Bible
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In Genesis 4:26, after the the description of Seth’s son Enos, it says, “…at that time people began to call upon the Name of the Lord. That’s a very interesting statement. To call on the Name of the Lord basically means to worship Him. ‘To call on the name of’ is to pray to, and…
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“There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s…
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“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” John 10:10b (NKJV) John 10:10b (NKJV) What is the abundant life? What can I realistically expect from God in Christ on a day-to-day basis? How can He impact my life? Not when I die and go to heaven, but…
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“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.” – John 15:4 (NASB 1995) John 15:4 (NASB 1995) Some Christians have not realized in their lives all that God wants them to be, that…
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“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;…” 1 Peter 2:9 (NASB) What grabs me as I study the New Testament is this recurrent theme…
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We are created in the image of God. To be in the image of God is to represent Him in doing His will. It comes just from the way that the wording is expressed in the original. What you have in Genesis 1:27 is the word ‘tselem’ in Hebrew. That term is a standard term…
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“… so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” Eph. 2:7 (NASB) There were three ravaging forces that dominated our lives before we were saved: namely, the world, the devil, and the flesh. Howbeit, because of the generosity of God’s…
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(Read John 11:38-44) There’s a man that Jesus loved who’s going to get sick and die, and Jesus is glad about it? I would never say Jesus caused Lazarus’ death, and i would never believe that. But i do believe God took Lazarus’ death in a fallen world and used it to glorify his…
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(read 1 Pet. 3:1-7; Rom. 13:1-2) Christianity is a re-orientation of our world view. It introduces the concept of submission which is exactly the opposite of what we culturally think about individual human rights and the worth and dignity man. Something has changed in us. As believers, now we are to be submissive to earthly…
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Psalm 19 basically talks about how has God communicated to human beings. Man has fallen into sin, and you and i are not what God has intended us to be. Fallen human beings only use 10-20% of their potential brain. We are drastically hindered from being the marvelous creatures made in the image of God,…