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Blessed are the pure in heart…how do I live a life of faithfulness to God, and protect myself when it seems like everything around me is trying to pull me…Source: https://vimeo.com/818177859
Un échec en matière de courage et d’éthique
par Loren Seibold | 16 avril 2023 | Je suis, à l’heure actuelle, très déçu par mon église. Au cours des dernières semaines, deux évènements importants se sont produits dans l’église adventiste du septième jour, et tous deux ont été rapportés par Adventist Today (version anglaise). Le 21 mars, le gouvernement africain ougandais a adopté […] Source: https://atoday.org/un-echec-en-matiere-de-courage-et-dethique/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=un-echec-en-matiere-de-courage-et-dethique
The GC and the Destructive Gay Change Ministry of Colin Cook
16 April 2023 | In the 1970s, a defrocked Adventist pastor said he could “cure” homosexuals of their same-sex attraction. The leaders of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists strongly endorsed Cook’s untested program, and authorized financial investment in—and church publicity for—Cook’s gay-change ministry, called Quest Learning Center, located in Reading, Pennsylvania. Quest was embraced […] Source: https://atoday.org/colin-cook-ron-lawson-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colin-cook-ron-lawson-video
Adventista, ¿solo de nombre?
Los republicanos progresistas han sido calificados a menudo de RINO por los republicanos más conservadores. RINO (pronunciado “Rhino”) significa Republican in Name Only (Republicano sólo de nombre), y quien lo dice suele acusar al supuesto RINO de no mantener la línea del partido en un área clave. “Si un republicano no acepta el compromiso anti-impuestos […] Source: https://atoday.org/adventista-solo-de-nombre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adventista-solo-de-nombre
Monday: Fearing and Obeying God
What else does the Bible teach us about what it means to fear God?
Read Deuteronomy 6:2; Psalm 119:73-74; and Ecclesiastes 12:13-14. What do these texts reveal is the result of “fearing God”?
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These passages reveal a linkage between fearing God and keeping His commandments. Fearing God is an attitude of reverential respect that leads us to obedience. Heaven’s urgent appeal is for those saved by grace to be obedient to God’s commands (Ephesians 2:8-10). Grace does not free us from obeying the commands of God. The gospel sets us free from the law’s condemnation, not from our responsibility to obey it.
Grace not only delivers us from the guilt of our past, but it empowers us to live godly obedient lives in the present. The apostle Paul declares that “we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations” (Romans 1:5, NKJV).
There are some people who have the strange idea that salvation by grace somehow negates the law of God or minimizes the necessity for obedience. They believe that any talk about obedience is legalism. They have declared, All I want is Jesus. The question is, “Which Jesus?” A Jesus of our own making, or the Jesus of Scripture? The Christ of Scripture never leads us to downplay His law, which is the transcript of His character. The Christ of Scripture never leads us to minimize the doctrines of the Bible, which reveal more clearly who He is and His plan for this world. The Christ of Scripture never leads us to reduce His teaching to pious platitudes that are nonessential. Christ is the embodiment of all doctrinal truth. Jesus is truth incarnated. He is doctrine lived out.
Revelation’s final appeal calls us through faith in Jesus to accept the fullness of everything He offers. It calls us to “fear God,” which is expressed by faith in His redeeming power to empower us to live godly, obedient lives.
| How do Jesus’ words here “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28, NKJV) help us understand what it means to fear God? |
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