I HAVE NO GREATER JOY THAN TO HEAR THAT MY CHILDREN ARE WALKING IN THE TRUTH -- I JOHN 4

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
In His great mercy He has given us new birth
into a living hope

through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade
-- kept in heaven for you."
I Peter 1:3

". . and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also
-- not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God.

It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand
-- with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him."
I Peter 3:21, 22

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;
the old has gone, the new has come!

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ
and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ,
not counting men's sins against them.
And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation."
II Corinthians 5:17-19