Bible
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(read Rev. 5:1-5) As John wailed because of the specter that no one was found worthy to open the book, one of the elders (acting as an angelic interpreter) comforts John, and tells him to ‘stop wailing, for the seals will be opened. John finds that Christ who is here called ‘the Lion of the…
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The Sermon on the mount (cf. Matthew chapters 5-7) proves to be a great source of blessing and a great controversy at the same time, for the ideal is so high that people say, “We can’t just keep that”. I see the Sermon on the mount as somewhat like the 10 Commandments in the sense…
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The apostle Paul uses the concept of ‘sanctification’ in two ways. it’s used initially of our relationship to Christ upon trusting Him and on His finished work on the cross. It is a ‘position’ (righteousness) imputed upon us solely by the grace of God through faith. Secondly, believers need to ‘possess’ that “position” through an…
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(read Exodus 16) Did you know that ‘complaining’ is not simply a bad attitude? It’s really a grievous sin against the Person of God and His trustworthiness. Complaining may go by different names, such as murmuring, griping, whining, grumbling, beefing, belly-aching, & moaning. We all know what complaining means; we all complain one time or…
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(read 2 Cor. 9:8-10) One of the greatest titles for God is “the God who is able” (cf. Romans 16:25; Eph. 3:20; Jude 24 and 25), and aren’t you glad that you give to a God who is able without you having to give? His grace is such that He is initiating every spiritual blessing…
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Mark 8:38 says this, “for whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the Holy Angels”. Now, what in the world does it mean to be ashamed of Christ?…
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For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36) (Mark 8:36) Man’s insatiable desire for the things of this world – the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life are the results of the Fall (cf.…
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I think the parable of the sower or parable of the soils in Matthew 13 provides us in a very meaningful way the reasons to this very intriguing question. At the fore is satan himself who takes the seed that falls on the beaten path. The soil is so hard, the seed cannot germinate because…
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I must admit i used to be a part of the vast majority of Christians today who are very guilty of proof-texting, and by that i mean we love the Bible so much that we tend to want to say, “If the Bible says it, that settles it”. Now, i know the motive behind that…
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Psalm 126 Psalm 126 would seem to be linked to Psalm 137 as it refers to the return from the Babylonian captivity, but we’re not really certain Psalm 126 alludes to it. New American Standard Bible says, “When the LORD brought back the captive ones of Zion,…”, but the New International version has, “When the…