Search results

James 1:14 (NKJV) But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When a believer is tempted it is generally tempted with the desire towards the sin it has given way to before….. These are the strongest of temptations because the sinful...

2 Corinthians 13:5 (NASB20) Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you--unless indeed you fail the test? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are encouraged to test ourselves to see if we are in the...

John 5:30 (NKJV) “I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In these words are put forth the ultimate denial of own will, which, we as believer’s are to...

1 Corinthians 2:10 (NKJV) But God has revealed [them] to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The deep things of God, how can one know when one has or is entering into the deep things of God…? There can only be one...

Hebrews 12:2a (NASB20) looking only at Jesus,…………………….. Romans 13:14 (NASB20) But put on the Lord Jesus Christ………. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These two truths go hand in hand, for to the degree one does the looking, to that degree will one experience the putting on…. For one can not effect...

Romans 10:3 (NASB20) For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is this ‘subjecting oneself to the righteousness of God’…? God has stated that ‘He has shut up all in...

2 Corinthians 5:14 (NASB20) For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the faith of a Christian, one that has concluded this; that because Christ took them to death with Him, He now lives His life in...

Matthew 6:33 (NASB20) “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided to you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is a lot of talk these days about a certain segment of society having a privilege, which is true, scripture speaks of this segment as those that...

2 Corinthians 1:8-9 (NASB20) For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction which occurred in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not...

Galatians 5:25 (NASB20) If we live by the Spirit, let’s follow the Spirit as well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A question, if the answer is in the affirmative, then follows, an encouragement to the deepening of that answer… This deepening of the answer, being just another way of saying ‘let the...

Galatians 5:16 (NASB20) But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘You will not carry out’, it does not say, ‘you will not have’, but you will not carry out’…. For as long as one is in the body one will have desires that are not...

1 Corinthians 15:46 (NASB20) However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As with all God’s dealings with fallen man, that which is of the outward must come first; it being, one believing that Christ did sacrifice Himself on the cross for...

Ephesians 5:16 (NKJV) redeeming the time, because the days are evil. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What is righteousness…? The question every heart that would want to redeem one’s time should be constantly asking oneself….. For in the asking of this question is one asking for and looking to the...

Hebrews 12:2 (NASB20) looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Looking only at the Originator and the Perfecter of...

1 John 2:4 (NASB20) The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scripture puts forth a rather severe ultimatum with this truth; ‘if one does not, one does not’…. For regardless of what one...

1 John 2:3 (NASB20) By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scripture puts forth this by this as a touch stone that one can measure one’s knowing of Him; does one keep His commandments…? Seeing how all His commandments are...

Acts 20:24 (NASB20) “But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of God’s grace. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oh the freedom there is in not considering...

1 Corinthians 2:15 (NASB20) But the one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why is it that scripture says that no one can discern the one that is spiritual….? It is because one can only see into another’s relationship with...

1 Corinthians 11:31 (NASB20) But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How can one judge oneself rightly if regardless of how much one knows of one’s sinfulness, there is a deeper degree of sinfulness still to be exposed…? There is but one way and...

Ephesians 4:24a (NASB20) and to put on the new self,………………………………….. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are called to put on the change, but this is where many well meaning believers get stuck and can’t find the way forward…. Thinking that self needs to put on the new self, so the effort is made, and...