Tag: salvation
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Rock Bottom Humility
32When the humble see it they will be glad;you who seek God, let your hearts revive.33For the LORD hears the needyand does not despise his own people who are prisoners.–Psalm 69 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. (1 Peter 5:6) David was calling on God to save…
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The One Worth Waiting For
1For God alone my soul waits in silence;from him comes my salvation.2He alone is my rock and my salvation,my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.–Psalm 62 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no…
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The Gentile Mystery
6This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.–Ephesians 3 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise. (Galatians 3:29) Paul had been ministering to Gentiles and was writing to a Gentile church.…
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You Were Dead, But God
1And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires…
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God’s Choice Before Time
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.–Ephesians 1 Don’t sleep on verse 4. I argue that…
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Weak and Worthless
8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be…
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A Big Difference
16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ…–Galatians 2 We all have the same sin problem Our sins separate us from God. On our own, each of us can do nothing to solve that problem. Our works will never justify us in God’s eyes.…
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The Hardest Analogy
28Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 30But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman…
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Bad News, Good News
10For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live…
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Get to Know This Verse
20I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.–Galatians 2 Paul was going after that either/or again of the…
