Tag: Salvation
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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…
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Seeds
1 Peter 1:23-25 “You have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for ‘All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.’ And this word is the good…
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It’s Personal
1 Peter 1:20-21 “He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.” Do you like personalized…
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When the Shoe is On the Other Foot
2 Samuel 19:21 “Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, ‘Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?’” You’ve heard the saying, “when the shoe is on the other foot.” It refers to a situation in which a position of advantage has been reversed. Think of it in terms…
To Encourage You 