Jesus Christ
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“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer [vinedresser]. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit” (John 15:1-2; NHEB). “You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error…
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“He who assaults his father and drives his mother away is a shameful and disgraceful son. Cease listening, my son, to discipline, and you will stray from the words of knowledge” (Prov. 19:26-27). Cold Open (aka., Introduction)… The type of assault here discussed in not violence in terms of physical altercation, but to waste away…
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“All those who hate me, love death” (Prov. 8:36). “For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit…
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INTRODUCTION: Today I want to get the reader thinking about a topic that I have touched on before. It is a topic discussed by a variety of different people groups. And, it is vilified on nearly all sides. When it is not made a boogie man, it is downplayed by others who should be its…
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“I invoke as a witness against you today the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set before you, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring, by loving Yahweh your God by listening to his voice and by clinging to him, for he is your…
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