Tag: perseverance of the saints
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DAily Devotional: Romans 8:26-39
The Spirit causes His people to love the Law. The Spirit causes His people to long for the renewal of the world. The Spirit also helps us in our weakness. Paul here states that we do not know how to pray as we should. That sounds different than most teaching, doesn’t it? In most religious…
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Once Saved Always Saved?
We talk about security in many ways. We desire job security, emotional security, physical security, and material security. We desire things to be such that if we lose something we are able to replace it. So, we buy insurance for the things we can. We desire loyalty. Have you ever wondered why every person seems…
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When God Regrets His Own Deeds
In the previous passage, we saw one of the most difficult theological ideas people must wrestle with in our time. God is sovereign and good, and His wrath is always just. When we elevate God’s love as His single attribute and assume that He is only interested in the acceptance of people, we have ignored…
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The Myth of the Super-Christian
Perhaps we have all seen it happen or we have experienced it ourselves. Some person is “super-Christian,” does all the right stuff, doesn’t cuss, doesn’t drink, doesn’t hang out with the wrong crowd, knows all of the Sunday School answers to all of the super spiritual questions, knows the content of the Bible, probably does…
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God’s People and Perseverance
Often times, we speak of perseverance in terms of the runner. The runner will go the distance and finish the race well by the work of denying his own exhaustion. The perseverance of the Christian is similar, correct? ______________________________ _____________________________ Here, I would like to pose a simple question. If we compare Christian perseverance in…