Spirit and Truth Sanctuary D.E. & Brandi Paulk, Senior Pastors

13 Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? 14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.” 15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. ALWAYS BE PREPARED TO GIVE AN ANSWER TO EVERYONE WHO ASKS YOU TO GIVE THE REASON FOR THE HOPE THAT YOU HAVE. But do this with gentleness and respect, 16 keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. 17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.

45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.

3 For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? 4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged.”

10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation...

Death in Adam, Life in Christ
18 Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous...   read entire passage

21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.   read entire passage

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.   read entire passage

10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will...   read entire passage

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Knowing God Through Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Seeing God Through Love
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.   read entire passage

"God has no Relgion."
"Where there is love there is life."

"And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd." (John 10:16 NKJV)

"I’ve learned so much of God I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Mulsim, a Buddhist, a Jew."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten we belong to each other."

"Real religion is beyond argument."

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
(Deuteronomy 6:4 NKJV)

"Truth is one; sages call it by various names. It is one sun which reflects in all ponds. It is one water that slakes the thirst of all. It is the one air which sustains all life. It is one fire which shines in all houses. Colors of the cows may be different but milk is all white. Flowers and bees may be different, but honey is the same. Systems of faith may be different, but God is one. As the rain dropping from the sky wends its way toward the ocean. So the prayers offered in all faiths reach the one God. Who is supreme."

"WHEN you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind."

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

"All God’s creatures are His family."

"If you put Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad In the same room together, they would embrace each other. If you put their followers together, they may kill each other!"

"God is not a Christian."

"No longer will we ask are you Hindu, Muslim or Christian? But, have you heard THE SOUND?"

"...that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me."

"This Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jewish Buddhist belief about the Ultimate Reality is summed up in this –
Love one another, for Love is of God."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

"Seeing yourself as a spiritual being without labels is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity."

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

"One love, one blood, one life, you gotta do what you should. One life with each other; sisters and brothers. One life, but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other, carry each other... One, one."

"We cannot afford to lose any of the world’s religions, for each has its partial truth and its characteristic message which the perfect man must acquire."