Tag: Historic Anabaptists
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Sundays After Pentecost, Year A, 2023 – Epistle Passage: Feeling & expressing love
“Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; . . .” (Romans 12:9) I have a playlist (I have probably said this before) that I listen to when I find it difficult to write about scripture. Or times that are hard, and I have to work my way through…
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CHILD REARING . . . . The end and the beginning of the Christian Life
“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. “ (Reference: Colossians 3:20-21 ) It is the last day of the year, beloved. And the last post on Reading the Anabaptist Bible. This collection of scripture has taken us from “Fear of…
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PUNISHMENT OF THE GODLESS . . . . It will come. But do not live for that day!
“First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s…
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PUNISHMENT OF THE GODLESS . . . . Does this mean you?
“They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to…
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PUNISHMENT OF THE GODLESS . . . . Those who have placed themselves outside of faith in God
“I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The…
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PUNISHMENT OF THE GODLESS . . . . Again, what does it mean to be “godless”?
“Woe be unto thee, Assur, thou that hidest the unrighteous in thee! O thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrha; Whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so also will I do unto them that hear me not, saith the Almighty Lord.” (Reference: 2 Esdras 2:8-9…
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PUNISHMENT OF THE GODLESS . . . . Do we receive what is truly due to us?
“If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!” (Reference: Proverbs 11:31 ) A large message in just a handful of words – if the good that people do here on earth is rewarded, the evil that people do will also receive the consequences that evil doing deserves.…
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REWARD OF THE PIOUS . . . But can we not find reward in the here and now?
“I Esdras saw upon the mount Sion a great people, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs. And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and was…
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REWARD OF THE PIOUS . . . Those who remain patient and righteous
“You have said harsh things against me, says the LORD . Yet you ask, ‘What have we said against you?’ You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD Almighty? But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly…
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REWARD OF THE PIOUS . . . By way of the self-understanding of the “pious”
“For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back. In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you, says the LORD your Redeemer. To me this is like the days of Noah, when…
A Simple Desire 