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Post by Cindy on Oct 16, 2024 10:30:59 GMT -5
Before we start this study, I'd like to list some scriptures I'd like us each to read and reflect on. This will help us grow and will give us something to do until I can actually start the study. However, I know that Barbara and many others here are perfectly capable of leading it. So if you would like to go ahead and lead it, that's great! Or if you'd rather just post what your thoughts are on the passages read, that would be wonderful too! If you want to wait or can't read the passages every day, that's ok. This is your study, so do it the way you think is best and I will join in as soon as I can.
So here are some scriptures for us to read and think about. It's enough for It would be best if we read one of the passages each day and then after you've thought about it, simply post what you think it's saying about what Jesus has done for you. (Be sure to pray and ask the Holy Spirit to guide and teach you first!)
Eva, I know that the Greek Bibles don't always have the same scripture divisions (numbers) that ours do. So you might have to check one verse above and one after the passages I give if the thought isn't complete or doesn't make sense to you.
John 10:10; 1 John 3:1–3;
1 Peter 1:3–19
Philippians 2:1-11
Hebrews 5:7–10
Romans 5:8–21
Romans 6:1–23
John 1:1–14
Ephesians 1:3–14
Acts 26:13–18
Acts 10:36–38
Luke 4:18-19; Colossians 2:13-14;
Hebrews 2:14–18; Hebrews 9:14–15;
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fearnot
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Post by fearnot on Oct 17, 2024 15:20:43 GMT -5
I will comment a bit on the first verse
( I am thinking one a day might be a start,
at least for me,
but....
it might be as time goes on, I will do 2 or 3 a day.
I will wait and see what Eva wants to do
and thus try to comply :)
Anyway:
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;
I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
John 10:10
I really think, that in my life,
this verse has been proven over and .
Satan, did his part in trying
to 'kill' and destroy me.
Even from early childhood...
true,
as a teen and young adult,
I went along with his plans
( although, I did not know,
at the time, they were the devil's plan).
But Jesus countered every single step,
and attempted execution!
Jesus continued to give me life
(out of His great love and mercy).
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Post by Cindy on Oct 18, 2024 6:52:15 GMT -5
Amen Barbara! For many of them, one a day would be just right. 
I just read something today in my devotional that I think will go perfectly here!
He is the propitiation for our sins. (1 JOHN 2:2)
The Bible uses a strange word to describe what Christ did for us when He drank the cup of God’s wrath in our place: propitiation.
What does propitiation mean? I believe that the word "exhausted" forcefully captures the essence of Jesus’ work of propitiation. Jesus exhausted the wrath of God. He bore the full, unmitigated brunt of it. God’s wrath against sin was unleashed in all its fury on His beloved Son. He held nothing back.
Isaiah foretold this: “We esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities” (Isaiah 53:4–5). The underlined words describe the pouring out of God’s wrath on His Son. During those awful hours when Jesus hung on the cross, the cup of God’s wrath was turned upside down. Christ exhausted God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him, there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.
At the end of those terrible hours Jesus cried out, “It is finished” (John 19:30; see also Mark 15:37. John’s record does not say Jesus cried out. However, Mark says, “With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last,” and John indicates that “It is finished” were His last words. Putting together the two accounts, we are justified in saying, “Jesus cried out, ‘It is finished.’ ”). This was not a cry of relief, but one of triumph. He had accomplished what He came to do, to save His people from the wrath of God. And He did this by consuming it in His own person.
That’s why Paul could write of our being “saved from God’s wrath through him” and say that “God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:9, NIV; 1 Thessalonians 5:9, NIV). (Though believers never experience the wrath of God, we do, as occasion demands, experience the discipline of God. But the motivation behind the discipline is not God’s wrath but His fatherly love. see Hebrews 12:5–6). All who trust in Jesus need never fear the possibility of experiencing the wrath of God. It was exhausted on His Son as He stood in our place, bearing the guilt of our sin.
Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey
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fearnot
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Post by fearnot on Oct 18, 2024 8:39:29 GMT -5
Thank you Cindy:
That was a great devotional....
I looked it up, it was a tad spendy
but maybe, some day,
I can spring for it :)
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fearnot
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Post by fearnot on Oct 18, 2024 12:12:21 GMT -5
I don't want to get too far ahead of Eva
so I will do just one more until she is able to come back :)
I am not sure if she is still sick :(
See how great a love the Father has given to us,
that we would be called children of God;
and we are.
For this reason the world does not know us,
because it did not know Him.
2 Beloved, now we are children of God,
and it has not been manifested as yet
what we will be.
We know that when He is manifested,
we will be like Him,
because we will see Him just as He is.
3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself,
just as He is pure.
1 John 3:1–3
Some of us never had a 'Father'
( well of course there was a biological father,
but we never knew him)
So until we finally got adopted,
after many foster homes...
But then we did get a Father...
after several years
( for me 6 years),
I did get my adopted Father.
But in fact, I did have a Father
even before adoption...
that I did not know about.
But He was not my human father
nor my adopted human father
And as great as any human Father can be,
there is no comparison to
God as our Father.
Who in their right mind, would not want
an
all knowing
all powerful
infinite
eternal
all loving, merciful, compassionate etc. Father?
One who loves to lavish
protection,
provision,
etc.
And this Father is without sin
there is no evil or anything scary etc.
But someday, after we die or are raptured
we too will 'finally' be without sin!
what a glorious thing to look forward too!
Personally I can hardly wait!
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