There is a direct spiritual correlation between the intensity of your desires to serve Christ in a Scripture-honoring way and the intensity of the attacks that Satan brings against you. Don't be surprised by the heat of the trials.
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Mortal mind cannot conceive of the intense bitter anguish and pain that must have descended on the innocent Sacrifice, for in bearing the sins of humanity that holy Man was made sin for us as the floodgates of God's wrath were poured out upon Him in all its holy fullness. No wonder He cried out, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?"
And yet He knew the answer. It was for the redemption of the human race that He had to be forsaken so tragically. It was for this reason that He was born into His own creation and for this reason that He died for the sin of the world. Praise God that Jesus our precious Saviour and Kinsman~Redeemer drank the Father's bitter cup to its dregs so that you and I who believe on His name, would not perish but have eternal life with Him.
Carli • Saved by Grace
And yet He knew the answer. It was for the redemption of the human race that He had to be forsaken so tragically. It was for this reason that He was born into His own creation and for this reason that He died for the sin of the world. Praise God that Jesus our precious Saviour and Kinsman~Redeemer drank the Father's bitter cup to its dregs so that you and I who believe on His name, would not perish but have eternal life with Him.
Carli • Saved by Grace
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The Lord Jesus grew up before God like a tender shoot which pushed its way up through the parched ground. To those who rejected Him, He has no stately form or majesty that they should look up to Him and honour Him, nor was His outward appearance anything that attracted them to Himself. But those of us who have trusted Christ for salvation and are being conformed into the image and likeness of Christ cry out with reverential fear: "Hallelujah!! What a Saviour!!"
Carli • Saved by Grace
Carli • Saved by Grace
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I find it interesting that error always finds it necessary to depart from a robust and consistent application of the historical-grammatical hermeneutic. They must indulge in things like allegorizing, hyper-literalizing, departure from basic grammar rules, and low-odds possibilities to make their interpretation work. And then they accuse the camp of truth of the very crimes they are guilty of.
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Since we are fast approaching Easter Sunday, and the perennial question of the timing of the crucifixion and resurrection has come up once again, it is time to repost my video The Friday Crucifixion. This hews closely to the historical-grammatical hermeneutic and "it is written again." Folks often treat this subject with a proof text and speculation rather than a full biblical examination. The Bible answers this question … if we let it.
https://www.youtube.com/live/GoF_X5MGLGc?si=NvOhUFiH56n1Khv1
https://www.youtube.com/live/GoF_X5MGLGc?si=NvOhUFiH56n1Khv1
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Friday Crucifixion — Fact or Theory?
Was the Lord truly crucified on a Friday and raised early Sunday morning? Or is this just Catholic fiction? Is the Thursday to Sunday theory a more biblical option? Is the Wednesday to Saturday theory a better option? Let's find out by examining the Bible…
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It is His sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection in which we place our faith, and those who have trusted Christ as Saviour, have been given the indwelling Holy Spirit as God's guarantee that they will also receive a resurrection body. Let us have this confidence in Christ today, for His resurrection identified Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of God.
The Resurrection verified the truth of Scripture and guarantees our own future resurrection. It gives power to our Christian life in this world and guarantees our future inheritance with Christ in heaven, to Whom be all praise and glory, through time and into eternity.
He is risen!
Carli • Saved by Grace
The Resurrection verified the truth of Scripture and guarantees our own future resurrection. It gives power to our Christian life in this world and guarantees our future inheritance with Christ in heaven, to Whom be all praise and glory, through time and into eternity.
He is risen!
Carli • Saved by Grace
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Exodus 14:12 — "For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness."
Some things never change. God's people in every age seem to be shortsighted, overweighting their current difficulties and underweighting God's past provisions.
Some things never change. God's people in every age seem to be shortsighted, overweighting their current difficulties and underweighting God's past provisions.
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Through Christ we have been released from a contractual bondage to the Law, having died to that by which we were bound so that in Christ we are set free to serve in newness of the Spirit and not bound to oldness of the letter.
Let us praise God with every breath of our being that in Him our sinfulness has died to the Law of sin and death, releasing us forever from its terrible power. Praise God that in Christ we have died to what held us in everlasting bondage so that we may serve our Saviour forever in newness of life, through the power of the indwelling Spirit.
Carli • Saved by Grace
Let us praise God with every breath of our being that in Him our sinfulness has died to the Law of sin and death, releasing us forever from its terrible power. Praise God that in Christ we have died to what held us in everlasting bondage so that we may serve our Saviour forever in newness of life, through the power of the indwelling Spirit.
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A silent gospel and a hidden witness will not minister to those in the valley of decisions. Let us pray that God would send out labourers into the harvest~fields of souls that need to be saved by grace through faith in Christ, and let us ask God to bring into our lives people, with whom we can share the good news that: "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord, will be delivered ~ for how can they call on the Lord, in Whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in Him, Whom they have not heard? And how will they hear about His message of salvation without a preacher?"
Carli • Saved by Grace
Carli • Saved by Grace
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I find it fascinating how error works. The same methods appear over and over again.
One common method is to propose a departure from a point held by most dispensationalists, claiming that men aren't paying attention to what the Bible says and insisting that their understanding is a vast improvement. When their position is strongly challenged by "it is written again" in the Bible, or grammatical facts, or historical facts, they don't do "iron sharpens iron." Instead, they refuse to be objective, maintain their point, charge the challenger with being too concerned about secondary points, and claim they are still saved no matter what.
Why the resistance to iron sharpens iron? Why start on the ground that the point is worth debating over, then jump to the ground that it isn't worth debating over?
One common method is to propose a departure from a point held by most dispensationalists, claiming that men aren't paying attention to what the Bible says and insisting that their understanding is a vast improvement. When their position is strongly challenged by "it is written again" in the Bible, or grammatical facts, or historical facts, they don't do "iron sharpens iron." Instead, they refuse to be objective, maintain their point, charge the challenger with being too concerned about secondary points, and claim they are still saved no matter what.
Why the resistance to iron sharpens iron? Why start on the ground that the point is worth debating over, then jump to the ground that it isn't worth debating over?
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May we never ever minimise the incredible sacrifice that Jesus made on our account, and the tremendous power that the blood of Christ has in the lives of all who trust in His redemptive work.
May we never diminish the inconceivable sacrifice the Lord Jesus gave, when He left His home in glory, made Himself a little lower than the angels on our account, and clothed Himself in mortal flesh, so that by the willing sacrifice of His sinless life.. we sinners might be declared righteous, in God's sight.
Carli • Saved by Grace
May we never diminish the inconceivable sacrifice the Lord Jesus gave, when He left His home in glory, made Himself a little lower than the angels on our account, and clothed Himself in mortal flesh, so that by the willing sacrifice of His sinless life.. we sinners might be declared righteous, in God's sight.
Carli • Saved by Grace
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