Confidence
“Beloved, it our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God…”
1 John 3:21
1 John 3:21
“Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.” John 17:17 Heard a great sermon on this on Sunday. He quoted Greudem’s Systematic Theology: Sanctification is being moved out of the realm of the profane and being put into the realm of the divine. This passage includes to verb…
” Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!” John 1:47 Oh, that God might say that of me! The Old King James uses the words “no guile”. According to Dictionary.com, guile is “insidious cunning in attaining a…
“I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.” 3 John 1:4 Math is important and so is reading, history, and science, but if our children have all of that and are not walking in truth, it will get them nowhere. I am…
“The end of a matter is better than its beginning; Patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit.” Eccl. 7:8 Anger held onto becomes bitterness and bears a prideful heart. Anger is often misplaced judgment. God says to be angry but to sin not, but He also says not…
“For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.”2 Chronicles 16:9 God uses strong modifiers in this verse. He will “strongly support” those who are “completely His”. God requires our all, but He gives us His…
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the; surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves, We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; Perplexed, but not despairing; Persecuted, but not forsaken; Struck down, but not destroyed; Always carrying about in…