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Saved by grace of Jesus
This is a big change in thinking for many Jews, who believed they were saved because they were a part of Israel, or saved because of the Law that they followed, though salvation had always been through…
Created 21 days ago
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Recognizing our sin
Here is the double edged offense of pride. It is a sin against God in that we are trying to take His rightful place as the center and focus of our life, and it is pride that blinds us and prevents us…
Created 3 months ago
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Recognizing our sin
Here is the double edged offense of pride. It is a sin against God in that we are trying to take His rightful place as the center and focus of our life, and it is pride that blinds us and prevents us…
Created 3 months ago
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Mixed motives
I don't think we ever do anything with completely pure motives. Sin comes from the heart, it isn't just what we do. However God sees our heart and is willing to work with our mixed motives. I commit myself…
Created 3 months ago
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If we are saved we are called
This reflects Matt 4:19 where Jesus calls the disciples to follow him (salvation) and gives them the high calling of fishing for men.
Created 4 months ago
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Distractions
It isn't clear to me that these people are not Christians. It just says that they don't bear fruit. I think this is an apt description of the church in America today. We have become distracted by so many…
Created 4 months ago
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God's Presence
This is our true reward, just as God was the inheritance of the Levites, so ultimately He is the reward of all who know Him. He will dwell with us and we shall see Him face to face.
Created 4 months ago
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The grace of God trains us...
Here Paul tells us that the grace of God trains us to reject ungodliness. How does it do that? The problem that we have is that even if we know God's law and know what is right, we cannot consistently…
Created 4 months ago
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God will conquer our sin
Micah says that God will conquer our sin. This is amazing and certainly deserves much thought. What does it mean that He will conquer our sin? Obviously this happened in Jesus, who conquered sin and death.…
Created 4 months ago
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The importance of experiencing God's presence
Here we see that a generation came up that did not experience God's working and His presence like the previous generation had. In the desert, Moses wouldn't move unless God went with the people of Israel.…
Created 4 months ago
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Christ in me
Paul has been so changed by grace that he could say that it was Christ living in him. Do we try to live on our own or have we given ourselves completely to Jesus so that like Paul, we can say Christ lives…
Created 5 months ago
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Idiots
The J.B. Philips translation has this starting out, "Dear idiots!" I like that - it gets the point across!
Created 5 months ago
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Christ's blood is for all time
God is outside of time. He foreknew Christ's sacrifice for our sins, and through Christ forgiveness is possible - for those before Christ and after.
Created 6 months ago
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The new Israel, the Church - a kingdom of priests
The Church is God's people, the remnant from Israel, the true Israel. Peter here is showing how the church is now fulfilling the call that God gave to Israel. The church is to be a royal priesthood, a…
Created 6 months ago
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Bondservant to God
The Greek word doulos doesn't have an exact corollary in todays English. Many translations put it as "slave", but that doesn't get at the exact meaning. A closer translation would be "bondservant" which…
Created 6 months ago
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The Faithful One
Who is like our God? He is the faithful one. Faithfulness is part of His very nature. But what is God faithful to? Every good and perfect gift comes from our Father above - James 1. Everything that is…
Created 6 months ago
2 Timothy 2:11 (NET), 2 Timothy 2:12 (NET), 2 Timothy 2:13 (NET)
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God is one
This also affirms that Christians believe God is one, not three as some (esp Muslims) may say we believe. It also says that this simple belief is no enough.
Created 6 months ago
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Showing prejudice
I hate it when people look at me and immediately dismiss me because I am not tall and beautiful. They judge me by appearances and they judge wrongly. God help me, I do this same thing to others all too…
Created 6 months ago
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Slaves to Christ
Many translations translate the Greek word doulos as "servant" but the original meaning doesnt mean someone who is freely serving another in the way we understand servant to mean today. Rather it means…
Created 6 months ago
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what have you witnessed?
Jesus told the disciples that they would be his witnesses. Being a witness means you have seen and experienced something. We are called to be witnesses but first we are called to experience life with…
Created 7 months ago
1 John 1:1 (HCSB), 1 John 1:2 (HCSB), 1 John 1:3 (HCSB), 1 John 1:4 (HCSB)
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acceptance
While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. God accepts us despite our sin, without conditionsvand not based on our performance. How then should we not also accept others the same way?
Created 7 months ago
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struggle against sin
The disciples used to encourage each other by remining themselves that they must suffer many things before inheriting the kingdom. These sufferings included the temptations of the flesh and this world.…
Created 7 months ago
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Our priestly inheritance
The Levites didn't inherit any of the land that was promised to Israel. This was the Promised Land - which had been promised to their forefather, Abraham, all the way down through the generations. This…
Created 7 months ago
Deuteronomy 10:8 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:9 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:17 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:18 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:19 (NLT), Matthew 25:34 (NLT), Matthew 25:35 (NLT), Matthew 25:36 (NLT), Matthew 25:37 (NLT), Matthew 25:38 (NLT), 1 Peter 2:5 (NLT), 1 Peter 2:9 (NLT)
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Love the foreigners
God is holy and just. He shows love to the outcasts and foreigners. We also, must do the same, if we care for the things God cares about.
Created 7 months ago
Deuteronomy 10:17 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:18 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:19 (NLT), Matthew 25:34 (NLT), Matthew 25:35 (NLT), Matthew 25:36 (NLT), Matthew 25:37 (NLT), Matthew 25:38 (NLT)
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A Servant's heart
This is interesting. The ones on the right, the sheep, were not aware of the times that they had served Jesus. They were not keeping a record of their good deeds, nor were they assuming the mantle of…
Created 7 months ago
Matthew 25:34 (NLT), Matthew 25:35 (NLT), Matthew 25:36 (NLT), Matthew 25:37 (NLT), Matthew 25:38 (NLT)
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