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  1. Christsfreeservant

    Loving Sin, Not Jesus

    John 3:16 NIV “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” As with all Scriptures, this verse must be read and interpreted within its context, not isolated from its context, and made to say something it...
  2. Christsfreeservant

    Don't Let Them Egg You On

    Romans 12:3-5 NIV “For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. For just as we have many parts in one body and all the body’s...
  3. Christsfreeservant

    Deceived and Deceiving

    An Original Work / December 16, 2020 Liars, liars, all around Join their circus Hear their clown He’s their idol Of renown He’s their piper Follow him Mesmerizing With a grin Stupefying Half past ten Winsome he is Folks adore Put their idol To the floor They keep coming Back for more They...
  4. Christsfreeservant

    Students of the Scriptures

    2 Corinthians 11:1-4 ESV “I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts...
  5. Christsfreeservant

    Saved From Captivity

    The setting of this, as translated to our day and time: Many people who profess the name of Jesus Christ are living in open idolatry and spiritual adultery against their Lord God. God, in his great love and mercy, has been confronting his rebellious people with their sins of idolatry and...
  6. Christsfreeservant

    Mind Manipulation and Deception

    James 5:1-6 ESV “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up...
  7. Christsfreeservant

    Plausible Arguments

    A Great Struggle Colossians 2:1-3 ESV “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...
  8. Christsfreeservant

    According to His Plan

    Acts 4 Summary (quoted passages in ESV) John and Peter were proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ, and they were instrumental in the healing of a man lame from birth. The rulers in the temple of God were annoyed with them, though, so they arrested them and put them in custody for the next day...
  9. Christsfreeservant

    Don't Put Your Trust in Them

    Psalms 146:3-4 ESV “Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.” “Princes” can be government rulers, or they can be pastors and elders of churches (or in the state...
  10. Christsfreeservant

    The Hope to Which He has Called us

    Ephesians 1:15-23 ESV “For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom...
  11. Christsfreeservant

    The Gospel Under Siege

    Ephesians 4:17-24 ESV “Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They...
  12. Christsfreeservant

    Knowledge And All Discernment

    Philippians 1:9-11 ESV “And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the...
  13. Christsfreeservant

    The Lord, Our Keeper

    Psalm 121 ESV I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? 2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The...
  14. bèlla

    Witchcraft 101

    I stumbled on a link for Cosmopolitan Magazine and was met with the following... Yes, You Need Spell Candles Like scented candles, but better. That was the headline. I did a double take to make sure I was on the right website. I glanced at the browser and saw a different description in the...
  15. Christsfreeservant

    Put Away All Hypocrisy

    1 Peter 2:1-3 ESV “So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation — if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.” As Christians, we are to live morally pure...
  16. Christsfreeservant

    Distancing from God

    An Original Work / July 26, 2020 Distancing, distancing from their God, Many, many are a fraud. Turbulent, turbulent, round and round, Many ne’er get off the ground. Honoring, honoring not their Lord, Idols, idols they adore. Sacrifice, sacrifice to their gods, Idols they, instead...
  17. Christsfreeservant

    He Goes Away and Forgets

    James 1:16-18 ESV “Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of...
  18. Christsfreeservant

    What's Your Thinking?

    An Original Work / July 10, 2020 Teaming, steaming, Idols gleaming, Whirlwind, whirlwind, What’s your thinking? Soap box! Soap box! All are actors. Truthing, lying Are the factors. Myst’ry! Myst’ry! All is a ruse. True objective Is to confuse. Pageant! Pageant! All are on stage, Hoping...
  19. Christsfreeservant

    Come Out, My People

    Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.” Revelation 18:4-5 ESV
  20. Christsfreeservant

    Jesus, Our Peace

    Storms of Destruction Psalm 57:1-3 ESV “Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by. I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me. He will...
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