“For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery...
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Jesus is our Sanctification.
Reader....are you born again, or just water baptized and religious?
Jesus said..>"You must be born again"......and water can't do that for you.
So, when we are "In Christ", we are sanctified..... as Christ is our Sanctification.
1 Corinthians 1:30
And here...
SCRIPTURE: Even perfection has its limits, but your commands have no limit (Psalm 119.96)
LESSON: It is true that even perfection has its limits, but God's commands know no bounds when it comes to their perfection. Therefore, when we apply the word of God to our daily lives, by standing on His...
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Paul teaches us that the born again are """dead to sin and alive to God.""""
IF you are just water baptized, or similar, and were lied to about "water washes your sin away"... then reader, go to the Cross, and receive Jesus as your Savior, by Faith....today.
Now, How did that happen?.... How...
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Paul tells us to put on the whole armor of God.
Ephesians 6.
So. reader....who's armor is it?
A.) ITs Gods.
So this means its Spiritual, and you can't see it or provide it for yourself.
What does that mean?
It means :
1.) you don't work for it,
2.) and you don't strive to have it,
3.)...
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What is the difference between a Christian, and an unbeliever?
There are a few.
You, if you are born again, and not just water baptized (sprinkled) and religious) are going to heaven, and they are not.
You are born again, and they are not.
They have their sin, and Christ has all of yours...
Psalms 119:57-60 ESV
“The Lord is my portion;
I promise to keep your words.
I entreat your favor with all my heart;
be gracious to me according to your promise.
When I think on my ways,
I turn my feet to your testimonies;
I hasten and do not delay
to keep your commandments.”
If...
Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?”
37 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your...
Psalms 119:129-131 ESV
“Your testimonies are wonderful;
therefore my soul keeps them.
The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple.
I open my mouth and pant,
because I long for your commandments.”
I love the Scriptures. Now not all of the...
Brothers and sisters, happy Sabbath! As I see it, Jesus made 3 of His commandments more demanding in the new covenant and added an 11th commandment for a total of 11 commandments as the minimum love that God wants us to show God and neighbors.
“You have heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You...
John 14:6 ESV
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’”
Jesus also said, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day” (Jn 6:44; cf. Eph 2:8-10; Heb 12:1-2).
So...
I Hate Double-Mindedness
Psalms 119:113-115 ESV
“I hate the double-minded,
but I love your law.
You are my hiding place and my shield;
I hope in your word.
Depart from me, you evildoers,
that I may keep the commandments of my God.”
We should not hate people, but we should hate sin...
Psalms 119:1-8 ESV
“Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
who walk in the law of the Lord!
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,
who seek him with their whole heart,
who also do no wrong,
but walk in his ways!
You have commanded your precepts
to be kept diligently.
Oh...
That We Keep His Commandments
1 John 5:1-3 ESV
“Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is...
Lukewarm:
The one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet has no firm root in themself but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately they fall away. Also, the one who hears the word, and the anxiety of the world and the...
Lukewarm:
The one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet has no firm root in themself but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately they fall away. Also, the one who hears the word, and the anxiety of the world and the...
TAKE TO HEART THE FOLLOWING VERSES
Num. 23:19 - “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good"?
Mal. 3:6 - "For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not...
Deuteronomy 6:1-3 ESV
“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all...
The Law or Love
When you fear the Lord and do his will out of fear, you are keeping the law. You do this because you fear his judgment on you if you break the law. This is good. This is the beginning of wisdom.
Now when you love the Lord with all of your heart, you will do his will because...
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God
John 3:3
Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the Lord, And He will have compassion...