Tag: crucifixion
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Which Side?
Luke 23:39-43 “One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, ’Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!’ But the other rebuked him, saying, ‘Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has…
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Loving the World
Galatians 6:14 “But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.” Do you love the world, i.e., the systems of this world and the things the world loves? Do you love its viewpoints – the popular…
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What’s your view of the cross?
1 Corinthians 1:18 “For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” What’s your view of the cross? Is it a nice symbol to you that marks a Christian church, or perhaps it’s a pretty symbol to wear…
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The great “left-handed One” at the right hand of God
Judges 3:15 “Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man.” The book of Judges is an account of a series of judges that God raised up to deliver Israel time after time as they, in their times of disobedience, fell…
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