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Childrearing (Part Six)
Why does overcoming for you and me—those of us who are adults, we are part of the church of God; we have repented, we have been baptized, we have received the gift of God's Holy Spirit—and yet overcoming seems to be such …
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Do You See God? (Part One)
The Word of God guarantees that, if we do not see God, then we will have difficulty keeping any kind of deep commitment, whether it is to our marriage, employment, or, most importantly, our relationship with God. An old American adage …
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Fear Not (Part Two)
As Part One concluded, we were considering the fact that, despite our society's general squeamishness about executing cowardly deserters, God has declared that He will cast the cowardly into the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:7-8). This …
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Matthew 25:1-13
(1) "Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. (2) Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. (3) Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, (4) but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. (5) But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. (6) "And at midnight a cry was heard: "Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!" (7) Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. (8) And the foolish said to the wise, "Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out." (9) But the wise answered, saying, "No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves." (10) And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. (11) "Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, "Lord, Lord, open to us!" (12) But he answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you." (13) "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
In Scripture, oil symbolizes wealth, abundance, health, energy, and a vital ingredient for a good life. It can likewise represent spiritual abundance, only possible through what God gives. As Isaiah 55:1-7 shows, this oil is "bought" …
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The Process of Love (Part Two)
by David C. GrabbeThere is difficulty involved in the process of exercising godly love. The intent of our heart must be correct for a word or deed to be godly love, yet Jeremiah 17:9 asserts that our heart is “deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” God asks, “Who can understand it?” implying that we cannot—only God can. Thus, we can do good works, believing we are doing them for the right reasons, yet be deceiving ourselves. The human nature remaining in us can give us answers that sound good, but that nature, highly resistant to honestly examining why we do what we do and say what we say, woul
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