#Noughts & Crosses

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🕊️🌺Wendy🌺🕊️:

The Mystery of the Church The New Testament calls God's plans "mysteries."

The Companion Bible says: The English word "mystery" is a transliteration of the Greek word musterion, which means a sacred secret...something concealed that can be revealed.1 Some of the mysteries the New Testament speaks about are: the mystery of Israel (Romans 11:25,26); the mystery of iniquity (2 Thessalonians 2:7); and the mystery of the church (numerous references).

God concealed His plan for the church throughout the Old Testament.

Prophets prophesied about it, while they wondered of what and of whom they were speaking. Even the Gospel writers did not grasp the meaning of the mystery. It was not until a man named Paul came along that God revealed what He had concealed, the mystery of the church.

The Holy Spirit through Paul refers to it as: "...the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began" (Romans 16:25); "...the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God..." (Ephesians 3:9).

What a hiding place! It seemed to me there was a door in the midst of God marked "Top Secret."

When I saw the following passage I saw where the mystery led:

1 CORINTHIANS 2:6,7 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.

When did He ordain the plan?

Before the world!

For what purpose?

Unto our glory! Hallelujah! Circle of Glory Consider how strong this verse is in The Amplified Bible.2 1 CORINTHIANS 2:7 AMP 7 But rather what we are setting forth is a wisdom of God once hidden [from the human understanding] and now revealed to us by God; [that wisdom] which God devised and decreed before the ages for our glorification [that is, to lift us into the glory of His presence].

To lift us into the glory of His Presence! Hallelujah!

Now let's go on with the passage from the King James Version. We'll pick it up again at verse seven.

1 CORINTHIANS 2:7,8 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

The Father of Glory (Ephesians 1:17), sent the Lord of Glory to lift up the man who had been crowned with the Glory, but had fallen from the Glory, back into the Glory of His Presence.

Do you see why I came to call the Bible "The Story of the Glory"?

If Satan had seen the plan, he never would have lifted God's spotless Lamb to the altar of the Cross where His innocent Blood could be shed to cleanse man to once again stand in the Glory of God's Presence.

The crux of the mystery is stated succinctly in Colossians 1:27:

COLOSSIANS 1:26,27 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Imagine Satan's dismay when the first man was born again!

The Blood and the Glory When he saw that the Anointed One came to take up abode inside the man, and to become his hope of glory, I can picture the devil replacing his "What-are-ya-gonna-do-now?" chant with a cry of, "Curses! Foiled again!" and falling backwards.

Since Jesus arose, when a person believes in his heart that Jesus died on the Cross and that God raised Him from me dead, and confesses with His mouth the Lord Jesus, he is saved. He is born from above. He is born again.

At our new birth, the process of glorification begins and progresses according to the plan as we look into God's Word for His glory and yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit.

2 CORINTHIANS 3:18 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Again, The Amplified Bible makes it so clear:

2 CORINTHIANS 3:18 AMP 18 And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another...

In the last hours before He appears to receive the church, it will change in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another, until there is only one more capstone of glory to be added to the Temple. That will be the glorious rapture of the glorious church (Ephesians 5:27).

Glory! That is what you and I are saved "to".

Salvation is not just what we are saved "from"—the devil and sin.

Salvation is what we are saved "to"—God and His Glory!

Circle of Glory The church is destined to stand before God's face forever, in the Presence of His Glory (Ephesians 1:4; 3:21).

It is the last of the last days. God's glory is to be manifested in greater degree in His church. Very soon now we will walk the streets with our faces shining, and men and women will come to us to accept the Lord Jesus Christ they see within us.

The Blood of Jesus has everything to do with it. For it is His Blood that cleanses us, and covers us, and enables us to stand in His glory.☕️Billye Brim

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Quote of the Day - February 17, 2021

Quote of the Day – February 17, 2021

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Press Review: Noughts & Crosses at The Alexandra Theatre

Press Review: Noughts & Crosses at The Alexandra Theatre

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Gripping and thought-provoking Sephy and Callum sit together on a beach. They are in love. It is forbidden. Sephy is a Cross and Callum is a Nought. Between Noughts and Crosses there are racial and social divides. A segregated society teeters on a volatile knife edge. As violence breaks out, Sephy and Callum draw closer, but this is a romance that will lead them into terrible…

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Quote of the Day – September 17, 2020

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Quote of the Day – February 26, 2020

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Off the Grid

NOUGHTS & CROSSES

Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, Wednesday 27th March, 2019

