Tag: Bible
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The Mirror of Church Hypocrisy – 3
Therefore you have no excuse, O christian… Do you suppose, O christian… —that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on…
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The Mirror of Church Hypocrisy – 2
Is Christ’s church not His betrothed, as Israel was chosen of the Lord? A word for the Church from Prophets of old: Jeremiah 2 English Standard Version (ESV) Israel Forsakes the Lord The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your…
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The Mirror of Hypocrisy
As I left the busy area of the mall wearing my brand new ‘Jesus’ tie I had just purchased as witness to family members far from Christ, I hurried onto the main freeway. Morning traffic was still dense, but I had time to merge; BUT the car in the lane next to the ramp was…
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Hypocrite ‘christian’ & Hypocrite Unbeliever
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye. – Luke 6:42b HARSH words from Jesus! Would you of the church (who call yourself “christian”) deserve the rebuke of the One we call Lord? It so happens…
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Fatherly Advice
Psalm 103:13 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. Proverbs 10:1 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.…
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Whose Sons and Daughters?
A Rebellious Son Deuteronomy 21:18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders…