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The doctors really don't know what to tell us to be certain and said we can only "wait" until the baby's born to do tests etc. to know exactly wht the problem is with her pregnancy etc. but Melissa has been bleeding (spotting mostly) on and off, usually she gets a reprieve of a week, then on the 7th day she spots, then it's gone again....any suggestions, helps, etc?

PS we made it to 17.2 weeks so far!! Praise God with a heart beat of 159! Baby moved a lot last night keep praying

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Please PLEASE pray as we have another level 2 scan on June 11, 2011 and that will give us more insight, but Melissa has been diagnosed as high risk pregnancy, with great risk of premature rupture of membraines due to the large clot (hematoma) between the uterine lining and the uterus, thank God it is not between the placenta and the uterus like once thought. The cystic hydroma does not seem all that large, but could cause other problems such as downs and turners syndrome etc. please pray for a FULL TERM or full viability at least, birth, and safety in delivery for Melissa. This is very difficult for our family. Melissa is basically on bed rest.

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the placenta is tearing away from the uterine wall, and there is a blood clot in between the placenta and the wall as well. Please pray the blood clot dissolves so that the placenta can reattach itself. (which the doctor says it is likely to do)...baby had a heartbeat of 150 2 days ago so that is good...
please pray for us as this is very taxing on our whole extended family. Also, KC, Jared's brother and Melissa's brother ien law's wife, Barb, is having problems with her pregnancy, so we are just bombarded with problems right now.

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Well, our family is fast growing. Our boys are 2 and 3 years old and Melissa is 13 weeks pregnant but looks like she's 5 months along already, and her symptoms are shockingly like that of twins, and every woman in proximity to her that is friends with her says she is having twins....please pray that our detailed scan at 28 weeks is accurate and shows what is indeed in the womb so that we can be prepared. It would definitely be a challenge to have twins and 2 other children that are still very young. But God will enable us to do as He sees fit.
Please pray however for this pregnancy because we had a scare where we thought for sure Melissa had miscarried, but God saved our child (s?) life we saw a good heartbeat on the screen and movement (but the twin could've been hiding!) It may have been a placental issue please pray for wisdom as we decide for/against home birth if it is a placental issue we will have no choice but to go with a hospital.

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It has been 3 years on the 22nd of this month since I married my wife!! Gordon is 2, and Charles is going on 1!

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Why does everyone comment on the boring entry and not the ones I tried to put some thought into? I wonder, somewhat, whether anyone reads those; not that it matters really: I wrote them mainly for my own benefit. Sorry to whine.

I am a follower of The Way (John 14:6, Acts 24:14).
This way is The Way of Salvation which is faith in Jesus the Christ and in him alone for salvation (Galations 2:16). In his death for the justification of sinners (Romans 5:10), in his blood for the
remission of sins (Hebrews 9:22), in his resurrection for the promise to his people of the resurrection to come (I Corinthians 15:20-23): faith in him for the victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil, and the corruption and sin therein (I John 5:4).

This way is the Baptist way: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” (Mark 16:16) Baptism as observed in the New Testament Scriptures is the prompt baptism of believers only and that by immersion only. (Acts 2:41, 8:12, 8:36-39, 9:18, etc.)

This way is the monergist way, the Calvinist way, the way explained in the Doctrines of Grace : this way comes not by the will of man (John 1:13) , but by the grace of God it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8,9). This faith cannot be obtained by any man's work, be it of the will or otherwise [for we know that 'by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified' (Galations 2:16) and that the will is dead and cast into bondage unable to make a decision to believe on God, but is bound unto sin and in need of loosing (John 8:34-36)], but by the will of God declaring that it will be done (John 6:44, Romans 9:15,16) God has predestinated his elect to salvation and those whom he saves he saves indeed (John 8:36, Romans 8:29, 30); he does not fail them, but does deliver them and is able to keep them from falling, and to present them faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. (John 10:29, Jude 24)

The Gospel that I preach is this: Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. (I Corinthians 15:3-4) It is by Christ's death, yea it is his blood that makes atonement (Lev 17:11, Romans 5:10, Hebrews 9:22) for Christ's Church (John 10:11, Ephesians 5:24). Whosoever believes on Jesus Christ and is baptized shall be saved (John 3:15. Mark 16:16).

