Category: Philippians
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No confidence in the flesh
Too many people today are lost in the ideal of belief in oneself. We cannot save ourselves. Only Jesus Christ saves. It is far better to put no confidence in the flesh and to believe in Christ Jesus and God the Father than to rely on ourselves. This post gives insight into these issues.
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Look Out!
Paul warns us about different groups of people who would try to tear us down and take us away from the truth of Jesus Christ. His concerns are not just about those in the world, but also those who penetrate the church to work a different kind of evil.
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Rejoice in the Lord
At this time of year, there are many Christians who will rejoice in the Lord. The birth of any child is a reason for great rejoicing and more so when the Saviour of the world was born. We saw how even heaven rejoiced when the angels of God filled the air with song at His…
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Healing the Sick
It seems as though everyone in the early church was miraculously healed, either by the Lord or the Apostles. But this was not always the case as we see here in these verses. In these verses Epaphroditus was healed, but it was not a miraculous, instantaneous healing as is recorded so many times in the…
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A Genuine Christian
If we are to follow Jesus Christ there can be no half-measures. We are either in all the way or not. There is no sitting on the fence in Jesus Christ. We can’t continue to live as the world does and be a part of Christ. We cannot continue to live in sin and be…
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Little words with big impact
There are a lot of words in the Bible that we tend to skip over as we read, sometimes ignoring them or treating them as just connectors or fillers. These are what I call the “little words” because they seem to be insignificant in the total scheme of what is being written. But I have…
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Don’t be a grumbler
Don’t be a grumbler. Don’t grumble about your situation. Nobody likes a person who grumbles all of the time and even the Lord is not happy with those who are grumblers. But what is grumbling and why is it disliked by people and more importantly, by the Lord? In this post we will have a…
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Work Out Your Own Salvation
What does it mean to work out your own salvation? There are a couple of aspects that are immediately obvious from these scriptures today and those that precede these ones. First, we are told to work out our own salvation, which means we need to do it for ourselves. No one else can do it…
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Receiving the Glory of Jesus
What was it about Jesus that caused Him to be so loved by God and man? What were the things that led to Him receiving the highest praise and glory from men and angels? Jesus came to teach mankind the path to the Father and to His eternal kingdom. In these few scriptures today we…
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Humility of Christ
In these verses today we see just how humble Jesus was when He first came to the earth. It was in His humility that we received the opportunity to be reconciled to God and to be able to stand in His presence. There is also an interesting insight into the concept of the trinity found…
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Humility
There is a principle that is spread throughout the Bible, both in the New Testament and the Old Testament. It is the principle of humility. This scripture explains some of the ways we can show humility and what the attitudes and behaviour of humility look like.
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Becoming One in Christ Jesus
Why does the Lord want His people to be of one mind in Christ? Why is it that God wants this sense of “oneness” with Him? This is an important subject because we are told that Jesus and the Father are one and that we need to be one with them.
