Edomite Aramean

When an Edomite is a Aramean

These psalms are interesting. They do in fact teach us about God, covenant with Him, that He is faithful and true… but it also introduces some opportunities to better understand the scriptures as a whole and some interesting challenges in investigating how a descendant of Abram could be an Aramean.

Interesting stuff.

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the Prize

The Prize

Jesus being formed in us IS our ending point.

Conformity to Him is our terminus. It is the completion of our testimony empowered by the Holy Spirit.

He IS the end of our race. He is the prize we are running for.

It literally signals back to the beginning where God told Abram –

Genesis 15 “(1) After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

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Treasure house cards

Earthly treasures are a house of cards

Continuing on in our lessons about being empowered testimonies of Jesus, we examined Jesus’ teachings regarding the value of the kingdom of God and its formation in the hearts of those who believe.

A heart with divided loyalties cannot fulfill the great commission.

God has got to become our focus, delight and only desire and we will have eyes filled with light, be good tress bearing good fruit and our treasure will once again be Him and Him alone!

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