Tag: Jesus Christ
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Confess Your Sins
THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the LORDwill raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore,confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may behealed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.…
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Created in Christ Jesus for Good Works
Cooperative Grace For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to…
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Every Family in Heaven and Earth
THE DIVINE FAMILY OF GOD For this reason, I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self, and that Christ may dwell in…
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Eyewitnesses and Servants of the Word
The Deposit of Faith Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first,…
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Faith Working Through Love
Justification & Sanctification You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ;you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faiththe righteousness for which we hope. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcisionnor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faithexpressing itself…
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Filling Up What Is Lacking in Christ’s Afflictions
OBJECTIVE & SUBJECTIVE REDEMPTION I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh, I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. I became its servant according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the…
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Guilty of an Everlasting Sin
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against…
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Hold Fast to the Traditions
THE DEPOSIT OF FAITH So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the traditionswe passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.2 Thessalonians 2, 15 The verse from 2 Thessalonians comes from a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the community in Thessalonica around A.D. 50-51. This…
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I Am the Vine; You Are the Branches
SALVATION “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I…
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I Became Your Father
THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY ORDERS And Michas said:Stay with me, and be unto me a father and a priest,and I will give thee every year ten pieces of silver,and a double suit of apparel, and thy victuals.Judges 17, 10 Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ,you do not have many fathers, for in…
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