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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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Jesus is referring to the day when men would be justified by putting faith in God and not in their own works. Abraham had this truth revealed to him (Rom. 4:13), and he believed it and was himself justified by faith (Rom. 4:3-4, 9).
Hebrews 11:6 says, "But without faith it is impossible to please him." It was Abraham's faith that pleased God. The Lord promised Abraham that his seed would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore and Abraham believed God. That pleased Him so much that he counted Abraham righteous right then, even though Abraham had not yet fulfilled the rite of circumcision and he was not living a holy life.
According to Leviticus 18:9, it was an abomination (Lev. 18:26) for a man to marry a half sister. Sarah, Abraham's wife, was his...
WE, AS CHRISTIANS, HAVE A JOB TO DO AND WE CAN'T DO IT IF WE ARE WRAPPED UP IN OUR OWN PROBLEMS. WE THINK THEY ARE SO BAD THAT WE CAN'T GET OUT FROM UNDER THEM. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN THIS SITUATION? WELL, I HAVE AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT TRUSTING IN JESUS IS YOUR WAY OUT. THIS IS HOW WE CAN GET OUR PROBLEMS SOLVED. HE SAYS TO ASK AND TO CAST OUR CARES ON HIM BECAUSE HE CARES FOR US. DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
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...
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
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....
ARE YOU HAVING A HARD TIME LIVING A GOOD CHRISTIAN LIFE? COULD IT BE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT SPENDING ENOUGH TIME IN GOD'S WORD? THE MORE TIME WE SPEND WITH JESUS, THE LESS TIME WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT OTHER THINGS THAT DISTRACT US. WE HAVE TO GUARD AGAINST ANY TEMPTATION. I HAVE SAID THIS MANY TIMES AND YOU WILL PROBABLY HEAR IT MANY MORE TIMES BUT YOU CANNOT BE TEMPTED BY SOMETHING YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT. TEMPTATION STARTS IN OUR MINDS AND WE MUST DO WHAT IT SAYS IN ROMANS 12:2 WHICH IS "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."