Thanks you all for your prayers yesterday. The events of the day could not have gone better and I appreciate your prayers far more than I can express … but enough about me and let’s get back to encouraging one another. The passage we are looking at is … “Therefore if there is any encouragement …
This week we are going to be talking about some steps you will need to take to help you maintain purity for the long haul. These same principles are important if you are just starting out in recovery. So I guess they are important to all of you no matter where we are. It starts …
“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are …
If todays verse is going to make any sense to you there is some biblical truth that you need to understand. In Christ and in Adam we have two people who serve as representatives for others. I know it seems weird but that is just the way it is. Because of that, what happened to …
So if I were to walk you through all that Christ has accomplished for us it would take me at least a year of emails. However, my focus will be on what His finished work has done for us relative to the issue of our sin, our sin nature and how a clear understanding of …
In Ephesians 5:18 Paul writes, under the guidance of the Spirit, these words … “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.” The context is Paul teaching his readers, and us, how we should live the Christian life. Here are some of the verses before verse 18 …
So the Holy Spirit is GOD. He is God in YOU. He is God in You FOREVER. You are a new creation in Christ. God has given you a new heart and a new nature. All your sins are cleansed by the blood of Christ – past, present and future. Christ took your sin upon …
The Word of God is used by the Spirit of God to transform our mind. Transforming our hearts is a different matter. The issue is not that our hearts are evil. Yes, it does say in Jeremiah that the heart is ” … deceitful above all things and beyond cure …” However, remember this New …
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Yesterday we looked at the role the Spirit plays by using the Word of God, the Bible, in transforming our minds. Scripture teaches us that it was the Spirit who guided people as they wrote … to write down in the 66 books of the Bible exactly what He wanted. “Above all, you must understand …
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Have you ever felt hopeless in your struggle against sin. It happens to all of us. Slip. Fall. Failure. Followed by anger, shame and fear. So, we medicate ourselves again by sex, alcohol, drugs, food, gambling or whatever helps us escape again. We look at ourselves in the mirror and think, “What a loser I …
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