FOR READERS of yesterday’s Trinity Discussion
If you read the mentally grueling exercise about Philippians 2 yesterday, then you need a break. So do I. Enjoy. I always like early morning at the water. God seems so much in charge that I can feel it.
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The Assumed Trinity: A look at Philippians 2:6
who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped Philippians 2:6 NASB I apologize that this is long and technical. There is no other way to do this. Frankly, I would just as soon let this go. I don’t like coming back to an…
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Puncture Wound
Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! 2 Corinthians 12:7 NASB Thorn in the flesh – I started writing Today’s Word more than ten…
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Authorization
but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior, Titus 1:3 NASB God our Savior – When Paul defines his authority with regard to the proclamation of the good news of the Kingdom and the role of the Messiah,…
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Chain of Command
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.” John 13:20 NASB Receives – Have you received the Father through the authorized chain of command? If you receive one sent by the Messiah then you have effectively welcomed the Messiah…
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What Kind of Justice?
However, because by this deed you have given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born to you shall surely die. 2 Samuel 12:14 NASB Die – Tell me how this can be fair? David deliberately sins with Bathsheba. In fact, King David commits several crimes worthy of…
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Foreknowledge
For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. Romans 8:29 New Living Translation In advance – Read it carefully. The NLT is the only contemporary translation that I know that clearly implies God knows…
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Detours
“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.” Isaiah 1:16-17 NASB Remove – What worries you? Job security? Taxes? Politics? Terrorism? Your children? Perhaps those worries need to be removed by concentrating on what God…
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The Prescription for Anarchy
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Judges 21:25 NASB In his own eyes – “Do the right thing!” That’s our usual ethical position. But the problem is obvious. What is the right thing? We often decry Israel’s decision to demand a king. We…
