Tuesday September 21, 2021

Paul prayed for the Colossians to joyously thank the Father for their opportunity to bear fruit in every good work.

Col 1:9-12

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Sunday, September 19, 2021

Work and service in obedience to God should give peace and joy. The work itself is the reward. If we are grudgingly working in the hope of future reward, or if we expect that the work is loathsome and the joy only comes after the work is done, we are missing the mark. The way of life, the conduct, the character and virtue of the life of Christ are the whole of that life. Did Christ not love doing what He did during the incarnation? Did He despise the incarnation, but put up with it, waiting for the resurrection to experience any joy? God always...

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Thursday September 16, 2021

A word of caution as we are once again pressed by the word of God into a life of work and service to others. It is to be a life of joy and fulfillment and peace and gratitude and love. What I'm saying, what God is saying, is that it is to be fun.

We must avoid compulsion and duty. The work is...

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Wednesday, September 15 2021

The only use of charisma outside of Paul is in 1Pe 4:10. Let's read it in context.

1Pe 4:1-11

Therefore,...

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Tuesday September 14, 2021

Eph 4:7

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.

Paul...

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Sunday, September 12, 2021

Eph 4:1-10

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing forbearance to one another in love, 3 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also...

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Thursday September 9, 2021

We've touched on the seeming conundrum of the sovereignty of a God of goodness and love with the existence of a world containing much sin, evil, and suffering.

As one good commentator puts it:

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Wednesday September 8,2021

We can discover some of the complexity of the question of a perfectly good God and a world suffering with sin, evil, natural disaster, sickness, and death when we understand that God became a man.

Hope is injected into a suffering world when we find the Son God suffering on a cross, reconciling the world to Himself.

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Tuesday September 7, 2021

Our exegetical, scriptural study of Ephesians has paused for a concept study of the fear of God and the method of wisdom.

A scriptural study is a verse-by-verse exegetical means of learning an entire passage and applying the science of hermeneutics to arrive at its correct translation and...

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Sunday September 5,2021

Phi 2:5

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,

Phi 2:12-16

So then, my beloved, just as you have always...

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