Expressing Christ 5/8
Clearly there are things we are designed to do. Apparently, these things are to characterize our lives. That’s what walking in them means. Our lives are to be characterized by good works.
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Expressing Christ 4/8
One way is through worship. To worship is to glorify God. We glorify God when we make Him known in a relatable and understandable way. When we “manifest” Him, or make Him tangible to others.
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Expressing Christ 3/8
What is eternal has no beginning and no end, and therefore eternal Life is the kind of Life only God has. This is the Life in which we find ourselves living and moving and existing, as Acts 17:28 points out.
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Expressing Christ 2/8
The news that Christ is in us is great. However, just as some TV ads from a few decades ago exclaimed, “but wait, there’s more!” Not only is Christ in us, but we are also in Christ. We are baptized into Him. We are immersed in Christ.
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Expressing Christ 1/8
When Christ resides in a person, that person has eternal Life. In John 4:13–14 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (NIV)
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Eternal vs. Temporal
The human person of Jesus “the son of man” is inseparable from the Lord Jesus, “the Son of God.” Absent one of these we would be either unforgiven, or dead to God.
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God’s Armor and Spiritual Warfare
Father has graciously provided us with armor, and we certainly want to take advantage of it. Some say that Jesus is that armor. I have no problem with that because Jesus is the source, the beginning, the end, our very Life. Everything is summed up in Jesus.
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The End of the World
The idea of Jesus coming at any moment used to fill me with fear. I was worried that He would show up right after I had done some terrible thing or thought some terrible thought or had some terrible motive in my heart and that I would be lost. Those fears were completely unfounded.
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Falling from Grace
When you fall back into navigating life like the world and its systems think you should, you’re walking according to the flesh. That never ends well. It results in life on a performance treadmill trying to get closer to God while in truth, you’re getting nowhere.
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Knowing God’s Plan
God’s plan for Joseph included him being sold into slavery and spending a few years in prison before God’s ultimate plan to save Israel from the famine came to light.
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Escaping Deception
Deception seems to be everywhere. Escaping it requires wisdom and knowledge. Jesus offers both.
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What If?
What if all this were true?
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Spiritual Birth
Spiritual birth is even better than natural birth, for it contains eternal life. It cannot be undone.
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How to Be Happy in and with The Lord
Happiness in and with God comes from trusting that He loves us and that all He has said is true, and it comes from allowing His Love to overflow from us to others.
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On Fear and Doubt
Trying leads to frustration.
Trusting leads to contentment.
What if you stopped believing your feelings?
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You Get what You Pray For
James 4 says “You do not have because you do not ask.” and “You ask and do not receive.” So, which is it?
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After These Things
Much like the first, this vision will show him “what must take place after these things.” We are once again about to gain a view into things that must take place in the interim between the coming of Jesus in the flesh and His coming again on the clouds.
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Heavenly Door
Looking into this doorlike opening into the spiritual realm, John heard the same trumpet-like voice he had heard in Revelation 1:10. The voice of the Lord Jesus. He is called to come up to the very throne room of God.
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Thoughts on Prayer
One important thing I have come to understand is that Father is not a genie I can get to act in specific ways if I just ask properly. Additionally, I’ve found that He is interested in what is best for us and others and that His view of that is far more comprehensive than mine.
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Listen Up!
We are about to embark on a journey together through the remaining chapters of The Revelation. This is a book that has been the source of a great deal of fear, confusion, and disagreement over the years. Let that not be the case with us. As we travel together through the most perplexing parts of this wonderful and glorious revelation of our lovely Lord Jesus, let’s expect to grow in His grace and in the knowledge of Him. Let’s anticipate knowing more about who He is, His plan for humankind, and how best to understand our current tribulation.
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The Reward Part 5
As we have seen in earlier segments, we bear the name of God and of the Lord Jesus. The Revelation also tells us that we will bear the name of the new Jerusalem. This is a curious statement until we read Revelation 21:9–10
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The Reward Part 4
From this blessing we are beginning to get a picture of the end of all saints. A glimpse of Life when the Lord has fully consummated the new creation in a new heaven and a new earth populated by new people, who are His spotless bride, clothed in purest white.
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Father Says
What the enemy says, or what Father says.
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Guilt
We can feel guilt when we grieve the Holy Spirit, but feeling guilt is not the same as being guilty. Father does not use guilt to motivate good behavior. He uses love.
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EPHESIANS: From Hostility to Peace
Observant readers may notice the use of “abolished” with regard to what can only be understood as the Law handed down by Moses. What is abolished ceases to exist. It is destroyed. Yet Jesus in Matthew 5:17–18, said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
