INSIGHT: In the midst of the joy of God’s grace in allowing a remnant to return to their homeland, Ezra mourned.

But God's case against a sinful human race has no such tangles. Some of these so-called theories of the atonement are really denials of the Bible's teaching that Christ's death was a sacrificial offering for sin in which Jesus died in the place of condemned sinners. As David was recovering from surgery, this man’s wife arrived from the States. He declared “We are safe in America not in spite of Christianity. Somebody had made a mistake and announced the meeting for the following Thursday and the pastor’s letter to Meyer had arrived too late to prevent Meyer from coming. People can’t hear unless someone preaches. It's a message we need to remind ourselves of today, because God's salvation for Israel is still a future reality. Isn’t God getting tired of me?” Two men standing next to me also seemed eager to hear the response. While it’s true that individual Jews have been cut off, it’s not by virtue of being Jewish, but because of “unbelief.” Faith in Christ is the criterion for inclusion in the tree. Pray for the opportunity to share with your friend about who Jesus is and how he or she can know Him. Romans 8:34 Our lives can be a shining testimony of the power and truth of the gospel. Romans 7:7 "Is the law sin? Later he wrote: “While [the preacher] was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. God grant you grace to take heed and believe in Christ. Paul’s teaching is a refreshing reminder of self-sacrifice in a challenging world that is destructively self-centered. He would move through the crowding duties of the day saying despairingly, "The Master called me Satan." TODAY ALONG THE WAY - One book that may help stimulate your thinking on the relationship between Christians and the created world is Redeeming Creation by four authors,all of whom are both believers and scientists. To fathom all the mystery. The statistics, the history, argues against his speech. At other times, serious business losses bring such distress that people are driven to seek riches that are more enduring than gold, a competence that is more reliable than profits, and a comfort that is more genuine and lasting than wealth. 8-10). Jesus Christ, if the Spirit is dwelling in you. We should pray for Jewish people around us to accept the gospel and embrace Jesus as their Messiah. You gain by loss, you grow healthy in sickness, you live by dying, and you are made rich in losses. TODAY ALONG THE WAY - Are you ready to defend your faith? Because of this, I have been able to help brothers and sisters in the same condition.

who shall deliver me from the body of this death? To have Job simply stop speaking doesn’t get to this root issue. "Christ Died for the Ungodly" is the best message that even angels could bring to men. Followers of Christ have a similar mission. June 2, 2014 / Mitchell Dillon / 1 Comment. The answer is obvious. Ferdinand was there to sell an idea. What these jet-setting vandals do to deface property is similar to what Satan tries to do to believers. Acts 2). Baal was reputed to have power over agricultural forces like animals, the land, and crops. Adversity is a healing medicine and not a deadly poison. -- Bill Crowder, Others, Lord, yes others, For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son” (Rom. He quietly and deliberately considered the enormous difficulties that lay in the path of the divine purpose, and in spite of them he staggered not. To believe, one must hear. If your heart is cold, do not wait until your heart warms. Genesis chapter 22 tells a familiar story.

For years he viewed trials as something that affected only his external world, and any blow to what he owned or how he looked would discourage him and leave him feeling cheated. TODAY ALONG THE WAY We hope your plans for the new year include a ministry of personal evangelism. He mourned because the people of Israel were not only physically distant from God, but spiritually distant as well. Thanks to Him, we can and should live not according to the sin nature, but according to the Spirit (Ro 8:4; cf. 1 Corinthians 13), but we should not assume that words are never necessary when preaching the gospel. Gen. 3:17-19). They have been so exactly true. This passage forces us to reexamine how we think about love. We can never pay our ongoing debt.

There is an opposite to this, and it belongs to some who are here: If God be against you, who can be for you? Romans 7 makes it plain that as “slaves to sin,” we were in desperate need of a new identity in Christ! For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh … Romans 8:3 ", As "there is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus," so we may solemnly say, "There is therefore now a most weighty condemna­tion on you who are not in Christ Jesus, who are walking, not after the Spirit, but after the flesh.". —Isaiah 42:8. Read: 1 Timothy 6:3-10 “Someday Father,” said Louis, “I want to be a harness-maker, just like you.”, “Why not start now?” said the father. For our short sight to understand; Consider Peter and Judas. Romans 8:28 —P. In 1918, Germany’s ace World War I pilot, Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the “Red Baron,” was killed in battle. There are no exceptions. “World missions” is perhaps a better term, for that includes our nearest neighbors, who are part of the world to which God has called us. Although Augustine resisted for years, slowly his objections to Christianity began to break down. - Romans 11:16 As a word, it compels us first to believe, then to confess, and finally to proclaim. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 4:13).

The Spirit Himself maketh intercession with groanings. But an evangelist named John Townsend heard about the Queen’s question, and after much prayer he sent her a note: “With trembling hands, but heartfelt love, and because I know that we can be absolutely sure now of our eternal life in the Home that Jesus went to prepare, may I ask your Most Gracious Majesty to read the following passages of Scripture: John 3:16; Romans 10:9-10?”, Two weeks later, the evangelist received this letter: “.