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sinful practices

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    Don't Be Selfish

    Philippians 2:3-4 ESV “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” Selfish Ambition What is the reason Jesus died on that cross? Was it not...
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    Childlike Faith

    Matthew 18:1-4 ESV At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven...
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    Take It to Heart

    Isaiah 42:18-20 ESV “Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see! Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the Lord? He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open...
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    Who Carry Out a Plan

    Isaiah 30:1-5 ESV “Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh...
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    A Wake Up Call

    You Shall, Shall Not Romans 13:8-10 ESV Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are...
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    Would You Love Him?

    If You Abide John 8:31-33 ESV So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it...
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    Is Insurance Enough?

    Destructive Heresies 2 Peter 2:1-3 ESV “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow...
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    To Him We Must Listen

    “When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.” Deuteronomy 18:9 ESV What is our “land” the Lord has given to us, as Christians? It is our spiritual inheritance. It is our salvation from slavery to sin...
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    Holiness Is

    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! Psalm 119:1-3 ESV To be blameless in God’s sight is to walk in the law of the Lord...
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    Our Eyes on Jesus

    “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.” Hebrews 12:1a NIV The great cloud of witnesses, I believe, are the heroes of the faith of Hebrews 11 who have gone before us. They have set the...
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    Conquering Sinful Addictions

    But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by...
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    What's Our Part?

    Hebrews 4:1-2 ESV (Read vv. 1-10) Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith...
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    Don't Be Stupid!

    Recap: In Ephesians 4 we learned that faith in Jesus Christ is leaving our old lives of sin behind us to follow our Lord Jesus in obedience to his will and to his ways. And, then we had some very practical teaching on what that looks like in everyday life. We have to stop lying, and tell the...
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    Are You Living a Lie?

    Proverbs 29 (Selected Verses) ESV He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing. He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth. Do you profess faith in Jesus Christ? Many people in America do...
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    Self Examination

    2 Corinthians 13:1-4 ESV This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I...
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    Where are You Tonight?

    An Original Work / September 6, 2019 Where are you tonight? Please describe your plight. Are you giving in? Drowning in your sin? Do you see the truth? Like a rotten tooth? There’s nowhere to go To hide what you know. Cover what you may. Darkness now will stay. Knowing the way out Does not...
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    Bought With a Price

    1 Corinthians 6:8-11 ESV But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers! Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves...
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    Lying Prophets

    Jeremiah 23:14-15 ESV But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”...
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    Wise or Foolish?

    James 3:13 ESV Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. Wisdom includes knowledge, but knowledge alone is not wisdom. For, many people have lots of knowledge, including biblical knowledge, but they are not wise, because they...
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    Slaves to God

    Romans 6 ESV What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into...