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Galatians 3:25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
Before we accept Christ as our Saviour, we are still very much in a learning role where we are trying to understand many things; for that we do need a teacher to help us to understand things.
But when we trust in Christ, He has promised to give us the Holy Spirit to give us the understanding that we desire.
After be trust in Christ we are no longer stuck as a scholar seeking something new, but rather we grow in our own time as we learn for ourselves from the Holy Spirit. We grow from being like a scholar to being more like an undergraduate.
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Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Faith in itself is not our justification but rather the faith we have will justify our lives with Christ when we sit down and truly think things through.
Sometimes we are put off by people who will mock us or will say things like “it is not real” or “it is just a bunch of words”; but if we are willing to take those words and study them through properly we will find out just how special God’s Word is!
The truth is hard to ignore when we do find it out, and by believing in that truth our lives are changed through the peace and self-assurance that God gives us; and all because Christ was willing to give His life for us.
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John 5:22 For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son
God does not judge anyone without Jesus Christ being a part of the decision making. Why? Because it is Jesus who willingly gave His own life for our sins.
God is the judge of the whole world, but each individual will be judged according to his own life choices.
We have the choice as to whether we believe Christ and trust Him to forgive us, or whether we put our trust in ourselves and see what happens!
Don’t take a chance, go with the certainty of Christ’s grace!
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Luke 10:16 He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.
Jesus did not go about His ministry telling people how much He loved them and healing everyone all the time… there were times when He told people the harsh truth and they did not like it!
We find the same as we go out and tell people of the truth because not everyone wants to hear the truth; how would you like to be told something you thought was true was just a lie.
God wants us all to love Him openly and truthfully. There is no way that He will accept lies and no way that He will put up with people saying they love Him when they speak against Christ!
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Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.
It is a wise man who will listen to instruction and a wise leader who will listen to advice as well. If we are willing to listen then we can learn from everybody.
It does not have to be the brainiest of doctors who teach us, not the greatest of speakers, but someone who is willing to teach the truth or talk about God.
Wisdom comes from hearing and hearing come through listening; but it should be that we listen always to ensure we do not miss those wise words spoken.
Waiting on God continually strengthens us and shed the truth about us!
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1 Kings 10:8 Happy are your men and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!
When the queen of Sheeba came to Solomon to find out about his wisdom and to improve her own, she was probably not prepared for all that she saw and heard.
She saw just how happy the men of Israel were under his guidance and how they thrived in knowing that their king was so wise all the time.
By the end of her visit she knew that this came from God and that it was God who deserved the praise; but the happiness belonged to the people who came under that God, our God!
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Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
What is or was the most memorable thing about 2013 for you?
For me the biggest thing about this last year was the fact that I finally started to do something for God that I had been telling Him I would do for many years!
Each of us like to promise something to others, but we don’t always follow through with those promises.
God’s grace goes beyond any of our promises because He will never ask for that back. He has shown us grace and continues to show us grace. Please accept it in this coming year!
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Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.
One of the things I will always find hardest to come to terms with is when a parent walks away from a child. I know that I am not the greatest parent at times, but I will always be here for my children no matter what!
To me, the love a parent has for the offspring is probably the strongest bond between two people, and yet we see that broken from time to time.
God’s love for us goes far beyond what we can imagine between parents and children. God’s love has no bounds. God’s love is eternal. God’s love is awesome!
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Luke 11:11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?
When you look at all the things that you may have been given over the past few days, you may begin to see how other people love and care for you.
Even in times of distress and time when you think nothing is going right, there is always something special that will happen to lift up your spirits.
We need to remember those times and be encouraged; and if you see someone else discouraged or struggling, then try give them a hand up or encourage them in some way. It may just be the gift of love they have been waiting for!
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1 Timothy 5:8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
One of the hardest lessons I had to learn as a Christian was to make sure that I looked after my family and not run off to do things for others all the time.
God tells us that we must go out and do things for others, but He also says that we have to take care of our families.
We are the ones who have to find that balance; whether we do what we can here and now or whether we take a step out into the wild and do something for others.
