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If we would be [spiritually] enlarged we must accept all that God sends us as His own divinely appointed means of developing and expanding our spiritual life. We are so content to abide on the old plane that God has often to compel us to rise to a higher level by bringing us face to…

. “The righteous is concerned for the rights of the poor, the wicked does not understand such concern” (Proverbs 29:7). After the first murder, God went to Cain and inquired about Abel. “Where is your brother?” He asked the guilty man. With his reply, Cain displayed a total self-centeredness and disregard for others. “Am I…

“For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me…

The Perils Of The Objective Apprehension But there are perils associated even with that blessed truth, because it is only one side of the truth. It is the first side; it is the thing which must come first, but it is only one side, and therefore it is just possible to make salvation one-sided by…

“And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.” (Luke 1:45) “Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told. (Acts 27:25) “yet, with respect to the promise of God,…

Areas to learn to bypass 1. Bypass your weaknesses “Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted…

Bypass the “good” flesh One of the clearest statements in the Bible regarding bypassing the good flesh is Paul’s utterance in Philippians 3:3-7: 3 “For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, though I also might have confidence in the flesh.…

As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.” He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it” (Luke11:27,28, NIV). .It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very special privileges…

(A Conspicuous Perspective) In the last week there has been a lot of attention given to recent political and Supreme Court decisions in the United States. Supporters and protestors conspicuously rally around flags that symbolize their values.[1] This is the Christian Flag and it symbolizes values that are central to me. The Christian Flag was…

“If any man will come after Me [Christ Jesus], let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me” (Luke 9. 23). I think often we accept the cross in theory, but when it comes to practice, we either do not recognize it for what it is, or we recognize it and…