It sounds like God is promising wealth to every believer who tithes. A gross misinterpretation of His Word. But if a false teacher convinces enough believers to tithe beyond generously, he can fly anywhere he wants in a plane with leather seats.
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But you still dwell in Hell for all of eternity. What good has your empire on earth done you? If your child eventually joins you in Hell, your empire has disintegrated into utter grief. How sad you didn’t realize the vanity of your life until it was too late to walk a different path. Double the grief when your children join you.
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Becoming a recluse does so much harm to a believer. Living as an isolated believer deadens him. He eventually falls for the lie that the occasional, complacent, hour-long involvement is sufficient. I lived that way until I discovered the emptiness of it.
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Sports provided my next attempt at acquiring strength. In the class room, the role of class clown became mine. So I broke my ankle at basketball practice, and I was paddled a lot in the hallways. Two strike outs.
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Chosen people? Royal priesthood? Holy nation? God’s special possession? It certainly sounds like Peter has moved on from his sin of denial.
We believers need to do the same. If God remembers our sins no more, we need to follow His example. With His forgiveness extended to us, we experience peace with God. Why, then, should we continue to beat ourselves up about our sins?
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In this sinful cardboard piece of a man, He continues to grow my capacity for love, joy, peace and goodness. He’s making me more faithful, patient and humble. I possess more self-control and kindheartedness.
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We do this for ourselves, but we also do this for others. Once we become believers, we embark on a crucial rescue mission. Eternal lives are at stake. Those who desert us for the other side still need us. Even when they despise us, we must continue fighting for them.
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A person who makes the wrong decision about Jesus Christ lives his entire life in vain. When he dies after rejecting Jesus, he discovers how vain his earthly life was. Dwelling in Hell for eternity is the most horrible vanity of all. It never ceases.
A perfect marriage simply means each ‘1’ is committed to the other ‘1’ with such strength that the sum of them together is always ‘1.’ Following, the mathematical formula for the enriching part is 1 + 1 = 1 > 1,000,000,000. In other words, no richer life exists than the marriage of selflessness given to each other.
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I committed one of the seven deadly sins last week. Truth is, I don’t even know what the seven deadly sins are. But based on April’s reaction, the sin I committed must be number one of all the deadly sins.
It was a Friday night, and we had decided to go out ‘and paint the town red.’ That means a reckless night of debauchery, which neither of us is capable of. So we settled on a vigorous attempt to ‘paint the town magenta.’
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