God Tried to Establish the Laws of Life

Collosians 4

12 Your own Epaphras, who serves Christ Jesus, sends his greetings. He always prays hard that you may fully know what the Lord wants you to do and that you may do it completely.(CEV)

Esther 9

18 On the fifteenth day of the month the Jews in Susa held a holiday and celebrated, after killing their enemies on the thirteenth and the fourteenth.(CEV) Continue reading “God Tried to Establish the Laws of Life”

Protect the Path of Jesus

Romans 14

10You, then, why do you judge your brother or sistera ? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11It is written:

“ ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,

‘every knee will bow before me;

every tongue will acknowledge God.’ ”b

12So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.

Ezekiel 44

21No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court. 22They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests. 23They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

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You Must Undergo Suffering to Know God

Acts 27

Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.

Psalm 137

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,

happy is the one who repays you

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God is Calling Out to Us as He Did to Adam

Matthew 12

36But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. 37For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Joshua 19

40The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan according to its clans. 41The territory of their inheritance included: Continue reading “God is Calling Out to Us as He Did to Adam”

Oppositon Pushes You Toward God’s Side

Mark 13

28“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 29Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that itd is near, right at the door.30Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 31Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Psalm 46

1God is our refuge and strength,

an ever-present help in trouble.

2Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way

and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

3though its waters roar and foam

and the mountains quake with their surging.c

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