2 Tim 2:10-12 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
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For the most part one can take the word “If” out of verse twelve. […]
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Hag 1:6-10 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and […] -
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1 John 5:15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
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One of the great joys of knowing Jesus is knowing Jesus knows us and all of our needs. He hears us because we are His children by the new birth and because we are His He cares for us deeply. The analogy I want to make this morning is that of a parent […] -
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1 John 5:8-15 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he […] -
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2 Cor 5:14-15 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
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What constrains you Christian? That word in verse fourteen above means to be held, to be kept, and to preoccupy. It means that one is held to Christ, […] -
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Eph 4:15-17 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles […] -
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1 Cor 3:1-3 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
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What joy a new […] -
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Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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What a beautiful fall the Lord is giving us here in PA. The colors of the changing leaves are breathtaking. It is one of the brightest and most beautiful we have seen the past several years. It is a gift to me that in such a time of darkness in our nation, in a time […] -
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John 21:12 Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.
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What a precious invitation. At a time when they were greatly troubled Jesus invited them to “Come and dine.” All had changed and was about to change and the disciples were troubled. They gave their lives to Jesus and then the cross and resurrection and all had changed. They had been good Jewish […] -
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Phil 3:7-8 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
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What things are you willing to count but loss, to give up for Jesus Christ? Any Christian with a true desire to […]