Tag: sin
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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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Worthless, Wild Grapes
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20) This warning was specifically delivered to God’s people, the people of Israel, by the mouth of his prophet Isaiah. It was his people who were no…
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Sin and Rope Burn
Resist the devil and he will flee from you. James 4:7b Oh, there is a major war going on! It is something fierce and brutal and the stakes are high – heaven or hell. And it is going on right inside of each and every one of us. It is our passions warring for things…