Month: February 2017

Parable Of The Sower By Grant Phillips

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The Parable of the Sower is found in Matthew 13:3-23; Mark 4:1-20 and Luke 8:4-15. I will be using the Matthew account. At this point in our Lord’s ministry He began speaking to the people in parables. Have you ever wondered why? The disciples did. At first He was speaking plainly, and then all of a sudden He starts speaking in parables. Beginning at verse ten we read, “And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” Jesus responded by saying, “… To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of …

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OVERCOMING HABITUAL SIN

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Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Sin does not play favorites. It works its way into everyone’s life without regard to age, race, or economic status. Regardless …

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Palestinian terror leader urges Iran to join ‘all-out war’ on Israel, then Jordan

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Ahmad Jibril, head of Lebanon-based PFLP-GC, calls for liberation campaign ‘in the Golan, in the Galilee, from Rosh Hanikra to Aqaba’ BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF February 25, 2017 The head of a Palestinian terrorist group in Lebanon said he would like to see Iranian soldiers take part in an “all-out war” to liberate Palestine, and that the future Palestinian conquest would include an invasion of both Israel and Jordan. Ahmad Jibril, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, told Hezbollah’s Al-Mayadeen TV on February 17 that his group wants “to see the revolutionary fighters from …

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“The wrath to come.” Matthew 3:7

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It is pleasant to pass over a country after a storm has spent itself; to smell the freshness of the herbs after the rain has passed away, and to note the drops while they glisten like purest diamonds in the sunlight. That is the position of a Christian. He is going through a land where the storm has spent itself upon his Saviour’s head, and if there be a few drops of sorrow falling, they distil from clouds of mercy, and Jesus cheers him by the assurance that they are not for his destruction. But how terrible is it to …

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Finding Clear Guidance

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Though we want instant answers to prayer, God may wait for us to spend time reading His Word and getting to know Him better. Psalms 25:12 “What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.” How can you be sure you’re making the right decision? Sometimes it may feel as if God plays hide and seek when you’re trying to know His will, but that’s not the way He operates. The heavenly Father wants to give His children clear direction. The real question is, What do you need to do …

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. We are not commanded to forgive others because they deserve it or even because they have asked for it, but because we have been forgiven

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Gracethrufaith Question of the Day: Q. I see in your discussion of forgiveness that a person does not have to repent for us to forgive them. But in the case of us and God, we must repent to receive forgiveness. Why is this not the same? How can the person receive forgiveness from another if they don’t think they have done anything wrong or allow pride to keep them from asking for it. I have a couple of people in my life that continually hurt me in horrible ways, and I have as little contact with them as possible, but …

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Revelation Message 59 – The Jews New Covenant

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We have seen in our study of the Book of Revelation that the national restoration of the Nation of Israel occurs chronologically during the fifth stage of the Campaign of Armageddon. It is only through the massive suffering that the Jews leaders finally cry out to Jesus to save them. They themselves believe and they instruct the nation to do likewise. In this section we will develop that this issue of national regeneration.The New Covenant is announced with the declaration that it is it be a Jewish Covenant. It is to be made with both Israel (northern kingdom) and Judah (southern kingdom). It is distinctly different than the Mosaic Covenant. The Mosaic Covenant is the only one of the five Jewish Covenants that is conditional. Israel broke the covenant. God did not. The Mosaic covenant showed the standard of righteousness that the Law demanded. It never gave the Jews the power to keep God’s Laws. They will be given this power in the New Covenant. Through their national regeneration they will be given the power to keep the New Covenant.

The New Covenant is first announced in Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 31: 31 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

 

Learning Contentment

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With a focus on Christ, we can learn to be content regardless of our circumstances. Philippians 4:10 – 4:13 10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be …

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Ingrafted Into Christ

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Reflections For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. (Romans 6:5) Christianity is not a religion ABOUT Christ. Neither is salvation merely a new legal classification. Christianity is, “Christ in us.” (Col. 1:27) Thus, salvation is also Christ in us – we are joined to the Lord and one spirit with Him (I Cor. 6:17) – we are joined to the One who said, “I am the resurrection and the life.” (John 11:25) The reason we have eternal life is because we are one with …

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False Shepherds In Israel and The Church February 23, 2017dr_woodhead

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The Role of The shepherd In chapter 34 of the book of Ezekiel God is using a familiar illustration of the “shepherd” and his “sheep” to describe the leaders and the people of the Nation Israel. The Bible frequently uses this terminology to refer to the spiritual leaders with responsibility over a group of people (Psalm 78:70-72; Isaiah 44:28; 63:11; Jeremiah 23:1-4; 25:34-38). Their primary role was to guard the nation like a shepherd would guard his flock. Every society needs a recognized and well-ordered leadership for its own safeguard and prosperity. God chose elders, priests, kings and prophets to …

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Netanyahu avoids endorsing two states in Sydney statement

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In telling pivot away from commitment to internationally accepted solution, PM states support only for ‘directly negotiated peace’ BY RAPHAEL AHREN February 23, 2017, 6:35 pm Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu omitted a reference to the two-state solution in a joint declaration Thursday with his Australian counterpart, Malcolm Turnbull. It appeared to be the first formal manifestation of a dramatic scaling back of Israeli support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an idea that for years has been promoted by the international community. “Both countries re-stated their support for a directly negotiated peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Australia …

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“I will never leave thee.” Hebrews 13:5

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No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one saint, he has said to all. When he opens a well for one, it is that all may drink. When he openeth a granary-door to give out food, there may be some one starving man who is the occasion of its being opened, but all hungry saints may come and feed too. Whether he gave the word to Abraham or to Moses, matters not, O believer; he has given it to thee as one of the covenanted seed. There is not a high blessing too lofty for …

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Jesus, God Incarnate

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Jesus was God incarnate. That is a truth that many people deny. Many cults claim that Jesus was a prophet or a great teacher, but they do not recognize Him as God the Son, the second Person of the Trinity. Cults, such as Mormonism, claim to follow Jesus, but they deny His deity. Islam recognizes Jesus as a teacher, but they worship a demon god and deny the true God. Christianity has nothing in common with these religions or any other group that denies the deity of Christ. The Bible is quite clear that only God Almighty is to be …

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