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The Bible says, "In the beginning God." The God we worship is the God who has always been. He alone can create beings, because He alone has the power of being. He is not nothing. He is not chance. He is pure Being, the One who has the power to be all by Himself. He alone is eternal. He alone has power over death. He alone can call worlds into being by fiat, by the power of His command. Such power is staggering, awesome. It is deserving of r..
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One Reformed theologian, A. A. Hodge, gives the following list of distinctions between true assurance and false assurance: TRUE ASSURANCE FALSE ASSURANCE begets unfeigned humility begets spiritual pride leads to diligence in holiness leads to slothful indulgence leads to honest self-examination avoids accurate evaluation leads to desire for more intimate fellowship with God is cold toward fellowship with God
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Our marks of piety can actually be evidences of impiety. When we major in minors and blow insignificant trifles out of proportion, we imitate the Pharisees. When we make dancing and movies the test of spirituality, we are guilty of substituting a cheap morality for a genuine one. We do these things to obscure the deeper issues of righteousness. Anyone can avoid dancing or going to movies. These requ ire no great effort of moral courage. Wha..
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Bible study for each day--bringing the best in biblical scholarship together with down-to-earth writing, Tabletalk helps you understand the Bible and apply it to daily living. Trusted theological resource-- Tabletalk avoids trends,
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way for us to spend time with Him, to praise and thank Him, and to make our requests known to Him. Afterward, when we get up from our knees, we watch the providence of God work in our lives. In short, we see God answering prayers. What does that do to our faith? It strengthens it. That's why prayer is a very important means of grace.
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I do not have to prove to you that God exists, because I think you already know it. Your problem is not that you do not know that God exists; your problem is that you despise the God whom you know exists. Your problem is not intellectual; it is moral--you hate God.
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Of course, knowledge is also important because without it we cannot know what God requires. However, knowledge and truth remain abstract unless we commune with God in prayer.
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There is a war in the Christian life between flesh and spirit. We still battle with the flesh, but the battle is not with our physical body. It may include that, but the battle between the flesh and the spirit is the battle between the old man, who is fallen and corrupt, and the regenerated person, who is now living by the Spirit of God. Paul
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any time the gospel is preached accurately and passionately, it will bring conflict, and since people flee from conflict, every generation will tend to water down or hide the gospel, allowing it to be eclipsed by darkness as it had been for centuries before the Reformation. At
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Can anything be more ridiculous than a religion that builds on a fundamental refusal to acknowledge what is known to be true? Can
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God's priority is that people understand his holy character. People may not feel their need of that, but there is nothing they need more than to have their minds exploded in their understanding of who God is. God
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The foolishness of preaching is the method God has chosen to save the world. That
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Estamos en contacto con la revelacion divina cuando somos conscientes de la gloria de Dios en la naturaleza. La
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En lo mas profundo de nuestras almas sabemos que Dios existe y que nos ha dado su ley. Intentamos
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them incognito. They presumed to inform Jesus about the events of the crucifixion and showed obvious impatience with His apparent ignorance of the matters. When they related the report of the women concerning the resurrection, Christ rebuked them: "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses..
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Know God's Will? How Should I Live in This World? What Does It Mean to Be Born Again? Can I Be Sure I'm Saved? What Is Faith? What Can I Do with My Guilt? What Is the Trinity? What Is Baptism? Can I Have Joy in My Life? Who
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be more important than the cross? Without it we have no atonement, no redemption. Paul resolved to preach Christ and Him crucified. Yet without
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Paul resolved to preach Christ and Him crucified. Yet without the resurrection, we would be left with a dead Savior. Crucifixion and resurrection go together, each borrowing some of its value from the other. However, the story does not end with the empty tomb. To write finis there is to miss a climactic moment of redemptive history,
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The conscience is the tool that God the Holy Spirit uses to convict us, bring us to repentance, and to receive the healing of forgiveness that flows from the gospel.
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If we do something that we think is sin, even if we are misinformed, we are guilty of sin.
