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SAVING OUR LIFE

"Peter answered and said unto Him, Though all men shall be offended because of Thee, yet will I never be offended.  Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny Me thrice.  Peter said unto Him, Though I should die with Thee, yet will I not deny Thee.   Likewise also said all the disciples ." (Matthew 26:33-35).   Each of us is willing to give our very best to the Lord at the beginning of our spiritual journey.   We make many promises to Him at the start when our faith is new and our experience is limited.   Like Peter, we may even pledge our lives in service for Him.   While such sentiments are well meaning, they come from a place of ignorance.   We just don’t know what discipleship is going to cost us yet.   These words and promises come very easily to "all the disciples" at first.    We simply do not understand as young Christians that this is a process, and that we are gr...
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TWO QUESTIONS

"And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.  And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?  And I answered, Who art Thou, Lord? And He said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, Whom thou persecutest.  And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of Him that spake to me.  And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do." (Paul's account of his conversion, Acts 22:6-10).   What an extraordinary conversion Paul had!   To have a light shine on him from above, and to have the Lord speak to him directly from heaven is incredible; but what really intrigues me is how violent this religious man had become toward the followers of Chr...
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IS THERE ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR ME?

Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me? (Jeremiah 32:27).   There are many of you who are sincere Christians, but you struggle with some besetting sin or another, and don't know how to get free once and for all.  You feel hypocritical every time you fall, and you are battered by your guilt, and hindered in your ministry.  This message is for you.  There is an answer to your dilemma, and it is much simpler than you might imagine.   I recently read a tract by the great Charles G. Finney which was first published in 1839 in the Oberlin Evangelist .  The tract was entitled, How to Overcome Sin , and the portions that I quote were edited by the late Keith Green.  In it he writes:   “There are multitudes of anxious Christians who are inquiring what they shall do to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil...They ask, "Why am I overcome by sin?  Why can't I get above its’ power?  Why am I ...
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