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The Fall of Babylon Announced (18:1-3). 18:1-3 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, ...
Godly People Call On The Lord (4:25-5:5). The birth of Seth is recorded as a replacement for Abel, for “God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him” (4:25), Eve said. Notice the air of hope that goes beyond sin and death. Eve seems to be taking courage from God's promise that her ...
All we can do is to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ; but repentance and faith are His gifts, so that none can boast (Acts 11:18; Eph. 2:8-9). Thus He gets all the glory for our salvation and we get none. That's the practical point of the doctrine of election: God gets all the glory for our salvation.
God's judgement can never be taken in isolation from his redemption. This is the redeeming grace of God toward us who believe. God does not cast away his people, those who are declared righteous by God. The means of salvation for Noah, and all those who heeded his message of coming judgement, was an ark.
A Precious Word from God. “I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony, that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.” John 17:20-21 (NET).
I do not believe that discipleship to Christ is optional once you are a Christian? I am engaged in daily spiritual exercises that are training my character to be conformed to Christ? There are people in my life that I am in submission to in a way that is healthy and helping me keep my commitments to God?
It is important to note that despite its overwhelming acceptance, many American Christians were unaware of Common Sense Realism as an actual philosophical system. Writes Noll, “For much of the history of the United States, evangelicals denied that they had a philosophy.
Our question is a simple one: do gender sensitive translations distort Scripture in places where those who have concerns about such translations claim they do? Is the current dispute much ado about nothing, much ado about something, or much ado about Bible translation gone astray?
In his book, They Speak With Other Tongues (Spire Books, 1964, pp. 17-20), John Sherrill tells of Harald Bredesen, a Reformed Church pastor, speaking in Polish and in ancient Arabic. I have read and heard of other accounts of tongues speakers speaking in foreign languages. However, Dillow (writing in 1975) states ...