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Jan 30, 2024 · We cannot be “doing good deeds” on earth if He takes us immediately to heaven. Jesus calls believers to be “ salt and light ” to a lost world needing to hear about the grace of God (Matthew 5:13–16). God wants us to reach others from our unique places in the world with the good news of the gospel (Matthew 28:18–20; Acts 1:8), and He ...
- How does God reveal Himself to us? | GotQuestions.org
The first two ways that God reveals Himself to us are...
- How does God reveal Himself to us? | GotQuestions.org
Mar 15, 2022 · First, Paul makes the remarkable statement that God chose us before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4). God the Father “chose us in [Christ] before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight” (Ephesians 1:4). The Father also “in love . . . predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in ...
- He Sees Us. From the two stories above, it is clear that God is watching the steps of our life and met these women in their brokenness. The same Lord that Hagar and the woman at the well encountered is the same Lord that sees us today.
- He Chose Us.
- He Knows Us. When the Samaritan woman went to tell others about Him, she said, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”
- He Hears Us. There are times when we cry out to God about the hidden things in life which go unseen by others but that cause us pain and struggle. We may be grieving, experiencing an abusive relationship, battling with a physical or mental illness, losing hope, caring for a loved one or something else that happens behind closed doors where the only audience is God.
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3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the ...
Paul begins the body of this letter in a typical OT or Jewish style of a prolonged blessing (berakah). The main idea of this section is found in the first word in both the English and Greek text: “blessed” (eulogētos). God is to be blessed or praised because of his great grace that provides believers in Jesus Christ a plethora of spiritual blessing...
In verses 7 and 8, Paul now offers the second of four main reasons why God is worthy of the praises of his people: because he redeems us. Paul moves from God’s predetermining choice before time to his work of redemption in the course of history. This verse is structurally parallel to verses 11 and 13, as each begins with “In him.” The redemption be...
The plan of God to accomplish redemption through his Son is no longer a mystery. It was God’s design all along for his people to understand his purposes, but some of the details of his plan were not disclosed. In the gospel, however, God has revealed his divine mystery, which involves uniting all things in Christ. Verse 9 is best understood as stat...
In verse 12, we see the divine purpose for why believers are predestined to receive an inheritance: that they might praise God’s glory (cf. vv. 6, 14). Paul further describes the “we” who are chosen for the purpose of praising God’s glory by adding “who were the first to hope in Christ.” The Greek verb underlying this phrase, which occurs only here...
Paul further elaborates on the person of the Holy Spirit by reminding his readers that the Spirit “is the guarantee of our inheritance.” “Guarantee” is used only three times in the NT, each by Paul in reference to the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5; cf. Rom. 8:23). In the ancient world, a “guarantee” (arrabōn) functioned as a down payment given to s...
Oct 23, 2024 · Now let’s look at two seemingly unrelated statements Jesus made about what it takes to enter God’s Kingdom. In Matt. 18:3 He said, “Unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”. And in John 3:3 He said, “No one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born again.”.
- “Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descen...
- Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and...
- For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy (Hebrews 10:14).In Romans 3:20-24 Paul explained that no one will be...
- Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).Because of this, we can no longer be condemned for any reaso...
- Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like h...
- As you can see, none of the above has come to us as a result of our behavior. As soon as we believed, it was accomplished in our lives as the free...
Genesis 1:26 ESV / 15 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”.
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Jan 4, 2022 · The first two ways that God reveals Himself to us are general and limited. But the second two avenues of revelation are personal, full, and complete. Creation Reveals God. Paul said in Romans 1:19–20 that, ever since the creation of the world, God has made the knowledge of Himself evident to all people: “They know the truth about God ...
