Tag: jesus
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Don’t Choose Yourself Over God
26To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared all my father’s hardships.” 27So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the Lord, fulfilling the word…
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Light and Your Life
23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life…–Proverbs 6 I have journeyed in the Mark Twain caves in Hannibal, MO. I could not even imagine how dark and scary they would be without light tracks running the walls. They were a great…
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Another Prodigal Proverb
3He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.–Proverbs 29 Jesus no doubt also had this proverb on His mind when He told the famous Prodigal Son parable in Luke 15. Jesus’ audience that day was most likely expecting the father in the parable to treat the disrespectful,…
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The Walls of Self-Control
28Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.–Proverbs 25 Imagine your life as a city under attack. The only hope for that city is that the walls do not break. Those walls of the city that is your life are your self-control. In a world that promotes self-love and…
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Staggering Toward Slaughter
11Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.–Proverbs 24 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work…
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Compromise and Love
13Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 14Do everything in love.–1 Corinthians 16 Paul’s original readers faced dangerous persecution. Many of our brothers and sisters around the world still do. However, for most Christians today, being on their guard is more about not compromising in the face of temptation. Therefore,…
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Victory and Priorities
57But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.–1 Corinthians 15 Paul was talking…
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Hope and Resurrection
16For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most…
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Words of Institution
23For I [Paul] received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25In the same way, after supper he took…
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Your Past and Your Present
9Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you…
