Jesus gave the keys to Peter, but the key to getting into heaven is nailed to the cross who died to wash away our sins. HE knew the second temple would be destroyed because of the enemy’s anger at his loss of souls. Knowing the end from the beginning ,HE knew…Read moreTwo ways ...
and in Acts 22:16: "And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’" Here, we need to make a distinction. The act of baptism itself does not save someone. It's merely symbolic to represent the death to self (being put...
What then shall we say to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us? Who can be our foe, if God is on our side? I'll say that is one of, and I probably say this every week when I share the verse of the week, this is one of my favorite passages. But really ...
Peter's reply was simple: "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:38). Allow me to make several observations from this significant passage. First, do you see tha...
My mind wanders all over the Bible while thinking about bread and fish and eating and drinking. “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” (Matthew 4.4) Not no bread, just not bread alone. We live by God’s Word as well. ...
clean: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness: that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Turn thy face from my sins: and put out all my misdeeds. Make me a clean heart, O God: ...
and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast...
9 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation? 10 Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord’s. ...
your works will never get you anywhere. They do not make you righteous. Unless you ask the blood of the Lamb to wash away your sins, you will die in them. If you are Catholic, I urge you to get out your Bible, and read it front to back without asking anyone what they think about...
Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in ...