Rhyme In Word

09/08/2025

Proverbs 31:30 LSB
[30] Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

09/08/2025

07/08/2025

People who inject works into the gospel are excluded from the very thing they seek. They are in a yoke of slavery. They have rendered Christ of no benefit, useless to them. They are under the obligation to keep the whole law or be damned. They have been severed from Christ, they have made shipwreck of grace, and they will never attain the righteousness they seek. You miss out on what you’re working to get. “By the deeds of the law,” Paul says, “no flesh is” – what? – “righteous, justified.”

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07/08/2025

Romans 5:8 LSB
[8] But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

03/08/2025

Colossians 3:2 LSB
[2] Set your mind on the things above,
not on the things that are on earth.

02/08/2025

“Anybody who has true faith is a changed person, and if they’re not, that’s proof positive that they don’t have saving faith.” —R.C. Sproul

From ‘Justification’

02/08/2025

Do we need another??? Naaah definitely No!
To ask for another pentecost is blasphemy to God, especially to God the Holy Spirit.
Lets

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"Do we need another Pentecost? Absolutely not! To ask for another Pentecost is not only theologically mistaken—it borders on blasphemy, particularly against the Person and work of God the Holy Spirit.

Think about it: if you are a true believer in Christ—a genuinely born-again Christian—has not the Lord already sent the Holy Spirit at Pentecost? Hasn’t He already sealed you with the Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:13–14)? You already have the indwelling Spirit of God (Rom. 8:9–11); therefore, you do not need another Pentecost or a so-called “upgrade” or “double portion,” as if the Spirit given to you is insufficient, deficient, or powerless.

Pastors and leaders, repent. Worship leaders, singers, and ministers—repent if you are leading people to cry out for another Spirit, a new Pentecost, or a fresh outpouring in a way that implies the insufficiency of what God has already done. That is spiritual grandstanding. Do yourself and your congregations a favor: do not deceive yourselves—and do not deceive the people of God.

Yes, we are God’s children—if truly born again through Christ. But let us not presume to act as if we are gods ourselves—commanding, dispatching, dispensing, or summoning the Holy Spirit at will. We are not sovereign. We do not send the Spirit. God does (John 14:16–17; Acts 2:33).
Let this humble us.
Let us .
Let's Repent!

✦ Biblical Text
1. The Holy Spirit was already sent at Pentecost—once for all.
Acts 2:1–4 – The Holy Spirit came upon the church once and inaugurated the New Covenant era.

Acts 2:33 (ESV) – “Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.”

2. Every believer receives the Holy Spirit at conversion.
Romans 8:9 (NASB1995) – “But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.”

1 Corinthians 6:19 – “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?”
Ephesians 1:13–14 (NKJV) – “…you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance…”

3. Asking for another Pentecost denies the sufficiency of the Spirit's work.
2 Peter 1:3 – “His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness…”
John 14:16 – “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever.”

4. God alone sends the Spirit according to His sovereign will.
John 3:8 – “The wind blows where it wishes… So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
Zechariah 4:6 – “Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says the Lord of hosts.

5. Commanding the Holy Spirit reflects theological arrogance.
Job 38:2 – “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?”
Isaiah 40:13–14 – “Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as His counselor has informed Him?”

02/08/2025

“The Scriptures are absolutely key in the process by which the Spirit gives—and strengthens—the faith of Christians.” —R.C. Sproul

From ‘What is Faith?’

02/08/2025

Parenting is difficult! But the longer you are a student of your child, the easier it becomes to distinguish between deep-down struggles, and garden variety sin.

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02/08/2025

2 Peter 3:9 LSB
[9] The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

29/07/2025

Every one of us could have a great biography. Your story can be a glorious record of enduring faithfulness. It would be well for each of us to memorize 2 Corinthians 4—the entire chapter. Make it your own, live in it, think about it, meditate on it, make it your mandate for life and ministry, and cry out to God to sustain you in faithfulness.

In On Finishing Well, John MacArthur unpacks the apostle Paul’s strategy for lifelong devotion to Christ, helping you build the biblical convictions that will keep you from faltering before the finish line—equipping you to remain faithful to the end.

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