Tag: the Church
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The Body of Christ
1 Kings 5:5 “I intend to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’” In the study of Solomon’s temple, we should keep in mind that this temple is meant…
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Ministering Spirits
1 Kings 5:13-18 “King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft. Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country,besides…
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Drawing Near to God
James 4:8 “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.” The verse above talks about a condition of being near to God. Have you ever wondered what that might be like? Is it something about which you are interested? One of the effects of the sin that has touched every life is…
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The House of God
2 Samuel 7:1-6 “Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, the king said to Nathan the prophet, ‘See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.’ And Nathan said to the king, ‘Go,…
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Boomerangs
Ephesians 5:28 “He who loves his wife loves himself.” There are some things in the Bible that are so easy to pass over. If you are a Christian, you’ve likely read the passage above many times. I know I have. But have we really stopped to think about it?! Has it ever caused us to…
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The Glorious Mystery of “Christ in You”
Colossians 1:27 “the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” The mysteries of God are wonderful things, but they are things that are only…
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“Conspiring” to do Good
1 Samuel 19:1 “And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David.” Are you familiar with any conspiracy theories? There are a lot of them. I remember all the talk for years after President Kennedy was shot. There were studies done and commissions formed to investigate whether…
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A Holy Unity
1 Samuel 11:7 “Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.” One of the marks that should distinguish the people of God from the people of this world is unity. Everywhere we look in the Scriptures we see the church described by this theme. For example, the church is…
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Koinonia
Philemon 6 “I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.” In the verse above Paul talks to Philemon and the rest of the church that met in his house about “the sharing of your faith.” The…
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Living Water
2 Corinthians 7:13 “We rejoiced . . . at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.” One of the signs of a healthy church is the effect that that church has on those who visit it. We see this in the verse above which speaks of Titus’ visit to the…
