S209P5 – The joy of the Lord: victorious

Heb. 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us, focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter…

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S209P4 – The joy of the Lord: everlasting

Jn. 16:19-23 Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’?  Very truly I tell you, you will weep…

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S209P3 – The joy of the Lord: overflowing

Jn. 15:9-11 I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love.  If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.   I have told you these things so that My joy…

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S209P2 – The joy of the Lord: hopeful

Rom. 15:13May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. There are many things that all people have in common regardless of faith or spiritual opinion.  One of those things is the characteristic…

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S209P1 – The joy of the Lord: empowering

Neh. 8:9-10 Then Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping when they heard the words of the Law. Then…

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S208P12 – A new family: accountable works

Jam. 2:14‭-‬17 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them…

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S208P11 – A new family: a new love

1 Jn. 3:10‭-‬12 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain…

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S208P10 – A new family: a fresh harvest

Jam. 1:16‭-‬18 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a…

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S208P9 – A new family: a new inheritance

1 Pet. 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who…

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S208P8 – A new family: a new home

Eph. 2:19‭-‬22 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple…

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