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Colossians 1:24 / Bible Notes
Read more: Colossians 1:24 / Bible Notes”I am glad when I suffer for you in my body, for I am participating in the sufferings of Christ that continue for his body, the church.“ Colossians 1:24 NLT I’ve been thinking a lot about pain and discomfort. We are so programmed in today’s culture to try to escape our discomforts and avoid all…
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Job 6, 7, Galatians 6:11 /Bible Notes
Read more: Job 6, 7, Galatians 6:11 /Bible Notes”Stop assuming my guilt, for I have done no wrong. Do you think I am lying? Don’t I know the difference between right and wrong?“ Job 6:29-30 NLT Job responds angrily to his friend’s counsel because he has done nothing wrong. On top of being burdened with a terrible disease, and the recent loss of…
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Job 4, 5, Galatians 6:1-10 / Bible Notes
Read more: Job 4, 5, Galatians 6:1-10 / Bible Notes”“In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak. Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees. But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you. Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life…
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Job 3 / Bible Notes
Read more: Job 3 / Bible Notes”I cannot eat for sighing; my groans pour out like water. What I always feared has happened to me. What I dreaded has come true.“ Job 3:24-25 NLT Job laments his birth and questions the great sorrow that plague him. Notice how he muses and asks why these things happened, he doesn’t curse God. Lamentation…
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Job 1, 2 / Bible Notes
Read more: Job 1, 2 / Bible Notes”But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!” “All right, you may test him,” the Lord said to Satan. “Do whatever you want with everything he possesses, but don’t harm him physically.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.“ Job 1:11-12 NLT ”He said, “I came…
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Genesis 10-11, Acts 2:1-13 / Bible Notes
Read more: Genesis 10-11, Acts 2:1-13 / Bible Notes”Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”“ Genesis 11:4 NLT ”That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with…
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Genesis 8 – 9 / Bible Notes
Read more: Genesis 8 – 9 / Bible Notes”And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things. As long as the earth remains, there…
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Genesis 6-7, Luke 17:27-37 / Bible Notes
Read more: Genesis 6-7, Luke 17:27-37 / Bible Notes”The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil. So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart.“ Genesis 6:5-6 NLT Sin corrupts everything it touches. After generations…
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Genesis 3 & 4, Luke 17 / Bible Notes
Read more: Genesis 3 & 4, Luke 17 / Bible Notes”You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.” Genesis 4:7 NLT The story of Cain and Abel paints the consequences of an…
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Genesis 3, 2 Corinthians 11 / Bible Notes
Read more: Genesis 3, 2 Corinthians 11 / Bible Notes”But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”“ Genesis 2:16-17 NLT God, being the relational being He is, designed man for His input. God is…
