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Children operate on the basis of feeling, but adults operate on the basis of will. They act because it is right, no matter how they feel.
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Why? " is an easy question to ask but a very difficult one to answer. Suppose God had told Job the reasons behind his troubles. Would that have solved his problems? After all, God's people live on promises, not on explanations."
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True faith isn't frightened by threats, impressed by crowds, or swayed by superstitious ceremonies. True faith obeys the Lord and trusts Him to work out the consequences.
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Warren W. Wiersbe |
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If God were to take the Holy Spirit out of this world, much of what the church is doing would go right on; and nobody would know the difference.
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Warren W. Wiersbe |
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We seek to do what Jesus would do, the way Jesus would do it, so that he alone gets the glory. Doing so isn't always easy, but it is necessary; it isn't always comfortable, but it is Christlike.
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In their time of crisis, instead of turning to God for wisdom, the people consulted demons (Isa. 8:19; Deut. 18:10-12), and this only increased their moral and spiritual darkness. The increase of the occult in our own day is evidence that people are deliberately rejecting God's Word and turning to Satan's lies. "If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn" (Isa. 8:20 NIV). Judah's leaders anxiously looked for the..
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some of this occurred when God defeated Assyria and delivered Jerusalem (Isa. 37). But the ultimate fulfillment is still future; all military material will be destroyed (9:5) because the nations will not learn war any more (2:4).
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Christ-formation is God's ultimate goal for every follower of Christ--that slowly, over time, we will begin to think like Jesus, see things as Jesus would see them, and treat people the same as Jesus would treat them.
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God listens to us, so we listen to others. God forgives us, so we forgive others. Whether we feel like it or not, we act toward others as Jesus would have acted.
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Bible study is kind of like going to the gym and working out. When you study your Bible, you are exercising spiritually. We see this analogy over and over again in Scripture. Paul told Timothy: "Spend your time and energy in the exercise of keeping spiritually fit" (1 Tim. 4:7 TLB). The Greek word used here for "spiritually fit" is gymnasia, which is obviously where we get our English word gymnasium. Paul is telling Timothy to exercise hims..
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True worship is not cheap entertainment; it's a costly experience.
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tradition tells us that he was a man of prayer, and this explains the emphasis on prayer in his letter. It was said that he prayed so much, his knees were as hard as a camel's!
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Warren W. Wiersbe |
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If we desire to become leaders for God, we must give ourselves totally to the Lord and obey whatever orders He gives us (Rom. 12:1-3).
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Some people hold back the truth because they think this is one way to show love. Others tell the truth but have no love. Jesus Christ is able to blend both truth and love, and this makes him an effective counselor.
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Just look at the problems James dealt with and you can see that each of them is characteristic of little children: * Impatience in difficulties--1:1-4 * Talking but not living the truth--2:14ff. * No control of the tongue--3:1ff. * Fighting and coveting--4:1ff. * Collecting material "toys"--5:1ff."
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Tetelestai" was a familiar word shouted by a faithful Savior. He came to do the Father's will and he did it. He came to purchase our redemption and he did it. He came to do a great work, the work of salvation, and he finished that work. From the beginning of his life on earth to the day he returned to the Father, Jesus was faithful to do what the Father commanded."
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Charles Spurgeon used to say, "Little faith will take your soul to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your soul." It is not enough that we long for heaven during times of suffering, for anybody can do that. What Peter urged his readers to do was exercise love, faith, and rejoicing, so that they might experience some of the glory of heaven in the midst of suffering now."
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The power of speech is one of the greatest powers God has given us. With the tongue, man can praise God, pray, preach the Word, and lead the lost to Christ. What a privilege!
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If we are really constrained by love, then we see every lost sinner we meet--including those who persecute us--as candidates for the new creation.
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We must live by faith and not by sight. An elderly lady fell and broke her leg while attending a summer Bible conference. She said to the pastor who visited her, "I know the Lord led me to the conference. But I don't see why this had to happen! And I don't see any good coming from it." Wisely, the pastor replied, "Romans 8:28 doesn't say that we see all things working together for good. It says that we know it." Faith means surrendering all..
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Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small" (Longfellow, "Retribution")."
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The basis for this fellowship is brotherly love.
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the deepest kind of fellowship is not based on race or family relationship; it is based on the spiritual life we have in Christ.
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Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional (What's So Amazing About Grace, 45).
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True Christian hope is more than "hope so." It is confident assurance of future glory and blessing." --
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Do you have a firsthand experience with him, or a secondhand experience through others?
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Peter is preeminently the apostle of hope, as Paul is the apostle of faith and John of love.
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Instead, John emphasizes that Jesus is the Creator, the only begotten of the Father, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, and even the "I AM"
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As a Christian, I'm not a physical unit in a religious organization. I'm a living part of a miraculous spiritual unity in Christ-a member of one body (1 Cor. 12:12-14), a stone in one temple (Eph. 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:4-7), a branch in one vine (John 15:1-9), to name but a few of the New Testament images of the church. All Christians are different, and yet we are all united in Christ. Regardless of race, color, gender, political or economic s..
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Impatience is a mark of immaturity.
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One of the marks of maturity is the ability to look at life in perspective and not get out of balance. When you have God's wisdom, you will be able to accept and deal with the changing experiences of life.
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The "fear of the Lord" is that attitude of reverence and awe that His people show to Him because they love Him and respect His power and His greatness."
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How grateful we should be that God understands us and doesn't condemn us because we have doubts and fears! He keeps giving us wisdom and doesn't scold us when we keep asking (James 1:5). Our great High Priest in heaven sympathizes with our weaknesses (Heb. 4:14-16) and keeps giving us more grace (James 4:6). God remembers that we're only dust (Ps. 103:14) and flesh (78:39).
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Wisdom will guide us and guard us in our daily walk.
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All that we say and do must be motivated by love, controlled by truth, and done to the glory of God. The
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If you devote your life only to the pursuit of happiness, you will be miserable; however, if you devote your life to doing God's will, you will find happiness as well.
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The service we render for others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. " Wilfred Grenfell"
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What God wills for us is best for us, because He knows far more about us than we do.
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That's the message of the gospel: the work of salvation is completed. It is finished. There's nothing we can add to it, and to add to it would mean taking away from it. God offers the lost world a finished work, a completed salvation. All the sinner has to do is believe on Jesus Christ. The Book of Hebrews explains this completed salvation: "But now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. A..
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The sacrificial death of the Son wasn't an accident, it was an appointment (Acts 2:23; 4:27-28), for He was "slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev. 13:"
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Paul was not a politician; he was an ambassador. His task was not to "play politics" but to proclaim a message."
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Life is what we are alive to.
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In 1871, much of the city of Chicago was on fire, hundreds of people died, and four square miles of the city burned to the ground. The Great Chicago Fire was one of the worst disasters in America during the nineteenth century. One Chicago resident, Horatio Spafford, was a good friend of D. L. Moody and a man who lived out his faith. Despite great personal loss in property and assets, Horatio and his wife, Anna, dedicated themselves to helpi..
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Note that God chose us even before He created the universe, so that our salvation is wholly of His grace and not on the basis of anything we ourselves have done.
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