Day: April 5, 2017
Our Glorious Hope
One day God will restore and glorify our bodies, and we’ll be reunited with Jesus and loved ones 1 Corinthians 15:20 – 15:58 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man [came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 24 Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have …
Because He First Loved Us
Reflections We love him, because he first loved us. (I John 4:19) Read in the Bible the many commands to love one another. Then try to do it. You might want to do it. That is good. And you might convince yourself for awhile that you have succeeded. But you cannot do it. You cannot love with the agape love of God. The best you will muster up a human love. Indeed, the commandment to love one another has often been turned into just another LAW by some Christians – something we must do to keep right with God. The …
Genesis Message 64 – Envy of Jacob Causes Him to Leave Haran
Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying about how they thought he had stolen from their father. Envy, a fruit of the flesh, never leads to a Godly end for those who choose to embrace it. Jacob needed this as additional motivation to leave Haran and journey back to his home in Bethel. They thought they would continue to receive the benefit of Jacob’s servitude to Laban but now Jacob had become wealthy. Their principal complaint was that, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this …