By One Spirit

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September 2015

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Scripture and Love

"In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death" (Prov. 12:28). I love this scripture because there is so much hope in it. After all, that's what we're aiming for isn't it? To live fore…

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Quench Not the Spirit

The only right spiritual environment for God’s people to worship and have fellowship in is one where everything is led by the holy Ghost all of the time. Unfortunately that environment basically doesn’t exist in the body…

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Ruth’s Faithful Love

I believe the saying of Ruth that she made to her mother-in-law Naomi has to be the most powerful statement of faithfulness from one person to another in the Bible, though the covenant between Jonathan and David is certa…

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Are You Deserving?

We live in a society that has promoted a ‘deserving’ mindset to extremes, and a whole lot of ‘Christians’ today have the exact same feeling about salvation. Not many would admit it openly, but the modern traditions and d…

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Judgment and Truth

"The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace... And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afa…

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Perseverance and Truth

If there is one thing that the pride of man hates, it is for someone to dictate absoluteness to him. He just can't stand it. That is why the prophets were persecuted and killed. They spoke for God, and if God is anything…

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Righteousness and Discernment

"Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them... The fear of the Lord is to ha…

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Works by Faith

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8,9). Before going to an explanation of this passage, let’s look at some scrip…

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No Commentary Needed

“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulnes…

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Lying and Killing

I have just a few words today on the subjects of lying and killing, as these topics came up at a prayer meeting that I held last night. Lying is a heinous sin and in fact is what started the whole ball of destruction rol…

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Suffering With Christ

“Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against…

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When You’re Born Again

“Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” (John 16:7) There is abundant verificati…

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The Speech of Creation

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their…

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Witness for the Scriptures

“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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Understanding the Heart

I have found over the time that I've been in Christ, that as I've gotten to know God better I have also gotten to know myself better. David understood what I'm trying to say, and the following words are evidence of it: "…

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Who’s Your Brother?

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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Sons of Adam

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 the doctrine of ‘pre-existence,’ meaning the bel…

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The Nature of God and Scripture

I'm not sure why I haven't written on this topic as yet, but in short order I would like to tell about something the Lord revealed to me two or three years ago sitting in my basement. It's about how the Son of God was be…

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Great Gain

“Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven” (Prov. 23:4,5). “Trust in the Lor…

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The Foolishness of Haste

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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Be Fruitful

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit… Abide in me, and I i…

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Paul’s Self-Denial

“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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The All-Seeing God

“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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Be the Poor

“The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly” (Prov. 18:23). This scripture can be applied to a whole lot more things than someone just being rich monetarily. If you observe things, you will see that anyone…

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Too Much Talk

“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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