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In effect, Satan wants to replace God. He does it through surrogates: This has been Satan’s motive from the start…to oppose God, but to do it indirectly by replacing God with someone else. This is the spirit of the Antichrist. Paul seems to be drawing on this passage in Isaiah, “...
Rom. 5:5 – this “hope” does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Our hope is assured if we persevere to the end. Rom. 8:24 – this “hope” of salvation that Paul writes about is unnecessary if salvation is guaranteed....
Just this morning, one of the devotionals that a group of us read by Max Lucado. I responded to the question Max put forth that went something like this: will you be prepared to reply when the time comes for you to respond about your faith that could mean your death, as it did for...
If anyone truly had that gift, then the Holy Spirit of God would compel them to clear out all the children’s hospitals in America. Paul couldn’t even heal Timothy, Trophimus or Epaphroditus later in his ministry, as we will see below. If Paul can’t, then no man today can ...
Drawing me near. Drips in new, Deep drinks of You.” “Open for me… For my head is covered with dew, My locks with the drops of night.” Song of Solomon 5:2 NKJV Poem & Photo by DeniseBalog©2024 “Morning Devotionals from the Garden” by Denise Balog©2024 ...
but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. (Rom 5:1–...
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The drawing above shows the abandoned quarry that was covered with reddish-brown soil in the 100’s BC in order to create a garden. The area also supported cereal crops and an orchard of fig, carob, and olive trees. In 30 AD, this was the perfect place to cut new graves because of ...