Category: #Prayer
Who is your neighbor, that you could consider loving today?
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. Lord, how awesome, that we have an advocate in Jesus, that we might come before your throne. There is no condemnation, for those who are in Christ Jesus! Thank you, Jesus!!!
See notes below on understanding chosen.
bible.com/bible/100/col.3.12.NASB1995
3:12 So. In view of what God has done through Jesus Christ for the believer, Paul described the behavior and attitude God expects in response (vv. 12–17). chosen of God. This designates true Christians as those who have been chosen by God. No one is converted solely by his own choice, but only in response to God’s effectual, free, uninfluenced, and sovereign grace (see notes on Jn 15:16; Ro 8:29; 9:14–23; Eph 1:4; 2Th 2:13, 14; 2Ti 1:8, 9; 1Pe 1:1, 2; cf. Ac 13:46–48; Ro 11:4, 5). beloved. Election means believers are the objects of God’s incomprehensible special love (cf. Jn 13:1; Eph 1:4, 5). put on. See note on vv. 9, 10. heart of compassion. It is a Hebraism that connotes the internal organs of the human body as used figuratively to describe the seat of the emotions (cf. Mt 9:36; Lk 6:36; Jas 5:11).
Just as the world hated Jesus, they would hate us for following Jesus. Jesus laid down his life, that we might live.
This does not mean, our lives will be without troubles. It means that, as we are sent, and as we encounter various trials, we can find peace and joy, in the midst of these.
HIS WORDS CAN TRUSTED, BY ALL OF HIS DISCIPLES, BOTH THEN AND NOW! (See note below)
bible.com/bible/100/jhn.14.1.NASB1995
Jesus was fully man and fully God. He was saying goodbye soon, to his disciples. He next said he was going to prepare a place for them and one day would return for them. In the meantime he was leaving the comforter, the Holy Spirit.
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God Bless
Alan Waters
Please don’t forget the first part of this verse…….Submit therefore unto GOD! (See note below)
bible.com/bible/100/jas.4.7.NASB1995
From John MacArthur Study Bible
The only ray of hope in man’s spiritual darkness is the sovereign grace of God, which alone can rescue man from his propensity to lust for evil things. That God gives “greater grace” shows that His grace is greater than the power of sin, the flesh, the world, and Satan (cf. Ro 5:20). The OT quote (from Pr 3:34; cf. 1Pe 5:5) reveals who obtains God’s grace—the humble, not the proud enemies of God.
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bible.com/bible/100/jhn.20.21.NASB1995
bible.com/bible/100/rev.4.11.NASB1995
bible.com/bible/100/2co.7.10.NASB1995