From our viewpoint, the concepts of Jesus and the kingdom of God are so synonymous that we hardly notice friend Nicodemus on that dark night, He's not so interesting in unpacking all of these theological and noetic

We've been reminded over and over this year of the noetic effect of sin , which causes people to instinctually

In other words, having had her mind opened and freed of sin's noetic effect , the grace offered to Lydia

We've mentioned before the noetic effect that sin has upon us, meaning that we can't think straight anymore

We've mentioned this noetic effect of sin several times this year - the condition you inherited that

We've seen a couple of times this year that the noetic effect of sin impairs our ability to reason correctly

Summary Did you notice all of the words highlighted in blue as you read through the psalm? The entire psalter uses synonyms like commands, decrees, precepts and laws as poetic stand ins to represent The 119th Psalm, this grand poetic masterpiece, goes all in as it sings the benefits and blessings of

one of dozens of prophetic passages that convey God's deep love for His people using rich and flowing poetic In a very real sense, the prophets served as God's process servers; that is, they served people notice Dig Deeper Notice in Zephaniah's passage how the call to be glad and rejoice with all your heart is

Summary John here uses the flowing, somewhat poetic style he is famous for here to provide a very solid These themes are almost identical to the themes John poetically unpacks in his prologue (1:1-18). Notice that John doesn't write will have .

(Side note: notice there in v8 that God was the one using David's guilt to crush his bones! Here's a few things to keep in mind about confession: Since poetic beauty doesn't improve a confession's Notice David never mentions any of the particulars of his sin in his confession.