When Jesus went to the cross and died for the sins and iniquities of the world, he left one debt to the Christian. This debt will never be paid as long as we live. It is the debt of preaching the gospel to the world.
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If God could save you because you're a good person, or because you are kind to other people, then why did Jesus have to come and die? Because the Bible says there is none righteous, no, not one (Romans 3:10). That verse emphasizes it twice. There's no one that is righteous. That's why Jesus had to come.
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Many years ago, I taught in Rick Renner’s Bible school and ministered at a convention he held in Riga, Latvia. I saw the beginnings of a church which grew quickly. Seeing the people in their newly established church was one of the most life-changing experiences I have ever encountered.
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Did dinosaurs really exist? When did they live? Did they roam through the garden of Eden? Did Adam have to name them? Are they extinct today because Noah could not fit them on the ark? If the earth is only six thousand years old, how can science tell us these creatures are millions of years old? Can science be trusted?
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The dividing line for heaven and hell is not your works; the dividing line for heaven and hell is receiving Jesus Christ and the righteousness of God.
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We want our tithes and offerings to have eternal value, so how do we bring the life of the Holy Spirit into our giving? Throughout the Word of God, giving is compared to sowing seed. For example, in 2 Corinthians 9:6 it says, “He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.”
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Solomon was in a state of carnality when he wrote the book of Ecclesiastes. It wasn’t until this last chapter that he recovered his spiritual common sense. After years of looking for happiness outside of his relationship with God, he made the deduction that it is best to serve the Lord from your youth and not reach the end of life filled with feelings of bitterness.
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Angels cannot be numbered. And these mentioned in our text are the elect angels who form two thirds of the angels created. The other third of the angels fell with Lucifer at his rebellion (Revelation 12:4) and are bound in chains today under the earth (2 Peter 2:4, Jude 6).
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We have seen how receiving the grace of God transforms a person’s life in an amazing way, bringing them from lonely exile into the palace of the King. This initial type of grace, the grace that brings salvation, is known as “convicting grace.” This is where it all begins: each of us starts our new life in Christ by receiving convicting grace.
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Often an individual who has had a vision will scrutinize the vision over and over again, instead of scrutinizing the Word. And after dissecting the vision many times, the vision ends up being bigger than it was in the beginning.
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“This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” (Hebrews 6:19-20)
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Your memory is part of your soul. When filled with God’s promises it can help produce great faith to trust God.
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After examining the sacrifice for three days, the person brought the sacrifice to the priest to be examined. The person examined the sacrifice and the priest examined the sacrifice. The priest did not examine the person.
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Some pastors get the idea they have the power in the church. In reality, the people are the true power of the church. God can very easily replace pastors, but it is more difficult to replace whole congregations! Many congregations have continued to exist for long periods of time without a pastor, but no church can exist without a congregation.
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Some translations of 2 Corinthians 12:7 say the thorn was given to Paul to prevent him from being puffed up with pride. But would Satan actually send something to us to keep us from sinning?
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By grace through faith is how people are saved today. But how were they saved in the Old Testament? This is one of my favorite questions to ask a new group of Bible School students. The answer is, in most cases, one of two. Those in the Old Testament were saved by keeping the law or by animal sacrifices. Nether Jews nor Gentiles were ever saved by the law or sacrifices, though God gave both.
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“For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.” (Romans 12:4-5)
All believers have personal and doctrinal differences. Yet, God sees us united in the one body of His Son. God desires us to love each other as we love ourselves.
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I consider this to be the greatest Christmas passage in scripture. Here Jesus is speaking, and I want you to notice what He said. It says in verse five, "Therefore, when he came into the world," this is when He came into the manger, this is when He became a human being. He's been to the earth many times as the angel of the Lord, as the rock, as the cloud that overshadowed the children of Israel. He was the burning bush that spoke to Moses. He came in so many ways, but in those cases, He always came and then He left. But when He came into a human body, He remained, and still remains in a human body today. It's a resurrected body, but once He took on a human body it would be forever.
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If the firstfruits or tithe belong to the Lord, why doesn’t He just keep it in the first place? Why does He bless us and ask us to give a tenth back to Him? Because the Lord says to honor Him with the firstfruits of all our increase (Proverbs 3:9), and there is no show of honor if we don’t give to Him. If the Lord just kept ten percent of our income, there would be no honor for Him to receive. He loves to see us succeed and prosper, but He loves it even more when, of our own free will, we give back to Him.
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The two words that say it all are grace and faith. If you will notice in this well-known verse of scripture, grace comes before faith. Grace is God’s hand reaching out to you filled with “…all the things that pertain to life and godliness…” (2 Peter 1:3). Faith is our empty hand reaching out to receive what God is giving us in grace.
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