Going deeper with Jesus
Jesus told us to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. That leaven is hypocrisy. That leaven is super spirituality or self-righteousness. Those religious leaders hated Jesus’ teachings. They contested them by using their own metrics and applying them to Jesus. We still have those who evaluate the Word of God by […]
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Pleasing God versus Pleasing PeopleThe person could be ourselves. No matter who, no matter why, if we put a human opinion above God’s opinion, we are in an unhealthy spiritual place. What we see, what we hear, takes precedence sometimes over what the Lordhas commanded us. People often give us instant gratification.They have excellent reasons
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Isaiah 54 was speaking to me one day when I read it. The whole chapter became alive to me. I knew the Lord was promising me something. I did not understand the fulness of it. I also did not dismiss it, but I did not understand what it was all about. I knew it was
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We are at war, now what? This is a time that we have hoped we would not see. This is a time of great distress. There may be false world peace in between attacks. Do not let your spiritual guard down. Seek the Lord, seek Him more diligently than you ever have. Let Jesus lead
For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. Romans 12:3 God has given each person a measure of faithAnother cannot believe for youThey
Proverbs 7 is about adultery, about a person who is fooled by sin. This woman in Proverbs 7 represents sin and not just adultery.Sin makes a stench to God.The greater the sin, the bigger the stench.It starts with lust of the worldly pleasures.Most people don’t notice how damaging sin is until they are deeply captivated.
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. Proverbs 5:15-17 So many people do not seek the Lord for teachings, for understanding of the word. They would rather
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For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and He poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. Psalm 75:8 We are getting closer to God’s Judgment on the Earth. The fig tree is ripe.
Grace is swaddled in love, God’s loveIt extends beyond offenses and can even overlook themJesus’ grace is powerfulOnce we experience that grace, that He overlooks what we have done, it is a humbling position before the LordIt is then that we can extend His grace to others, that we can overlook offenses because of His
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Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created. Revelation 4:11 We are and were created for God’s pleasureNot all people live up to thatSome are great disappointments to GodWe don’t get to determine who is and
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