Tag: spirit
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Crushed
Let’s get something straight: You are not good enough for Heaven. I am not even good enough for my church, my wife or my child. If we cannot do enough good works to earn our place with a Holy God, how will we ever pay what we owe for our many sins? Answer: We can not.…
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Until He Was Taken Up – 3
It’s evening. Cleopas and another disciple of Jesus have left Jerusalem, broken bread with a fellow sojourner in Emmaus. The risen Jesus is revealed in the breaking of the bread. They return to Jerusalem with the Good News. Luke 24: And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, 34 saying,…
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spirit
Genesis 6:3a And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man… Flesh is that which we can see. Bones is that which we can almost touch – bones which will decay once more into the dust of time. Spirit is quite something else: inexplicable, incomprehensible, immeasurable, untouched, unheard, misunderstood and mysterious to the simpleness…
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‘adam
Genesis 2:7a And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground… Genesis 2 English Standard Version (ESV) Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them… The Creation of Man and Woman 4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that…
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The Beatitudes and the Multitudes – Part 2
Matthew 5 King James Version (KJV) Blessed are the poor in spirit. NOT the poor in money – not the poor in anything other than a downcast spirit and soul of hopelessness. God has not looked on you with blessing. You live the life of curse and lack of blessing. God’s wrath must have looked…