Salvation
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NOTE: This week we posted three special teachings on Jesus’ sacrificial death and glorious resurrection. Today’s is the second. The last will be posted tomorrow and is entitled: The Rock That Rolled May He bless you and your loved ones as you celebrate the unconditional, unfailing love of His resurrection life. ************************************************* All of mankind’s…
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NOTE: This week we are posting three special teachings on Jesus’ sacrificial death and glorious resurrection. Today’s is the first. The other two are: Saturday – A Perfect Salvation Resurrection Day –The Rock That Rolled May He bless you and your loved ones as you celebrate the unconditional, unfailing love of His resurrection life. ************************************************* I…
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Let’s do some soul-searching this week. Let’s ask ourselves, “Am I pleasing to the Father? Does He delight in me?” The answers to those questions require our being totally honest with ourselves. Many of us might answer, “No, I’ve made too many mistakes. I have too many shortcomings. I’ve failed God too many times. He’s…
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NOTE: This week we will continue our teaching on our spiritual union with Christ. Please see our previous posts dated 1/20 and 1/27 for Parts One and Two of this series. Let’s explore Paul’s revelation to understand how we, though once dead, now have eternal life. Everything changed when the eternal Word of God was…
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Nobody ever slept much at the Townsend house in Shreveport on Christmas Eve. Dad knew he had toys and bicycles to assemble for us four kids after he and Mom finally chased us to bed with threats of getting the “spanking of our lives” if we didn’t get in the bed immediately. Mom knew she…
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Today, we’re going to broaden the focus of our series on healing to include both our physical and our spiritual salvation. Sin and sickness have always been intertwined, since both are the result of the fall. All of mankind’s ills: sin, sickness, poverty, and death began at the fall, when Adam and Eve were separated…
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More than 700 years before Jesus was born,the prophet Isaiah, inspired and enabled by Holy Spirit saw His substitutionary suffering and death, and recorded it for us. Isaiah, seeing by the Spirit, actually understood more of what was to take place at Calvary, than Jesus’ followers, who were physically present at the cross. Even though…
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People use the term “god-forsaken” to describe some place or thing that is “miserable, wretched, desolate, and hopeless.” The phrase infers “abandonment” by God. But can any person, place or thing really be forsaken by God, since He is omnipresent? Amazingly, Jesus, the Word of God, the Author of Life, testified that He had been…
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Hebrews 13:5b, Amplified Bible, Classic Edition He, [God] Himself, has said, “I will not in any way fail you, nor give you up, nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree, leave you helpless, nor forsake, nor let you down (relax my hold on you)! [Assuredly…
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So you prayed sincerely from your heart to receive God’s love-gift, His Son, Jesus, as your Savior and Lord. At the moment you prayed that prayer, committing your life to Him, you may have had strong feelings, or a flood of emotions, or possibly, you felt nothing at all. It doesn’t matter. Feelings have nothing…