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All of us were born in sin and were therefore "by nature" the children of the devil. That's the reason we sinned. Our sins don't corrupt our nature, but our corrupt nature makes us sin. That's why we must be "born again" and become new creatures (or a new creation) in Christ.
The scriptures teach that everyone was born with a sin nature or old man. For the Christian, the old man is dead. We do not have a nature that is driving us to sin. If that is the case, then why do we seem so bound to sin even after we experience the new birth? The reason is that our old man left behind what Romans 6:6 calls...
The Jewish people were direct descendants of Abraham. However, as with so many biblical truths, there was much more to the Abrahamic covenant than what a casual glimpse would reveal. In truth, these Jews were not actually a part of the spiritual children of Abraham.
The Holy Spirit revealed through the Apostle Paul in Galatians 3:16 and 29 that God's covenant was to Abraham and his singular "seed" or descendant, which was Christ. No one ever became an heir of God's promises through his natural birth. Before Jesus gave Himself as an offering for our sin, the Old Testament saints were justified by faith in God's promises concerning the Messiah who was yet to come. After Jesus' death and resurrection, New Testament saints are justified by faith in what Jesus has...
The devil has been deceiving the world about sin since the Garden of Eden when he told Eve that through sin she could be like God. Time has proven, not only to Eve, but to each one of us, that this is not true. Sin brings death and not life. Jesus is making it clear that sin enslaves. We become slaves not only to the sin itself, but also to the author of sin, the devil. We are either servants of God through obedience or servants of the devil through sin.
Jesus is likening the bondage that sin produces to slavery, while comparing the freedom that comes through serving God to being a beloved son. No one would doubt that being a son is better than being a slave. Likewise, obeying God is better than yielding to sin. True freedom is found only in serving God....
ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO I WROTE A MESSAGE ON ANNIVERSARIES AND HOW WE CELEBRATED THEM. THE DICTIONARY DEFINES ANNIVERSARY AS "The annually recurring date of a past
I have the new listing of the July 2018 Chart and I have 3 openings for 3 new songs. if hey are uploaded onto Indie Gospel please let me know..so we can check it out and see if it Top 20 material for the Indie Gospel Chart.. Thank You Blessings to all the artists out there.. JB
Here is the top 20 Chart listed in order.... from my spread sheet .... I am already woring on July's now. if you have a new song that you have uploaded onto Indie Gospel please let know so we can check it out to see it will be a qualifier for the upcoming Top 20 list. I'm trying to rotate them a little faster to get more songs into the mix thru the year.... when you see H/M that means it is a new song on the current chart of which we have 5 during this month.. See ya later.... Thank You JB
| 1 | 3 | Faith and Stone highest Debut 4 year | Debbie Bergone |
| 2 | 4 | Lost in the Sand | Kelly Matthews |
