as a believer and that Christ was sinless, and faithful and true even to the point of death.)

Sexual sins are not sins against God.  The scripture teaches us but sins against our own self (unless we rape others or force sex or coerce it upon them. Then it is violence, which God hates.)  It is a powerful human experience that God created so that a human might not feel so completely alone and separated from the Love of God (as we might if that experience did not exist.) and so that a passionate and compassionate means of fellowship could exist for an otherwise lonely human being.  [God wishes us monogamous because he is aware of the means Satan would use through sex to spread disease and death and in this world God desires us protected from such spread of disease and begs us to be monogamous for our own sakes.] God wants us not frustrated - not lonely - not lacking joy and a feeling of purpose and fulfillment.  He created sex and family and closeness. He created this act to his Glory yet we constantly want to only see sex as a Satanic attack on virtue.  God wants us to have sex in marriage and to praise him and thank him for it.  He makes it clear in scripture that not doing that to some extent for some persons will create problems they can not handle.  God did not create sex as a means to ostracize us or so we would marginalize some humans as less important or evil.  And yes there are many ways humans have twisted this practice.  These souls need Christ more than any of us. If we do not see that we are looking in a carnal way and not in the Spirit.   Who you have sex with, how you have a habit of practicing sex or experiencing the height of that experience will not effect your eternal soul but it will cause you to feel wrongful and that can separate you from the faith you have in Jesus.  Let this be said God did not create person to be homosexual or heterosexual he created a husband or wife one sexual partner for each of us and to practice sex in any other way is to deprive oneself of the best God intended for us.  Refusing God and rejecting the Holy Spirit will frustrate us so will trying to do something we can not do. If you try to stop sinning you will be frustrated because you can not do it.   So it is Satan and the flesh and the carnal man who suggests to you that you should even try. If you try to walk in the Spirit once you receive Salvation it will never be frustrating for you to do or to try to do.

If we are frustrated we will want to swear and curse. That is demons expressing themselves through our mouths because they have received lordship over us for a period of time. If we carry on in ways that are mean spirited and this afterwards is a reason for us to be grieved and frustrated well it was being frustrated that started this to begin with.  It is a vicious circle. God knows this and he has created a means to put a stop to it for any of us who wish to employ that means.

Guess who has us dwelling in those lands of frustration despair and darkness? DO YOU THINK IT IS CHRIST?  God forbid.  Christ paid and died for us to be delivered from those lands. Will we be totally and completely delivered?  Perhaps so and perhaps not.? Depending to what extent we allow his love to permeate our being and for how long.  In the end we shall be totally delivered. To what extend do you wish to dwell in that land of deliverance while still in these mortal bodies then strive for that as Enoch did and you will not see death as he did not see it.

IF you do not want to sin you must Walk in the Spirit.  You can not stop sinning by trying to stop sinning. You can  only not sin when you are walking or dwelling in the spiritual world In Christ Jesus through his Holy Spirit.  Walking in the Spirit is a supra-natural thing to do. Notice I did not say supernatural but supra natural.  Things of the Spirit and Salvation of God are above nature. More noble than nature. In the heavenly realms.  We as believers understand and know about heavenly realms because when we walk in the Spirit we are in that state.

Strive then to walk in the Spirit.  Understand that walking in the Spirit has to do with being delivered of the flesh and the flesh has to do with not believing that God loves us and seeks us and desires for us to realize he is kind and good.

Can you sin and go to heaven. NO one can get to heaven except those who have sinned and recognized that they have and admitted it. But sin does not send persons to hell.  Unbelief in the Savior of Messiah is what keeps persons from heaven.  Can a believer keep on sinning and get to heaven. No.  Sinning is not doing ungodly things but not believing God has, can and will deliver us from punishment for out sins.  And sin is not striving for that deliverance by and from God.

Sin is trying to put anything else and everything else in the place of the Messiah.  That is what one does when after being saved they try to be circumcised (Because being circumcised after you are saved is like trying to find something you can do beyond salvation to be more pleasing to God.)  There is nothing else you can do that is more pleasing to God than to Believe that the death of his Son Jesus is what will get you to heaven.  When you start down that road you start to make his death of no effect to you. You cane to and believed in his salvation of you and his justification of you before God and now are trying to add something else that is greater or better or more powerful that what you did (which was to believe in him.) there is nothing better.  To strive for something better is to turn against him and say by your action s well what he did was not good enough now I must do something to perfect what he did and that is returning to pagan worship.

Do you understand?

The fiery darts are the enemy and our old flesh accusing us that we sinned (usually referring to some sexual act or thought or to some moral point of the law.)

And what does the scripture suggest we use to quench those darts is not it the shield of faith. What is that faith? It is believing that God has accepted you as you are because he wants you in spite of your sins and ways and refusal to trust in him that he is your faithful husband and provider.   For as long as your father and Husbands have forsaken you God is a father to the Fatherless and a husband to the widow. And in that he provides for us all that we need.  Both in material needs and wants and in our being comforted. 

What do you want form God? Ask him believing and he shall give it to you.  But do not ask without faith because you will get nothing. In fact God will not even hear what you said (Asked).

Be filled with the peace of the lord.  He loves you.  I do not know specifically.   What sin and guilt you are striving against.

Jesus commanded us his believer to do two things.

The second is listed at John 13:34 A New Commandment I give to you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples. If ye have love one to another. “

The first is listed after it at John 14:1.  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.  In other words believe that Jesus is God’s Messiah.

In between those two commandments is Peter trying to prove that he is so good that he does not need God’s help to be good. I will fight for you to the death, Peter promises.

Yet Jesus knows what ever we do in our own strength and out of an idea of self-righteousness will fail.  He knows that the only things that will keep us in the Spirit and thus not subject to the law of sin and death are believing in him and becoming vessels of his love one to each other.  John repeats these commandments in his 1^st letter ( 1^st epistle )

I John 3:23 And this is his Commandment that we should believe on the Name of his Son the Lord Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us. By the Spirit which he hath given us.

 Jesus knows that we are subject to sin and if we are tempted we shall sin. He has not given us a long list of commandments that we must follow to be his children. Only these two.  They are what save us and allow us to remain in his kingdom. Being a vessel of his love to one another which means reminding others that they are saved by his grace and that only.   The only thing that saves us is believing in Him.  That is not a grievous commandment. It is something we easily do.  All the other commandments go against our nature.  Once we believe in him and he saves us we can always in an instant return to that faith and be in him.  It is not hard to do. Then we allow that new creature in us to reign and then he reigns in us.  This is easy. Not frustrating and it is the essence of walking in the Spirit of God.

 Since we have done it -  it is not hard to do.
HE (Jesus ) declares at the end of john 14, 15, 16 etc that he wants us to do all this so our joy might be full. The commandments he tells us to follow if we love him and tells us that if we do not follow them then we do not love him  are not the Ten Commandments and all the law but these two commandments.

They are easy to follow.  He intends us to have an easy road to follow not a hard one.   Amen.

I send you Grace and Peace and Faith and Love and a fullness of Joy in the name of our Savior Jesus the Messiah. May you eat these spiritual fruit; And, be ministered to by the angels of God with these names.  May you also  be filled and encouraged by the Holy Spirit in these spiritual gifts and blessings through Jesus the Son of Joseph in the flesh (So it seemed) but who is actually the Son of God in truth and deed, which we know through faith. Amen.