The Bible describes godliness as a mystery (1 Timothy 3:16). It being a mystery means that unless you are let in on the secrets that constitute it, you will fail to recognize what it really is. Thankfully, the Scriptures solve this mystery for us: “By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness: He who […]
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None of us alone makes up the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:12, 14), and none of us individually possesses the whole mind of Christ. It is what each member supplies that keeps the entire body and all its members healthy and well (Ephesians 4:16), so that when we are not actively engaged in the
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“Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus… and to Archippus our fellow soldier (Philemon 1:1-2) Christians are called to be soldiers of God (Philemon 1:2, 2 Timothy 2:3). When you believed in Christ, you were thrown into a raging battle. If this were not so, you will not be told to put on the whole armour
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“Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus…. to Philemon our beloved brother and fellow worker (Philemon 1) Aside being prisoners of Christ we are also called to be fellow workers: fellow workers with God (1 Thessalonians 3:2; 1 Corinthians 3:9) and fellow workers with one another (Ephesians 4:15-16). Firstly, we are called to be fellow workers with
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“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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