Tag: unconditional election
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Seeing the Kingdom of Heaven
Have you ever seen God? Some of you will answer by telling me how you see God working or how you see God in nature or people. Those things are not God Himself. I will venture to guess that you have never seen God. Yet, we believe He is. A vast majority of people on…
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It’s Been A While, But I’m Finally in a Healthy Frame of Mind
Hurt is hard. I realized in the last month that it has been more than a year since I have done any serious writing. I had given up on ministry and started my own business because, frankly, I was done being hurt. At the beginning of 2023, a friend of mine (a couple, actually) told…
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Irresistible Grace
Stumbling blocks are those things that cause the adopted children of God to stumble into living like strangers. The children of God are exempt from the civil and ceremonial laws and belong to Him by grace alone. Strangers are bound by the Law. After revealing the truth about divine adoption, Jesus spoke a woe on…
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God Could Have Saved Them, But He Didn’t
The judgment is a real thing, and Jesus is the right judge. Jesus straight up condemned people during His bodily ministry on this earth. As Matthew continues his section on Jesus’s teaching about the kingdom of Heaven, he describes Christ’s condemnation of those who reject His Gospel, those who are damned—the reprobate and citizens of…
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Shattered, a poem
My religion was worthlessbecause in it I sought my own worthIt wasn’t until, in new birth, I was soughtI could see Heaven from earth My religion was blindingbecause with it I thought I could seeIt was never a list of instructionsA mirror it was to be I kept seeing the world’s faulther heart beating as…
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If God’s Love is Unconditional, why are there so many conditional statements in the Old Testament?
In chapter 3 of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus revealed that before beginning His preaching ministry, it was fitting to fulfill all righteousness. This was done in His baptism by John and it would be done in the Temptations. Tonight, we arrive at the first temptation. We will spend the whole night on this one temptation and…