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Know God or Known of God
Paul told the Galatians (4:9) their conversion was knowing God, but their salvation was better understood as Him knowing them. God has known His elect from eternity. He set His love on them then and wrote their names in the…
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A Fountain Filled with Blood
Zechariah 13:1 is a prophecy of a fountain for sin and uncleanness. In a context of prophecies about Jesus, the fountain is a metaphor for the blood of Christ washing away our sins. William Cowper wrote the song, "There Is…
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Kiss the SonPart 3 of 3
Psalm 2:12 gives the phrase, Kiss the Son, as God by His prophet David warned rulers to humbly submit to Him lest He destroy them. Luke 7:36-50 describes a sinful woman kissing Jesus' feet affectionately. Judas also kissed Him hypocritically.…
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Kiss the SonPart 2 of 3
Psalm 2:12 gives the phrase, Kiss the Son, as God by His prophet David warned rulers to humbly submit to Him lest He destroy them. Luke 7:36-50 describes a sinful woman kissing Jesus' feet affectionately. Judas also kissed Him hypocritically.…
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Kiss the SonPart 1 of 3
Psalm 2:12 gives the phrase, Kiss the Son, as God by His prophet David warned rulers to humbly submit to Him lest He destroy them. Luke 7:36-50 describes a sinful woman kissing Jesus' feet affectionately. Judas also kissed Him hypocritically.…
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Know God or Known of God
Galatians 4:8-11 corrects over emphasis on knowing God rather than Him knowing you. Paul knew this and put God higher. God and His Son have known and foreknown the elect from eternity, far different from the reprobates that will be…
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All Things Are of God
II Cor 5:1-8 confidently details the certainty of immorality and a new glorified body for believers. II Cor 5:18-21 describes how that immortality and glorified body were secured for rebel, sinful enemies by God's gracious imputation and Christ's death on…
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The Breath of His Lips
The prophecies of Jesus the Messiah told He would have great wisdom and speech. The N.T. record shows His ability to slay the wicked with His wisdom and words. This glorious aspect of God's Son is wickedly thought too harsh…
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The Great Gulf Spanned
Luke 16:19-31 is our Lord's lesson about hell and heaven, when He taught that hell was filled with torments and there was no comfort or escape. God has fixed a great gulf between hell and heaven, but Jesus died on…
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Love Not the World – Pyramid
This simple graphic is a little tool to see all that is in the world we must not love. It is too easy to hate the bottom tier and forget our own lives at the top, which Jesus also said…
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Lose Your Life to Find It
Your best life requires you to give up selfish interests for Christ. If you do, you will enjoy life to its fullest as God intended. If you will not, you will lose offered joy and prosperity. Jesus repays followers 10,000%…
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Israel Crossing the Red Sea
Moses and Miriam led Israel to celebrate one of God's greatest deliverances, one that He took great delight in, to save His church from Pharaoh and Egypt in the Red Sea. He got Himself great glory destroying them the way…
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War at Calvary
Jesus spoiled the devil's kingdom, made an open show of him, and triumphed over him on the cross. There was war at Calvary. Consider Him defeating that diabolical fiend by redeeming us from God's claim of death against us due…
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As Moses Lifted Up the Serpent
Jesus shocked Nicodemus several ways, but one was to describe the death of Messiah by being lifted up – death by crucifixion. He used Moses' brass serpent to illustrate the mode of death. Never forget that Jesus died for you…
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A Lake, A Book, A Lamb
Jesus will soon sit on His throne to destroy this world. He will judge all men and cast sinners into the lake of fire. Some will be saved whose names are in the book of life, which He guaranteed by…
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That They Might Know Thee
John 17:1-3 states that God saved His elect by giving them to Jesus to die for. Why? For them to know Him and His Son! The universe exists for the glory of God, and salvation's design does it perfectly for…
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A Reprobate Mind
Man's perversity is accelerating, but Christians can have peace and praise about it. God Himself has sent it to judge men for choices against Him. His creativity in their perversities is perfect judgment for their pride and unthankfulness.
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The Unspeakable Gift
II Corinthians 9:15 declares God's gift of eternal life by His Son to be an unspeakable gift. Paul ended two chapters exhorting Corinth to greater giving by this statement. How is salvation unspeakable? What should we do because of it?
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Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Calvary had physical pain, anxiety and loss psychologically, spiritual warfare, and divine forsaking. God and Jesus had perfect fellowship at all times until our sins were put on Him, causing Him to despearately cry out as Psalm 22:1 records.
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What Do You Glory In?
The LORD tells us not to glory in might, wisdom, or riches but that we know and understand Him. How much do you glory in His Word? Do things of God truly delight your soul?