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perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that
never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying
sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought
what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing
of sin.
(John Donne)
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1
Corinthians 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and
drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come.
I
like to go shopping at the Goodwill Stores. Over the years
I have found some really nice things at these stores.
Though Goodwill is not a “Christian organization”
it was founded in 1902 by Edgar James Helms, a Methodist
minister in Boston Massachusetts. I particularly like
the motto and mission of the store, which is “a hand
up, not a hand out”. The Bible says “if any
would not work, neither should he eat.” (2 Thessalonians
3:10). God expects His people to work. He doesn't save
people so that they can sit around collecting welfare
checks. God's people are to be busy serving Him and doing
as He said. Christianity is not about giving handouts.
It's about giving a hand up. The Lord lifts us up from
death and sin so that we can – with all joy –
live and work for Him. We Who belong to Jesus are called
to be world changers and mountain movers. The day that
you responded to the call of Christ and heard His voice
saying “come, follow Me”, you became one of
His disciples. You were changed from the inside out by
the power of the operation of God. You are no longer the
same dead thing you were before. You are different, changed,
an exemplar of God's love.
Some
Christians get this and, once they are saved..........
Matthew
12:31-32 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and
blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy
against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
(32) And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of
man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh
against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him,
neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Is
there an “unpardonable sin”? Is there a sin
– a transgression against God – that if it is
committed that God will absolutely never forgive it? If
there is, then what is that sin?
For
instance, a good Christian friend sent me a video recording
about a young man named Patrick Henry. This young boy
was born crippled and blind. At a very early age his parents
discovered that he had a natural ability to play the piano.
You could strike a few keys and Patrick could easily duplicate
what you played. This child, born crippled and blind,
was given amazing talents by the Lord God. The television
producers heard of the story and made a stirring documentary
about it. The boy's father was applauded for his willingness
to work with Patrick, to help Patrick do the things he
needed to do to be in the school's marching band. The
father said of Patrick, “My son is my hero”.
Oh what a beautiful piece, a televised salute to the indomitable
human spirit. I watched the video carefully. ...
Matthew
6:9-13 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our
Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
(10) Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven. (11) Give us this day our daily
bread. (12) And forgive us our debts, as we forgive
our debtors. (13) And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
There
were three friends out deer hunting, a doctor, a
lawyer, and a pastor. All three saw – off in
the distance – a beautiful fourteen point buck.
All three men took aim and shot, and the buck went
down. As they walked toward their prize they began
to debate over who had shot the buck. The doctor,
after examining it, declared “my friend the
pastor surely killed it”. The lawyer said,
“How do you know that?” to which he replied,
“The bullet went in one ear and out the other”.
I
hope that the message that God has given me tonight
won't “go in one ear and out the other”.
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all thine
heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
[6] In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall
direct thy paths.
I
was reading an article the other day when I ran
across the word triskaidekaphobia. I wasn't reading
a technical journal, a scientific journal, but a
magazine article. I thought to myself, "What
the heck does triskaidekaphobia mean"?, so
I looked it up. It means, according to the Webster's
Dictionary, "A fear of the number 13".
Why
did someone have to make up such a convoluted and
complex word - a seventeen letter word that you
can hardly pronounce - when you could just use seventeen
letters to say "fear of the number 13"?
As
humans we always seem to - quite naturally - want
to make things harder on ourselves. Think about
the word "abbreviated", which means "to
make a big word small". Why didn't we make
the word "abbreviated" itself smaller?
I am always misspelling the word because it doesn't
sound like it has two "b"s in it. And
while I'm talking about "misspelling",
how many times have you misspelled "misspelling"?
Does it sound like it has two...
The
first year I was in Bible Institute, one of the
first courses I took was on the Book of Hebrews. It
is a fascinating book. It shows to the Hebrew
Believers the new and better way that Jesus provided
for the believers on this side of the cross. As
we travel through this book together I hope you
will see Jesus as the new and better way. You
can and will find confidence in the Lord Jesus in
this unique book.
There
are three key words or phrases in this book. They
are “better”, “Let us” and “greater”.
Let us look at these words very quickly in their
places. Why take your pen or pencil and underline
these references as we go along. ...
