By One Spirit

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August 2013

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Knowing Too Much

After healing a blind man, and after the Pharisees were much displeased by it, Jesus told them a hard saying: "Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin rem…

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Repentance and Baptism

"And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?…

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Familiar Sins

People love familiarity. They really do, even when they are miserable with what they’re familiar with. They re-elect incumbent politicians who have proven harmful, because they are afraid of change. They stay in marriage…

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On Temptation

I'm sure you've noticed many times how that you may often be in a conversation, and someone will invariably talk at the same instant that you open your mouth to speak, and that it happens repeatedly. It can be in person…

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On Love

"Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the Lord" (Lev. 19:16). "A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spi…

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Who and Who Not To Fear

"And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied?" (Isa. 57:11) "And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn…

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Salvation and Discernment

I have a simplistic, to the point post today; but it truly "lays the ax to the root of the tree," as pertaining to the prospering of the people of God. I'm talking about the born again experience that makes any person a…

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The Deadly Power of Slander

In the Bible, the term “the devil,” when referring to Satan himself; comes from the Greek word “Diabolos,” and means “slanderer.” Jesus also made it crystal clear that the devil is the father of lies (Jn. 8:44). The firs…

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Looking For Sanity?

Have you noticed that the whole world is just absolutely insane? I sure have. That is simply what has to happen when a person, a nation, a world goes further and further in the opposite direction from doing the will of G…

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Scripture and Righteousness

"When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said" (Jn. 2:22). "He that believeth on me, as the scrip…

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Against The Spirit

It is such a tragedy, and yet it surely is an unfortunate reality. I see it all the time, whenever I have the opportunity to be around some of God’s precious souls. God’s people have been, and are being taught against th…

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Israel and Prayer

"And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided m…

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Strait Is the Gate

Someone supporting a "take it by faith" Gospel asked me a few weeks ago if I believed that the blood of Christ was great enough to cover the cost of all of my past, present, and future sins. He was upholding the common C…

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Baptism and Scripture

Today I would like to clarify the issue of baptism by looking at the most notable passages of scripture that we have about the subject, and point out with pure simplicity of the scriptures just what these passages are sa…

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The Fear of the Lord

"Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the sain…

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Faith and the Flesh

"While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. B…

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Scripture and the Nature of God

A certain topic has surfaced around me a number of times recently, and I would like to set the record straight about what the Bible says in regard to it. I'm talking about "pre-existence," meaning the belief that everyon…

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For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain

"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with…

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