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Nov 29, 2018 · What was it like for the apostle Paul to travel around the Roman Empire announcing the good news about the risen Jesus? What drove him to plant new Jesus com...
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Pastor David Guzik taught this sermon at one of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara's Sunday services a few years back!In this section of the book of Acts, Paul's t...
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Bless the Lord! Ezra 7:13. Verse Concepts. I have issued a decree that any of the people of Israel and their priests and the Levites in my kingdom who are willing to go to Jerusalem, may go with you. Nehemiah 11:2. Verse Concepts. And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem. Amos 4:5.
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Where do we find compulsion in the New Testament? On the darkest day in the history of the world, Roman soldiers compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, to carry Jesus’s cross (Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21). And three times in Galatians, Paul mentions false teachers trying to force Gentile Christians to do what they do not want to do, namely, be circum...
But “inside out” alone is not enough. Some desires of the heart are holy, righteous, and good; others are not. Whereas “compulsion” or “force” comes from the outside, the desire for “shameful gain” comes from within. So 1Peter 5:2 is not just saying don’t be forced from without, but also don’t be driven from within by sinful (selfish) desires, but ...
But the best phrase of all in 1 Peter 5:2 sits right in the middle: “not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly.” God himself is like this. God himself does not act from compulsion. God himself is not moved by shameful gain. And this is how he wants it to be for us too. The one true God is the wil...
There is a place where the Bible says God is “not willing,” and that is 2 Peter 3:9. In writing about the timing of the Day of the Lord (the end of the age), Peter says God is waiting for all who will be saved to come to Him. He is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
Feb 19, 2018 · In other words, we’re beyond salvation. “What destroys the soul is an eager, deliberate, willing, persistent, settled pattern of sin.”. Now, two observations about this phrase “go on sinning deliberately” are really important. First, the word deliberately translates the Greek hekousiōs. This word is used in 1 Peter 5:2 like this ...
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Eph 5:22-24 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. (24) Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