This gospel must be preached! “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” Romans 10:14,15

Go ye therefore into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Me and my sweetheart

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“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” John 10:14-16

Our Lord here states that he does have another flock besides Israel, to whom he is speaking in this passage, and that they will be made one in him with on shepherd over them.

This unity is further and more emphatically expressed in a passage in Ephesians 2, “Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.” vs. 11-22

According to Paul, the gentiles having come to God through Christ in faith are made one with the commonwealth of Israel, made to be fellow citizens with the saints. Notice also that the gentiles, along with the Jews, are built upon the foundation of the prophets. There is not a discontinuity between Israel and the church. But whereas the gentiles were before excluded from coming to God unless they had first become proselytes of the faith of Judaism, now, under the new covenant, they are given grace to come as they are; this is the 'wall of partition' which had before separated us.

“I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.” Romans 9:1-8

I see explained in this passage the fact that Israel is not the elect of God simply because of a fleshly descent from Abraham. Consider also Galations 4:22,23 Which says: “For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.” Though here in Galations a different subject is being considered, this passage still will serve to show that Ishmael, though born of Abraham, was not suited to receive the promise because the promise is not received by fleshly descent but by faith. In the passage from Romans quoted above the same is explained: Those who are called Israel are not all Israel, but the children according to the promise, that is to say, those who have come by faith to God, are counted as the seed of Abraham.

I would, before I move on to the Old Testament, also like to note Galations 3:29 which says, “And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Notice the relation between these two covenants; Christ is the fulfillment of this covenant just as he was the beginner of it. We are made the heirs according to God's promise to Abraham.

Before I proceed into the Old Testament I will first give my reason for doing so, that it may be more plain the meaning which I intend to convey and the argument I purpose to build by the verses and passages I will be brining up for consideration. I wish to show that, as stated by Paul in Romans 9, Israel has always been Israel according to the promise, or faith, and not according to the flesh; that is to say that an Israelite was an Israelite because of his faith in God and the promises he gave, not because he was born in the line of Abraham. I also wish to show that the gentiles were welcome to come into the covenant, if they would, by faith, accept the covenant given to Israel.

Firstly, consider Exodus 12:15 “...for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.” Next, Exodus 30:33 “Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.” And 31:13 “Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.” Now Leviticus 7:20 “But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.” This survey could well be continued through till Malachi 2:12, “The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.” The point is that those born according to the flesh to Israel were shown to be not of the congregation of God's chosen people Israel by the faithless unbelieving acts of disobedience to God's laws. “ Those who are called Israel are not all Israel...” God is not operating today any different than he was in the Old Covenant. The difference is the covenant we are under today.

Also think on how the stranger was to enter into the congregation of Israel, “And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.” Exodus 12:48

I see that if a stranger was desirous of joining the people of God in worshiping him through the ordinance of Passover, then he should come to God in the same way as was given to Israel and he would be accepted, not just as a stranger, but as “one born in the land.” He then had full privilege and acceptance among the tribes. I see that things are no different today: If one is by the grace of God given an heart of repentance and will come to him to worship and serve him, that man must come in the way as God has given under the New Covenant; “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Mark 16:16

This New Covenant was described well In Jeremiah 31, “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ... But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.” vs. 31-33

This New Covenant was made with Israel and again God has provided a way for the gentiles to come into it, it happens to be the same way that the Israelites are to come to it, in faith and obedience.

I have heard some falsely call this view “replacement theology.” I call it “inclusion theology” because here we see not gentiles replacing Israelites, but gentiles being included in the promise made to Israel when they come to partake of the covenant made with Israel. Just as is written in Romans 11, “...some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree...” Romans 11:17

Hopefully this will give you a better understanding of why I can't accept that God has two separate people or that he ever has. To say so would imply that someone at one time could have been saved by anything other than faith in God his commands and his work. I think that Paul made it clear that God has not cast away his people, but is fulfilling every promise he has ever made through the work of Christ alone. Christ is to be the focus and is the beginning and purpose of all things; as the twenty-four elders say to Jesus, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” Rev 4:11 And as Paul writes, “...of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.” Romans 11:36

