Tag: the Holy Spirit
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The Self
Titus 1:7-8 “For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must (be) . . . self-controlled” Titus 2:1 “Older men are to be . . . self-controlled” Titus 2:2-5 “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior . . . They are to . . . train the young women . .…
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Wonderful Words of Life
2 Corinthians 7:2-3 “Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.” Have you ever asked this question:…
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The Spiritual Seal
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 “And it is God who . . . who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.” Are you sure you are a Christian? Indeed, can you be sure? On what basis? The Bible says things like “I write these things to…
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The Things We Say
1 Corinthians 12:3 “No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except in the Holy Spirit.” One of the commands of Jesus is that we say what we mean and mean what we say. One of the ways in which He commanded this is found in the following passage from the Sermon on the Mount: “Again you…
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“With You in Spirit”
Colossians 2:5 “For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit . . .” The words above were written by the apostle Paul as he languished in a Roman prison. The sad fact was that he longed to spend time with the Colossian church, a church whom he had never met…
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Revealer of Secrets
Romans 16:25-26 “Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations . . .”…
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The Wonderful Works of God
John 21:18-19 “’Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.’ (This he said to show by what kind of death…
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Thirst!
John 19:28-30 “After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), ‘I thirst.’ A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said,…
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What will you do with the greatest gift?
Romans 5:5-8 “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us . . . but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Perhaps the most well-known verse in all the Bible is John 3:16: “For God so loved the…
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Two kinds of strength
Judges 14:1-3 “Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. Then he came up and told his father and mother, ‘I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.’ But his father and mother said to him, ‘Is there not…
To Encourage You 