The enemy keeps a running negative recording assaulting our minds. Crazy thing is, satan doesn’t know us at all! He’s the accuser, randomly pitching condemnation around like hot acid until something seems to hit home. If we buy into it, if we receive it, it can wound us, make us afraid, bring depression, give us doubt, paralyze us, tempt us to hate ourselves.
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When we have received the salvation that God offers, we too, experience an amazing metamorphosis. We are made new; our hearts are made new.
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After Jesus has ascended into Heaven, the perfect time comes for Him to send the promised Holy Spirit on all the believers, 120 people, gathered in a house in Jerusalem. Only 120! But they were serious believers, gathered for worship and prayer for weeks on end, waiting for God’s timing. Now it’s here! Now is the time!
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The tomb is empty! Earthquake, guards senseless, seal melted, door open, and the tomb is empty! Seated casually atop the rolling stone is the angel who opened the tomb, telling them not to be afraid, that Jesus is risen from the dead! What a message of hope!
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It is a simple but terrible exchange: Jesus is condemned, and we go free. Jesus takes our punishment, and we are forgiven. Jesus takes our sin, and we get His righteousness. As Jesus hangs between Heaven and earth, the full wrath of God is visited on Him – only the sinless Son of God could take our punishment, only Jesus could not only survive it, but come through the other side.
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Christ, on His last night on earth, gathered with His disciples in the upper room. It was an intimate time of fellowship, and it started with: foot washing. Just like we slip off our shoes when we come in, and wash our hands before dinner, in the first century this routine chore was always performed
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