“God never promised us an easy life, but He did promise to never leave us” – Unknown
Ingredients: Part 2b And then the third thing: the most profound experience is the recognition that God is here. The most profound word: God. The most profound fact: God is. The most profound transforming experience: God is here. And that’s what I’m driving at. It’s interesting–and I want to support this now from Scripture–that in […]
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The Psalmist describes “the blessed” as those who are made joyful with gladness in God’s presence, who know the joyful sound of the festal shout, and who walk in the light of His countenance. For our sakes, Christ was made sorrowful with the absence of His Father’s presence, He came to know the terrifying sound
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When we are sure that we are forgiven, then we abhor iniquity; and I suppose that when faith grows into full assurance, so that we are certain beyond a doubt that the blood of Jesus has washed us whiter than snow, it is then that repentance reaches to its greatest height. Repentance grows as faith
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The Patience of God FAR LESS HAS BEEN WRITTEN UPON THIS THAN THE OTHER excellencies of the divine character. Not a few of those who have expatiated at length upon the divine attributes have passed over the patience of God without any comment. It is not easy to suggest a reason for this, for surely
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Ingredients: Part 2a If someone were to read through his Bible with pen and paper in hand, jotting down every explicit, overt reference to the fear of God, and then seek to keep a column where passages dealt with not so much the words but the thought and illustrations of the reality of the fear
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“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us — for it is written, “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE” The truth conveyed in this text is what made Jesus Christ and His Gospel such a scandal to the Jews of the first century. They were all
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IT IS CLEAR from the text which we have lately quoted that repentance is bound up with the forgiveness of sins. In Acts 5:31 we read that Jesus is “exalted to give repentance and forgiveness of sins.” These two blessings come from that sacred hand which once was nailed to the tree, but is now
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The Goodness of God God’s goodness revealed“THE GOODNESS OF GOD ENDURETH CONTINUALLY”(Psa 52:1). The goodness of God refers to the perfection of His nature: “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all” (I John 1:5). There is such an absolute perfection in God’s nature and being that nothing is wanting to it
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Ingredients: Part 1d The framers of the shorter catechism caught this concept, for in answer to the question “What is God?”, they framed the answer in this way: “God is a Spirit.” That’s His essence. Therefore, He’s boundless. He cannot be contained. Then they used three adjectives: infinite, eternal, and unchangeable. And He’s those three
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The Messiah is Made Sin How can we not think it astounding that a worm, a venomous serpent, and a goat should be put forth as types of Christ? To identify the Son of God with such “loathsome things” would be blasphemous had they not come from the Old Testament Scriptures themselves, and had they
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