How to Know God’s Vision for your Life A primary way to obtain God’s vision can be found in our main text: “Where there is no vision [no revelation of God and His word], the people are unrestrained; But happy and blessed is he who keeps the law [of God]” (Proverbs 29:18). In this text, […]
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Why We Must Have the Kind of Vision God Desires for Us In the previous study, we learned that God has an ultimate vision for us to conform to the image of Christ (Romans 8:29). He also has individual or personalized visions for each of us based on our unique call and destiny. When we
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The Power of Vision We read in Proverbs 29:18 that “Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law” (NASB). The Hebrew word translated vision in this text is “Chazown”, which also means revelation, prophecy, divine communication, or divine message. In the world, people create visions for
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IIt is a true saying that “Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes; the rest sit around and pluck blackberries” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning). Romans 1: 20 also says, “since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine
In the previous two studies, we established from the Scriptures that there are two very distinct public comings or appearances of Jesus from heaven to earth, following His death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven. One of these comings is at the rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) and the other is Jesus’ return from heaven to earth
Last week, we saw that in the popular passage about the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18), Paul essentially repeated the very words of Jesus regarding His return in Matthew 24:29-31. In both passages, Jesus and Paul gave the unique characteristics that will mark Jesus’ initial return to the
The Scriptures foretell two very distinct public comings or appearances of Jesus from heaven to earth, following His ascension into heaven. These two appearances have distinct purposes and mutually exclusive characteristics, which exclude every possibility of merging both comings into one. The first of these two appearances is at the rapture, where Jesus descend from
If our future sins have already been forgiven by God as some say, then it makes no difference whether you repent or ask God for forgiveness when you sin since all those sins would have already been forgiven even before you commit them. However, 1 John 1:9 shows that God expects His children to confess
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There are a number of nice sounding phrases that have been accepted as doctrine in some circles although these phrases contradict the Scriptures and can lead many astray. One of such phrases is “if you are saved, then all your future sins are forgiven”. The problem with this phrase is that there is no verse
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“And He (Jesus) said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead the third day; and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem” (Luke 24:46-47). In stark contrast to the exclusion of repentance in
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