Tag: righteousness
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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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A New Identity
Matthew 3:13-15 “Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?’ But Jesus answered him, ‘Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all…
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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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When the Roll is Called Up Yonder
Isaiah 53:12 “He poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors.” I was reading from C.H. Spurgeon’s “Morning and Evening” devotional this morning and read some of his thoughts on the wonderful passage above. It caused me to stop and think more deeply on such awesome truth. I thought about King…
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Holiness?
Hebrews 7:18-19 “For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.” I recall an interesting conversation I had with one of our former neighbors.…
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The Glory of Melchizedek
Hebrews 7:1-2 “For this Melchizedek . . . is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.” Melchizedek: what a wonderful Old Testament type of Jesus, our great High Priest. In the brief account of this priest from Genesis 14, God…
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On which road are you?
1 Samuel 2:26 “Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and also with man.” 1 Samuel 2:26 has, as a backdrop, the wickedness of Israel’s priests at that time in history. Rather than serve the Lord in the high office which they had been given, the…
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The Upside-Down World
1 Samuel 2:9 “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness for not by might shall a man prevail.” In the end, everything will be made right. That should encourage the heart of anyone who is suffering unjustly today. This world is a place where…
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Righting the Unright
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold the new has come.” 2 Corinthians 5:19 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Do you realize that when God…
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Ready for Heaven?
2 Corinthians 5:4-5 “For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.”…
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