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The greatest spiritual battle you will face is not a battle of behavior. It is a battle of focus. We often think spiritual warfare means fighting for our own obedience. We scrutinize our actions, we p...
Every believer lives under one of two spiritual laws - not by effort, but by awareness. Paul describes both: "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and dea...
There is a profound difference between a requirement and a response. In Luke 18, a rich young ruler comes to Jesus. He is moral, upright, and anxious. He asks, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?...
Joseph practiced the presence of God without the Ten Commandments. Before there was a law, there was a relationship.Before God ever said, "Do not commit adultery," Joseph was already living as though...
There is a city called Jericho. Historically, it was known as the city of the curse. Jesus walked right into the middle of it. The crowd was thick that day, buzzing with noise and judgment. They were...
Many believers fear God's light because they think it will expose their failures.Scripture says it exposes Christ's righteousness on them instead. John writes,"God is light and in Him is no darkness a...
One of the hardest things to believe is that God sees you as clean even when you still see flaws in yourself. Jesus told His disciples, "You are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you" (...
Ever notice how a clenched fist can't receive anything?That's the difference between Law and Grace. For centuries, we've argued about the Gospel's center-Is it God working, or us? But the answer quiet...
Many people secretly carried a wrong belief in their walk with God-an invisible checklist in the back of their minds that goes like, "You need to do more. Try harder. Be better." It feels holy, but it...
The Law is perfect - but it was never designed to give you life. Paul says it like this, "The law is not of faith" (Galatians 3:12).You can have faith or you can have law - but you cannot stand on bot...
Psalm 1 doesn't begin with doing more.It begins with avoiding what quietly poisons you. "Blessed is the man... who does not sit in the seat of the scornful" (Psalm 1:1). Scorn is not loud.It's subtle....
Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem stood a pool called Bethesda.The name means: בֵּית־חֶסֶד - "house of grace." And yet the scene around it looked nothing like grace -a great crowd of sick, blind, and p...
Under the Law, if you touch the unclean, you become unclean.Under Jesus, if He touches the unclean, the unclean becomes clean. The leper pleaded, "If You are willing..."Jesus answered, "I am willing."...
The Law demands fruit.Grace produces fruit. Jesus said,"A good tree cannot bear bad fruit."Matthew 7:18 Fruit is not forced.Fruit is the natural outcome of the life inside the tree. Paul writes,"It is...
God does not relate to you based on your record.He relates to you based on Christ's. Paul says,"You are accepted in the Beloved."Ephesians 1:6 Accepted - not tolerated.In the Beloved - ἐν τῷ ἠ&...
We think of God guiding journeys and opening doors.But the Bible shows us He also moves kings, structures, policies, and systems. "The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; He tur...
Most people think the curse comes from breaking the Law.Scripture says it comes simply from standing on Law ground. Paul writes,"Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are writte...
We live in a world full of heroes - movie heroes, comic heroes, public heroes.But these heroes all keep a distance.Up close, their flaws show.Up close, the pedestal crumbles. Jesus is different. He li...
Falling into sin is human.Living in sin is impossible for someone born of God. John writes,"His seed remains in him; and he cannot continue in sin."1 John 3:9 Not because the believer is strong.Becaus...
The Law didn't arrive as God's master plan. It walked in through the side door-"the Law entered" (Romans 5:20)-not as the main event, but as the necessary spotlight. Grace was always God's heart. But...