Tag: Love Your Neighbour
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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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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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Husbands and Wives in Christ
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is how some Christians seem to have taken this section of scripture in Ephesians 5:21-33 completely out of context. They ascribe roles to the husband and wife in a marriage that are completely out of sync with what these verses are saying.
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Be filled with the Spirit
It never ceases to amaze me how some scriptures have been taken out of context or have been abused to uphold some position that they are not really supporting or even suggesting. This scripture today is one of those.
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Love Your Neighbour
(Galatians 5:14-15) If there is one aspect of Christianity that we all need to aspire to, it is finding the love of God. Love is more important than anything else, and the verses we are looking at today gives us an indication of how weighty this matter is. They state: 14 For the whole law…
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What Is Love?
(1 Corinthians 13:4-8) Of all the questions mankind has asked, from poets to philosophers, academics to artists, this is perhaps the most profound and mysterious of all: what is love? Love is so fundamental to the human condition that it forms part of our DNA. It is part of our nature to seek, hope for…
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Power Of Love
(1 Corinthians 13:1-3) Over my last few posts I have discussed the ministry gifts and spiritual gifts that are given to both individuals and to the church. These gifts are given for the purpose of building up either the individual or the church body as a whole. The spiritual gifts are very important. They are…
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All To The Glory Of God
(1 Corinthians 10:25-33) Here is a question for you. If you knew Jesus was looking over your shoulder every minute of the day, would you do anything differently? I hope the answer you gave to yourself was “no.” But if it wasn't, then consider what you might need to do to change. The focus of…
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Law versus Love
(1 Corinthians 10:23-24) A number of things come to mind as I read these two verses. First is the stark contrast between the old and the ne covenants, especially as they were interpreted and put into practice by both the Pharisees and Jesus Christ respectively. The Pharisees strictly applied the letter of the law, but…
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Empathy
(1 Corinthians 19-23) It is highly possible that the greatest quality of all that any person needs to exhibit to spread the gospel of the Lord, apart from faith, love and hope of course, is to show empathy towards their fellow man. The apostle Paul knew this and was perhaps one of the greatest ambassadors…
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Walking In Love With Others
In my previous post I wrote about the issue of knowledge versus love and how knowledge puffs up but love builds up. But in spite of this issue, knowledge is essential to our growth and understanding of the ways of the Lord. In these scriptures today we see how we are to use the knowledge…
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Sustaining The Church
(Romans 15:14-33) Much of this section of scripture pertains to Paul speaking of his own ministry. The Lord called Paul specifically to preach the gospel to the Gentiles to bring the Gentile nations to the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ. We then see Paul continue ministering in the letters he wrote to the churches…
