It is simply not true of any Christian that before they were saved they "weren't that bad". Before a Holy God, each stood no chance.
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A common pitfall when it comes to doing good is to let our own good deeds lead to pride & self-righteousness. Only by God's grace are we saved & made righteous.
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Would your friends at work know there is something different about you from how you speak and behave around them?
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The Apostle John knew Jesus and boldly proclaimed who He was. His doctrine is aligned with the person and work of Jesus, who He is, and what He has done.
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John says we know that the Son of God has come. What a profound statement. The eternal, preexistent Son has come (past act with current application).
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To say that Christians are of God is not only a word of promise, blessing, and inclusion, but it is also a word of controversy and exclusion.
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The devil can harm you if you let him, but he cannot take you with him when you die. Why? Because Someone much more powerful has you in His grasp.
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God literally keeps and protects us. Praise His name! When we begin to do something we should not, God lets us know it, and we turn away from it.
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The world is a most formidable foe. By turning our eyes upon Jesus continually we can overcome the world and all its lusts, entrapments, and schemes.
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If living the Christian life becomes a series of dos and don'ts, a checklist, then it becomes a burden, and we lose our joy.
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If you really love God then you will love the people of God, the church. A churchless religion is not a biblical one.
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How powerful is belief? It is beyond powerful: it is the key to not only entering the Christian life but also living for Christ in an effective manner.
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The word nike is mentioned four times in our biblical text for today's devotion, once as "victory" and three times as "overcome".
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John says that Christians have a commandment from Christ: we must love our brothers. Jesus said this explicitly in two of the Gospels.
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The only way we can love God is because God has loved us first, and it is He who empowers us to love other people.
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Love is the powerful antidote to fear. If we fear, then God's love is not perfected in us.
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1 John 4:17 gives the child of God great comfort and courage. When we believe in Christ for salvation, He takes away fears and feelings of emptiness.
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John writes about that which overpowers all emptiness & fear: that is the love of God as seen in the life of Jesus & a love perfected in His people.
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Of all the roughly 7,400 languages that are spoken around the world, only about 800 of them have the full Bible translated into their language.
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Because "the steadfast love of the Lord endures forever" (Psalm 136), there is nothing you can do to make God love you more or less.
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