Grace is more than the free gift of forgiveness; it is the free gift of victory. The law reveals the power of sin; and sin reveals the power of grace. Rom. 5:20 The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as […]
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For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. (Eph 2:10) Being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone
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“The word became flesh to forever live His divine life in our human nature; that we might forever live our human life in His divine nature.” Jesus descended into the hellish places of our brokenness that we might be seated in Him in the heavenly places, not one day, but in the here and
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Christ works out our salvation within the fabric of His own person. The Christian life is Jesus, and therefore the Christian life is not something lived for Christ; it is something lived by Christ. This is the ultimate conclusion of the vicarious humanity of Jesus. The word “vicarious” describes the nature of a substitute
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Advent is to Christmas what Lent is to Easter, and therefore like Lent, Advent prepares us to experience Christmas in new and powerful ways each year. Each year, beginning with the advent, we know that Christmas, the birth of Christ, is coming. Advent, which is a time of preparation, declaration, and anticipation, helps to cultivate
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Rev. 4, After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and
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Matthew 11:11 NASB95 Truly I say to you, among those born of women, there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. What an amazing statement for Jesus to make. John the Baptist was the last
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Matthew 11:1-6 NASB95 When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. [2] Now when John, while imprisoned, heard of the works of Christ, he sent word by his disciples [3] and said to Him, “Are You the Expected One, or shall
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Matthew 11:1-6 NASB95 When Jesus had finished giving instructions to His twelve disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. [2] Now when John, while imprisoned, heard of the works of Christ, he sent word by his disciples [3] and said to Him, “Are You the Expected One, or shall
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In Romans 7:14–25, Paul, referring to his struggle with the power of sin in his life, uses a first-person singular pronoun 36 times. Throughout those 11 verses, the word “I,” “my,” and “me” dominate the narrative. In verse 25 Paul uses the phrase “I myself,” which is a perfect description of the kind of life
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