having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 During supper, the devil having already Yet Jesus used this immensely infinite power to serve others in the most menial way He could.

him there. 30   So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet Yet God had called Jacob back to the Promised Land. Already in the opening weeks of our journey through the Bible, you've learned that not every question

the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16  because the Holy Spirit had not yet But for others who have not yet been called, we are to pray to the God who calls things that do not exist But as you've likely already figured out, we're not reading Simon's story today because it has a happy

created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. 5  When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to But you already know you haven't fulfilled this purpose and you're hopeless unable to do so.

While it's certainly true that we're not home yet, the man who trusts in the LORD has already begun to

Yet we wouldn't know a thing about God's love - or even love in general - had God not revealed it to He already explained as plainly as possible in v9 the divine nature of love, writing that God is love

he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet before the Messiah would actually come in the flesh, speaking in the past tense, as if Christ's work was already Yet Christ became like us so that we might become like Him.

was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. 20  Yet And yet, as Paul writes, against all hope, Abraham in hope believed . Abraham was fully aware of the impossibility of his situation, yet he did not waver through unbelief Praise God today that your standing before Him is not based on what you can do, but on what Christ has already

Even as I already now experience in my heart the beginning of eternal joy, so after this life I will been there 10,000 years bright shining as the sun; what will we do to fill the time that we have not yet Remember, eternity has already begun for Christians.

You already knew that you're religious... the surprise is that everyone else is too! They all start out with a man who is already religious.