. -- 63 ( NET )  This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you much brokenness and pain, why things never seem to work out the way we hoped, and why it is that for every all of God's commands and decrees and persist in the evil they have done in forsaking Him , God will very We love to think of God as One who delights to do good for us and make us numerous (v63) . Everybody deserves every one of the curses outlined in Deuteronomy 28, but God gracefully holds the full

For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. 10  them over to sinful desires, shameful lusts, and a depraved mind as a result of the Gentiles' ongoing efforts We shake our heads at their ever increasing wickedness and read this passage as a warning to our children

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, painful crucifixion process never ends for those who are in Christ, that is, until Christ returns and makes But those who grow the fruit earn every cent of this tree-grown currency. All they can do is make sure all of the growing conditions are as ideal as possible.

We see it in every major theme in the Bible: yesterday we saw that God powerfully spoke reality into through His Son; God demonstrates His righteous authority by cursing Adam's sin; God's omnipotence is made People tend to be skeptical of promises, because they are so easy to make but hard to keep. Know that you can absolutely trust the promises God has made to you, because passages like this one in Isaiah demonstrate that He not only has the desire to make good on the promises He made, but the omnipotent

Mark 14:66–72 (NIV) CONTEXT: The scenes below take place as Jesus was being put on trial before His crucifixion who led the charge, promising to stick with Jesus until the death, inspiring the other disciples to make Dig Deeper   All four gospels record Jesus' trial and crucifixion from different perspectives, so not every element of what took place that long night is included in every gospel account. get remembered far more often than his leadership; he quickly sank after his first few steps on the lake

They knew it would be impossible for any man to make payment even for his own sins, much less the sins of others, because every son and daughter of Adam has been born defective, being totally infected with was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary," and so he didn't share the same defect every It is, in fact, the bedrock foundation that makes Christ's saving work on the cross and victory over

At that table he makes us enjoy himself as much as the merits of his suffering and death, as he nourishes and one of the most common bits of advice regarding church facilities is that they be welcoming in every literally means to judge through , as if you picked up an object and carefully looked it over from every First, you must fully understand who you're being joined to as you eat the bread and wine: the very body really are, in a spiritual sense, the body and blood of Christ, they're not magic pills that suddenly make

Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every Article 14: The Creation and Fall of Man We believe that God created man from the dust of the earth and made So he made himself guilty and subject to physical and spiritual death, having become wicked, perverse he had received from God, and he retained none of them except for small traces which are enough to make Our work is cursed for sure, but since we're created in the image of a God who works and creates, it makes

Right now, at this very moment, Jesus is in heaven pleading your cause before God! Second, we have our own flesh in heaven— a guarantee that Christ our head will take us, his members, By the Spirit’s power we make the goal of our lives, not earthly things, but the things above where Christ righteousness from Jesus, but then He said something to the effect of, "Ok, I've paid the debt of your sins and made This means that every moment of every day, your risen Savior is at the right hand of God asking Him to

be allowed in, and in fact their fate was sealed a few chapters earlier when they were cast into the lake Dig Deeper Certainly the average American has a very distorted view of God in which the Father is viewed Be ready for His settlement by making sure that in every aspect of life, you belong to your faithful the Last, the Beginning & the End (v13) ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that you will submit every