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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.
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I KNOW I WRITE A LOT ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE BECAUSE IT IS VERY IMPORTANT, NOT JUST BECAUSE IT MEANS WE WILL LIVE FOREVER WITH JESUS, BUT THAT WE CAN NOW KNOW GOD AND HAVE A CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS, HE DID NOT DO THAT SO THAT WE WOULD ONLY LIVE FOREVER, HE DID IT TO TAKE AWAY ALL OF OUR SIN THAT WAS SEPARATING US FROM GOD. WE WHO ARE BORN AGAIN ARE NOW SEEN BY GOD THROUGH JESUS. "JOHN 17:3 PUTS IT THIS WAY, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."
IF YOU KNEW THAT YOU WERE GOING TO DIE NEXT SATURDAY AT 12 NOON, WHAT WOULD YOUR WEEK BE LIKE? WOULD YOU KEEP DOING THE SAME THINGS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING IN THE PAST? WOULD YOU MAKE SURE YOU ARE RIGHT WITH GOD AND THAT YOU WILL GO TO BE WITH HIM? WOULD YOU TRY EVERYTHING YOU KNOW HOW TO DO TO GET YOUR KIDS SAVED, AND YOUR PARENTS, EVEN YOUR FRIENDS THAT YOU KNOW ARE LOST?
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The most loving Father in the world cannot compare to our heavenly Father and the love He has for us. And yet, many times, we find it easier to believe in the willingness of a father or mother or mate to help us than in the willingness of God to use His power on our behalf. Relatively few people really doubt God's ability, but rather, it is our doubt of His willingness to use His ability on our behalf that causes most people to do without. Jesus is assuring us that God's love, and His willingness to demonstrate that love, is far greater than we can ever experience in any human relationship.
The Lord didn't just save us out of pity or a sense of obligation as our Creator. He saved us because He loved us (John 3:16). It was...
ARE YOU AN ADDICT? I WAS ADDICTED TO SEVERAL THINGS. MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT I WAS AN ALCOHOLIC AND ALCOHOLIC'S ANONYMOUS DIDN'T REALLY HELP ME. GAMBLING WAS ANOTHER ADDICTION OF MINE. I WENT TO GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS' UNTIL I DECIDED I WOULD PLAY POKER FOR A LIVING AND DID FOR ABOUT FOUR YEARS. SMOKING, NATURALLY, WAS ANOTHER ADDICTION WHICH WENT ALONG PERFECTLY WITH DRINKING AND GAMBLING. I WENT THROUGH THREE PACKS A DAY PLUS ABOUT FIVE CIGARS. THE INSIDES OF MY HOUSE AND CAR WERE YELLOW FROM ALL THE SMOKE.
When you consider that Jesus was the greatest miracle worker who ever walked the earth and the greatest preacher who ever lived, it is amazing that His disciples asked Him to teach them to pray. Why didn't they ask Him to teach them how to work these miracles or how to preach and amaze the people with their doctrine?
It's because Jesus' prayer life was even more powerful than His miracles or His doctrine. Indeed, it was His union with the Father that gave Him His power to work miracles and His authority to speak as no man had ever spoken before. Jesus said repeatedly that it was His Father who was doing the miracles through Him and that His doctrine was not His own but the Father's.
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There are only three instances in Scripture that give us information about Martha. From these accounts, we can see that Martha had a brother named Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead, and a sister named Mary. Martha had misplaced her priorities on this occasion and was corrected by Jesus. Later, at a supper for Jesus in the home of Simon the leper, Martha was once again serving while Mary her sister was worshiping Jesus by anointing His feet with a costly perfume.
Martha was the first one to run and meet Jesus when He came to their home after the death of Lazarus. It was at this time that Martha said she knew Jesus could have prevented Lazarus from dying and that, even then,...
This question of "who is my neighbour" can be used by Satan to deceive us in more than one way. Not only can he deceive men into thinking they have fulfilled the command to "love thy neighbor as thyself" when they haven't, but he will also try to apply this command in a way that condemns those who are seeking to fulfill it, by making them think they are not doing enough.
We cannot meet the needs of every single person in the world. Jesus wasn't teaching that. This wounded man was directly in the path of these three men. The priest and the Levite had to walk around him. Jesus is simply teaching that we should take advantage of the opportunities we have. The fact that we can't help everyone is no excuse not to help anyone.
Jesus, through this parable, defined a neighbor as...
Just as with this lawyer, pride causes many people to resist the truth of justification by faith in the grace of God. This lawyer loved himself and the public recognition his "holy acts" gave him. He was not willing to love God first and his fellow man ahead of himself. His was not a sincere question but rather an evasive question to shun responsibility. This man was seeking to be justified in the sight of God through his actions. He knew he had not loved everyone as he loved himself, so he is tried to interpret the scripture (Lev. 19:18) in a way that would conform to his actions. He wanted to define "neighbor" as just his close friends whom he had treated well.
Self-justification always produces...