And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so ground.” 29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every And it was so. 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. devil through Christ’s life, death, and resurrection, and we can find comfort that one day He will make all things right, that He will make all things new.

Romans 12:3-8 (NIV) 3  For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself Notice how the final few commands include an adverb to add emphasis that your gift sharing efforts must What made that especially painful was the realization that we had bought that same part several times

himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every Imagine one of your best life long friends, who gained success in every area of life, only to give up Why did the NIV take what should have been a word for word translation and make it so different?

beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. 3 “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food Thus, if the marvelous Maker of every good thing were not dealing with us,  we would have no hope of It's ubiquitous, having infected every aspect of our life and even our entire society. Notice that God will demand an accounting from every living thing - man and beast.

In God We Trust ​ Article 5: The Sources of Unbelief and of Faith James 1:13-18 - The Devil (didn't) Make 45:21-25 - Irrevocable Ezekiel 36:24-27 - A Whole New Reality Romans 9:15-21 - God's Mercy, Not Your Effort Summary It's somewhat ironically refreshing to see that the same old accusations that people make now As a result, if their religious efforts didn’t materially benefit them in measurable ways, it meant that honor, respect and revere God, but also that we must also be afraid of Him, knowing that we owe our very

What could make two of our favorite teachers disagree so sharply? For urgently and most genuinely God makes known in the Word what is pleasing to him:  that those who Yet back in chapter 9, he wrote that salvation doesn't depend upon man's desire or effort, but upon God's It's just that as limited human beings we often only see one aspect or the other at work, which makes Sproul: “I take ‘all Israel’ to mean the full number of the elect, including both Jews and Gentiles.

is not an Israelite. 16  The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make obstacle to the preaching of the gospel and to every aspect of divine worship. They should do it in order that the Word of God may have free course; the kingdom of Jesus Christ may make progress; and every anti-Christian power may be resisted. God may not make His choice for leaders known through the mouth of a prophet as He once did, but He's

sheer grace earned for us by Christ, not only others, but I too, have had my sins forgiven, have been made assurance of faith that we stand forgiven and accepted in the blood of Christ Jesus before the Father that makes The Roman Catholic Church had been walking away from this assurance as it made salvation increasingly dependent upon the efforts of people rather than the sovereignty of God. AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Heavenly Father we rejoice in your work and Word that is made

produced in man by the hearing of God’s Word and by the work of the Holy Spirit, regenerates him and makes Therefore, far from making people cold toward living in a pious and holy way, this justifying faith, This change brought about by Jesus' death extends to every aspect of life. As such, your life must now reflect Christ in every way. We call this lifelong process sanctification , a word which literally means to make holy.

For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11  Day after day every priest In fact, they could never make anyone perfect , no matter how often they were repeated, because it is the very real lifeblood drained out of a very real animal. that shadow understood this concept better than we do, since they saw the grotesque reality of this every