'On Behalf Of His People.'
Isaiah 49:22-23.
a) The Lord and King says.
b) That He will call out to the Nations.
c) He will give a signal to the Nations.
d) The Nations will bring back your sons in their arms.
e) The Nations will carry your daughters on their shoulders.
f) The Kings of the Nations will become like fathers to God's People.
g) The Queens of the Nations will be like mothers to God's People.
h) The Kings and Queens of the Nations shall bow down before God's People with their faces towards the ground.
i) They will kiss the dust at the feet of God's People.
j) The Lord's people will come to know that the Lord is really the Lord.
k) The people who put their trust in the Lord will not be ashamed.
(This QT convinces me that the Lord works On Behalf Of His People)
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'We Are God's Own.'
Ephesians 1:13-14.
a) Many of the Ephesian people became True Believers.
b) This happened because they heard the Word of Truth.
c) This was the Good News of how they could be saved.
d) They Trusted Christ.
e) They were marked as belonging to Christ by the Holy Spirit.
f) This is the same Holy Spirit Who is promised to every True Believer.
g) The Holy Spirit marks us and them as God's True Believers.
h) We can be sure that one day we will received all that God has Promised us.
i) This will happen after God sets all of His People completely Free.
j) All these things will bring Praise to the Glory of God.
(Through this Second one I Rejoice because I know that I Am God's Own)
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Chris.
The Kings of the Nations will become like fathers to God's People. This really means that the Government cares for people well! Of course this includes God's People. Where there is Righteous Government in that Nation the True Church will be Blessed. I know there are several examples of this, even today, in God's Merciful Plan. It is always correct for the True Church to be Praying for the National Government.
