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Category Archives: Peace
Peace Series: Peace or Sword?
“Do not think that I came to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Peace, Textual study
Tagged committment, john w haley, loyalty, Luke 12, Luke 12:51-53, Matthew 10, Matthew 10:34-35, opposition, peace, peace or sword, peace series, religious conflict, sword
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Peace Series: Peace and Goodwill Toward Men!
“The Dayspring on high has visited us… to guide our feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1:78-79). The Dayspring refers to the rising of the sun. The prophets depicted the coming Messiah as a coming light (Isaiah 9:1-2 cf. Matthew … Continue reading
Posted in Jesus, Peace, Textual study, Word Study
Tagged Angels, Dayspring, fanny crosby, goodwill, guide feet, Jesus, John 1:11-13, John 3:17, John 3:19, Luke 1:78-79, Luke 2:13-14, peaace series, peace, peace and goodwill, right to become children of God, song tell me the story of Jesus
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Peace Series: Righteousness and Peace Have Kissed
“Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed” (Psalm 85:10). If God demanded righteous according to truth without mercy there could be no peace. This is true because “all have sinned and fall short of the glory … Continue reading
Posted in Jesus, Mercy, Peace, Prophecy, psalms, Textual study, Word Study
Tagged Jesus, john the baptizer, mercy, mercy and truth meet, peace, peace series, Psalm 85:10, righteousness, righteousness and peace kiss, tom wacaster, truth
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Peace Series: A False Sense of Peace
“They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace” (Jeremiah 6:14; 8:11). God, through the prophet Jeremiah and others, had warned Judah that if they did not amend their ways, then … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Prophecy, Word Study
Tagged 2 Timothy 4:3, babylonian captivity, do not prophesy right thing, false prophets, false security, hananiah, Isaiah 30:10, jeremiah, Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 8:12, nebuchadnezzar, peace peace when there is no peace, peace series, prophesy deceit, seventy years of captivity, speak smooth things
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The Beatitudes: The Peacemakers
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God” (Matthew 5:9). Harry S. Truman said in an address on December 24, 1945, “I do not believe there is one problem in this country or in the world … Continue reading
Posted in beatitudes, Peace, sermon on mount, Soul Winning, Textual study, Word Study
Tagged beattitudes, blessed, children of satan, church cannibalism, dinner of herbs with love, fatted calf with hatred, give up cloak, go second mile, h. leo boles, happy, harry s. truman, hugo mccord, implacable, lighting of national christmas tree, makarios, Matthew 5:38-41, Matthew 5:9, peace in church, peace in home, peace through strength, peace without purity?, reconciliation, resolve conflicts, robert morey, sermon on mount, stirring up unnecessary problems, TDNT, the gospel of peace, the peacemakers, they shall be called the children of God, trouble makers, turn other cheek, unforgiving, value of sermon on mount, when is it right to fight
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The Self-Destructive Sting
A honey bee colony has three types of bees associated with it: the queen; the workers (females); the drones (males). It is the worker bees which sting. “A honey bee will sting when it perceives a threat to its hive, … Continue reading
Posted in animals, envy, Ethics, Mental Health, Peace, Tongue
Tagged anger, bear and skunk illustration, bees, book none of these diseases, drone bees, envy, getting even, hate, hatred, honey bee sting, Mental Health, pay back, queen bee, revenge, s.i. mcmillien, self destruction, tongue, wasps, words, worker bees
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Grace Series: Access Into Grace
“Therefore, having been justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God” … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Grace, Hope, Peace, Textual study
Tagged access by faith into grace, enemies, faith, Grace, hope, hope of glory, justification, justified by blood, justified by faith, peace with God, Romans 5:1-2, sinners, ungodly
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Prophecy: “The Branch”
“There shall come forth a rod [shoot NASB/ESV] from the stem [stump ESV] of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots” (Isaiah 11:1). Israel had been described as a felled tree, nothing but a stump remained (Isaiah … Continue reading
Posted in Chruch, Jesus, Peace, Premillennialism, Prophecy, Textual study
Tagged baptism of Jesus, belt of faithfulness, belt of righteouness, calf and young lion and fatling together, church, clothed armor of God, clothed with Christ, clothed with gentle and quiet spirit, clothed with tender mercies and kindness and humility and meekness and longsuffering and love, cow and bear graze and lie down together, david jesse, excellent fruit, fruit, gentiles, girded with faithfulness, girded with righteousness, holy mountain, Isaiah 11, Jehovah is salvation, Jesus anointed with Spirit, king, leopard lie down with young goat, lion eat straw as ox, little child shall lead them, meaning name Jesus, no hurt or destruction on holy mountain, nursing child play by cobra's hole, peace, peace through knowledge of LORD, righteousn judgment, Solomon, the branch, the branch of david, the branch of jesse, the clothing of the christian, The LORD Our Righteousness, the rod, the rod of jesse, the shoot, the shoot of jesse, the spirit of knowledge and frear of the LORD, the spirit of the LORD, the spirit of wisdom and understanding. the spirit of counsel and might, weaned child put hand in viper's den, wolf dwell with lamb, Zechariah 6
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Peace
The wording “grace, mercy, and peace from God…” appears several times in the Bible (1 Timothy 1:2; 2 Timothy 1:2; Titus 1:4; 2 John 3). It has been said of God’s grace, mercy, and peace – “Grace is when God … Continue reading
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