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Poetry by Jettie Hess

GOD'S LOVE LIGHTS THE WAY

It is love
that we shall see
once we look
to Calvary.

Tears flow
and truths abound
at Calvary's cross
where love (and life)
is found.

Yes, it is grace
that we shall know
when we have been there
... O' my soul.

CALL UPON HIM

Call upon the Lord
Do it joyfully while He is near
Sing songs of loving gratitude
And with loving ears, He will hear.

Call upon the Lord
Make haste and don't delay
For tomorrow may come suddenly
When those who love Him ...
Are raptured away.

THE FATHER'S WILL

Give your life to Jesus Christ
Take hold of His nail-scarred hand
Look into His eyes of powerful love
Begin to know and understand ...

How deep and wide His love is for you
And how it was expressed upon that tree
How greatly you have been forgiven
And the destiny awaiting you who see ...

The Father's will that all be saved
From wrath of an atrocious kind
A love that gave an only son
Because love for you was on His mind.

To reject God's love is a choice you see
He won't force you to look to Calvary
But if you surrender and relinquish your life
Then you'll understand sweet victory.

Look, seek, search with all your heart
For love is what you are looking for
Return to the Father with a singing voice
For He has given Jesus --
The way and the door.

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Prose by Jettie Hess

BY THE GOSPEL

When through the outward preaching of the Word and the inward witness of the Holy Spirit, faith is created, that which is promised in the Gospel becomes effective for the believer. Christ enters by the Gospel through a man's ears into his heart and dwells there. He doesn't come empty-handed, but brings with Him His life, Spirit, and all that He has and can.

In faith itself Christ is present, so that when we believe that Christ came for us, He dwells in our hearts by such faith and purifies us daily by His own proper work. This means that the believer, who is united with Christ even more closely than the husband is coupled with his wife, must naturally share in Christ's conflict and victory. For the marriage of the believing soul to Him is a matter 'not only of communion, but of a blessed strife and victory and salvation and redemption.' The indwelling of Christ redeems us from bondage, makes us free, and gives us power to do good. Risen and ascended though Christ is, He sits not idly in heaven: but is present with us, working and living in us.

JUSTIFICATION

Christ is the righteousness of God whereby He justifies sinners, and inasmuch as we are still infected with sin, the Divine righteousness is "imputed" to us, and our sin is "not imputed" -- so long as we have faith, and Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith. Our sin, in other words, is forgiven.

Daily growth in sanctification can only mean increasing mastery of Divine love, of God Himself, who in His grace both forgives the selfishness that still remains to resist His good will, and increasingly purges it away. So the Christian becomes an increasingly effective channel and instrument of God's own goodness and love, until at length the last subtle vestiges of self-love are destroyed through death, and perfection, in the strictest and fullest sense of the word, is reached in the world to come, when God is all in all.

For as Christ once came at the time appointed,abolished the whole Law,vanquished sin, destroyed death and hell; even so He comes spiritually without ceasing, and daily quenches and kills those sins in us.

Note: I believe I cannot of my own understanding and strength believe in or come to Jesus Christ my Lord, but that the Holy Ghost has called me by the Gospel and illuminated me with His gifts, and sanctified me in the true faith.

SURE AND CERTAIN

Christians do not rely upon what they feel and perceive and experience.To do so is to follow the bent of natural man, who walks by sight and not by faith at all, for faith rests in those things which cannot be beheld nor laid hold of by any sense of the body or soul, stands in that persuasion which it has conceived concerning God, and commits itself wholly unto it.

Our faith is sure and certain, because it carries us out of ourselves,that we should not lean to our own strength, our own conscience, our own feeling, our own person and our own works: but to that which is without us, that is to say, to the promise and truth of God, which cannot deceive us.

The Love of Christ