Tag: Salvation
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Dealing With Regrets
Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.” Regrets: do you have any? I can tell you that I surely do. From time to time my mind goes to how I…
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Too Good to be True?
2 Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Sometimes things seem almost too good to be true. Do you know anything like this? Some years ago, I watched an NCAA tournament basketball game between the 15th seeded St.…
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The Cost of True Faith
1 Peter 4:17-18 “For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And ‘If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?’” I remember…
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The Rest of the Time
1 Peter 4:2 “So . . . live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.” One of my greatest regrets in life as I look back over the years is how I wasted so much time in my youth living not for…
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Get in the Ark!
1 Peter 3:20-22 “God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a…
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The Sheep and the Goats
Matthew 25:31-41 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the…
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The New
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.” Do you like new things? Did you receive some new things for Christmas this year, maybe some new clothes, new tools, new books, or other nice new things? Do you…
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Do You Know What You’re Missing?
1 John 5:12-13 “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.” One of the things that we should understand about the writers…
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The Outsiders
1 Peter 2:10 “Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people” Have you ever felt like an outsider? Have you ever found yourself in a situation where everyone around you had something in common, but it was something other than you possessed? People liken it to being a square peg in…
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When the King Returns
2 Samuel 19:41-43 “Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, ‘Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?’ All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, ‘Because the…
To Encourage You 