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 Maybe you are just curious or maybe you’re like me — searching with an open heart to be pleasing to God?  He has revealed His will for us in the Bible and I have a simple, yet exciting 3 lesson study to share with you.   My wife and I work together to make every situation
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The sovereignty of God

A common error is comparing God to us in an effort to understand Him.   Intellectually, we know that His thoughts and ways are higher than ours (Isa. 55:8-9).   There is nothing to which we may compare Him that fully describes His nature.  For example, we hear much about the love of God when comparing Him
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Emotion: A by-product

A common fault of human beings is to justify their actions based on their feelings.   In other words, we have to feel a certain way to act accordingly.   For example, someone may say that they just don’t love their spouse anymore?  What is implied is that they must feel affectionate and loving in order to
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Images of God’s Plan: Sanctification

Having justified, redeemed and reconciled the sinner by setting forth Jesus as the propitiation for sin, God then sanctifies him/her.  Sanctification is the end result of the first three.  Righteousness is the end result of justification, freedom the result of redemption and fellowship the result of reconciliation. In this final study of the series, we’ll
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Images of God’s plan: Justification and Propitiation

These two words set the context of salvation by describing the nature of God, identifying the problem of sin, and the solution that provides a win-win situation.

To appreciate the word translated “justification,” imagine a courtroom with a judge, jury, prosecuting attorney and the accused.  The evidence against the accused points to the expected sentence of
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Images of God’s plan: Reconciliation

In my last column we explored the use of the word “redemption.”  In this study, consider another image used to describe the greatness of God’s gift to humanity – “reconciliation.”

Romans 5:10-11 reads, “For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we
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Images of God’s Plan: Redemption

Many words used in the Bible are chosen to convey the wonder of God’s plan to save man. None of these words are used exclusively because no one word is adequate to fully describe its perfection. Words like “redemption,” “reconciliation,” “propitiation,” “salvation” and “justification” portray different images of the same plan. Each of these describes
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