If You Think You’re Saved, Beware-1 Cor 10:1-22
Do you think “Yes, I‘m saved“? Do you assume your salvation? Do you feel “saved” because you believe in God, go to church, read your Bible, say your prayers and keep religious […]
Category: New Testament
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Train Yourself to be Free-1 Cor 9:24-27
Are you truly free (1 Cor 9:1, 19), OR is something or someone controlling you? Christian, do you undergo strict training (1 Cor 9:25)? Are you striving with all that you have to be free (1 Cor […]
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Freely Renounce Your Rights-1 Cor 9:15-23
Paul’s play of words. His “pay” is to offter the gospel “without pay” (1 Cor 9:18). He offers the “free” gospel “free of charge” (1 Cor 9:18), so that he is “free of all people” (1 Cor 9:19). […]
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Don’t Use Your Rights-1 Cor 9:1-14
Paul’s remarkable humility. We vociferously demand our rights. Paul had all the rights and credentials as the top apostle, prophet, church planter, missionary, evangelist, shepherd, teacher, philosopher, law scholar and theologian. Today, he’d be a huge megahit celebrity […]
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Love Supersedes Knowledge-1 Cor 8:1-13
Knowledge immersed by love. Christian conduct and behavior is NOT based on knowledge, which can lead to pride and destroy others (1 Cor 8:1-2, 11), but on the way of love (1 Cor 8:3), which is the true way of knowledge (1 Cor 13:2). It’s too easy […]
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Stay Single or Marry-1 Cor 7:36-40
I was single and wanted to marry…it was a long time ago in a galaxy not too far away. But there was no possibility to ever marry, as I was too timid […]
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Single and Serving God-1 Cor 7:32-35
Whether single, engaged, married [widowed or divorced], will you live in undivided and undistracted devotion to Christ (1 Cor 7:35)? If married, do you live as if not married (1 Cor 7:29)? […obviously, while still faithful to […]
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Happily Eschatologically Single-1 Cor 7:25-31
Do you live, think, reason and emote eschatologically? What does being single or married or anything else in life [such as the election results] have to do with eschatology? Let’s learn from Paul why everything has to do with eschatology–whether […]
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Remain with God-1 Cor 7:17-24
Itching to change our human circumstances is our human tendency and default because of FOMO, believing that change would improve our lives. So if you’re smoking, stopping is good. But the converse […]
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No Divorce-1 Cor 7:8-16
Settling down in simplicity. When I married on Aug 15, 1981 less than a year after becoming a Christian, I said to myself, “Well I guess that’s it for the […]