REDEEMED SERIES
FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
GALATIANS 5:22-23 NIV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Against such things there is no law.
WALL SCULPTURE
DATE: 2008/2009
SIZE: 12" x 12" x 1"
DESCRIPTION: cut, raised back, fold-formed copper,
welded, torch-fired enamel, patina.
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REDEEMED SERIES |
ABSOLUTE LOVE / THE TREE OF LIFE
1 JOHN 3:16-24 NKJV
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth. And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence: Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God, and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight. And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
ABSOLUTE TRUTH / THE TREE OF LIFE
JOHN 14:6 NIV
Jesus answered, “I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.
No one comes to the Father except through me".
ABSOLUTE GLORY / THE TREE OF LIFE
HEBREWS 1:3 NIV
The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being,
sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins,
he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
WALL SCULPTURE
DATE: 2008/2009
SIZE: 20.5" x 12" x 1.25" DESCRIPTION: cut, raised back, fold-formed copper,
welded, torch-fired enamel, patina.
APPRECIATION OF THE MYSTERY
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that
He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be
strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that
Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and
grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the
saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to
know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be
filled with all the fullness of God.
ROMANS 8:18-21, 28-39
PRESENT SUFFERING AND FUTURE GLORY
I
consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory
that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation
for the children of God to be revealed. For the
creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will
of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself
will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom
and glory of the children of God....
....And
we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,
who have been called according to his purpose. For
those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image
of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he
called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
MORE THAN CONQUERORS
What,
then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who
can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up
for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who
will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who
justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who
died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of
God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness
or danger or sword? As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things
we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am
convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither
the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of
God that is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
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