Tag: faith
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Tests of True Faith – Part 5
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 “You turned to God . . . to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.” Tests of true faith are found many places in Scripture. One such place is in the opening chapter of 1 Thessalonians. Here, the…
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Tests of True Faith – Part 4
1 Thessalonians 1:9 “You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.” Marks of true belief: Paul is telling us about them as he writes to the believers at Thessalonica in the verse above. He tells us a whole series of things about them that identified them as those who are…
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Fear: the Antidote
2 Timothy 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” Identifying the source of a problem is always essential to addressing that problem. For example, if all we focus on and treat are the symptoms of a disease, the disease will…
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Motivated by the Invisible
1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 “We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” Those who call themselves born again believers in Jesus Christ believe in a God that they cannot see. Because…
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The World’s Two Religions
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Do you realize that there are really only two religions in the world? They come in many forms, but in their basic essence there are only two. One form is rooted in…
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Good News
Hebrews 4:2 “For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.” Some years back I was in a conversation in my workplace and it revolved around the miserable condition of the world at that moment. …
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Spiritual Death – and Life
Colossians 3:3 ”For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Everyone has two natures. It’s just a fact of how God created us. There is a physical nature and a spiritual nature. At the creation, both of these natures were consistent in that they were both alive. God breathed life into Adam…
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Hope’s Foundation
Isaiah 61:1-3 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance…
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Two Sides of the Same Worthless Coin
Matthew 7:22-23 “On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’” Matthew 25:41-46 “Then he will say to those on his…
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Every Need Supplied – But When?
Philippians 4:19 “And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” I was listening to a message by the late Elizabeth Elliott the other day (thank God for such wonderful Christian teachers), and in her teaching she shared some insights on the verse above that really helped me. …
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