The verb "put on" is used in reference to the Holy Spirit (Luk 24:49); armor of light (Rom 13:12); Christ (Rom 13:14; Gal 3:27); new self (Eph 4:24; Col 3:10); virtuous heart (Col 3:12); breastplate of faith and love and helmet of salvation (1Th 5:8).

"Put on TLJC" is contrasted with an immoral life and associated with making no provision for the flesh (Rom 13:8-14).

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Tuesday March 22, 2022

The verb "put on" is used in reference to the Holy Spirit (Luk 24:49); armor of light (Rom 13:12); Christ (Rom 13:14; Gal 3:27); new self (Eph 4:24; Col 3:10); virtuous heart (Col 3:12); breastplate of faith and love and helmet of salvation (1Th 5:8).

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Sunday March 20,2022

Faith can see what sight often doesn't. We must have good eyes.

Jdg 6:11-16

Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the...

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Thursday March 17, 2022

Imperative 1: Be strong (6:10)

Imperative 2: Put on (6:11) / take up (6:13)

Imperative 3: Stand firm

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Wednesday March 16,2022

Continue to learn knowledge and wisdom, believe the promises of God, and live a life faithful to the service of God and others and you will be strong in the Lord and in His mighty strength.

Our power is fully tied to the Lord's power. His power made for His victory over all that usurped God and crushed the results of that rebellion, namely, sin and death.

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Tuesday March 15, 2022

Someone said that the Bible starts with a garden and ends with a city and there is a cross in between - an oversimplification, but one of the better ones.

The passages that we have studied in reference to strength concern being faithful, but not faithful at any one moment, but consistently. It is a mindset based on the truth that as sons and daughters to God we have an obligation to be faithful in all things,...

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Sunday March 13,2022

Open: the psalms poetically reveal the sovereignty of the Lord over all the nations (one among many things). God is patient, but no one is going to get away from His judgment, either through Christ, or standing for themselves.

Psa 2:1-3:1

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Thursday March 10, 2022

Only in the Lord are righteousness and strength (Isa 45:24).

Isa 45:22-25

"Turn to Me, and...

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Wednesday March 9,2022

I came across this wonderful statement today.

"God threatens terrible things if we will not be happy." [Jeremy Taylor]

Psa 37:4

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Tuesday March 8, 2022

Why should we be strong in a world where Satan schemes against mankind and God's church?

How do we stand firm against the schemes of the devil? We are strong in God's mighty power and we put on the full armor of God.

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