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Tag: salvation
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Jesus Tasted Death so We Don’t Have To
In Genesis 3 we find the story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. At some point they find themselves at the centre of the garden where there was a special tree called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God commanded Adam and Eve in Genesis 2:16-17 not to eat of…
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Not What We Expected
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9 It doesn’t take much reading in the Bible to notice that God doesn’t do things in the way…
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My Own Worst Enemy… No Provision for The Flesh
The flesh truly is my own worst enemy and I promise you friend, it is yours as well. Every human being that has ever lived has inherited a corrupt nature from our first Father, Adam. We can’t help ourselves from rebelling against God because we are naturally rebellious. Left to ourselves, we will always choose…
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Identity: Condemned in Adam… Saved in Jesus Christ
The book of Romans spends the first three chapters establishing that all of humanity, both Jews (God’s original people) and Gentiles are all evil. Romans 3:23 sums it up well, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” A few verses earlier Paul even wrote, that there was no one who…
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Identity: No Condemnation in Jesus Christ
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in…
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Authority: Do You Know Who God Is?
“Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.” – 1 John 3:4 Authority. For most of us the word ‘authority’ is not a welcome word. It is something we tolerate but generally avoid. No one likes to be stopped for speeding or for not wearing our seat belt. No one…
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Is Everyone on Earth a Child of God?
I was on a blog recently that was discussing the new pope Francis and his new approach towards the poor and towards people groups and religions that may not have been as friendly to the Roman Catholic Church as in the past. Pope Francis as pretty much all popes in recent times has made it…
