By One Spirit

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May 2017

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We live in a world of great injury

We live in a world of great injury. It's been that way since sin entered the world in the garden of Eden, and it has only gotten worse. Now we are literally living in the end of the world, and all of the hurt and injury…

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Resurrection Power

“For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ou…

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Job 20: King James Version (KJV)

Job 20: King James Version (KJV) 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount…

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The Sum Total

“Now the end of the commandment is [love] out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; un…

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What Is the New Birth?

Today I feel to address what may be the biggest issue facing God’s people in this time. What really does constitute the new birth experience, and who really is in the body of Christ and the kingdom of God? To answer this…

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Who’s Driving?

The question I have for you today is this: Who has power over who in regard to you and your fleshly, or carnal nature? That is really what it is all going to come down to anyway. The apostle Paul clearly listed a number…

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Who Knows the Hearts?

God alone knows the hearts. We’ve all heard it, and we’ve all said it I’m sure. But do we REALLY believe it? First let’s have several key scriptural references laid out that irrefutably show that God, and God alone, know…

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On Faith

I have somewhat of an unusual post tonight, and it's one I should have already written at some point, but haven't for whatever reason. It's about atheists. I've had quite a bit of dealings with atheists through the years…

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Predestination?

“Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves” (Psm. 100:3). “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk i…

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Can You See God?

Some folks have this issue of finding it difficult to believe in a God that they cannot see. My question is this: Where is it that you don’t see him, and what is it that you can’t see him in? I mean really, is it maybe i…

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Drawn to Love

Why was it that so many outcast and downtrodden types came to Jesus when he was here? It’s simple really. They felt loved by him, and they felt that way because they WERE loved by him. People like the woman who washed hi…

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The Word of God Is…

Today I would like to take a look at how the Bible defines the word of God, and what the BIBLE says it takes to attain unto that word. “So that thou incline thine EAR unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;…

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Righteousness or Self-Righteousness?

The question today is, are you living in righteousness, or in self righteousness? When Jesus was approached by a man who called him “good master,” he replied, “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that i…

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The Only Contentment

“I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth…

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The True Measurement

“And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inher…

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Honored In Heaven, But Not On Earth

“This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: Now…

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Love and Baptism

I have an interesting topic to cover today, and I think you'll find it interesting as well. It's about the most favored and beloved man of God in the history of the world. Who is it? No, it's not Jesus, as he has a rathe…

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Is There Peace?

“They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying , Peace, peace; when there is no peace” (Jer. 6:14). Those referred to as ‘they’ in this passage were the misguided prophets among God’s peopl…

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I Kings 3:

I Kings 3: 5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. 6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked…

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The Ministry of Love

“Follow after [love], and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy” (I Cor. 14:1). I just can’t get my mind off of the love of God. There truly is nothing else like it, and by the same saying, nothing else…

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Understanding Is Everything

“Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding” (Prov. 9:6). “Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly” (Prov. 15:21). “Woe unto them that call evi…

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From Such Turn Away

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection…

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Nothing That Defiles

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as…

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Scripture and Faith

"But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you,…

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The Book of Life

The question I have for you today is, Can someone have their name written in the ‘book of life’ and still lose out with God; meaning not be saved in the end? The answer is very short, but first let’s consider how a perso…

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The Abundance of the Heart

“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth sp…

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What Are You Looking For?

What are you looking for, really? Some people are looking for a religious security blanket, and will accept something short of real truth that purifies from sin (Isa. 28:20; Isa. 30:1; Eph. 5:25,26; II Tim. 4:3; I Pet. 1…

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2 Peter 2 King James Version (KJV)

2 Peter 2 King James Version (KJV) 2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought t…

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The Hope of Salvation

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same SHALL BE saved” (Mat. 24:12,13). “But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we SHA…

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