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Week 8: The Affections of Christ — Knowing Him
There are times when the Spirit causes me to “camp” on a passage of Scripture. I can’t go on. I read it… reread it… study some cross references… look up some words… eventually think, “Well, that was nice” and try to move on. And the Spirit says, “Look again.”
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Do I TRULY believe the Gospel?
2 Corinthians 5:16–17 (NIV)16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! This is Paul’s appeal:
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Praying powerful prayers over people
The prayers of Paul are a great model of how to pray over people: 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life…
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Remember the poor
Paul writing in Galatians brings verification of his preaching by retelling the story of his visit to the apostles. The big issue, of course, was the gospel coming to the Gentiles, but the one piece of common theological ground they had to have from Paul was this: They asked only that we would remember the poor, which was certainly something…
Tag: Apostle Paul
