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Desmond Ford

February 2, 1929 – March 11, 2019

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    Clearly, this is not an exhortation to lovelessness per se. We are not asked to turn a cold shoulder to everyone and everything. The 'world' is the ego in all its individual, cultural, political, nationalist and racial expressions. It is relentless in its determination to resist and/or subvert God's rule. Unless we learn to love God, the world is irresistible.

    August 31, 2016

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    The deep evil of which humans are more than capable, lies in this: Not content with open rebellion against their maker, they engage in Machiavellian religion; they pursue their course against God while professing devotion to him.  They think to use God for their purpos...

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    "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him. For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the father but from the world" (1 John 2:15,16).

    August 30, 2016

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    Ron Allen

    Clearly, this is not an exhortation to lovelessness per se. We are not asked to turn a cold shoulder to everyone and everything. The 'world' is the ego in all its individual, cultural, political, nationalist and racial expressions. It is relentless in its determination...

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    "I know, O Lord, that a man's life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps" (Jeremiah 10:23).

    August 29, 2016

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    What would make a human being come out with such a statement; an expression--not of autonomy, but of subordination, dependence and ignorance.  It flies in the face of 21st century human consciousness. Are we not now--in addition to being merely self-conscious-- self-ma...

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    "Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did" (1 John 2:8).

    August 28, 2016

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    With this single sentence, John lays bare the phoniness of so much religion; so much that calls itself Christian.  This does not mean that followers of Jesus are sinless (see 1 John 1:8). It means that the rallying point, the central interest, the inspiration, instruct...

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    "The days are coming declares the Lord, when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh--Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab . . . . Even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart" (Jeremiah 9:25,26).

    August 27, 2016

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    Beginning with Abraham, circumcision was invested with religious significance. It signified the covenant relationship between God and his people.  But it was only ever a sign. It did not make fact, what it signified. That would require the cooperation of its recipients...

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    "If we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us" (1 John 1:8).

    August 26, 2016

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    An all too common mistake on the part of those who would be godly, is to think, after much self-correction, that they have succeeded in occupying moral high ground; that they have moved beyond fault.  In this they have deceived only themselves.   A better devotion to t...

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    " . . . Let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord that exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on the earth, for in these I delight" (Jeremiah 9:24).

    August 25, 2016

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    Kindness, justice, righteousness are joyously present in the heart of God. Here stated, then, are the chief concerns of a consecrated life. Where these are not central, religion is a blight on humanity. Well might this be taken in to account when considering why religi...

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    "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts, boast about this: that he understands and knows me . . ." (Jeremiah 9:23,24).

    August 24, 2016

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    Are there any wise men? Yes, there are. Are there any strong? Of course. Are there rich men? Plenty of them. So why ought they not glory in their natural or cultivated gifts?  Because they are only men! They are mere humans, and what a man is in relation to God is what...

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    "We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the father and with his Son, Jesus Christ" (1 John 1:3).

    August 23, 2016

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    John makes an astounding assertion; not astounding because he claims to have witnessed Jesus' career first hand with his own ears and eyes, but because he believes that in his personal acquaintance with Jesus the man, he encountered God.  This is the reason for his exu...

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    "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me" (Matthew 28:18).

    August 22, 2016

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    What a claim!  One hard to argue against, though, given that the he who spoke it had been crucified, dead and buried just three days prior. It means everything that Jesus, despised by every category of human life, could not be overcome by death; could not be extinguish...

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    "Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs" (1 Timothy 6:10).

    August 1, 2018

    "Jesus replied, 'The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified'" (John 12:23).

    July 31, 2018

    "In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials" (1 Peter 1:6).

    July 30, 2018

    " . . . He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can nev...

    July 29, 2018

    "Simon Peter asked him, 'Lord, where are you going?' Jesus replied, 'Where I am going you cannot follow now, but you will follow late...

    July 28, 2018

    "Though you have not seen him you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and g...

    July 27, 2018

    "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am" (John 14:3).

    July 26, 2018

    "It was revealed to them that were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have pr...

    July 25, 2018

    "If you really knew me, you would know my father as well" (John 14:7).

    July 24, 2018

    "Like newborn babies crave pure spiritual milk so that you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good" (1...

    July 23, 2018

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    "Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously" (2 Corinthians 9:6).

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