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The Joy of Being Afraid

How blessed is the man who fears always, but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.  Proverbs 28:14  NASB Fear always – We are apt to recite the fact that Scripture exhorts us some 366 times not to fear.  This could lead us to imagine that fear has no place in the life…
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Scared to Death (2)

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.  Ecclesiastes 12:14  Jay Green Judgment – “The strength of the yetzer ha’ra is precisely in convincing us that we do not need these words of instruction because we are above believing in such…
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Scared to Death (1)

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.  Ecclesiastes 12:14  Jay Green Every work – Scrupulous!  Rigorous!  Meticulous!  Do those adjectives describe your life before the Lord – or are you one of the many who seem to think that God’s…
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Human Dualism

Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.  Genesis 2:7  NASB Living Being – Will we ever get past Genesis?  Probably not.  The depth of this account of creation can hardly be plumbed.  Once more we return…
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Spiritual Obligations

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;  Philippians 1:10  NASB In order to be – Read it slowly.  Paul has just proclaimed that God and God alone will complete the good work in us (v. 6).  God won’t stop the…
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Anticipation

being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.  Philippians 1:6  NIV The day of Christ Jesus – How long will it take for God to finish the exclamation of your life?  Paul gives us the answer.  “Until the…
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