Ecclesia - Part Nine: Abiding In The God of All Comfort

"What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name."

Abide in Me and I Abide in you

Hope: His Return Shall Be Like Lightening

Ecclesia: the Church universal and through all time composed of those called out by the Lord. Jesus said in Matthew 16:18, "'I will build my 'Ekklesia'."

Called out of this world we abide in Him.

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort." 2 Corinthians 1:3-7

Consider: John 6:55-56
For my flesh is meat indeed, 
and my blood is drink indeed.
Whoever feeds on my flesh 
and drinks my blood 
abides in me, and I in him.

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..."The Lord is your hiding place." 

..."Your life is hid with Christ in God."

"The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe. The LORD is your rock, and your fortress, and your deliverer; The God of your rock; in him will you trust: he is your shield, and the horn of your salvation, your high tower, and your refuge, your savior; He saves you from violence."

"After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram (you) in a vision, saying, Fear not, (your name) Abram: I am your shield, and your exceeding great reward." 

"The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation."

"The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust."

(The fear of man brings a snare: but) "whoever puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe. In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge."

(And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.) "He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."

(And so) "we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God. He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him." 

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