“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24, KJV). “In every command and in every promise of the word of God is the power, the very lifeContinue reading “Believe for Your Life”
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Social Outcasts Called
“Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy” (Micah 7:18, KJV). This chapter is based on Luke 15:1-10.As the “publicans and sinners” gathered about Christ, the rabbis expressed their displeasure.Continue reading “Social Outcasts Called”
Are you being fruitful branches?
Christ is the Vine. His people are the branches. Christ true branches will remain connected to the True Vine. These are purged, that the branches bear more fruit. The branches that bear no fruit are plucked off, out of the True Vine, and are taken away, and burned in the fire. “I am the trueContinue reading “Are you being fruitful branches?”
This is so profound!!!
This is so profound, but yet so simple—we make it hard. God says without faith it is impossible to please Him. Here is the patients of the saints: Here are they who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. The state, the condition of our mind is where the faith is. GodContinue reading “This is so profound!!!”
The penalty paid is not automatic deliverance from sin
The soul cannot serve, cannot love two masters. One cannot belong to God yet dine with, play with, fornicate with, gossip with, be resentful with, angry and hateful with, and unforgiving with Satan. The wages of sin is death. Saved from the penalty of sin: Christ died the second death paying the penalty for sinContinue reading “The penalty paid is not automatic deliverance from sin”
Demeaning Others to Promote Self
Read Luke 18:9-14: https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p14175.52430&index=0 “Unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others,” Christ spoke the parable of the Pharisee and the publican. The Pharisee goes up to the temple to worship, not because he feels that he is a sinner in need of pardon, but because he thinks himself righteousContinue reading “Demeaning Others to Promote Self”
Receive to Give Like God
“The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned” (KJV — Isaiah 50:4). Christ was continually receiving from the Father that He mightContinue reading “Receive to Give Like God”