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You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. Deuteronomy 6:5-6 ESV Love... From the beginning... God's reaching out to re-connect with His people... is all centered on... love... The… Continue reading the law is Love…
...declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. Jeremiah 31:33 ESV His law... written on the heart... how does this happen...? It happens... when we recognize and receive... His fulfilling of the law... through love... He loves us first... But God demonstrates his own love… Continue reading written on the heart…
And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. ... When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife. Matthew 1:19, 24 ESV awake... 1. to cease sleeping 2. to become aroused or active again… Continue reading december 11…
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!" Matthew 23:25 ESV Making disciples... is not about teaching the law... Woe to you... teachers of the law... The law makes everyone a hypocrite... because no one can keep it... For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight,… Continue reading teaching…
...you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. Galatians 5:4 ESV Life by His rule... is not a life about law... or rule keeping... or legalistic adherence... Life by His rule... is walking with the Spirit... But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the… Continue reading ruled by grace…
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