Tag: repentance
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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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Belief vs. faith
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many…
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If a man does not repent
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. (Psalm 7:12-13) Continuing my theme of the fear of the Lord, here’s a vivid picture for you. The Almighty God, Creator of heaven and…
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Acts 3:11-26
God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness. (Acts 3:26) Peter and John were “going up to the temple”. As they entered the temple, they saw a lame man begging for money. The lame beggar was situated next to the…
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anger
And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart… Mark 3:5 Jesus got angry. While on earth he experienced the very human emotion of anger. In this passage we see that that is his response to the religious leaders’ hard hearts, their stubborn unwillingness to admit that it was more lawful…
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God and the nations
“If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I…
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friendship
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. (Philippians 2:3) Friendships can bring us a lot of joy and a lot of pain. A friendship where each person counts the other more significant is one full of love that has the capacity for a lot of joy. A…