Author Archives: God's Favourite House
New Attitude
Prov.4:23 (TPT) “So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life
If some Christians were to step into some of our local churches today, they would tell everyone, beginning with the Pastor, to get sanctified. How can you wear Jeans in Church, Read the rest of this entry
GOD’s Not Man’s
Eph. 3:1 (NRSV) “This is the reason that I Paul am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles”
Some people ask, ‘Didn’t Jesus suffer so that we can be comfortable?’ Jesus died so that you can be in a relationship with God, so that your sins can be forgiven, so you can be in right standing with God, Read the rest of this entry
Common
1 Cor.10:13 (Voice) “Any temptation you face will be nothing new. But God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can handle. But He always provides a way of escape so that you will be able to endure and keep moving forward.”
Do not specialize your problem because it is not special. The challenge is we try to specialize our problems by suggesting that we are being afflicted. God is saying to us today through Paul that we have no excuse, Read the rest of this entry
Benefit?
2 Cor.4:17-18 (Voice) “You see, the short-lived pains of this life are creating for us an eternal glory that does not compare to anything we know here. So we do not set our sights on the things we can see with our eyes… Instead, we focus on the things we cannot see, which live on and on.”
We were dead through our trespasses and our sins. We were dead; we were not bad people that were going to be made good people. We were dead and we were made alive. Read the rest of this entry
Love Unconditional
Eph.2:4-5 “But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!) (emphasis added)
Imagine a reckless driver doing one hundred and twenty kilometres per hour on a road with a speed limit of fifty kilometres per hour. In his recklessness, he knocks down and kills a little boy. Read the rest of this entry
Grace= Mercy + Favour
Eph.2:4-5 (NRSV) “But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved” (emphasis added)
Eph.2:4 (NRSV, emphasis added) “But God, who is rich in mercy…” What is mercy? Mercy is not getting what you deserve. Does anyone go to bed praying and pleading for God’s judgment in their lives? Read the rest of this entry
But GOD!
Eph.2:3 (NRSV) All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else” (emphasis added).
Really no one, not one of us can claim to be holier than another because the truth is, if God did not deliver you, you would not have been delivered. The Bible says, “All of us”, meaning we have all been there. Read the rest of this entry
ALL
Rom. 3:23-25 (NKJV) “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness…”(emphasis added).
For the past two days, we have been looking at the four P’s of sin and how they affect us. The four P’s of sin are – the penalty of sin, the power of sin, the pollution of sin and the presence of sin. Read the rest of this entry
Sanctified
1Jn.1:8 (NRSV) “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
If we fail to recognize our sin nature, we will not appreciate what Christ did for us at Calvary. Therefore, we need to know how sin and transgression affect us. I call them the P’s of the effect of sin Read the rest of this entry
Caution!
Eph.2:1 (NRSV) “You were dead through the trespasses and sins.” (emphasis added).
James 4:17 (NRSV) “Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin.” Yesterday, we learned that to sin is to miss the mark. The best way I can explain transgression is this. Read the rest of this entry
