John 14:15 NASB95 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. Most people interpret this verse backwards. They interpret it as Jesus saying, “Keeping my commandments as proof that you love me.” There is certainly truth in that, but I believe that Jesus is actually telling us how to cultivate a surrendered heart that […]
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Well, I am here in Christ at a hospital with Olivia in Birmingham, waiting to hear about the details of her surgery, which should be tomorrow or Friday. It would actually be more accurate to say that Olivia and I are both in Christ at the hospital. Every Christian is in Christ, and that is
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It is not so much that God accomplished the new creation by Christ; it is that He accomplished the new creation in Christ. We often hear Christian preachers and teachers talk about Christians having an “orphan spirit.” The reality is Jesus promised us, “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you”
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Romans 8:22-23 NASB95 [22] For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. [23] And not only this but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
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Romans 6:10-11 AMP [10] For the death that He died, He died to sin [ending its power and paying the sinner’s debt] once and for all; and the life that He lives, He lives to [glorify] God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. [11] Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin [and your relationship
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Hebrews 10:1-2 AMP For since the Law has only a shadow [just a pale representation] of the good things to come—not the very image of those things—it can never, by offering the same sacrifices continually year after year, make perfect those who approach [its altars]. [2] For if it were otherwise, would not these sacrifices
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Song of Songs 2:14 TPT For you are my dove, hidden in the cleft of the and rock. It was I who took you and hid you up high in the secret place of the steep pathway. Let me see your radiant face and hear your sweet voice. How beautiful your eyes of worship and
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I spent a lot of years educationally to prepare to do what I do. I have several degrees in theological studies, but the most educational moment for me as far as theology is concerned happened in the school of Christ many years ago when I was in my late 20s. In the context of one
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“… In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 “But thanks be to God, who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:57 “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world
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Romans 6:3-5 TPT Or have you forgotten that all of us who were immersed into union with Jesus, the Anointed One, were immersed into union with his death? [4] Sharing in his death by our baptism means that we were co-buried and entombed with him, so that when the Father’s glory raised Christ from the
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