PJP2 THANKS 160818 THANKS Focus - Romans 3:21-24....Topic:  GrOG (GRACE)

Psalm 86:12 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."I Give Thanks To YOU, O Lord my God, With my Whole Heart, And I Will Glorify YOUR Name Forever."....

PJP2 THANKS TEXT 160818 -Romans 3:21-24 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."BUT Now The Righteousness of God Has Been Manifested Apart from The Law, Although The Law And The Prophets Bear Witness To IT— The Righteousness of God Through Faith In Jesus Christ For All who Believe.  For There Is NO distinction: For ALL have sinned And Fall Short Of The Glory of God, And Are Justified By HIS GRACE As A Gift, Through The Redemption That Is In Christ Jesus,"....(GRACE - God's Redemption At Christ's Expense)

Team PJP2 - I can think of no better way to be Thankful for God's GrOG....His GRACE towards us than to share His Holy Spirit's Inspired WORD to Paul as Paul Share's his Thanks with regards to God's Unmerited Favor Towards him, as recorded in Philippians 3:7-16 (ESV)....this too is my Prayer of Thanks for us today.....

Philippians 3:7-16 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss For The Sake of Christ.  Indeed, I count everything as loss Because Of The Surpassing Worth of Knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.  For His Sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, In Order That I May Gain Christ And Be Found In Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from The Law, BUT That Which Comes Through FAITH In Christ, The Righteousness From God That Depends On FAITH— That I May Know Him And The Power Of His Resurrection, And May Share His Sufferings, Becoming Like Him In His Death, THAT By ANY Means Possible I May Attain The Resurrection from the dead. NOT THAT I Have Already Obtained THIS or am already perfect, BUT I PRESS ON To Make IT my own, Because Christ Jesus Has Made me His Own.  Brothers, I do not consider that I have made It my own.  BUT ONE Thing I Do: Forgetting what lies behind AND Straining Forward To What Lies Ahead, I PRESS ON Toward The Goal For The Prize Of The Upward Call of God IN Christ Jesus.  Let those of us who are mature Think This Way, And IF In anything you think otherwise, God Will Reveal That Also To you.  Only Let us HOLD TRUE To What we Have Attained."....

In Your Name, Lord Jesus, we Raise our Prayers and Praise....Amen and Amen....jaj