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A Few Thoughts About Proverbs 1:1-7
B1 General Instruction about wisdom B2 Chapter 1:1-7 Why study Proverbs? C1 Teaching—note the verbs—to D1 To know wisdom and instruction E1 Wisdom is knowing the facts and using and applying them in a godly way E2 Instruction is obtaining facts D2 To perceive words of understanding. Rote memory is…
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A Few Thoughts About Colossians 2:2-3
Colossians 2:2-3 WEL That their hearts may be comforted by being knit together in love and into the all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, into the full knowledge of the mystery of the God, even of Father and of the Christ 3 In whom are hidden all…
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A Few Thoughts About the devil’s Methods
2 Corinthians 2:11 WEL Fearing that Satan would take advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his schemes. What are some of the devil’s schemes? From the article, Temptation: The Ordinary Ways the Devil Attacks Us by Kathleen Beckman (beware Roman Catholic), I quote: The devil tempts us…
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Why Did Jesus Suffer?
A Few Thoughts About Hebrews 2:10 Hebrews 2:10 NIV In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. Jesus tested and passed the test—perfectly. B1 God teaches,…
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Didn’t understand as It was Hidden from Them
A Few Thoughts on Luke 9:43-45 Luke 9:43-45 NIV And they were all amazed at the greatness of God. While everyone was marveling at all that Jesus did, he said to his disciples, 44 “Listen carefully to what I am about to tell you: The Son of Man is going…
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A Few Thoughts on Colossians 1:9-14
9 Also, for this reason, since we heard, we do not stop praying for you and asking that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, 10 So that you may live for the Lord in a worthy manner pleasing in every…
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Knowing the will of God
A Few Thoughts About Colossians 1:9 Colossae is in the area of modern Turkey and was an important Roman city. Epaphras visited, preached, and started a church there (Colossians 1:7) in the early 60s A.D. It is one of the prison epistles. Paul was in near-by Ephesus at the time…
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Warning about False Logic
Warning about False Logic 1 Timothy 6:20-21 WEL O Timothy, carefully keep safe what was committed to your trust, avoiding ungodly and fruitless babblings and oppositions from, what is falsely called, knowledge, 21 Which some claiming expertise have turned away from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen. B6 Warnings…
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