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A medida que luchamos en la vida cristiana, a veces lidiamos con nuestra seguridad en Cristo.
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To be spiritual has only one real purpose. It is a means to an end, not the end itself. The goal of all spiritual exercise must be the goal of righteousness. God calls us to be holy. Christ sets the priority of the Christian life: "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" (Matt. 6:33). The goal is righteousness." --
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James 1:13 specifically says that God tempts no one. God may test, but He never tempts to evil. A test is for growth; temptation is toward evil. Not
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God vindicates His people, and He vindicates them in the presence of those who have falsely accused them. In essence, David said, "Not only does He prepare a table before me, but He prepares this table and invites me to His table publicly."
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this plan, who received the physical blessing of healing, apparently never went past the physical to saving faith. How easy it is for us to be faithful to Christ when we receive some benefit from His hand. Likewise, how difficult it can be for us to remain faithful when we do not receive what we want.
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Here, unfortunately, is where Christians have succumbed to the fairy-tale syndrome of our society. It is a particular problem for young, single women. Many a young woman feels that if God wants her to be married, He will drop a marriage partner out of heaven on a parachute or will bring some Prince Charming riding up to her doorstep on a great white horse. One excruciating problem faced by single women--more so in past generations than toda..
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The death of Christ covers our sin, but the life of Christ provides the merit and the righteousness that we must have in order to enter into heaven. So, Jesus's life is as important for us as His death. He lived to fulfill all of the law of God.
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First, they stopped thanking Him for His provision. Second, they stopped asking Him for His provision. Third, they began grumbling about His provision. Finally, they began reminiscing about how good things had been in Egypt. They dreamed about the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, and the garlic they had had in Egypt--all the while forgetting about the oppression, the hardships, and the tortures they had endured at the hands of Pharaoh.
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Cristo... Senor... Rabi... Hijo del Hombre... Hijo de Dios... Hijo de David... Leon de Juda... la Rosa de Saron... el Brillante Lucero de la Manana... el Alfa y la Omega... el Logos... el Abogado... el Principe de Paz... el unigenito del Padre... el Cordero sin defecto..." Y"
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Jesus is a Savior with power, ultimate power, and He holds the power of being in His hand. His
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Hini nothing was made that was made. In Hini was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
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And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
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In The City of God Augustine says: "The will, therefore, is then truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Such was it given us by God; and this being lost by its own fault, can only be restored by Him who was able at first to give it."
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not prohibit an appropriate quest for literary sources or even oral sources that may be discerned through source criticism, but it draws a line as to the extent to which such critical analysis can go. When the quest for sources produces a dehistoricizing of the Bible, a rejection of its teaching,
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All of our prayers are to include thanksgiving. Like the leper, we must pause, turn back, and give thanks. We are so indebted to God that we can never exhaust our opportunities for expressing gratitude. Forgetting
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Sometimes we make an artificial separation or distinction between the Old and New Testaments. We talk about the Old Testament as law and the New Testament as gospel, as if there were no law in the New Testament and no gospel in the Old Testament. Paul says at the very beginning that the gospel is not a novelty; it is the same gospel that was promised numerous times before.
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the gospel of Christ was given in the promise of the curse of the enemy. That
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The problem, as history has demonstrated, is that when everyone owns everything, no one owns anything.
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How awesome is this place!" This was Jacob's response to being in the house of God. People do not normally feel that way in church. There is no sense of awe, no sense of being in the presence of One who makes us tremble. People in awe never complain that church is boring."
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Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God" (Rom. 5:1-2)."
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this: "If God Himself were to design worship, what would it look like?" --
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We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
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Paul declared, "There is none who seeks after God" (Rom. 3:11). The unbeliever never seeks God. The unbeliever is a fugitive from God. The natural pattern for humanity is to run from Him, to hide from Him. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10). He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running. In humanity's sinful state, we may look for answers to life's puzzles, but we do not seek God."
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Thus, we urge our Christian brothers and sisters of all professions and denominations
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