Present Tense Salvation We have been speaking about discernment and about the ability to approve that which is excellent. We have seen that this discernment comes from the Grace. It comes from the supply of the Spirit. There is no growth in love without the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. It is really […]
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The Starting Point for Fellowship Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: We have been speaking concerning the virtues for the Church and fellowship. We are talking about how fellowship works. Healthy fellowship is based on a certain kind of mindset, the “mind that was in Christ”.
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Php 3:1-3 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. (2) Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. (3) For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and
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Christ vs. the Flesh In my view, this is the best part of Phillippians. This is the “Galatians” of Phillippians, or the “Romans” of Phillippians. This is Paul’s description of a spirituality that is increasingly free from legalism and instead, full of Christ. Christ is versus everything. In the New Testament Christ is presented as
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Jer 31:31-34 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of ISRAEL and with the house of JUDAH: (32) Not according to the covenant that I made with THEIR FATHERS in the day that I took THEM by the hand to bring them out of the
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In the last message, we talked about how the Gospel is the righteousness of God. It’s interesting. This is so powerful. We don’t think of it like that. We think of the righteousness of God as revealed in Law. The Gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes. In
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Message by Petra Renatus It’s one thing to learn about the identification truths, but it’s another to apply them. We always need to know how it works in practice. You might ask the following questions:
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Everyone in Christianity has a sense that the church is in apostasy. Many even say that it is because the Gospel has been lost. However, there is a strong disagreement about the nature of the apostasy, and more importantly, what is the Gospel? The definition of the Gospel is where the “rubber meets the road.”
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Examples of How Ridiculously Easy God Made it to Receive the Gift Of Eternal Life (1) Serpent on a Pole The Gospel of John records a conversation between a respected Jewish religious teacher and Jesus regarding the nature of the Kingdom of God. Today I’m considering one of the wonderful statements that Jesus made in
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