But let each one test his own work (Galatians 6:4, ESV). Christianity is a relationship, not religion. Our relationship with Jesus isn’t ultimately about keeping a set of rules, not breaking one of the Ten Commandments, or keeping the faith to go to heaven. Nothing wrong with rules, commandments, and heaven — but if they become […]
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[Note: Will the angels in heaven rejoice with the soon coming of the 1000th Interruption?] The bad news about attempting to be righteous is that we can’t do it. The Apostle Paul writes . . . None is righteous, no, not one (Romans 3:10, ESV). “None” would include all of us. We can’t be righteous.
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Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need (Matthew 6:33, NLT). If Jesus says that we are to seek righteousness for all the things needed in life, we must ask… What is righteousness? I remember a noted scholar defining righteousness as, “Living in a manner
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For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching but, having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions (2 Timothy 4:3). In the end-times many people will not listen to teachings of truth and righteousness. The word that the Apostle Paul uses in 2 Timothy 4:3 for “sound
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