Tag: jesus
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Addition and Subtraction
32See that you do all I [Yahweh] command you; do not add to it or take away from it.—Deuteronomy 12
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Forty Year Shoes
4For all these forty years your clothes didn’t wear out, and your feet didn’t blister or swell. 5Think about it: Just as a parent disciplines a child, the LORD your God disciplines you for your own good.–Deuteronomy 8 In context: the nation of Israel was being punished for their rebellion and lack of faith. What would…
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Chosen and Treasured
6“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.—Deuteronomy 7 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and…
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All of You
5Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.—Deuteronomy 6 According to Jesus (Mark 12:29-30), this is the Greatest Commandment. So we take this seriously. Our verse today is very convicting.—JMB
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Start a Legacy
9Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.–Deuteronomy 4 What have you seen? I’ll tell you what I’ve seen in 20+…
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Equipped
20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, 21equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for…
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Your Race
1Therefore, 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. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he…
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Does Heaven Have a Waiting Room?
39These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, 40since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.–Hebrews 11 (emphasis) I read a fascinating theory about this verse. It involves what theologians call the “intermediate state.” This is a…
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Deliberate
26For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. 28Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three…
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Do You Know These Seven Things?
24For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. 25Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with…
Joel M Bradshaw 