We should rather find it worrying or strange that as God’s people, we can rightly use Psalm 121, and other similar passages – e.g. Isaiah chapters 41 & 43, to pray and partake of their blessings, despite their direct references to Israel but when it comes to the following Psalm, Psalm 122, where an exhortation […]
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In Matthew 7:24-25, Jesus taught that His words constitute the safe and secure foundation upon which we ought to build. To neglect to do this is to build on dangerously shaky ground and be eligible for a great fall (Matthew 7:26-27). Jesus iterated this same truth when He rose from the dead and ushered in
If it were true that works have no place under grace, then Jesus would have been in error when He demanded from the church in Ephesus that they return to their first love by doing the deeds they did at first (Revelation 2:5). This should cause us to have a biblical understanding of the place
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In Revelation Chapter 2, Jesus sent a message to the church in Ephesus and commended them for the things they excelled in. These included their good works, perseverance, and shunning evil (Revelation 2:1-3). If these were qualities Jesus praised them for, then He expects the same from us. Moreover, if Jesus’ Himself acknowledged their good
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Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”…So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief…However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” (Matthew 17:19-21) As shown in the previous study, the original Greek rendering of the opening text quotes Jesus as saying,
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Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”…So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief…However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” (Matthew 17:19-21). In Matthew 17, after the disciples had failed to cast out a demon from an epileptic boy, they
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We have come up with catchy albeit glib sayings which have become our foundation for Christian doctrine, rather than the truth of Scripture. One such glibs is the phrase that if you are a Christian then all your past, present, and future sins are already forgiven so that you do not need to confess your
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Another argument brought up against 1 John 1:9 is the notion that it is impossible to remember every sin you have ever committed. Therefore forgiveness of sins cannot be based on confessing our sins to God. But if the Scripture indeed tells us to confess our sins to receive forgiveness, then we are indeed deceived
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The attempt made to redefine the word “sin” in 1 John 1:9 is part of the efforts to discredit the truth of what that Scripture says. The Greek word translated sin in 1 John 1:9 is “Harmatia”, which also means to miss the mark, be mistaken, to err, to do or go wrong. It also
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Another reason, given to support the error that confession of sins is not necessary is this: “Apostle Paul, who wrote two-thirds of the epistles to the churches, never once taught on confession of sins. In fact, in his letter to the Corinthian Christians, many of whom were committing sins like visiting temple prostitutes, he didn’t
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