competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6 He has made Yet you can live with confidence, because your very life is a "letter from Christ," revealing how people But on the other, your salvation very much depends on you actively placing your faith in Christ, and furthermore you're to make every effort to grow this faith and cling to your salvation. AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who "has made us competent as servants of a new

God knows what you need, and He makes His promises visible to you. come. 10  This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every the covenant between me and you. 12  For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days But God makes clear to Abraham that Ishmael was not the promised son. Abraham certainly was made into a great nation, and his descendant would come to save people from every

At that table he makes us enjoy himself as much as the merits of his suffering and death, as he nourishes The wicked person certainly takes the sacrament, to his condemnation, but does not receive the truth

The One who formed you in the womb made all things. I have made you, you are my servant; Israel, I will not forget you. 22 I have swept away your offenses out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself, 25 who foils the signs of false prophets and makes For the Father did not take on flesh, nor did the Spirit, but only the Son. The Father is not only the cause of all that you can see and touch, but also the very laws of nature.

For Immanuel - that is, God With Us - is still very much right here with you, albeit not physically, that there are no unnecessary Spiritual gifts, because the flashier, more outwardly visible gifts are very out why the Spirit "determined" to give you that gift, remembering that "the same God is at work" in every Make every effort (a phrase used throughout the New Testament) to train yourself, develop your gifts

Hebrews 2:14–18 (ESV) 11 Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For because he himself has suffered This is why Jesus had to become a man "in every respect (v17)." He needed to become a man in every regard: He needed a physical body, as well as a spiritual soul.

individually preparing, so that each member of the congregation can examine their faith, hope and love to make because we know in the end our sins have been atoned for and forgiven in Christ, and that somehow that makes Don't make that mistake. Take the Bible's warnings against sin, and especially this warning regarding unworthy participation in His children to save them from eternal condemnation; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that you take

Jesus makes this spiritual rebirth an absolute necessity, proclaiming that “unless one is born of water This is not an action you take as a believer, since regeneration is the work of the Holy Spirit. Where you were once spiritually dead in your trespasses and sins, you are now made alive.

You'll never understand how clean you've been made till you understand how filthy you were! unrepentant sin (although it does), rather Paul's point here is no matter how filthy these sins have made you in the past, you've now been washed, sanctified and made righteous. how dire your circumstances are apart from Christ, and how disgusting it is for your Father when you take what the Holy Spirit has washed clean and make yourself filthy all over again.

Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father. ⁸ Ask me, and I will make progress; and every anti-Christian power may be resisted . Psalm 2 sets forth two competing realities, but it also makes clear that only one of these realities He's not laughing because He thinks their attempts are so funny, but because He knows their rebellious efforts Remember that your Father in heaven is laughing at the feeble efforts this world musters in rebellion