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Part 6 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To The Local Church

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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: We are called/commanded to BE a community of brothers/sisters/mothers/fathers in the faith. And like ANY command, this requires OBEDIENCE. Our first reaction to challenging teaching or correction shouldn’t be defensiveness, but rather openness. This takes humility, as that is the essence of obedience. The Truth hurts sometimes, especially when there’s […]

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Part 5 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To The Local Church

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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: God has designed His creation to follow simple truths, such as ‘trees bear fruit after their own kind’. We shouldn’t expect anything different. These are ancient primitives that we can use as fundamental underpinnings to our understanding of God. God has designed His creation to follow simple truths, such as

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Part 1 – Commitment, Responsibility, and Accountability To the Local Church

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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “Freedom comes through servitude.” – Pastor Barfield of High Plains Fellowship Church We are always a slave. Freedom and slavery are not mutually exclusive terms (that’s what Satan wants you to believe). LOVE is not a vapid emotion that “feels” its way to righteousness. Love isn’t love if it lacks

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Part 199 – The Book of Hebrews

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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “exhort” – from parakaleo [para = “from close-beside” + kaleo = “to call”) – to “make a call” from being “close-up and personal”  (“personally make a call”); refers to believers offering up evidence that stands up in God’s court. Barnes on Heb 3:13 Belonging to the same family; having the same interest in religion; and all suffering when one suffers,

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Part 198 – The Book of Hebrews

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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “exhort” – from parakaleo [para = “from close-beside” + kaleo = “to call”) – to “make a call” from being “close-up and personal”  (“personally make a call”); refers to believers offering up evidence that stands up in God’s court. Barnes on Heb 3:13 Church members should exhort one another. There may not be the intimacy of personal friendship among all

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