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Spiritual Guidance for Conquering Life’s Trials
In humble promise, exaltation thrives,Beware mocking the poor, their pain belies.God’s equality reigns, wealth mustn’t blind,Riches brought low, growth’s path we find.Embrace humility, respect entwined,Our worth in God’s realm, eternal bind. Finding Hope in Lowly Circumstances Life is full of unforeseen circumstances that can leave us feeling downtrodden and unimportant. Financial adversities, health ailments, and…
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Hope For Hard Times
God desires your broken spirit and contrite heart, & His grace is sufficient in your weakness, as He upholds and saves you as you call on Him in truth. Why A Broken And Contrite Spirit? God values humility, repentance, and acknowledging our faults. A broken spirit and contrite heart show this. To have a broken…
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A Priori
A Priori is a Latin term used in philosophy to refer to knowledge that is independent of experience, observation, or other empirical evidence. A proposition that is known a priori can be considered to be true independently of any specific instance or situation. The term is often contrasted with its opposite, a posteriori, which describes…
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What Does Scripture Mean By Foreknowledge?
“Foreknew”–The English word “foreknew” is misleading here. God’s purpose spoken of in v 28 is this: to make believers like Christ It is a mistake to read it merely as ‘perceiving beforehand’. The (arguably false) argument is: “God knows beforehand who will believe on Him and who will not, as a result of which He…
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Regeneration
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What It Is To Be Called By God:
What Does ‘Many Are Called Few Are Chosen’ Mean in the Bible? “And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they…
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Dead In Trespasses And Sins
Ephesians 2:1-2, which states: “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.” This verse suggests that our sins had separated…
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Chosen
…even as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love Ephesians 1:4 1:4 “Chosen”– Mark 13:20 is a passage from the Bible that reads, “And except that the Lord had shortened those days [1][2], no flesh should be saved: but for…
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Romans 8:29 Breakdown
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according go his purpose. For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to become conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren; and whom he…
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Children of Wrath
“Dead”– no one separated from Christ has true spiritual life. Because everyone has sinned (Rom 3:23) every person is spiritually dead until Christ gives him new life. This death means separation from God’s life and fellowship – 4:18; Isa 59:1-2. See Gen 2:17; John 5:24; Rom 7:5; 8:6; Col 2:13; 1 Tim 5:6; Jam 1:15; 1 John 3:14. This is the reason the new birth…
