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New Identity in Christ

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2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away, behold, new things have come Spiritual life begins when a person dives into a relationship with Jesus Christ. Today we have identity theft, identity crisis, and fake identity Believers' identity is rooted in Christ, and we reflect His Glory. Birth determines identity; newborn believers birth into the family of God and carry the family identity and privilages of God's family. Identity is not the o [...]

Justice of God

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06 20

How will your understanding of God’s justice affect the challenges you face today? Justice of God—that perfection of his nature whereby he is infinitely righteous in himself and in all he does, the righteousness of the divine nature exercised in his moral government. At first God imposes righteous laws on his creatures and executes them righteously. Justice is not an optional product of his will, but an unchangeable principle of his very nature. His legislative justice is his requiring of his ra [...]

Dealing with an anger

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A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger? Proverb 15:1 Anger and temper separate people in different directions. Many conflicts arise not because the issues separating the parties are so significant, but because of the temperaments, people bring to a confrontation. ((Duane A. Garrett, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, vol. 14, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 150.)) Anger breaks and hurts the people, but love and compa [...]

A mighty Warrior of love

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“The Lord your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy,He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy. Zephaniah 3:17 Your God => God is personal and related God. God is victorious God => Victory from all your struggles and challenges, ultimately from death. God is the reason for joy and peace. God joins when you rejoice; God’s children brings joy in His face. The reason for rejoicing and joyful noise is God’s presence. Warrio [...]

Right thinking and Right living

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The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things and the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:9 Three-way to acquire knowledge and wisdom from other godly people => Learn, hear, see. Learning and receiving one set of acts the same as hearing and seeing another. “Learned and received reflect Paul’s Jewish tradition, where what is learned is thus received by students;”((Gordon D. Fee, Philippians, vol. 11, The IVP New Testament Commentary Series ( [...]

Living in the Spirit

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Galatians 5:25 If we live by Spirit, let us also walk by spirit. How do we live by Spirit? We need a habitat to live, and any time we move away from the habitat, our existence will be challenged. “The flesh refers to God’s originally perfect creation, which is now mortal and in decay as result of sin entering the world through Adam (Rom 5:12). The spirit is the essence of who we are, the part of us that lives on after our physical bodies die.” ((Steven E. Runge, “Spirit and Flesh in Paul’s Lette [...]

Eyes, Ears and Face of the Lord

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For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and His ears attend to their prayer, But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. 1 Pet 3:12 also Psalms 34:15 The apostle’s purpose in telling us that the ears of the Lord are open to our petitions is to move us to persevere in prayer. ((Joseph Haroutunian and Louise Pettibone Smith, Calvin: Commentaries (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1958), 220.)) Eyes of the Lord to the righteous ((Rigteous - The righteous. They have a true love [...]

Today or tomorrow

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Matt 6:34. "So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own!" Most of our worries are about ⇒ Future ⇒ Finance ⇒ health. A good deal of human anxiety involves worrying about tomorrow. No point of stressing or anxious out for tomorrow. Since there is no means, we can guarantee our life with our human intellectual abilities. It's challenging to tune into God if we are preoccupied with worries about the future. eq: "what may happen tomorro [...]

Peace within

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Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. (Col 3:15) Peace Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. Jn 14:27 εἰρήνη eirḗnē tranquility ⇔ peace n. — the absence of mental stress or anxiety, mainly that results from a proper recognition of salvation’s worth. Peace = a state of tranquillity or quiet, harmony in personal relations [...]

Ultimate Love

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For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But the loving kindness will not be removed from you, And my covenant of peace will not be shaken," Says the Lord who has compassion on you" Isa. 54: 10. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. (For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus ou [...]

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