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Every study, devotional and message on this site that deals with faith.
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2 Peter 1:12 has Peter resolve not to be negligent in putting believers in remembrance of these things, though they know them and are established in the present truth. This part takes up why Bible truth must be kept ever before the people, what it does for those who walk in it, and why truth cannot be known without the Spirit of truth — for it begins with Christ and ends with Him.
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John 18:38 records Pilate's question to Christ: What is truth? This study answers it from Scripture — truth is of God and Christ is its visible manifestation, and Bible truth must be known, must transform us, and must be rightly divided, for it is the truth that sets us free from the bondage of sin.
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Genesis 1:27 says God created man in His own image. This second part takes up what that image was made for — to satisfy the things of God and reflect His love, and to sow and to reap — and how Christ answers the death that sin sowed.
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Revelation 21:7 carries the promise past the seven churches to the new earth itself: he that overcometh shall inherit all things, and be called a son of God. This part takes up the warfare that stands between the promise and the one who is to receive it.
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Matthew 24:12 names the symptom of a world running down: as iniquity abounds, the love of many waxes cold. This is a word of encouragement about the love that does not — agape, which began at creation, was proved at the cross, and ends with every tear wiped away.
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God made man in His own likeness, to reflect His character and His righteousness. Sin tarnished that image — but it was never abandoned. Part one looks at what we were made to be, what was lost in the fall, and how the likeness is restored.
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Christ reached up and took hold of Divinity, then reached down and touched humanity. Favour with God and favour with man are the last two dimensions of Luke 2:52 — and they are not separate achievements.
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Christ increased in stature as well as in wisdom. The health of His body and His mind worked in harmony until the day He died — and the same growth is not beyond the reach of any of us.
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Martin Luther King Jr. taught that a complete life has three dimensions — length, breadth and height. Luke 2:52 gives us four, and it does not begin where he began.
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Self-examination should be a daily exercise. The faith that will endure the trying times ahead must be tested and tried — either we are true Christians, or we are great pretenders.
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Trouble brought the nobleman to Christ. Sometimes the trial we would never choose becomes the blessing that draws us close to the Saviour.