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She Has Done a Beautiful Thing
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A Warning from the Wilderness Generation
The Christian life is not merely a single decision to follow Christ, as decisive as our conversion is. The Christian life is an ongoing commitment to Jesus, a daily turning to Him in repentance and faith as we await the ...Read More
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The Greater New Covenant Mediator
Today’s passage concludes by saying that we are God’s house if we hold fast our confidence (Heb. 3:6). How do we know that we are part of the house that God is building and in which He dwells? By persevering ...Read More
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Help for the Tempted
Our Great High Priest knows our struggles and the temptations we face. He can relate to us in a way that none of the “saviors” proclaimed in other religions can. Because He has faced what we face, He knows exactly ...Read More
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Deliverance from Death
John Calvin comments on the great comfort that we get from Hebrews 2:14–15. “For though the devil still lives, and constantly attempts our ruin, yet all his power to hurt us is destroyed or restrained. It is a great consolation ...Read More
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The Fittingness of Christ’s Work
Because God has decreed that death is the punishment for sin (Gen. 2:16–17), the only way that we could be saved was through the death of another in our place. We could not have been saved without the death of ...Read More
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Demonstrations of Power
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Made Lower to Be Crowned with Glory
We can hardly imagine it, but there is a sense in which redeemed human beings are greater than the angels. We will, after all, “judge angels” (1 Cor. 6:3). We must therefore understand the dignity of redeemed human beings, creatures ...Read More
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A Sober Warning
We want people to choose Christ, but we must be careful never to let them think that choosing Christ is as inconsequential as choosing to wear a blue shirt rather than a red one or selecting chocolate ice cream over ...Read More
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Ministering Spirits to Serve Us
The great Puritan scholar John Owen comments that “these blessed angels specially minister to [the church] and have us under their constant care.” Although we cannot normally see them, the angels of God are looking out for us. They are ...Read More