In closing I ask you to consider also the Vine and the Branches. Jesus states, “I AM the true vine.” To that is he referring? I think of all of the places where Israel is called the vine throughout the Old Testament. Particularly Psalm 80, “Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.” Israel was the vine that God had planted in Canaan after removing the Canaanites. But the Psalmist continues, “Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.” vs. 8-19

Israel often failed to keep their covenant with God. He would then keep his word and promise by sending trouble to discipline them. Here I see Asaph calling for God to send the promised Messiah, the “son of man,” to come and set things right. Israel failed in the keeping of the Old Covenant (Jeremiah 31:32 “...the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake...”) Jesus came that through him, obedience could be kept vicariously through his righteous life imputed to those who will believe on him, “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 5:19-21

I believe that this is what Jesus means when he says, “I AM the true vine.” He is true Israel. Jesus came to fulfill every covenant that God has made with man that man has broken. By faith in him man can have Christ's righteousness imputed to him, that righteousness which he cannot have of himself.

To continue concerning the vine, Those that God has elected to be in the vine are those members of the vine, that is to say, Jesus Christ true Israel. Gentiles did not replace Israel, but were included in the commonwealth of Israel by the grace of God.


Annexation:
I have neglected to answer a question which will be naturally produced in the mind of one considering these things and my position on them. In fact it seems that the apostle Paul had thought of the same question as he wrote the book of Romans: "If there in Christ Jews and Gentiles are one, and such a strong distinction is found in scripture between Jews and Gentiles, then what is that distinction?" Paul puts the question this way: "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?" Romans 3:1 And his answer is my own, "Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." v 2

The main distinction between Jews and all other nations is not in how they come to God, no the elect of God are one and come to him through one and all have the same Spirit, but the distinction is in that to the Jews, through the Prophets, God gave the revelation of truth in his word. This is why Jesus says "...salvation is of the Jews." (John 4:22) Jesus shows that salvation does not come to any saying "Lord, Lord" but only to them which can hear the word of God (Romans 10:17 "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.") which was entrusted to the Jewish nation (Romans 3:2 "...unto them were committed the oracles of God.")

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As I have said before I do not think that it is possible to 'fall from grace' as that most explicitly implies that one was in the grace of God and He let him slip. Before one can consider the possibility of falling from grace, he must first have his idea or system of how salvation works set in order. This I will attempt, to place before you what I believe is the order of Salvation, first chronologically, then logically, as I do not believe that God is restricted by time; I ought therefore muse not only on how salvation is perceived by us who are constrained by time, but also how, as I believe is revealed in Scripture, God has worked salvation outside of and inside of time. For the first part I will consider main New Testament verses because therein is the New Covenant most fully revealed.

It is most obvious that what is essential to salvation is faith: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” (Acts 16:31)There are a great number of other verses stating this same truth, to list a few references: Mark 16:16; John 1:12, 3:15,16,36, 6:40,47, 11:25,26, 20:31; Acts 8:37; Romans 4:24; Galations 3:22,26; Ephesians 2:8; etc. Scripture being full of such promises, and all scripture being in agreement with these I conclude that salvation comes to man through faith.

This faith must be on a particular Person and His work. The promise of this one and the work he would do has been from the beginning (Genesis 3:15). The Apostle Paul explains in Romans chapter four verses 23 through 25, “Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.” In the context of this passage, Paul tells of how Abraham placed his faith in the promise of God to make him a father of many nations through his seed. This promise was carried out through his seed Christ Jesus in whom, if we have faith, Abraham is made “the father of us all” (Romans 4:16) It was through Abraham's faith in the promise of a redeemer of mankind that he had the righteousness imputed to him, just as we, when we place our faith in Him who is the redeemer, and His work, His righteousness is imputed to us (Romans 4:24).

This faith has a particular effect on man towards confession of sin and repentance from sin to life. When faith is come in truth to a man, he will begin to love God and to hate sin. He will make confession with his mouth and call out to God for salvation: Acts 2:21; Romans 10:9; I John 4:15; etc.

