Tag: motives
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This Little Light of Mine . . .
Matthew 5:14-16 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your…
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The Secret Things
Romans 2:16 “on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.” Luke 8:17 “For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.” Do you have any secrets? Not secrets like those about what you plan to…
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How Do You Know if You Know?
1 John 2:3 “And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.” Do you know Jesus? An easy way to know this is by your answer to the following question: Do you keep His commandments? Notice it doesn’t say “keep some of His commandments,” “keep the commandments…
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What do you really want?
1 John 3:22-23 “and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.” In the verses above it seems to say that when we pray, we receive…
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Our Reasons Why
1 John 3:1 “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” Do you think much about why you do what you do or think what you think? There are obviously lots of motivations for our life. The motivations for…
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Religious inventions
Judges 17:13 “Then Micah said, ‘Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.’” Why do people who are not Christians go to church? Why do they give their hard-earned money to religious purposes when their “religion” is not legitimate in the eyes of God? Well, why do people do…
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Motives
Psalm 119:167 “My soul keeps your testimonies; I love them exceedingly.” Motives mean everything to Christ regarding how we live our lives and how we practice our faith. I Corinthians 13 speaks of those who do what appear to be great things, things that any human being would likely view as awe-inspiring, but that are worthless…
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The reasons we follow
John 16:1-4 ““I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor…
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The books
Numbers 7:12-18 ff “He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah. And his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed…
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Our plans
Numbers 1:1-3 “The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, ‘Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by…
To Encourage You 