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HardeningHeart

Hardening of the Heart LEAVE ME ALONE! Resisting God is like saying to him, “Leave me alone!” But because God is always and everywhere present, his answer to that prayer might be to agree and make that person less sensitive, more hardened to him. The very possibility of that happening ought to keep us asking […]

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Sin Warnings – CHSpurgeon

WARNINGS TO CERTAIN SINNERS-By: Charles Spurgeon CAIN was of the wicked one and slew his brother. “The way of Cain” is not hard to describe.He is too proud to offer atonement for his sin; he prefers his own way of sacrifice; he presents a bloodless oblation; he hates the obedience of faith; he smites the […]

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Heal Backsliding-CHSpurgeon

June30.—Morning. [Or December 27.] “I will heal their backsliding.”  –  By C. H. Spurgeon Hosea 11:1–11 WHEN Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. The ancient love and grace of God ought to have been a powerful motive for obedience, but it was not. 2 Asthey called them, […]

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Salvation Is – Heart Response

Salvation is a … Heart response to the Word of God   Romans 10:9–10 (ESV) – 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the […]

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Be Steadfast (1 Cor. 15:58)

Be Steadfast       1 Corinthians 15:58(ESV) 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers , be steadfast, immovable , always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. After reading the previous verses Paul then says something like this: (Therefore) so then my brothers be steadfast… […]

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Seeking Means?

Seeking – Means What?  (Luke 11:9-10) Seek –  g: zētéō.   –    Luke 11: 9-10 –  9And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one […]

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Love With Heart, Soul & Mind

Love with your whole heart – soul – mind – strength – What does that mean? Heart Matthew 22:37 (ESV)  Jesus words: 37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.   Mark 12:30 (ESV)  Jesus words: 30And […]

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Love With Whole Mind & Strength

Love with your whole heart – soul – mind – strength  – What does that mean? Matthew 22:37 (ESV)  Jesus words:  37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Mark 12:30 (ESV)  Jesus words:  30And you shall […]

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Spiritual Growth – 1 John

Spiritual Growth Issues Based on 1 John 1 and 2, therefore please read those two chapters. •  Consists of an increase in spiritual knowledge. Since we our intelligent in nature we need to have knowledge in order to known God. We are to worship ‘intelligently’ as well as with our hearts filled with love. Love […]

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Striving Necessary

Striving is Necessary   Steadfastness in View of Suffering (Luke 9:51–53) Jesus “steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51, 53). He had a definite destination, and He knew what it held for Him. It meant Jerusalem with its sorrow, Gethsemane with its travail, the judgment hall with its injustice and shame, the […]

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