He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning."1John 3:7,8 Those who characteristically live in sin such that they earn these labels are those who have clearly not been born of God, and as such do not inherit the kingdom of God. There are those...
Beginning in Gen 1:3 our Father then created this earth age, which included a resurfacing of the earth.He then created mankind,flesh and blood bodies for us angels.giving us animal bodies this time, both male and female,(to come to earth, in our turn, born of women, and told us to ...
18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. 19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel...
A little food for thought there… Why It’s Not Impossible to Love our Enemies (Ephesians 3:14-17) In Ephesians 3:14-19, Paul tells his readers that he is praying for them, and he tells them he has three specific prayer requests. We will look at this prayer over the course of two...
Cf. Rom 3:25. Ephesians 1:9 tn Grk“in him”; the referent (Christ) has been specified in the translation for the sake of clarity.sn In Christ. KJV has “in himself” as though the antecedent were God the Father. Although possible, the notion of the verb set forth (Greek προ...
…18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. 19Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a...
The salutation is in Eph 1:2, which is common to all his epistles: and in Eph 1:3, is the thanksgiving to God, as the God and Father of Christ, for spiritual blessings in Christ in general; and then he proceeds to particulars, and begins with election, which is represented as an ...
For instance, the duties of husband and wife are well set forth in Col., iii, 18, 19, but in these verses there is no comparison whatever between Christian marriage and that union of Christ with His Church such as characterizes the same exhortation in Eph., v, 22 sq.; consequently, ...
3. His Incomparably Great Power (Ephesians 1:19a)"I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know ... his incomparably great power for us who believe." (Ephesians 1:18-19a)First, hope. Second, inheritance. Third, Paul prays that we might know ...
ii. “For philosophy comes to man with the message,Know thyself; the Gospel meets him with the far more glorious and fruitful watchword,Know thy God.” (Alford) 3. (18-19a) Paul prays that they would understand everything God gave them in Jesus Christ. ...