Category: New Testament
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Walk Worthy
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called Ephesians iv.1 The Apostle here pleads with believers to “walk worthy” of their calling as Christians. Notice what he doesn’t say. He doesn’t urge us to walk worthy of being called, or so that we’ll…
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Wasting Away
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. (2 Corinthians 4:16) I hate to break it to you, but if you are blissfully unaware or you aren’t over 30, we only get worse looking with time. I have wrinkles, you guys,…
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A Second Motive For Church Discipline
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. (1 Corinthians 5:6-7) In a previous post we began to look at the verse…
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A Motive For Church Discipline
you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 5:5) Church discipline is one of the marks of a healthy church. Yet church discipline is sorely lacking in American churches today. There are many reasons for…
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Judging in the church
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? (1 Corinthians 5:12) It is very popular in American culture to say that Christians aren’t suppose to judge anyone. But we find in this verse that we are to judge those “inside the church”…
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Servants and Stewards
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. (1 Corinthians 4:1) The church in Corinth was experiencing some division as people aligned themselves behind either Paul or Apollos. But Paul and Apollos weren’t leading factions. They didn’t want to. They wanted the church to be…
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Obedience of Love
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. John 15:12 This is my commandment… We are told here plainly that loving others is not optional. That in fact it is a commandment of God. We are told elsewhere in John that if we love God we will keep his…
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Plant, Water, Watch it Grow
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and…
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Abiding = Answered Prayers
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. (John 15:7) I want to be here; how about you?! So close to Jesus, his words such a part of me, that his will is my will. That my prayers are pleasing and answered…
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The Light of God’s Glory
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. (Rev. 21:23) I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for the day when I will get to soak in the warm rays of God’s glory…