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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church: 124. HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? – How do I protect Jesus’ life within me against Satan’s attacks? (e)
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church. Saturday, July 4, 2015. 124 HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? 8211; How do I protect Jesus’ life within me against Satan’s attacks? In our last meditation we saw that the apostle Paul wants God’s children to be prepared for Satan’s assaults. That’s why he gives us the necessary instructions on how to protect ourselves against the devil’s scheming. The apostle urges us to:. And ‘putting on the new self’. It seems that the reason for the d...
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church: August 2013
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church. Friday, August 23, 2013. 110 HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? 8211; Victory over sin only through our Triune God (b). Continuation of Meditation 109). 8220;The Law of Moses could not save us, because of our sinful nature.” (Romans 8:3*). When the apostle Paul speaks of the Law and its commandments, he means the Law that God gave through His servant Moses to His people Israel at Mount Sinai after their liberation from the bondage of Egypt.
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church: August 2015
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church. Friday, August 7, 2015. 125 HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? 8211; How do I protect Jesus’ life within me against Satan’s attacks? In the last Meditation we read Paul’s command to “put on the full armour of God”. Speaking in detail about God’s full armour, the apostle first urges us to “gird our waist with truth”. 8220; having put on the breastplate of righteousness” (. The prophet Isaiah (8. Century BC) foresaw the coming of the divine...
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church: November 2013
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church. Saturday, November 16, 2013. 116 HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? 8211; Jesus’ death and resurrection: the blueprint for action. In the last meditations we saw that God wants His reborn children to put their sinful behaviour to death. We realized that this mortifying process is possible because they have received God’s Spirit. He has given them a new heart to love God and a new will to obey Him. And therefore to a tragic fiasco. The apo...
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church: 121. HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? – How do I protect Jesus’ life within me against Satan’s attacks? (b)
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church. Monday, April 27, 2015. 121 HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? 8211; How do I protect Jesus’ life within me against Satan’s attacks? 8220;Be (or: grow, become) strong in . His mighty power.”. For the apostle Paul overcoming Satan’s assaults is a continuous battle to win! Therefore, the question is: What is my responsibility in this continuous battle? A) To keep my relationship with Jesus Christ and His Spirit intact. Ephesians 4:30*) The ...
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church: 119. HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE – Let Jesus' life within you direct and control your way of thinking (b)
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church. Thursday, February 6, 2014. 119 HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE – Let Jesus' life within you direct and control your way of thinking (b). Our sinful nature is still there, but it has lost its dominant place! Paul describes this new identity to the followers of Jesus in Corinth with these words: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.".
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church: 120. HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? – How do I protect Jesus’ life within me against Satan’s attacks? (a)
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church. Thursday, April 23, 2015. 120 HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? 8211; How do I protect Jesus’ life within me against Satan’s attacks? In Meditation 108 I invited you to start ruminating on the question “How to overcome the power of sin in my life and in my church? 8221; Then I suggested that we begin initially by focusing on our personal lives as Christians. In the Meditations 109 to 115. In the Meditation 116. Nowhere in the Bible do we...
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church: October 2013
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church. Friday, October 25, 2013. 115 HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? 8211; Victory over sin only through our Triune God (g). Continuation of Meditation 114). 8220;All who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. (Romans 8:14*). In our last Meditation we quoted Paul’s statement: “True circumcision is not a cutting of the body but a change of heart produced by God's Spirit.”. It is the source of our positive and negative emotions:.
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church: September 2013
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church. Saturday, September 21, 2013. 113 HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE? 8211; Victory over sin only through our Triune God (e). Continuation of Meditation 112). 8220;The mind of sinful man is death.” (Romans 8:6a* ). Last time we closed with the question: why is it that leaving God’s ways and disobeying His Word is such a serious matter for God’s reborn children? Those things result in death! Romans 6:21* ). Paul points again to the cons...
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church: June 2013
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Meditations on Christlike Maturity for me and my church. Friday, June 21, 2013. 103 HOW TO OVERCOME THE POWER OF SIN IN MY LIFE AND IN MY CHURCH? 8211; Jesus Christ is God’s answer to the problem of sin. We finished our last meditation with Paul’s lament: “Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin? His answer to that question is: “Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.”. The apostle John shows that God’s love for mankind resulted in Jesus’ sacrificial death for our ...His posit...