  Malorie Blackman’s seminal YA novel puts a spin on Romeo and Juliet, setting the love story in a parallel world that is rife with segregation and discrimination.  Now it comes to the stage in this pacey new adaptation by Sabrina Mahfouz.  Simon Kenny’s set has movable flats that bear the 3×3 grid of the time-honoured game,…

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THE REVIEW: NOUGHTS & CROSSES

THE REVIEW: NOUGHTS & CROSSES

It is about to be a stage show, and the BBC drama is already in the works, not to mention the 5th book is on the way so if you didn’t get stuck into Noughts & Crosses when you were a kid the time to start is now. (more…)

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#SciFiMonth | 5 Star Books in 5 Words

#SciFiMonth | 5 Star Books in 5 Words

This tag was originally created by Matthew Sciarappa, and when I saw imyril‘s sci-fi edition (inspired by Lauren @ Always Me), I knew I had to have a go, too!

The Rules:

Choose 5 books that you gave 5 stars

Share 5 words that in some way describe why you liked it so much.

Give no other explanations of those words. Some of the words may only make sense if you’ve read it yourself.

Feedby Mira Grant

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Jay-Z's Roc Nation Joins BBC's Highly-Anticipated "Noughts & Crosses" Series

Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Joins BBC’s Highly-Anticipated “Noughts & Crosses” Series

Roc Nation has partnered with Participant Media to be the show’s executive producers. Disregard the fact that Jay-Z has told us in the past that he’s not a businessman, he’s a “business, man.” In truth, Jigga is one of the most successful businessmen in the world of hip-hop. That may have something to do with himself being an actual business but these are…

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Checkmate (Noughts & Crosses #3) - Malorie Blackman

Checkmate (Noughts & Crosses #3) – Malorie Blackman

What’s it all about?:

Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young adult, she unexpectedly discovers the…

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Just remember, when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you fall. - Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

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People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge. - Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

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Book Review #29 Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Book Review #29 Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Now for a change of author. I am fully aware that there have been a few books by Sarah J. Maas on my book list so I resisted the overwhelming urge to go and get the next in the THRONE OF GLASS series and enjoyed reading a different author instead.

In fact, this was a totally new author to me. I decided to start the NOUGHTS & CROSSES series.

Callum is a Nought- an inferior white citizen in a…

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Noughts and Crosses - Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco - 20th September 2012 on Flickr.

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Warrior

...And whilst Warrior may be one of the upmost genuinely kind-hearted and sweet men you could ever have the pleasure of meeting... he is merely a reflection of yourself. Mirroring back at you exactly what it is you want to see... what you want to hear... but mainly what you want to feel.

Warrior will make you feel like you're someone. And through all of his bullshit quotes about motivation and determination he dares you! Challenges you to better yourself! To be the very best version of you, you could possibly imagine!

And while all this may feel electric and satisfying at first, eventually he drops you.

Like some kind of Twister'ed, mutilated bird of prey, he'll come along out of nowhere, grab a hold of you and then when you least expect it... he'll whisk you off into what can only be described as a dream like state where for those brief few moments you feel as though nothing else in the world matters. Nothing else in the world can hurt you. No one else in the world could be happier...

When suddenly.

You begin to fall.

Though this isn't just any old fall where you land firmly on the ground. It's like an indecisive, backwards, hesitant, unpredictable, Jenga like fall.

Perhaps that's the fun part.

For Warrior that is.

The funny thing is, though you're falling with absolutely no safety harness or circus nets, you're not even afraid. It's like you have every last bit of faith in Warrior that you know he wont let you hit the ground. But he does. He always does.

The worst of it all is thinking that you were any different from the others. His other pawns. And when you realise all of this you begin to see the entire game in a whole new perspective. And you realise you have no one to blame but yourself. You begin to constantly batter and bruise yourself with the same old questions... "How could I let this happen?", "How could I not have known?"

And that's when it hits you...

Warrior said he "Love"ed you. He NEVER said he was in love with you. His cleverly selected choice of words had you completely blinded from the truth which was standing STRAIGHT in front of you the entire time.

Warrior may ask you to fall in love with him. Maybe not in so many words. Probably not in any at all. But I give you this one word of advice...

Don't.

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-Guess Who?

-Connect 4

-Noughts & Crosses

-Mouse Trap

-Jenga

-Twister

-Magic 8 Ball

-Kaleidoscope

-Chess

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When you're floating up and up in your bubble, that bubble has a habbit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.

Malorie Blackman