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Galatians 5:22-23, there is a fake version of this fruit that you can manufacture on your your own, you can fake peace by just numbing yourself with entertainment or alcohol, that is not peace, that is avoidance. You can fake patience by just bottling up your anger until you explode, that is not...

Romans 3:19-20, what is the actual purpose of the moral laws of God? Many people falsely believe that the law of God is a ladder that you climb to reach heaven, they think that if they can just obey enough rules, God will have to accept them, but Paul says the exact opposite, the law is not a...

Romans 3:13-14, Paul wants you to see exactly how deep this sickness of the heart truly goes, he takes you on a tour of the human body to show how sin has infected infected every single part of your nature. A tomb is a place of decay, death and terrible odors, Paul is saying, that the words that...

Romans 3:10-12, when you hear the word righteous, people often misunderstand what it means, they think being righteous means being a generally nice person who does not commit major crimes or holding the door open for strangers or paying their taxes on time, but God does not grade on a curve. The...

Why does God leave believers in this battle, why doesn’t he just remove the flesh away the moment they are saved? It is because this daily conflict forces you to depend on him, if you had no sinful nature left, you would become proud, you would not need to pray, you would not need to rely on his...

Hebrews 9:4, describes the contents of the Ark of the Covenant, inside were three objects, the golden pot of manna, Aaron’s rod that budded and the tablets of the Covenant, most people think of the Ark as a treasure chest, a sacred container holding God’s greatest artifacts, but look more...

Galatians 5:13, if you are free from the law and you are saved only by grace, why not just sin as much as you want, if God’s job is to forgive and my job is to have fun, let us get to it, this is the most common objection to the message of grace. People are terrified that freedom will lead to...

Hebrews 9:14, he offered himself without spot to God, it was voluntary, it was an act of love, it was the most generous payment ever made and there is one more detail in that verse, Christ offered himself through the eternal spirit. This is one of the only places in the entire New Testament that...

Genesis 3:7, after Adam and Eve sinned, they tried to cover their shame with fig leaves, it did not work. Genesis 3:21, God himself made garments of skin and clothed them. An animal died, not because Adam and Eve asked for it, because God provided it, an innocent creature gave its life, so that...

Galatians 5:2, today, most of us are not tempted by circumcision, we look at the Galatians and think their problem was silly, but we have our own modern versions of this trap. People fall for the Jesus plus lie all the time, they think it is Jesus plus their financial success, they think it is...

Galatians 5:2, you insist on giving God your pocket change to help pay for it, that might seem like a nice gesture, but it is actually a deep insult. By trying to pay, you are turning a loving gift into a business transaction, you are saying his gift was not sufficient, you are degrading his...

Galatians 5:2, this is one of the most frightening statements in the New Testament, how could doing something religious make Jesus Christ have no value? The Galatians thought they were just adding a little extra obedience to their faith, they believed in Jesus, but they also wanted to be serious...

Galatians 5:1, the temple, where animals were sacrificed day and night, the smell of smoke and blood was a constant reminder that sin was real and that God is holy, the problem was, that no matter how hard you tried, you could never be perfect. The law was like a mirror, a mirror is useful...

The promise that changes everything, Jesus does not end John 3:16 with rescue alone, he ends with life, not survival, not escape, everlasting life. This is where the verse lifts its eyes from the danger behind you to the future ahead and yet, everlasting life is often misunderstood as something...

Belief admits that effort cannot save, knowledge cannot redeem and morality cannot restore what sin has broken, belief is an act of humility before it is an act of faith. John 3:16, this may be one reason Jesus did not say whoever behaves or whoever achieves, he said believes. Faith is the only...

John 3:16, God gave his only son, the cost behind the love, love is proven not by words, but by what it is willing to give. Jesus did not say God felt love, he said God gave and what he gave was not excess, not convenience, not something replaceable, he gave his only son. These words carry a...

John 3:3-6, when Jesus said, except a man be born again, Nicodemus heard impossibility, how could a grown man start over? That confusion was honest and it revealed something deeper, Nicodemus had spent his life improving the old, never imagining that God intended to create something new. Jesus...

John 3:16, this verse did not begin as a verse, it was part of a conversation, personal, unsettling, deeply spiritual. John 3:1-2, a religious leader came to Jesus under the cover of darkness, not because he lacked knowledge, but because knowledge had failed him, he had rules, tradition...

Moses could have had all the pleasures of sin, but as he grew up, he realized who he really was, he was a Hebrew, he belonged to the people of God. Moses faced a choice that every believer faces, you can have the world and its temporary pleasures or you can have God and his eternal rewards, you...

Hebrews 11:20, the faith of Abraham was passed down to his son, Isaac. Isaac grew old and his eyes became weak, he could no longer see the world around him, but his spiritual side was sharp. When Isaac was dying, he called his sons Jacob and Esau, he spoke blessings over them that would define...