Tag: knowledge
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Are You a Lazy Christian?
2 Peter 1:5-8 “Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Do…
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A Strange Command
Jeremiah 33:3 “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.” This morning, I was reading a sermon by C.H. Spurgeon on the verse above and one of his statements especially caught my eye. He said, “so strange is the infatuation of man .…
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Self-Confidence
2 Corinthians 1:8-9 “For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on…
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Is there a better way?
John 21:6 “He said to them, ‘Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.’ So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.” Have you ever thought about how little you really know about just about anything? The way…
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Of Roosters and Men
John 18:25-27 “Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, ’You also are not one of his disciples, are you?’ He denied it and said, ’I am not.’ One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, ’Did I not see…
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Knowing – In Part
1 Corinthians 13:12 “For now we see through a glass, darkly; . . . now I know in part.” How confident are you of the things you believe? Perhaps you are very confident. It is interesting that the verse above, which cautions us regarding the things we know (or think we know), is a part…
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The hunger to know
John 16:13 “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.” It is impossible to understand the Bible without the guidance of the Holy Spirit. It…
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What’s your perspective?
Psalm 139:6 “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.” Do you read the Bible? If you do, what is the perspective from which you approach it? Might I suggest there are at least three views we can take as we read it. The first is to place ourselves above…
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The overflow
Psalm 119:171 “My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes.” What do you talk about most? What pours out of your lips? Jesus said that from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. So, what do you fill your heart with? That’s what will come from your mouth. There’s a…
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To the “know it all”
Psalm 119:130 “The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.” No one likes a know-it-all. You know the kind. You can’t tell them anything, because they are so enthralled with how much more they know than anyone else that they have no interest in hearing from those who are “lesser.” It…
To Encourage You 