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For I know the plans I have for you. Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

God had made a covenant with Israel and had blessed her, but she had turned away for God and worshipped idols, but God says, “I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.” Sounds like the promise God made to the Israelites through the prophet Jeremiah “This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” After the Israelites repent and turn back to God, God will bless them and a new everlasting covenant will be made with them.

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When I find it convenient, I will go to church. Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

Acts 24:25 “That’s enough for now! You may leave. When I find it convenient, I will send for you.”
This man only wanted to hear what Paul had to say when it was convenient for him. Sadly many people only come to Church when it convenient for them. They miss out on so much Bible teaching, fellowship and encouragement.

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Remember Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

Psalm 105 rehearses many of the good things God has done for Israel. It is important to remember God's faithfulness. He never fails.

Psalm 105:5 Remember the wonders he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced,

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No addition in salvation Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

There is always someone trying to destroy faith by adding some other requirement to salvation. Salvation is a matter of trust in Christ's FINISHED work. We can not add to nor should we. We must understand we are saved by grace through faith. In Acts 15 we have the response of the Peter when men were trying to add circumcision as a requirement of salvation. He said in verse 11" No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”

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We will not listen. Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

The elders of Israel knew God gave Ezekiel the words he spoke and thus they sought him out to learn what God’s message to Israel was. But they never listened when God said repent instead they said like in Jeremiah “"We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD! We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our fathers, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm.” They failed to see they were being blessed while God was warning them and being patient with them, now it is to late everyone is worshipping idols “who have all deserted me for their idols.”

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God kept Paul safe. Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

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Acts 23:11 the following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage!” As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.”
The Jews were planning to kill Paul but God had a plan for him to testify in Rome so God kept Paul safe. When God has a plan for us, there is nobody who can change that plan.

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Unfair but just Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

Psalm 103 tells us what we deserve (punishment) for sin, but that gives grace to those who trust him. There is a sense in which this is unfair, because we don't got what we deserve. However it is not unjust, because the willing and righteous Christ died in our place and satisfied the righteous requirement for payment. So do you really want what you have coming? For my part "no thanks" I will take the grace and say "Thank you Lord".

9 He will not always accuse,
nor will he harbor his anger forever;
10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
The Holy Bible : New International Version. 1996, c1984 (electronic ed.) (Ps 103:9). Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

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David says, "I hate them" Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

David says, "I hate them" (that is, "I hate the work of them that turn aside," as he explains himself, #Ps 101:3) David, who is a sinner himself, compares his life to God’s Word and repents and asks for forgiveness. But those who rise up against God, who hate God, are the enemies of God and will not consider God’s Word or repent, are the wicked that will face God and be judge for what they have done and pay for their own sins by spending eternity separate from God, which God calls eternal death or hell.
Psalms 139:21-24 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (NIV)

Calvin’s commentaries – Psalms 139:21. Shall I not hold in hatred those that hate thee? He proceeds to mention how greatly he had profited by the meditation upon God into which he had been led, for, as the effect, of his having realized his presence before God’s bar, and reflected upon the impossibility of escaping the eye of him who searches all deep places, he now lays down his resolution to lead a holy and pious life. In declaring his hatred of those who despised God, he virtually asserts thereby his own integrity, not as being free from all sin, but as being devoted to godliness, so that he detested in his heart everything which was contrary to it.

Full Matthew Henry Commentary - He detests them (#Ps 139:21,22): "Lord, thou knowest the heart, and canst witness for me; do not I hate those that hate thee, and for that reason, because they hate thee? I hate them because I love thee, and hate to see such affronts and indignities put upon thy blessed name. Am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee, grieved to see their rebellion and to foresee their ruin, which it will certainly end in?"
Note, Sin is hated, and sinners are lamented, by all that fear God.
"I hate them" (that is, "I hate the work of them that turn aside," as he explains himself, #Ps 101:3) "with a sincere and perfect hatred; I count those that are enemies to God as enemies to me, and will not have any intimacy with them,"

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We need to pray for those going to the Ukraine. Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

Acts 21:5b All the disciples and their wives and children accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray…
Before Paul and those with him were sent on to the next part of their journey, the disciples and their families prayed with them.
Before we send our people to the Ukraine on their mission trip, we need to have a time of prayer with them.

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You are called Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 

Acts 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

This type of call to ministry would get your attention, but is it really necessary?

Eph. 2:8-9 tells of of salvation and then verse 10 says, "For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

The saved are called to serve. If you are saved you are called to be set apart.

Are we not called to spread the gospel? Are we not called to help the poor? Are we not called to disciple the new believers? Are we not called to encourage, help, and pray for one another?

Yes we are called as well.

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