God will guide us and support us as long as we seek His advice. Always seek and listen!
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Luke 8:39 “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you.” And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
What things have to happen to you before you will go out and tell everyone about it? If it were some nice surprise, you would probably go out and tell people straight away.
If it were out having dinner with someone special, you may tell others all about it…
So, knowing just how much God does for us, why do we not go out and tell others all about God and what he does for us?
We need to tell others the good news, the gospel, God’s fulfilment of His promises!
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Luke 2:17 Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child.
The day after… What are you going to do now? Are you going to go back home and do nothing, or are you going to go back and make a difference?
So many times we build up to big events and then flop on the floor afterward having spent all of our energy on frivolous things.
God wants us to be more than that. God wants us to go out into the entire world and tell it of Him. We have just celebrated His birth; let us continue telling others just as the shepherds did.
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Luke 2:24 and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: ‘a pair of doves or two young pigeons’.
If you are fortunate enough to have friends and family that give you gifts today, how are you going to thank them?
We all love to get back with family and friends over Christmas but when we are young much of that stems from the fact that gifts are going to be given – so we put up with things!
Jesus came as the perfect gift and anyone who has had a child can relate to how special a moment that is.
How are you going to say thank you to God for the plan that He came up with to save us from our sins?
Happy Christmas!
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Luke 2:12 This will be a sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.
We can marvel all we like at the fact that this is Jesus Christ, our Messiah, Saviour, Lord, Son of God… but the shepherds were being told that they would find Him lying in a manger!
We may put some things in strange places but what would you have thought if someone came and told you that you would find the new king in a feeding trough?
Jesus did not need the pomp and ceremony of an earthly king. He does not need the world to treat Him like someone from the royal household.
All God wants is our love!
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Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
The most amazing thing about the birth of Christ was the impossibility of what was happening. God has always existed, and yet Jesus was born so that He could die.
God created everything, and yet Jesus was fully human as a created body; mind-blowing for us to try and figure out!
We may struggle with the birth of Christ but what we must never do is refuse to accept that this is what God chose to do because He loved us first of all!
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Hebrews 1:6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, ‘Let all God’s angels worship him.’
When Christ was born it was not just Joseph and Mary who were happy; a host of angels sung about the birth, praising God!
This was no ordinary birth even though the parents who would look after Him and bring Him up were ordinary folk. Jesus was going to make a huge impact on everyone He met!
What sort of impact do you think you are making on people?
As we come up to Christmas think how you can make an impact on someone else’s life.
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Matthew 1:23 ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ (which means ‘God with us’).
Right from the beginning God had been telling man that a Saviour would come to us and release us from our debt we owe because of our sinful nature.
Now an angel was declaring that the time had come and would soon be upon them and the events were going to be anything but ordinary!
God was finally going to be with the people… but the people would not understand it. But that did not stop God from coming because He knew the penny would finally drop one day!
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Luke 2:1 And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
If there is one thing we can be sure of is that man will always want his pound of flesh! Just as in the days of old, we too have to pay into governments so that they can work.
That does not mean that the government is doing the right thing; we could argue that many governments are corrupt and following evil paths nowadays; but we are still subject to them.
Caesar order the census to make sure that everyone was registered to account for taxes due. This had nothing to do with worshipping God, but God was using it for His glory!
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Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”
There is so much to be said about the words in the book of revelations and yet we don’t talk about it much… probably because it has so much to say and we limit our time!
When the time is right, Christ will return to be King and ruler over everything here on earth and nothing we do can ever stop that.
But just because it is inevitable does not mean that we should stop doing what God has asked us to do now; we are part of His plan and there is no plan B. This is it!
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Psalm 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; For You shall inherit all nations.
It is good to be able to read psalms written so long ago which give us an insight into what God was trying to teach the people about.
This is the gospel message. This is a reminder that Christ is our judge and that He alone is able to judge everyone. He is the one who will return to judge everyone.
Our bibles are not many books written which seem to have a common theme. Our bibles are many books written by many people all proclaiming the same truth about God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Let us praise God for whom He is!