Tag: resurrection
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How the Worst Thing Becomes the Best Thing
1 Samuel 22:22-23 “I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father’s house. Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.” What’s the worst thing that can ever happen to you? The typical answer to that question is…
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A Dangerous Occupation
Revelation 2:10-11 “Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to…
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The Fear of Death
Hebrews 2:14-15 “Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.” When I was younger and living at home with…
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Resurrection Hope
1 Corinthians 15:19 “If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.” The other day I saw a program on TV about the life of baseball player Ted Williams. Some say he was the greatest hitter of all time in the major leagues. After he…
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From Death to Life
Colossians 2:13-14 “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands.” Have you ever been brought back from the dead? What a strange question, you might ask. Who…
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The Easter “holiday”
I Corinthians 15:3-11 “I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to…
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The great “left-handed One” at the right hand of God
Judges 3:15 “Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man.” The book of Judges is an account of a series of judges that God raised up to deliver Israel time after time as they, in their times of disobedience, fell…
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What can you do with a stick?
Numbers 17:8 “On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.” So, what good is a stick, a piece of dead wood? What can we do with…
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The problem of death – and the remedy!
Numbers 16:44-48 “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.’ And they fell on their faces. And Moses said to Aaron, ‘Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry…
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Wonderful shadows: the Burnt Offering
Leviticus 6:9-11 “This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. And the priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he…
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