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“I have been crucified with Christ …” (Galatians 2:20). The inescapable spiritual need each of us has is the need to sign the death certificate of our sin nature [the self-life]. I must take my emotional opinions and intellectual beliefs and be willing to turn them into a moral verdict against the nature of sin;…

“For He [God the Father] made Him [Jesus] who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21, NKJV) This may be the most important verse in the Bible. At least for me it seems to be. God made Jesus, the One who…

1. Be ontologically Christ-centered. The Spirit of Christ can be in you (John 1:12; Col. 1:27) – part 1 Now consider another dimension of being “Christ-centered.” 2. Be experientially Christ-centered. The Spirit of Christ can be expressed in and through you. Being Christ-centered in experience goes beyond one’s state of being regenerated and justified (Rom. 5:1;…

What would you say is the center of your life? How do you define your ultimate meaning and purpose? Some might confess: “For me, to live is … money,…or pleasure, …learning,…or family, …or food, …or sex, …or sports, … or success.” There is only one source of life that will bring fulfillment in time and…

One of the unusual perks of living in a tourist town is a special event known as “Shades of the Past.” If you like old, restored cars you’d love this. Each September hundreds of antique and classic car owners gather in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee for several days of this car show. Some buy, sell, or…

“There is in a Russian palace, a famous ‘Saloon of Beauty,’ wherein are hung over eight hundred and fifty portraits of young maidens.[1] These pictures were painted by Count Rotari, for Catharine the Second, the Russian empress; and the artist made a journey, through the fifty provinces of that vast empire of the north, to…

B. Legalism is a problem for the unsaved. One of the distinctives of biblical faith is that salvation is not based on man’s attempts to reach God (religion), but on God’s provision to reach man (redemption). Legalism is a roadblock to the unsaved when they try to earn God’s salvation by works of merit, no…

…”For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds…

[Review: 1. Our first test, therefore, of the Divine authority of any voice which may seem to speak to us, must be its harmony in moral character with the mind and will of God, as revealed to us in the Gospel of Christ. 2. The second test, therefore, to which our impressions must be brought,…

II. DETHRONEMENT (2 Cor. 5:14, 15) “We thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died; and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again (R.V.). The question in every life is, Who is on the throne?…