Tag: sin
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David Planned His Sin
1In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.–2 Samuel 11 …make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. (Romans 13:14b) Whenever you go on…
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Deceived
8The prudent understand where they are going, but fools deceive themselves.–Proverbs 14 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? (Jeremiah 17:9) Some people understand life and live in reality, while others are stuck in denial and refuse to accept reality. These kind…
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The Only Hate the Bible Allows
12“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,and I find knowledge and discretion.13The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil.Pride and arrogance and the way of eviland perverted speech I hate.–Proverbs 8 Lady Wisdom was talking here in this proverb. This is God’s wisdom personified in a person. She is contrasted in Proverbs with Madam Folly. So let us…
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Intentional About Temptation
1My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;2keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 3bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.–Proverbs 7 Proverbs 7 is a very sexual chapter. And you could argue that nobody knew that temptation…
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Lack of Discipline
21For your ways are in full view of the Lord, and he examines all your paths. 22The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast. 23For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.–Proverbs 5 For the wages of sin is death, but the…
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Take Your Sin Seriously
10My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them.–Proverbs 1 …but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. (James 1:14-15) I remember my…
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Paul’s Sin Struggle
14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15I [Paul]do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is…
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Jesus Paid It All
4Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. 5However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. 6David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness…
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Stubborn and Unrepentant
5But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. 6God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”–Romans 2 My stubborn and unrepentant heart has always been my biggest problem. For years, I didn’t…
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The Wrath of God
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness…–Romans 1 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:9) For God to be a just Judge, wickedness and…
