Bible Verses: John 17:21John 17:1-26Acts 2:45-47Acts 4:32-35
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How are we to react when one of our loved ones dies in the Lord? Some Christians fall apart emotionally. Others, while sorrowful, are able to bear up heroically. It depends on how deep our roots are in God and how fully we appropriate the great truths of our faith.
First of all, we should view the death from the Savior's standpoint. It is an answer to His prayer in John 17:24, "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be...
Bible Verses: 1 Thessalonians 4:14John 17:24Isaiah 53:11Psalms 116:15Isaiah 57:11 Thessalonians 4:131 Thessalonians 4:16-17Job 15:11
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Here is one of those New Testament truths that shocks us by its sheer audacity. We would not dare to utter the words if we did not see them in the Bible. But they are gloriously true, and we can revel and rejoice in them.
In what sense are we like Christ in this world? Our minds almost automatically think first of the ways we are not like Him. We do not share with Him the attributes of deity, such as omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. We are full of sin and failure whereas He...
Bible Verses: 1 John 4:17John 17:23
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A writer tells of quietly opening the door of his mother's room one day in his boyhood, seeing her on her knees, and hearing her speak his own name in prayer. He quickly and quietly withdrew from the sacred place - but he never forgot that one glimpse of his mother at prayer, nor the prayer for himself, which he heard her speak to God. Well did he know that what he had seen that moment, was but a
Bible Verses: John 17:15-26John 17:15
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I have made You known to them, and will continue to make You known in order that
the love You have for Me may be in them and that I Myself may be in them. (John
17:26 NIV)
Perhaps you have been amazed sometimes, and perplexed and bewildered, why God
should use that, and that and that; and such and such persons. You have been
inclined to say: "It is...
Bible Verses: John 17:26
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Father, I desire that they … whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me. § I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. § He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the...
Bible Verses: Philippians 3:13Philippians 3:14John 17:242 Timothy 1:12Philippians 1:61 Corinthians 9:241 Corinthians 9:25Hebrews 12:1Hebrews 12:2
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I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word … I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them …Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of...
Bible Verses: Malachi 3:17John 17:6John 17:24John 14:32 Thessalonians 1:101 Thessalonians 4:17Isaiah 62:3
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If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! § Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. § [God] predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may...
Bible Verses: Romans 8:17Galatians 3:291 John 3:1Galatians 4:7Ephesians 1:5John 17:24Revelation 2:26Revelation 3:21
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Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to Your name give glory. § Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? § In lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. § Be clothed with humility.[Jesus] was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. § All who sat in the council, looking steadfastly at [Stephen], saw his face as the face of an angel. § The glory which You gave Me I have...
Bible Verses: Exodus 34:29Psalms 115:1Matthew 25:37Philippians 2:31 Peter 5:5Matthew 17:2Acts 6:15John 17:222 Corinthians 3:18Matthew 5:14Matthew 5:15
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This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. § Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things. § If children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.I and My Father are one. § The Father is in Me, and I in Him. § My Father and your Father, and … My God and your God. § I in them, and You...
Bible Verses: John 1:16Matthew 17:51 John 3:1Hebrews 1:2Romans 8:17John 10:30John 10:38John 20:17John 17:23Ephesians 1:22Ephesians 1:232 Corinthians 7:1
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Twice in His great high priestly prayer, our Lord prayed that His people might be one (verses 21 and 22, 23). This prayer for unity has been seized as Scriptural support for the ecumenical movement - a great organizational union of all professing Christian churches. Unfortunately this ecumenical unity is achieved through abandoning or reinterpreting fundamental Christian doctrines. As Malcolm Muggeridge wrote, "By one of our time's larger ironies, ecumenicalism is triumphant just when there...