Poems in progress (unfinished)

I’M A BELIEVER
You are in control, I can't manipulate you
Can't pull you off course, the path is not new
You know it so well, you know what to do

I can't explain you, I can’t box you in
I can't hide from you, you know where I've been
I can just trust you . . . with all abandon

People make fun of us, they laugh and mock
But they’re not my audience, they’re empty talk
YOU are my audience, I’m in your lock
Forever I’m yours - you are my steady rock


I WANNA BEAR FRUIT!
I wanna bear fruit!
I know I have seeds
But I wanna make sure
The fruit grows to maturity (Lk 8:14)
If I hold fast the word (1 Cor 15:2, Lk 8:15)
It won't be in vain

YOU CLEANED UP MY MESS
You fixed my mistakes
You paid my debts
You went all out
You did it for free,
Yet it cost me my life
You want total commitment, you want total trust
You changed my identity
I am not the old me

You died for me
and I died with You

There is nothing to replace Ed's Bible study,

and I won't. But now I found one on Thursdays with people in their 20s & 30s who are still single =)


BIBLE STUDY NOTES

Rom 3:21-5
Substitution - You died for me, you paid my debts

Rom 6-8
Identification - I died with You, I was buried with you, raised with you. I did it with you. I live with you\

Rom 6:5 Our UNION with Christ.
Change of identity
Gal 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ

Every believer HAS died, not that he ought to die, but that his death is an accomplished fact through the identification with Christ.

He who has died is freed from sin.

Rom 6
Beginning of Sanctification
Justification by faith brings sanctification. True faith is total commitment.
The Gospel not only takes care of sins, but it also takes care of the old man and the body of sin.

My mom brought back some cool pictures from Germany,

including this one with our great-grandmother! You can see her dried apples in the sun. She was always drying apples.