And where the word is believed and received as the word of God, there it has this energy, or worketh effectually, so as to promote love, repentance, self-denial, mortification, comfort, and peace.” (Poole) 2. (14-16) The Thessalonians welcomed suffering when they welcomed the Word, ...
i. The Bible says, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). Yet if people do not hear the word of God, then ruin comes by hearing the opinions and speculations and entertainment of man. 2. (15) Keep focused; pay attention to your own life and minist...
It needs to come back to the simple question from Romans 12:2: Are we being conformed to this world, or are we being transformed by the renewing of your mind? vi. The Corinthian Christians thought like worldly people, not like godly people. They gained this way of looking at life – ...
i.Psalm 138:2reminds us that God honors His word even above His name. We never have to doubt any promise of God. Instead we shouldlet God be true but every man a liar(Romans 3:4). ii. For these reasons, God’s promises are bothexceedingly great(in the sense of being large and ...
h. We know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you will partake of the consolation: According to many passages in the New Testament, suffering is promised in the Christian life (Acts 14:22, 1 Thessalonians 3:3, Philippians 1:29, Romans 5:3). Nevertheless, we are also...
a.Therefore we do not lose heart: Paul began the chapter (2 Corinthians 4:1) by declaringsince we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. Then in the chapter he described all the death-like sufferings he had to endure in the ministry. It is as if Paul...
First, because of what Adam did to us and the whole human race, we are appointed to wrath (Romans 5:14-19). Second, because of our own sin, we are appointed to wrath. When Jesus died on the cross, He stood in our place in our appointment to wrath and reschedules us with an ...
We need to trust in God’s goodness and in His ability to make all things work together for good (Romans 8:28). b. They did not find them…. they were not there…. they did not find them: This frustrated Saul. Yet God worked out His plan through the lost donkeys in a way Saul...
‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people”— therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word ...
ii. Repeatedly in Leviticus 18 –a chapter where God instructed Israel on the matter of sexual morality – the idea is given that one may not uncover the nakedness of another not their spouse. The idea is that the nakedness of an individual belongs to his or her spouse and no one else...