When the Holy Spirit comes, it is God unleashed upon an entire planet. His active presence within every believer of the early church becomes the foundation upon which churches are formed, letters and gospel documents are written and shared, and hundreds of people come to know and believe the truth of Jesus Christ.
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You take a step down the stairs and then another. Suddenly, overcome with joy, you’re dancing. People stare, but you don’t care. You keep dancing with a joy you’ve never experienced before. You dance across the street to the park and rip off your tennis shoes and socks. You dance on the grass, feeling its prickliness on the bottom of your feet. You’re alive again!
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When I came to Christ as my Savior, an easy yoke was one of the promises He made to me along with every Believer. It’s not a promise of wiping away every problem in my life by sweeping me away to a palace high in the Rocky Mountains where servants will provide my every whim until I resemble a Hampshire hog wearing Harry Potter glasses.
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God is calling us hypocrites as well. That’s what Isaiah 29:13 is describing. We pretend to love Him with all our heart, but we’ve boiled the relationship down to man-made rules directing us to be ‘good.’ Such hypocrisy!
Only doing ‘good’ insults God. It probably irritates Him as well. Frustration as well? Sure.
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I’m not a Christian because I chose God. I’m a Christian because He chose me. That’s why we believers are an enigma to the world. The world believes I made the choice to go to a boring ol’church service when I could have gone golfing all day with a bunch of buddies. The world wonders if I’ve lost all common sense.
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That’s because we Believers are hypocrites. Much like non-Believers, Believers are unable to live perfectly according to the commandments of God. However, I would rather be a Christian accused of hypocrisy than a non-Christian who might never be called a hypocrite.
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A person commits an offending event against you. No punishing consequence follows. No justice is served. You have two choices. You can lapse into resentment and use many actions to communicate your resentment. Whatever actions you use are all forms of manipulation.
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I offended two people without knowing I had done so. Both of them, throughout the years, carried significant grudges against me. Did those grudges affect my life in any way? How effective has their grudges against me succeeded in demoralizing me or casting dark shadows in my life?
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You are a married couple. Would it be healthier for your marriage if you both learned to deal with your anger in a ministerial way? Or are you content to anxiously wait for the next stormy argument?
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How could you forget Joe—that miserable cuss? Sure he was a Christian, but that one time he—well, never mind about that.
The angel continues. “You never forgave him did you?”
You shake your head. Of course not. He didn’t deserve forgiveness. In fact, he deserved to spend eternity in—. It hits you. Is the angel implying that Joe is in heaven?
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