When we trust the Savior, God Himself makes His home in us.  And to bear fruit for His kingdom, we must continually choose to make our home in Him, remaining in intimate dependence.

Must Christians forgive every offense and confess every sin to receive God’s forgiveness?  No, our forgiveness is once for all, because it’s based on the death of our Savior.

The Bible tells us that, as Christians, we have become the righteousness of God.  And How is that righteousness displayed?  In our behavior and how we treat others, because righteousness is a word of personal interaction.

When we don’t experience God’s promises in our daily lives, we can think His truths are positional – that they’ll be true about me someday, just not today.  But the Scriptures say otherwise.

Emotions mustn’t be obeyed, but they must be acknowledged.  Neither should they be indulged because expressing emotion doesn’t deplete or lessen it.  And indulging emotion can lead to addictions.

Emotions serve an important role:  they tell us what’s going on deep inside us, and they never lie.  Even negative, painful emotions can be good.  We shouldn’t repress or ignore them, or try to hide them away.

Scripture describes our Lord as intimately familiar with grief, pain, and sorrow (Isaiah 53:3).  He experiences every emotion fully, but there’s a critical difference between him and us:  Our God never lets them control His decisions or actions.

Gifts from God, emotions can be powerful forces in our lives.  And Christians exhibit the full gamut of reactions to them, from being totally governed by them to stuffing them completely.

Grace does the most loving, constructive, redemptive, and honoring thing possible for someone.  That’s how the Person of Grace, Jesus Christ, treats us.  But when we live licentiously, we show that we really know little about His grace.

In Christ, we’re free to do anything we want … but we’re not free from the consequences.  Some choices can wound us, wound others, and place us in bondage.