A Time to Be Renewed THE BLESSINGS OF ADOPTION

The Holy Spirit is called “the Spirit of adoption.” The word adoption in the New Testament means “being placed as an adult son.” We come into God’s family by birth. But the instant we are born into the family, God adopts us and gives us the position of an adult...

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A Time to Be Renewed GOD WILL REMEMBER ISREAL

Has God abandoned His kingdom program for Israel? Of course not! Israel is merely set aside until the time comes for God’s plans for Israel to be fulfilled. Today the saved Gentiles provoke Israel “to jealousy” because of the spiritual riches they have in Christ. Israel today is spiritually bankrupt,...

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A Time to Be Renewed FACING TEMPTATION

Our Lord’s experience of temptation prepared Him to be our sympathetic High Priest. It is important to note that Jesus faced the enemy as man, not as the Son of God. He said, “Man shall not live by bread alone” (Matthew 4:4). We must not think that Jesus used His...

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A Time to Be Renewed TIME FOR AN APPOINTMENT!

Many believers have such a comfortable situation here on earth that they rarely think about going to heaven and meeting the Lord. They forget that they must one day stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ. It helps to hold us up and builds us up when we recall that...

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A Time to Be Renewed GOD REVEALS HIMSELF AT CHRISTMAS

If you were God, how would you go about revealing yourself to earth’s people? How could you tell them about and give them the kind of life you wanted them to enjoy? God has revealed Himself in creation, but creation alone could never tell us the story of God’s love....

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A Time to Be Renewed A SERVANT APPROVED

When Verdi produced his first opera in Florence, the composer stood by himself in the shadows and kept his eye on the face of one man in the audience—the great Rossini. It mattered not to Verdi whether the people in the hall were cheering him or jeering him; all he...

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A Time to Be Renewed WINNING THE RACE

The word castaway is a technical word familiar to those who knew the Greek Olympic games. Paul used the term to say he did not want to be “disapproved” or “disqualified” as a servant of God. At the Greek games, there was a herald who announced the rules of the...

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A Time to Be Renewed OUR FAITHFUL CREATOR

Why did Peter refer to God as a “faithful Creator” (1 Peter 4: 19) rather than a “faithful Judge” or even a “faithful Saviour”. Because God the Creator meets the needs of His people. It is the Creator who provides food and clothing to persecuted Christians. and who protects them...

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A Time to Be Renewed HOW GOD CAN WORK THROUGH YOU

The same resurrection power that saved you and took you out of the graveyard of sin can daily help you live for Christ and glorify Him. At great expense to Himself, God worked for us on the Cross. Today, on the basis of that price paid at Calvary, He is...

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A Time to Be Renewed A NOBLE CALLING

Paul saw himself as a priest at the altar, offering up to God the Gentiles he had won to Christ. They were a “spiritual sacrifice" to the glory of God. Even his preaching of the Gospel was a “priestly duty.” This insight into ministry certainly adds dignity and responsibility to...

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