Tag: forgiveness
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Debt
Romans 13:8 “Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” One of the most uncomfortable feelings in the world is to have a debt hanging over our heads. While we are in such a condition, there’s that constant awareness that we’re under obligation. We…
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Fed Up?
Psalm 136:1 “. . . his mercy endures forever.” Have you ever said or at least had the thought about a person, “That’s it! I’ve had enough!” Maybe you’ve tried to be kind and understanding to that person. Perhaps you’ve done things for them, even over and over again, but it didn’t seem to matter.…
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True Righteousness
1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Have you ever heard someone say, “That’s not right!” either to you or to someone else? What does someone mean when they say such a thing? It means that there’s…
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The Believer’s Heart
James 5:19-20 “My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.” Much that we read in the book of James is a differentiation between…
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A Good Conscience
Philippians 3:19 “they glory in their shame” One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is our conscience. As pain is God’s gift to warn us of physical injury, the conscience is God’s gift to warn us of spiritual harm. In 1 Timothy 1:18-19 Paul encourages his protégé Timothy to “wage the good…
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I Was Naked and You Clothed Me
Matthew 25:36 “I was naked and you clothed me.” Have you ever heard the saying, “Do as I say, not as I do”? It’s often said in jest as a response right after it’s been pointed out to someone that they aren’t following what they’ve been telling someone else (such as their own children) that…
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Our Forgiving God
2 Samuel 3:22-25 “Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace. When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Joab, ‘Abner…
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The Heart of God
Exodus 34:6-7 “The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and fourth…
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God’s Perfect High Priest
Hebrews 7:28 “For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.” A central theme of the book of Hebrews is how Jesus is superior in every way to that which came before. He is…
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A Great Reconciliation
Romans 5:6 “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.” Everyone knows that oil and water don’t mix. It’s because in their fundamental properties that they have what you could say are irreconcilable differences. Some people don’t mix so well either. And while people talk about…
To Encourage You 