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To Call part 1

03/06/2016 11:12

I want to spend a couple of days looking at Romans 10:13, "For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Because I think this verse can be a little confusing. I think this verse has kind of been used to build a doctrine of, "If you jump through this hoop you can get into heaven...

To Save part 5

03/05/2016 14:37

Seeking and saving. Somehow we seem to have gotten the idea that these are things WE are supposed to do. When Jesus said it Himself in Luke 19:10, "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." Now look at Titus 3:5-6 in the Amplified, because it's pretty much all I want to...

To Save part 4

03/04/2016 10:48

Salvation. It means a lot of things to a lot of people. But to me, as I meditate on Jesus and why He came, I find that linking two verses together really helps me put it together. First, our key verse for this (and the previous) Rant series. "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that...

To Save part 3

03/03/2016 15:33

When we're talking about salvation I think it's so important that we really get away from all of the heaven and hell talk. Because as far as I'm concerned, "...death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death" (Revelation 20:14). And just as a real quick aside, if hell was...

To Save part 2

03/02/2016 14:45

Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. Us, in other words. We were lost. Which doesn't mean damned. It doesn't mean we were on the highway to hell and had to do something ourselves to get off it. It means we didn't know where we were. Or who we were. Or why we were created. So Jesus...

To Save part 1

03/01/2016 10:32

Salvation can kind of be a tricky subject. I think for most of the "Christian world" it means "salvation from hell." Which is strange to me because Jesus never talked about saving anybody from hell. (Unless you understand hell as the place of the dead. In which case that's exactly what He did. He...

To Seek part 5

02/29/2016 10:48

Seeking isn't about getting something you don't have. It's isn't about hide and seek, where God hides something and then expects you to do the work to find it. Seeking is about, "I once was lost, but now I'm found." JESUS is the one who came to seek and to save those who were lost. He found us...

To Seek part 4

02/28/2016 13:18

Seeking, in the sense of trying to find something that we don't have, is a never-ending struggle. Especially when we're looking here, there, and everywhere. Because the Kingdom is not here, or there. It is within us. So as long as we're looking without, we're looking for love in all the wrong...

To Seek part 3

02/27/2016 12:54

I want to link together two Bible verses that I think will really help us with this idea that seeking is something WE are supposed to do. The first one is Matthew 6:33, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Now before we go any...

To Seek part 2

02/26/2016 11:10

Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. Us, in other words. He came to shine the light into the darkness so that we might see things clearly--see things as they truly are. So the we might stop "seeking" Him. The lie that Eve swallowed way back in the misty garden of Eden was the one...

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