Going deeper with Jesus
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. Luke 11:39 How do we clean the inside of the cup? Short answer: We don’t. He does. Jesus spoke a few times of ignoring the […]
If you don’t want to get led astray: Love the truth Proclaim His excellencyHonor His HolinessLet His word become engrafted in your soul, a part of youFollow Jesus, not any man or doctrine or ideologyFear GodSeek His faceKneel before HimSit at His feetLift Him up in your life for all to seeProclaim His excellencyHonor His
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I have heard people condemn others to actual Hell.Not our place.The word of God says what it says and we cannot change that.God has given many indications that He judges each person individually.That surely does not mean we can ignore things in the bible that bother us or change any meanings.What it means is He
Jesus used parables.He liked them. He also let things happen to teach the disciples and in turn, us. Such as the feeding of the thousands and falling asleep on the boat. As we read some of them, they speak to us. Maybe not at that moment when we read them, but when we encounter a
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The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.The right hand of the Lord is exalted: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.Psalm 118:15-16 God doesn’t need to use His right hand. He can speak and things happen. He carefully uses symbolization for our
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Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Luke 21:26 How do we really trust in Jesus?We know we are supposed to. We know Jesus can calm the seas and remedy everything that we encounter. We are
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Letting ourselves love the unlovelyThis must be a type of work that Jesus encouraged us to do when He said:I must work the works of him that sent Me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. John 9:4 I say it is work because it is a type of work.
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Some people don’t believe it’s possible to fall away from the Lord. They think if you do, you were never saved. Solomon fell away from the Lord. The Lord warned him: But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; Of the nations concerning which the Lord
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Loving your enemies is no easy task. It calls for setting aside your emotions. It calls for bowing before the Lord Most High and doing what He asks of you. To obey His word, even though you have many accusations that you know are valid. Some people are so annoying, and they do things intentionally,
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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. James 1:21 If the engrafted word is able to save our souls, we should try to figure out exactly what that meansGod often teaches in parables or metaphorsThe other way to look
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