Tag: possessions
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An Eternal Perspective
1 Peter 5:10 “And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.” One of the distinguishing characteristics of a person who has eternal life is that their perspective of time is an eternal…
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River of Life
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”…
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True or False? You Can’t Take It with You.
Matthew 22:1-14 “And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come . . .And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all…
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Possessions
Romans 14:8 “We are the Lord’s.” Do you realize that if you are a Christian, you are someone’s property? We are not our own, but we have been bought with a price, we are told in 1 Corinthians 6:20. This relationship is reiterated time after time in the Bible. We are called God’s slaves in…
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Whose are you?
Numbers 8:14 “Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.” Throughout the Old Testament we read of the priests and the Levites. These men were chosen by God for service in the tabernacle. God called them His own possession. They were to be separated from…
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“Our” possessions
Exodus 19:5 “all the earth is mine” Malachi 3:8-10 “Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food…
To Encourage You 