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"WILL YOU FORGIVE?" BY DAVID MCMILLEN


By DAVID A. MCMILLEN, 2020-08-05

WILL YOU FORGIVE?




I WROTE ABOUT FORGIVENESS IN THE PAST BUT THIS IS TO A SPECIAL FRIEND THAT I BELIEVE  CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS MESSAGE AS SOME OTHER MIGHT.   WHEN YOU DON'T FORGIVE, YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE ONLY HURTING YOURSELF.  JESUS HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT FORGIVENESS.  I GUESS THE BEST ONE IS MATTHEW 6:14-15 WHERE HE SAYS " For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."  YOU MIGHT SAY THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN FORGIVEN.  THIS IS TRUE BUT JESUS TEACHES US THAT WHEN WE SIN AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, GOD WILL APPLY THE FORGIVENESS THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVIDED FOR US.  WALKING IN FORGIVENESS WILL STOP THE DEVIL FROM HAVING ACCESS TO US.  
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"VENGEANCE IS GOD'S" BY ANDREW WOMMACK


By DAVID A. MCMILLEN, 2020-08-04


Vengeance Is God's




Luke 17:2 'It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.'




God takes the persecution of His children personally. In Acts 9:4 when Jesus appeared to Saul on the road to Damascus and spoke to him about his persecution of the saints, Jesus said, 'Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?' Saul was not directly persecuting Jesus but he was persecuting His saints. Yet Jesus said, 'Why are you persecuting me?' Judgment against those who persecute God's children will not always come in time to prevent their harm but as this warning makes very clear, God will avenge His own (Rom. 12:19).

Letting God be the one who defends us is a matter of faith....

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"ARE YOU BORN AGAIN?" BY DAVID MCMILLEN


By DAVID A. MCMILLEN, 2020-08-04


ARE YOU BORN AGAIN?










"COMFORT IN ETERNITY" BY ANDREW WOMMACK


By DAVID A. MCMILLEN, 2020-08-03


Comfort In Eternity




Luke 16:22 'And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;'



LUKE 16:19-31



This story clearly teaches that there is life after death. It shows that there is no 'soul sleep' where our souls are awaiting the resurrection of our bodies, but we go into a conscious eternity immediately. It also shows that there are only two destinations possible after death. We either go to a place of torment for the wicked or a place of blessing for the righteous. There is no 'limbo' or 'purgatory' and there is no second chance, illustrating the finality of our eternal destiny once we die.

Abraham's bosom is a symbolic term designating a...

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ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCES OF EVIL



                                                  

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU DONE SOMETHING WRONG (SINNED) AND HOPED NO ONE SAW YOU?  I HAVE MANY TIMES, IN MY PAST, AND HAD TO ASKED GOD TO FORGIVE ME.  THAT STILL DID NOT MAKE IT OK.  WHAT IF A YOUNG CHRISTIAN, WHO POSSIBLY LOOKED UP TO ME, SAW ME AND IT CAUSED HIM OR HER TO QUESTION THEIR BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE?  THE REASON I MENTION THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE SCRIPTURE MATTHEW 18:1-6 WHERE IT SAYS "At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little...
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"OUR DEBT WAS PAID" BY ANDREW WOMMACK


By DAVID A. MCMILLEN, 2020-08-02


Our Debt Was Paid




Luke 16:17 'And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.'




The jot was not only one of the smallest letters of the Hebrew alphabet, but also one of the most insignificant, being sometimes deleted at the writer's pleasure. The tittle was only a mark or a point on a line that helped distinguish one letter from another. The tittle corresponds to our period or apostrophe. The point that Jesus is making is that even the tiniest detail of the law would not pass away.

Christ fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law. The law was ordained to life, but no one could keep it. So, God Himself became flesh. He did what no sinful flesh had ever done. He kept the law thereby winning the life of God as the prize...

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"GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS" BY DAVID MCMILLEN


By DAVID A. MCMILLEN, 2020-08-02


GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS





IN THE PARABLE OF THE UNJUST JUDGE, IN LUKE 18, JESUS SAID THE JUDGE ONLY AVENGED THE WIDOW SO SHE WOULD NOT CONTINUE COMING TO HIM AND MAKING HIM WEARY.  WE NEVER HAVE TO CONTINUALLY BUG GOD TO DO THINGS FOR US.  HE IS A JUST GOD WHO WILL AVENGE US QUICKLY AND WE ALSO HAVE JESUS AS OUR ADVOCATE WHO IS ALWAYS MAKING INTERCESSION FOR US.  

 


AS FOR OUR PRAYERS BEING ANSWERED, HE ANSWERS ALL PRAYERS WHEN WE ASK ACCORDING TO HIS WORD.  LOOK WHAT HE SAYS IN MATTHEW 7:7-8 "Ask, and it...
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"FREED FROM THE LAW" BY ANDREW WOMMACK


By DAVID A. MCMILLEN, 2020-08-01


Freed From The Law




Luke 16:16 'The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.'



LUKE 16:16-17



The Bible teaches that there are different dispensations or divinely ordered ways of God dealing with mankind throughout the ages. A dispensation is simply a period of time in which God deals with mankind in a certain way.

The Old Testament law was only a temporary dispensation and ruled from the giving of the law (Ex. 20) until the ministry of John the Baptist. When Christ came, He put an end to the law for righteousness (Rom. 10:4). Anyone who advocates the keeping of the law for the purpose of right standing with God is going back to an Old Testament system...

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"TELL SOMEONE ABOUT JESUS TODAY" BY DAVID MCMILLEN


By DAVID A. MCMILLEN, 2020-08-01


TELL SOMEONE ABOUT JESUS TODAY





HAVE YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY "HOW CAN A PERSON BE BORN AGAIN ON THEIR DEATH BED?"  MY ANSWER IS, WELL WHY NOT?  IF THEY TRULY CONFESSED THEIR SINS AND RECEIVED JESUS AS THEIR SAVIOR, THEY WILL BE WITH JESUS IN HEAVEN.  I SAY THIS BECAUSE OF WHAT ONE OF THE THIEVES ON THE CROSS SAID TO JESUS AND WHAT JESUS TOLD HIM.  THIS IS FOUND IN LUKE 23:41-43  We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But...
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"BUILD FAITH, DESTROY DOUBT" BY ANDREW WOMMACK


By DAVID A. MCMILLEN, 2020-07-31


Build Faith, Destroy Doubt




Matthew 17:20 'And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.'



MATTHEW 17:9-20; MARK 9:9-27; LUKE 9:37-42



The disciples' unbelief in this instance was not a disbelief in God's power to produce deliverance, but rather a 'natural' kind of unbelief that came from a hardened heart that was more sensitive to what it saw than to what it believed. Jesus said that a very small amount of faith (a 'mustard seed') is sufficient to remove a mountain, if no unbelief is present to hinder it.

Jesus was...

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