We know also that the sure sign of one truly regenerated is the one who remains a lover of God and hater of sin: “For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end...” (Hebrews 3:14) “But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.” (I John 2:5) “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.” I John 2:19

This is the basic extent to which we see salvation being worked in us. We notice first the burden of sin on us, then turning to God through Christ Jesus we make confession and turn from our sin, ever after hating sin itself, and loving the God we have ever before hated. If this were the only part of salvation that we knew of from Scripture we would be in a sad state of wondering if we ourselves could "make it" to heaven. Can we be certain that we will continue in our faith? Not at all, if it is up to us to continue.

We know that God is behind that faith that began our confession and continues our perserverence. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8,9) Notice: man is saved through faith not by it. Man is saved by the grace of God, but He has ordained that His grace unto salvation would be administered through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and through no other thing. So we do begin to understand that our faith began in God so where does it end? “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith...” (Hebrews 12:2) This should refute the notion held by many that when Jesus says, “...no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand,” (John 10:29) it means that you have the power to lose your own salvation, but no man can take it from you.

On the contrary, Jesus not only began our faith, that is given us the faith whereby we may obtain the grace of God unto salvation, but is also the finisher, that is He is “...able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy..." (Jude 24) What He begins He does end and will care for His own church to see that she does not depart or fall: “...Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” (Ephesians 5:25-27)

I don't believe that that can possibly mean that Christ will care for the whole but not the part, that is to say that it is impossible for Him to see that His whole church will be washed and spotless and glorious without His care being for each individual person that makes up that church. He is the one who effects the faith of His people unto justification, he is also the one who effects their faith unto sanctification, furthermore He is the one who effects the enduring of the faith of His own precious bride.

From here it will be expedient to proceed to the consideration of how salvation works outside of time. We have seen already that in time God does work in his children “...to will and to do of His good pleasure...” (Philippians 2:13) But outside of time we can see this a little better I think. By “outside of time” I mean that we no longer consider what comes first confession or regeneration or justification or sanctification or whatever else one might find in the sequence of the things of salvation from sin and death unto life and righteousness.

Before the foundation of the world God foreordained, in His good pleasure and by His holy and just will, which men ought to be saved. “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”(Ephesians 1:4-6) I believe that in His election of who would be His saints God has set what is to be, that is “...all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? ” (Daniel 4:35)

There is not any way that the plan that God has set, either what the weather is today or who will believe unto salvation, can be turned aside, even by the man who supposedly has his own decision to make on whether or not to believe. You must realize that particularly when we are talking about salvation that there is no such thing as "free will." We do come to God willingly, but our will was not turned to God by ourselves; this is impossible: “...Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. ” (John 6:65) You can never simply decide to turn to Christ. Your heart is bound up and hardened in sin and must be made free. But when it is made free you are then bound by the will of God to come unto Christ: “I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.” (John 17:9)

God can and will do what he wants with what is His own: “The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” (Psalm 24:1) and “But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.” (Psalm 155:3) Consider also Isaiah 46:9 and 10, “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure...” If God has declared what will be done from the ancient times, or the beginning of all things, and has “predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,” and His counsel shall stand, and He will do all of His pleasure, then I conclude that those He has chosen unto salvation are held there that they might persevere unto the end. God cannot keep his promise in Jude 24 if he does not take control over even each man's belief on Him.

My conclusion that it is God alone who works salvation did not come from these few passages alone, but from many more which are in accordance with these, indeed I have found the whole of Scripture to speak these truths: that God is able to preserve His people from the beginning unto the end, holding them in His care and power that they might not, through their own weakness, depart from the faith. He it is that grants the faith whereby grace is obtained. He separates, He cleanses, He regenerates, He causes his people to do His will, He preserves them from uncleanness, He provides their needs, He glorifies His own name in the redemption of His people.

If we had ought to do in the work of being saved, could He rightly claim to have done all of the work? Could not we rightly claim that we had done some small part? “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.” (Romans 4:4) If we did even the looking to Him, even that small decision of turning, we could then claim, according to Paul, some small part. But God's work of salvation is for His own Name's sake. That faith whereby we find strength to look to Christ Jesus does not come from within, but from God alone. At the last, consider the word's of God in Ezekiel 36 as He describes how He works salvation. Does he let Israel have any work in it? Who does it? And for what reason? And is that promise sure that God makes when He says, “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand?”

“Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.” Ezekiel 36:22-32

I apologize if this is not in good order, but I neglected to make a proper outline before setting into it.