A Wardrobe from the King, Lesson 2: Scriptures

1. John 14:6-7
     "Jesus answered, “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would knowa my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

2. a.  Psalm 51:6
    "Surely you desire truth in the inner parts;
    you teach me wisdom in the inmost place."

    b. John 8:31-32
       "To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, 'If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.'”

    c. John 16:13
      "But when he, the Spirit of Truth, comes, he will guide you into all Truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come."

   d. John 17:17
     "Sanctify them by the Truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified."

   e. Ephesians 1:13
      "And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit."

    4. 1 Chronicles 29:10-19     "David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying,

“Praise be to You, O Lord, God of our father Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power
and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,
for everything in heaven and earth is Yours.

Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; You are exalted as head over all.
Wealth and honor come from You; You are the ruler of all things.
In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.     

Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.
But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.

We are aliens and strangers in your sight, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope. O Lord our God, as for all this abundance that we have provided for building you a temple for your Holy Name, it comes from your hand, and all of it belongs to you. I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. ...

O Lord, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, keep this desire in the hearts of your people forever, and keep their hearts loyal to you. 19 And give my son Solomon the wholehearted devotion to keep your commands, requirements and decrees and to do everything to build the palatial structure for which I have provided.”

   6.  a. Psalm 139:1-16

"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; You are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.
   You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
    Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. ...
...if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
    For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
   My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be."

b. Romans 8:31-39.
   "What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

     Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

     Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
     No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

c. Romans 11:33-36
     "Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom anda knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?
Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?”
     "For from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen!"

d.  2 Corinthians 3:4-6
   "Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."

e. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
   "...there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me."

  9. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."