“Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus…” (Philemon 1). As believers in Jesus Christ, we are called to be prisoners of our Lord Jesus Christ (Philemon 1, Romans 6:15-18). This is one of our privileged identities in Christ. Prisoners don’t have a will of their own but serve their master’s. Neither do they do what they choose […]
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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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The conscience has been frequently defined as our sense of good and bad. But this is a very limited definition, which can obscure the importance of the conscience in the life of the Christian. The Greek word translated conscience in the Bible (e.g. Romans 9:1, 1 Timothy 1:5, 1 Timothy 1:19) is “soonidaysis”, which also
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In John 10:27-30, Jesus said “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one
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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1 John 1:7 says “but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin”. Some have read this Scripture, and have erroneously postulated that “there is perpetual forgiveness for Christians so that Christians
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