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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:     John 15:12-27

We continue meditating on the eighth and final Beatitude. One of the questions that has often puzzled people concerning this matter of suffering and persecution is this: Why is it that Christians, when they do good, are often persecuted, while non-Christians who do the same kind of good are adored? One commentator...

Bible Verses: John 15:12-27Philippians 1:1-14Colossians 4:32 Timothy 1:7-8

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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:     Mark 6:45-51

Yesterday we said that we all want to be happy - and rightly so. This is a deep-rooted instinct which God has built into us. But happiness is not something you make but something you receive. You cannot make happiness any more than you can make love. You can express love but you cannot make love. So it is with happiness....

Bible Verses: Mark 6:45-51John 6:21Isaiah 61:1-10Luke 10:21John 15:11Psalms 16:11Nehemiah 8:10

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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:     Romans 5:6-21

An ancient theologian - St. Augustine - suggested that "the answer to the mystery of the universe is God and the answer to the mystery of God is Christ." If this is so then I would like to make a further suggestion: the answer to the mystery of Christ is to be found in His sacrificial spirit, the supreme evidence of...

Bible Verses: Romans 5:6-21John 15:13Galatians 1:4Ephesians 5:21 Peter 2:24Titus 2:1-14

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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:
     John 13:1-38

What other teacher has taken the Ten Commandments and had the right to add another commandment to them? But this is precisely what Jesus did, as we see from our text today. "A new command I give you," He said. "Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

The Old Testament and other...

Bible Verses: John 13:1-38Philippians 2:5John 15:1-17James 2:8Matthew 7:12

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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:     Isaiah 7:13-17

Some religions, such as Hinduism, claim that their gods incarnate themselves, but those so-called incarnations are rooted in fantasy, not in fact. The Incarnation of Jesus Christ is not just a great idea - it really happened. There were eyewitnesses and a written record. The genius of Christianity is that it is not...

Bible Verses: Isaiah 7:13-171 Timothy 1:1-17Isaiah 59:16John 15:13

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James Russell Miller

John 15:1-12

When Jesus says, "I am the true vine," He means that He is the source of the spiritual life of His people, who are compared to branches. What the vine is to its branches, Christ is to all who believe on Him. The branches, down to the smallest twigs, are dependent on the vine. So every believer is dependent on Christ. He is the source of...

Bible Verses: John 15:1-12

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Samuel Bagster

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. § The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. § To you who believe, He is precious. § We love Him because He first loved us. § The love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.You yourselves are taught...

Bible Verses: Galatians 5:221 John 4:16Romans 5:51 Peter 2:71 John 4:192 Corinthians 5:142 Corinthians 5:151 Thessalonians 4:9John 15:121 Peter 4:8Ephesians 5:2

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Samuel Bagster

Joy in the Holy Spirit. § Inexpressible and full of glory.Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing… Exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation. § We also glory in tribulations.Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame. § These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. § As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through...

Bible Verses: Galatians 5:22Romans 14:171 Peter 1:82 Corinthians 6:102 Corinthians 7:4Romans 5:3Hebrews 12:2John 15:112 Corinthians 1:5Philippians 4:4Nehemiah 8:10Psalms 16:11Revelation 7:17

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Samuel Bagster

I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. § I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. § Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost.The Lord takes pleasure in His people. § My...

Bible Verses: Song of Solomon 7:102 Timothy 1:12Romans 8:38Romans 8:39John 17:12Psalms 149:4Proverbs 8:31Ephesians 2:4John 15:131 Corinthians 6:20Romans 14:8

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Samuel Bagster

Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. § I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. § We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made...

Bible Verses: John 19:30Hebrews 12:2John 17:4Hebrews 10:10Hebrews 10:11Hebrews 10:12Colossians 2:14John 10:17John 10:18John 15:13

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