covenant described in Jeremiah 31, especially verses 33 through 34, “For this is the covenant that I will make Make sure you personally know God and His grace!

One of the key purposes in all of those Old Testament laws was to make God's people look really different We understand that these are covenant children, and that the same promises the God made to the Israelites

goodness, seeing that man had plunged himself in this manner into both physical and spiritual death and made comforted him, promising to give him his Son, “born of a woman,” to crush the head of the serpent, and to make these doctrines of grace we've been studying these last few weeks is that you must demonstrate the very

He makes plain to His newly freed covenant people as they began their trek to the Promised Land not to Make sure, by the profession of your mouth and the belief in your heart (Romans 10:9) that you are in

who arbitrarily forces people to come to predetermined conclusions about their relationship with Him, making That's a tough concept to comprehend in and of itself, but let's not make it tougher by misconstruing opened your eyes and ears, a gift unconditioned by anything you have done, and which He will never take

Second, he has been given to me personally, so that, by true faith, he makes me share in Christ and all God makes it clear who the breath Ezekiel summoned belonged to in v14 - I will open your graves and bring

, they do not hear or understand.  14  In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:  “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;  you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.  15  For this people someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making Some in self-assurance  do not even entertain the Word of life;  others do entertain it but do not take Instead of being able to sink down into the soil, the packed down dirt on the path would have made the

Justification is a legal declaration that our standing before God has been made right because of the We can be confident that God will make good on His promises and that nothing will separate us from his

week we were reminded that God exists in a Trinity - He's one in essence and three in person - so it makes Does this mean God made the world out of pre-existing stuff? Not at all.

to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. 22  Take Don't stop to discuss things with friends and neighbors, don't even take time for prayer or reflection Yet in order for them to realize their salvation, they had to take action. did what they were told, but it was through their obedient participation in that sacrament that God made passes over all those covered in the blood of the Lamb; A LIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Thank God for making