S210P6 – Our regular reminders: the reason for it all

1 Cor. 15:1-2 Now brothers and sisters, let me remind you of the good news which I preached to you, which you welcomed and accepted and on which you stand [by faith]. By this faith you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.…

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S210P5 – Our regular reminders: considerate obedience

Tit. 3:1-2 Remind people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready and willing to do good, to slander or abuse no one, to be kind and conciliatory and gentle, showing unqualified consideration and courtesy toward everyone. We were a brotherhood of Christian men sitting down to fellowship and break…

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S210P4 – Our regular reminders: not above Christ

Jn. 15:20 Remember [and continue to remember] that I told you, “A servant is not greater than his master.” If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. Good friends come, and good friends go.  Even the office of “best friend” can change over time.…

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S210P3 – Our regular reminders: discerning the Spirit in others

Jud. 1:17-19 But as for you, beloved, remember the [prophetic] words spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They used to say to you, “In the last days there will be scoffers, following after their own ungodly passions.” These are the ones who are [agitators] causing divisions—worldly-minded [secular, unspiritual, carnal, merely sensual—unsaved], devoid…

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S210P2 – Our regular reminders: God’s miraculous works

Mt. 16:9-11 Do you still not understand or remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you picked up?  Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many large baskets you picked up?  How is it that you fail to understand that I was not talking to you about…

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S210P1 – Our regular reminders: pray for the persecuted

Col. 4:18 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. May grace (God’s unmerited favor and blessing) be with you. Those of us who live in the developed world have a lot. Even our fellow countrymen who are disenfranchised and in need have more than many who live in the undeveloped…

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S209P7 – The joy of the Lord: a testimony

Psa. 51:11-13 Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.  Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit.  Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall be converted and return to You. No one’s Christian walk is…

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S209P6 – The joy of the Lord: healing

Pro. 17:22 A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. Two sisters, twins, grew up in the same home and in the same way.  In their youth, they were very close and very similar. Unfortunately, life was not always kind.  Their lives were…

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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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