I want to begin this sermon by reading the entirety of a psalm. As I am reading this psalm, you will hear this subject is appropriate to the sermon. You might want to think about this subject in regard to what is going on in the world …
Throughout the entire creation, God Almighty has developed and produced repeatable designs and patterns. One of the most ubiquitous patterns consists of the drive-reduction mechanism found in all living things, from the single cell to …
The notes on Luke 6:38 in the New Spirit-Filled Life Study Bible read: There is a universal law of divine reciprocity. You give; God gives in return. When you plant a seed, the ground yields a harvest. That is a reciprocal relationship. …

(24) Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. (25) For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
Jesus tells us to deny ourselves .This means we must disown and renounce ourselves and subjugate everything—all our works, interests, and enjoyments—to the standards set by God. Paul commands us to bring under our control …
This time of the year provides the setting for the time of Jesus of Nazareth's death in Jerusalem as the Lamb of God "slain from the foundation of the world" (Revelation 13:8; see John 1:29). Through the intervening centuries, zealous yet misguided believers have attempted to pin the blame for His death on various parties, particularly upon the Jews and Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea at the time (Matthew 27:2; Luke 3:1). Though both of these were instrumental in Jesus' condemnation and execution, their guilt is substantially no greater than anyone else's before or since because …
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