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I think the overarching principle about material possessions believers need to remember is that God is the owner of all things. That truth basically comes from the book of Genesis chapters 1 and 2 where God is the Creator. He’s the owner because He’s the Creator of all things. Likewise, It is beautifully expressed in…
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“Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:1-2…
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1 Corinthians chapter 15 is probably the most definitive Scriptural evidences of the Resurrection. I was wondering how much of my faith and life has been influenced by one simple text everyone is familiar with, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…” – and I believe that with all…
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“…The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness;…” Ezekiel 33:12 The man who is wicked, the man who lies, cheats, and steals, and…
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I don’t think the basic predisposition of God is judgment. I think the basic stance of God is love (cf. Ezek. 33:11). Some people view God as the ‘Hanging Judge of the universe’ that has a big gavel ready to smash you like a bug if you step out of line. He’s just waiting to…
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“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,” Hebrews 10:24 This is a corporate verse, and we need to hear it in our day, the corporateness of Christianity. Christianity is a body of believers. The local church is an individual body, but the whole group of believers…
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Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman… Ezekiel 33:2-9 BEING A WATCHMAN – A TREMENDOUS JOY, A TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITYI think it’s very…
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Chapter 2:29 – Chapter 3:22 To The Loveless Church The first of the 7 letters is addressed to the church in Ephesus (cf. Rev. 2:1-7). This was the largest city of the Roman province of Asia Minor. However, it was not the capital, but it was the commercial center because of its wonderful natural harbor.…
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Bible authors try to communicate deep spiritual truths to us by using very common illustrations of life; familiar things like a ‘sower’, ‘vine’, a ‘fig tree’, a ‘vineyard and its workers, and many more that will try to show us an analogous relationship to spiritual truths. The 33rd chapter of Ezekiel uses a very common…
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There is no such thing as a clergy-laity dichotomy in the Bible. There isn’t a select few and a whole lot of normal “Sunday only” Christians in the Bible. I’m real bothered by people who think that Sunday is special and the rest of the week is not special, because to me Christianity is a…