No sin is greater, no sin makes God more angry than blaspheming his name. The significance of this description is that his father’s heritage made him a foreigner, and while those While the consequence is not a physical death, this sin does make one worthy of condemnation.

They lie in wait for the church and every member of it like thieves, with all their power, to destroy However, as we take a look at Scripture, we see clearly there are spiritual beings - both angels and Paul says that by the calling of the Gentiles the wonderful wisdom of God was made known to angels: for

In addition to the medical concerns affiliated with leprosy, according to the ceremonial law, this made Dig Deeper Kate and I (Pastor Alan) have been married for 13 years, which hopefully makes it safe to Despite our family and friends knowing that we were grateful for them, we still made sure to write out AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who takes pity on His children and heals our diseases ; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Ask God to help you make gratitude the primary motivation in your

is righteous before you. 3  The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes That is enough to cover all our sins and to make us confident, freeing the conscience from the fear, Summary Each day as we read the Bible, we practice praying the very passage we just read back to God David's not making an excuse by saying God shouldn't judge him because nobody else is righteous either Certainly David didn't know Jesus, his greater son , who would make this peace possible by giving all

Making distinctions is critical to having a well rounded theology (an understanding of who and what God is), and it's important to be able to turn to the Bible for guidance when making distinctions. this baptism is part of the biblical witness for the Trinity, helping to solidify the distinction we make

cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes believe and confess also that the Holy Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son— neither made He cures that pesky noetic effect so that once again you can "make judgments about all things." subjective judgments based on your own limited experiences, but true and correct judgments that reflect the very

You're forgiven through Christ, but it's the Father's love & compassion that makes it possible. In other words, it's the very character and nature of God that makes forgiveness possible. the cross satisfied the righteous anger that God has for those who cross His good and perfect will, making

an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take The Son took the “form of a servant” and was made in the “likeness of man,” truly assuming a real human So it makes sense that after trying to wrap his mind around this crazy situation that Joseph "had in As strange as this entire story sounds, it most certainly wasn't something that God was making up as God sent His Son, born of a woman, not just to take away your sins, but to also still your fears.

Summary The word 'epistle' isn't used much in everyday language anymore, except every now and then to you learn that you've "been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God, and are being sanctified (made

(NIV) CONTEXT: Jesus has just famously called a child to Him, and tells His followers that 'whoever takes We often rightly apply Jesus' warning to those who harm children, but Jesus makes it clear that the term Most of us have a visceral reaction to those who hurt children, so it makes sense that our Father does The phrase 'go to hell' has a somewhat muted effect because it gets used vulgarly so often, but in a very With so much on the line, Jesus' hyperbolic advice makes sense: whatever it is in your life - even if