Author: mjross

A Life Example

“Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?” Jonah 3:9 Do you remember what we can learn from the book of Jonah? After Jonah went to the people of Nineveh, the people understood that God expected repentance. In […]

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Know the Way and Live in It

“For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish” Psalm 1:6 As you read through Israel’s history during the divided kingdom, one cannot help but notice how important it is to God that He be kept first in one’s life and even […]

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A Called and Beloved People

“As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.” Romans 9:25 Why is it important to read and understand the book of Hosea in the Old Testament? God revealed to Hosea that one day the […]

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Stand Fast

“2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.” James 1:2-3 James did not become a Christian until after Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. He finally understood that one must trust in Jesus by faith. […]

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Faithful and Just

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 Joel was a prophet of God. The name Joel means, “Jehovah is God.” The book of Joel begins with, “The word of the LORD that […]

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The Hope of Glory

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:” Colossians 1:27 In the Old Testament, the Israelites were to reveal God to the world. All of the world was to recognize […]

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A Miserable Failure

“Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?” Matthew 7:22 Elisha sent one of the prophets to anoint a new king of Israel, Jehu, even […]

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The Wrong Question

“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” 1 Corinthians 10:11 There are so many examples in the Bible of which we should take notice. “Now all these things happened unto them for […]

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Living Examples

“So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.” 1 Thessalonians 1:7 Paul remembered the missionary journey that led to the establishment of the church at Thessalonica. “For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain” (1 Thessalonians 2:1). He […]

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The Glory Which has been Given

“And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:” John 17:22 David understood the act of crying out to God with the desires of his heart, knowing God would hear and answer. “The LORD is nigh unto all […]

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