“Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will...
“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 15:58 NASB’95)
At the beginning of this chapter Paul talked about the gospel of our salvation which he preached to the people...
“Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. For the time already past is...
Proverbs 21 Select Verses ESV
1 The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;
he turns it wherever he will.
8 The way of the guilty is crooked,
but the conduct of the pure is upright.
15 When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous
but terror to evildoers.
21...
“The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord;
I am not guilty of turning from my God.
All his laws are before me;
I have not turned away from his decrees.
I have been...
Many professers of faith in Jesus Christ today are spiritually asleep. They made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ at one time in their lives, but they didn’t follow through with denying self, dying daily to sin, and walks of obedience to the Lord and to his commandments under the New...
This appeal is not a suggestion. It is not just a recommendation. If we read the whole of the teachings of Christ and of his NT apostles, we will realize that what this teaches here is required of the life of a true believer in Jesus Christ. So, this word translated as “appeal” is really an...
'Since we have this confidence, we can also have great boldness before him, for if we ask anything agreeable to his will, he will hear us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we also know that we have obtained the requests we ask of him. I’ve written this letter to you who...
ADDENDUM NOTES
ON THE WILL OF GOD
The best way to study a subject often begins with a definition of that subject. What do we mean by the will of God? It is that holy and stated purpose of the Father to make His dear children as much like Christ as possible. Without doubt the most important...
This is the will of God, your sanctification… —1 Thessalonians 4:3
The Death Side. In sanctification God has to deal with us on the death side as well as on the life side. Sanctification requires our coming to the place of death, but many of us spend so much time there that we become morbid...
Thursday, July 13, 2017, 4:11 a.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song “His Tender Mercies.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. I read several scriptures (in the ESV) on the subject of faith.
Be Not Anxious (Matthew 6:25-34)
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what...
When you make a decision, how do you know you are choosing to do the right thing? In this message, Dr. Stanley explains why we have trouble discerning God’s will and how sin affects our ability to walk in the path He has chosen for us. He also encourages us to discover the Lord’s will through...