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Sometimes within the seeming simplicity of what I read, in the Bible, awesomeness of God's
direct, written revelation is acknowledged but not given an immediate place to
render a stirring of my heart. Call it my humanness, frailty--even too harsh of a
self-assessment, the fact is that I know...
There are some interesting contrasts and parallels between the Gospel narrative concerning John the Baptizer (John 1) and the Pharisee named Nicodemus (John 3). All Scripture quotes are from the NASB-1995.
Apostle John’s description of John the Baptist, Jesus, and the spiritual battle...
“Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away...
“For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit...
“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in...
“Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed;
Save me and I will be saved,
For You are my praise.
Look, they keep saying to me,
‘Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it come now!’
But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You,
Nor have I longed for the woeful day;
You Yourself...
It is true that “we love him [God] because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Consequently, the children of God have the privilege of praying intimately to Him. That is, we can actually talk to Him. Regarding His initiative to communicate with us and His longing for us to know Him, The Bible...
“Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned...
“And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another. But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God...
“Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” (Psalms 23:6 NASB’95)
When we have the Lord Jesus Christ as our shepherd, who is leading us in the way of righteousness and holiness, and when we are following our...
The Prophet Ezra "looked among the people and the priests, and found none of the sons of Levi there. 16 Then [he] sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leaders; also for Joiarib and Elnathan, men of understanding" (Ezra 8:15-16). This...
Peter and John had been instrumental of God in the healing of a man who was lame from birth. The authorities didn’t like what they did, and they didn’t like that they were teaching the people about Jesus, and so they had them arrested and thrown in prison. And, on the next day, when they were...
I am reading in 2 Peter 2 about false prophets and false teachers among the believers in Jesus Christ, and I am noting some of their characteristic traits:
• They secretly introduce destructive heresies
• They malign the way of truth, the truth which comes from God
• In their greed...
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one...