A Worldly Heart

2 Peter 2:9-18 9 So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment. 10 He is especially hard on those who follow their own twisted sexual desire, and who despise authority. These people are proud and arrogant, daring even to scoff at supernatural beingswithout so much as trembling. 11 But the angels, who are far greater in power and strength, do not dare to bring from the Lord a charge of blasphemy against those supernatural beings. 12 These false teachers are like …

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“Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?” Luke 24:38

“Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?” The Lord cares for all things, and the meanest creatures share in his universal providence, but his particular providence is over his saints. “The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him.” “Precious shall their blood be in his sight.” “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the …

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God Will Reward

Job 23 23 Then Job answered and said, 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; …

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A Spiritual Union

Reflections For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (II Cor. 5:21) When a person is saved, the reason they are saved is because they, “are joined to the Lord and made one spirit with Him.” (I Cor. 6:17) Our spiritual union with Christ constitutes the new creation. It is WHY we are saved — we are joined to the One who IS life — and thus, we are alive in Him. This spiritual union is described in many ways in the Bible. …

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