OUTLINE: If you want your perceptions to match reality, then you must possess the truth (aka the “light” – Eph 5:13-14).Popular “Do-Overs”The Gospel, Salvation, and Sanctification – Sep 2015 (117 parts)The Deceitfulness of Sin – Dec 2018 (74 parts) The Deceitfulness of SinThe more you INSIST on your “light”, the deeper you sink into the deceptiveness of […]
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OUTLINE: Gal 4:16Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?If you want your perceptions to match reality, then you must possess the truth (aka the “light” – Eph 5:13-14).Mt 6:23bIf then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!If you want your perceptions to match reality, then you must
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Who among the characters in the Bible is given more prominence than the Apostle Paul besides Jesus? He is particularly monumental to us believers in the Church due to his writings comprising much of the New Testament. It’s difficult to read the Bible and not be completely astounded by his faith, integrity, and determination, especially in light
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Though it may be difficult for some to hear, there’s such a thing as holy hatred. The reason it exists is sin. By definition, sin means to “miss the mark,” which refers to the divine standard of God. Since God is infinitely more righteous than sin (or sinners), He is intrinsically separate from it (or
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Charles Spurgeon“I had rather pass through seven years of the most wearisome pain, and the most languishing sickness, than I would ever again pass through the terrible discovery of the evil of sin.” Gen 3:17 [Amplified]Then to Adam the Lord God said, “Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have
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OUTLINE: Ro 1:32 [NLV]They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.“greedy”from pleonexia – means the desire for more (things), i.e. lusting for a greater number of temporal things that go beyond what God determines is eternally best
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But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void. — Luke 16:17 Faith and hope are intertwined: if the object of our faith is fallible, then so is our hope. If it is perfect, then we have a transcendent hope of things to
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I was reading my Bible this morning and was struck by something I already knew to be true. Has that ever happened to you? I mean, have you ever relearned or rediscovered a fact that jolted you? It happened to me while I was reading the Gospel of Matthew, chapter twenty-six, beginning with, “You know that
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OUTLINE: TranscendenceA transcendent viewpoint can still see all that is below it. With our minds fixed on the “things that are above”, we are not blind to “the things that are on earth” (Col 3:2) – we can/should still observe the things around us, on earth. Deliverance is a mindset, not blindness or willful ignorance. 80 Messages Is
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Do not allow temptation to fracture your thinking.Anytime we begin a thought with, “Well, it’s only natural,” we need to take pause and consider if we haven’t already set our course on a vector of thinking that will lead us away from “the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). Just because we have access to the Truth
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