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...and by His stripes we are healed. (Is. 53:5)

But He’s Jesus!

So many people are like, “Oh… He’s Jesus… He’s set apart from us, He’s greater than us, We can’t do the things He did!” He set the bar rather high, didn’t He? But He did this as the Son of Man, empowered by Holy Spirit, surrendered to our Father, to demonstrate to you and me…
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Why surrender?

I’ve been talking for a while about how there’s a difference between yielding and surrender. When you yield in traffic, your foot controls the brake and the gas; you seek to become part of the stream of traffic until you, as an individual, get where you’re going – then you leave the stream of traffic.…
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Dying and living

If you are a Christian, this is true: “It is appointed for men to die once, and after this the judgment”. But so ALSO is this: “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Don’t dread and leave for the future that which God has given you to enjoy now.

Love and Judgment

God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) So what does love look like? Love is patient…kind… not jealous love does not brag and is not arrogant Love does not act unbecomingly it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but…
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Imperishable! Incorruptible! You!

Let’s look at 1 Peter 1:23 this morning… Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. (KJV) [You], having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever… (NKJV) For you have…
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