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Mark 9:7
7 Then a cloud formed, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is My beloved Son, listen to Him!"
When God spoke the command to Christ's disciples to listen to His Son, they were able to do so very directly and actively, listening with their ears, seeing Jesus...
Romans 8:14
14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
What does it mean to be "led by the Spirit"? Have you wondered? Does it seem like a rather occult (meaning "hidden" or "obscure" in this case) business, a vague, mysterious subject? Certainly, some corners...
2 Corinthians 13:14
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
1 John 1:3
3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father...
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
The fundamental problem people have with the notion of God is that of...
1 John 4:13
13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
One of the most common questions - and concerns - I encounter when discipling Christians is the question of what "walking with God" means, what it looks like. "You've come into relationship...
1 John 4:16-19
16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in Him.
17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is so also are we in...
I had a discussion with some fellow Christians a while ago now about the horrible Ravi Zacharias scandal. One of the members of the discussion remarked about what a good thing it was that, even at the end, Ravi could have turned in repentance and confession to God, restoring his fellowship with...
Romans 6:6-14
6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 For one who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with...
Romans 6:16-18
16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became...
Galatians 6:7-8
7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
A pastor I was listening to many moons...
Romans 1:28
28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
In an article I wrote some four years ago now, I pointed out how, when a nation turns from God, it can only turn from Reality and...
Romans 8:28-29
28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many...
Acts 9:1-19
1 Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
3 As he...
2 Peter 2:7-10
7 and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
8 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard)...
So, let me ask you: Are you tormenting...
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes...
Hebrews 3:12
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Hebrews 3:19
19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
In the OT book of Numbers the story of the disbelieving Israelites appears...
Romans 10:1-4
1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them *(Israel) is that they may be saved.
2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not...
Jude 1:24-25
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,
25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
I...
Hebrews 11:13-16
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a...
Ephesians 4:4-6
4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
Lately, I've been hearing a lot of talk about Christians "being in...