Today’s Word
Life Without Guilt
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. Psalm 51:17 NASB Sacrifices – “T’was the night before Christmas” and most of us struggled with our guilt. The pagan world went off to party. The Christian world went to church. But none found relief…
The Measuring Stick
I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perserverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first. Revelation 2:19 NASB Deeds – Yeshua has eyes of fire. He sees right through us. What does He look for? “I know your deeds,” says the visionary Christ. If you read…
Spiritually Modified Food
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit acts of immorality. Revelation 2:14 NASB To eat things – Have you considered…
What You Own
But whoever has the world’s goods, and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? I John 3:17 NASB Goods – How do you measure your success? Most of us will say that we think of success in terms of relationships, community and…
Redefining the Word
Every one who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 1 John 3:4 NASB Lawlessness – The Greek word for “lawlessness” is anomos. We have English derivatives from this Greek word like antinomian. But it isn’t the Greek background of the word that matters most when we want to understand what John is…
Like Father, Like Son, Like Me
If you know that He is righteous, you know that every one also who practices righteousness is born of Him. 1 John 2:29 NASB Righteous – This is about as close as John comes to describing “born again.” But John’s focus is not on the experience of forgiveness. He focuses on the practice of righteousness. …
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