Today’s Meditation:We cannot pray and call on Jesus Christ unless we believe in Him.Believing Him is the requirement for God to listen to our prayer. Believing in God cannot be separated from calling on God. We need faith before calling on Him to bring the effect. On the other side, ...
Verse 9. - Know ye not; rather, Or know ye not, as before. Are you defying God, or does your sin arise from mere ignorance? The unrighteous; better, that wrong doers, the verb being the same as "ye do wrong" in ver. 8. Perhaps the Corinthians thought that they would be saved ...
Second,clutterin the soul includes such unsightly messes as sin, negativity, and worry. God knows we can’t remove the muck on our own. But out of his love and mercy, he gladly helps get rid of the filth as we turn to him for forgiveness, help, and strength.[2] We can enhance o...
“Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience . . . without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure. . . . If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone ...
There is great symmetry between the old and new creation. The Bible has a clear chiastic structure which we can see when looked at as a whole. God’s original good creation was cursed by bondage to corruption and death because of man’s sin. But because of what Jesus has done as the ...
It is not that a liar cannot be redeemed by the grace of God, but we should consider that forgivness of sin only comes with repentance: And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. ...
At last we are brought full-circle, back to our opening verse that has so captivated our thoughts and feelings. Those who would substitute a so-called "legal model" with a "relational model" of salvation do not seem to recognize that they cannot have the latter without the former. As ...
Today’s Meditation:The scribes and Pharisees’ righteous was an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. They thought that a fair revenge is not a sin. In their mindset, those who came to sin against you was a sin, but it is not a sin when you avenge them. The world seeks for...
So even though I know, at least positionally, that I am completely sinless, I’m still dominated by sin in my day-to-day life. And my favorite verse in the above passage is verse 24, 24O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?~ Romans 7:24, NKJV...
Each verse of “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” directs our spiritual eyes toward Christ’s return by remembering his first coming, and then expressing hope, anticipation, and yearning for his second coming [2]. Our needs here in the present are also addressed as we look to him–our Emmanuel...