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Two Deaths, Two Burials, and Two Resurrections
Your deliverance from the reign of sin necessitates two deaths, two burials, and two resurrections: Christ’s and yours. Send article as PDF
Baptized into Christ and His Death
Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness/remission of sins (Hebrews 9:22), because the life is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11). Therefore, the atoning power of the blood of the Lamb of God can only be found in His death. Without Christ’s blood being…
Four Questions
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were…
David’s Counsel to Jeduthun
A problem which is not worth praying about is not worth discussing with others. This is at the heart of David’s counsel to Jeduthun in Psalm 39 as he tackles the question of “How do you handle yourself with wisdom when your heart…
The Sinner’s Only Hope
Because of our folly and stubbornness, there are times in which the only way God can get us to look to Him is when we are lying flat on our back after being run over by the guilt and consequences of sin. It…
The Way of the Transgressor
David is a Bible character of extreme contrasts. On the one hand, he was a man after God’s own heart (1 Samuel 13:14); he enjoyed extraordinary, blissful, and sweet fellowship with Jehovah. On the other hand, he was also a man who experienced…
The Facts of Life
The expression “the birds and the bees” can be applied to more things in life than the talk a parent has with his teen or preteen about his/her sexual maturity into adulthood and the capacity for procreation. Psalm 37 was written by David…
Seven Rules for Wise Living
There is no substitute for experience. The wisdom of a righteous person with the hoary frost of time upon his head is invaluable. Psalm 37 was written by David as an old man (v. 25). It is possible that this was the last…
The Essentiality of Godly Fear
According to Psalm 36:1-4 pride, hatred, wickedness, deceit, folly, evil deeds, and a lack of abhorrence of evil are the bitter tares that grow when the fear of God is missing in the soil of your heart. A healthy fear of God is…