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Desmond Ford

February 2, 1929 – March 11, 2019

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    "Nazareth, can any good thing come from there?" (John 1:46).

    November 30, 2017

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    Nathaniel was certain that Messiah's arrival would be a good thing for Israel. It was therefore incredulous to him that the blessing could emerge from a place with such a poor reputation.

    With the advantage of hindsight we see that the Savior's origin's are not so surpr...

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    "But now many nations are gathered against you . . . . But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord; they do not understand his plans" (Micah 4:11,12).

    November 29, 2017

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    Israel was about to be driven into exile. Enemy nations believed they had the upper hand and were in control of events. They did not know that their ascendancy over Israel was being incorporated into a larger plan than theirs.  God is greater than our personal misfortu...

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    "They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war any more" (Micah 4:3).

    November 28, 2017

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    Heaven, imagined as a place beyond the stratosphere where disembodied people float blissfully, is nowhere taught in Scripture. Instead, the future God has in mind will be this world, redeemed and, along with its inhabitants, renewed and transformed.  The futile tribal...

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    "Look, the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).

    November 27, 2017

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    Two prodigious realities are here mentioned.  Sin, which beclouds and dominates life, explaining why we self-sabotage even our best efforts, accounting for our  brokenness.  Then, the Lamb--Jesus, the answer to our futility.  Sin's hold on us is ruinous, but Christ is...

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    "He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, 'I am not the Christ'"(John 1:20).

    November 26, 2017

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    Many a politician begins his day in the sun by announcing that he will make things right in the world. Each in turn proves the falsity of this claim. John the Baptist was more useful by being more truthful. He came right out and said, 'I am not the Christ' (I am not Go...

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    "Then I said, 'Listen you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice, you who hate good and love evil'" (Micah 3:1).

    November 25, 2017

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    'Justice', here, is mishpat, more accurately, 'judgment'; truthful differentiation between right and wrong, which prevents the evil of injustice. Sure evidence of knowing God is love of justice. Genuine faith is weighty with social consequence.

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    "He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him--and he was a Samaritan!" (Luke 17:16).

    November 24, 2017

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    A frequent victim of racial profiling, and seen as spiritually impotent by the Jewish establishment, comes before Christ in adoration, gratitude, and readiness for service; sure signs of genuine religious experience. How often does it happen that a bona fide relationsh...

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    "One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. The king will pass through before them, the Lord at their head" (Micah 2:13).

    November 23, 2017

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    The prophet portrays refugees from the cities and towns of Judah, having fled for refuge within the walls of Jerusalem as their last bastion of hope against the marauding army of Sennacherib. Two figures of speech with a rich usage in Israel's story picture God as shep...

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    "So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say,' we are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty" (Luke 17:10).

    November 22, 2017

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    Because we are the product of a personal God, to reflect the Creator's personality is the imperative of our existence. All thought and action occurs under an overarching 'oughtness.'  And after having done right, what we should not do is think that God owes us somethin...

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    "Get up, go away! For this is not your resting place because it is defiled, it is ruined beyond all remedy" (Micah 2:10).

    November 21, 2017

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    'Don't make a mess in your own back yard.' Most of us know someone who, not having followed that piece of folk-wisdom, has made their home unlivable. There is a permanent homeland for the human spirit--with God, in the sharing of his values. 'There is a place of quiet...

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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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