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08/06/2026

You Were Never Guilty

The Courtroom Is Empty.

Justification means, "You were never guilty in My sight."

Guilt keeps you living like your case is still open. Like there’s more to prove, more to fix, more to repay. Even when you believe you’re forgiven, something lingers—like a shadow that won’t leave. But justification says something far stronger than forgiveness ever could. It says the case never existed. You weren’t just pardoned—you were declared righteous from the beginning. There is no record hanging over you. No quiet disappointment from God. No hidden file waiting to be reopened. The courtroom is empty. The Judge isn’t waiting—He’s already embraced you. You can stop defending yourself. There’s nothing left to defend.

—Steve Martin

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07/06/2026

Recognizing Distinctions in Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

In order to rightly divide the Word of God, we must recognize that there is a great distinction between the promises of the Old Testament, including the Gospels, as compared with the revelations of God’s abundant Grace in Christ as revealed to and through the Apostle Paul, and contained in His Epistles.

—H.W. Fry (1848-1938)

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06/06/2026

Sin Isn’t What You Think

Man’s sin is not inherent in his nature or his flesh.

We’ve often been told that sin is built into us—that it’s part of who we are at the deepest level. But this challenges that assumption directly. Sin is real. It’s serious. But it’s not your essence. It’s not your identity. That distinction matters more than we realize. Because when sin becomes who you are, freedom feels impossible. But when sin is something affecting you—not defining you—then everything changes. Hope becomes real. Change becomes possible. And grace begins to make sense.

—A.E. Knoch (1874-1965)

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05/06/2026

Human Helplessness

Being justified gratuitously in His grace, through the deliverance which is in Christ Jesus (Whom God purposed for a Propitiatory shelter, through faith in His blood, for a display of His righteousness because of the passing over of the penalties of sins which occurred before in the forbearance of God), toward the display of His righteousness in the current era, for Him to be just and a Justifier of the one who is of the faith of Jesus. Where, then, is boasting? It is debarred! (Romans 3:25, Concordant Literal Version).

Notice here the succession of terms indicative of human helplessness:

Being justified — requiring to be made right with God;
gratuitously — without a cause, without anything in oneself that would give God reason for doing this;
in His grace — purely as a favor, unearned, undeserved;
through the deliverance — requiring a rescue act;
which is in Christ Jesus, Whom God purposed — not in oneself, but in the One Whom God appointed.

This is the first occasion in Scripture that any act of God is referenced to His purpose, and the next outstanding fact that we must note is that it is centered in “Christ Jesus” – not in “Jesus Christ” as He was on earth, but in “Christ Jesus,” the risen Lord, the One Who, by His victory over death and His resurrection from the tomb, has proved that He has settled once and for all time the problem of sin, and thereby paved the way for deliverance.

—John H. Essex (1907-1991)

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04/06/2026

Which One Makes More Sense?

Does this context make more sense as reluctant favor … or as joy freely expressed?

This is the question that reframes everything. When you read Scripture, which interpretation actually fits? A God reluctantly helping the undeserving? Or a Father joyfully expressing His delight? One creates tension. The other creates clarity. One leads to striving. The other leads to rest. And when you begin to read through the lens of joy, something remarkable happens—the contradictions disappear. The message becomes coherent. And God begins to look exactly like who He truly is.

—Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.

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03/06/2026

Will God Throw Up His Hands in Defeat?

And when He was come near, He beheld the city, and wept over it (Luke 19:41).

In the Gospels, we are told that as Jesus rides into Jerusalem He weeps over the rejection He is about to experience from His people (Luke 19:41). If God looks like Jesus (John 14:9; Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3), then it seems that an everlasting hell would mean everlasting tears flowing down the face of God. It is impossible for me to believe that the God revealed in Jesus will at some point simply throw up his hands in defeat or harden his heart in retaliation.

—Heath Bradley

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02/06/2026

The Triumph of Singularity

Here is where the story ends.

And at the end of the ages, every creature, every heart, every realm, every authority, every being – including the Son – will flow back into the Father so that God may be all in all.

And that is the triumph of singularity: one God over all,

One Son ruling all, one Spirit empowering all, and one purpose drawing all back to its Source.

And in the end, God is All in all.

—Liam McAllister

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01/06/2026

He is All

He has to take us all to the place where there is none in the universe but HIM. He is ALL; expressing His “allness” in and through everything, whether positive or negative, good or evil, to bring humanity back “home” to the One Who is love and nothing else.

—Norman Grubb (1895-1993)

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31/05/2026

The Ultimate End of the Story is Going to Be All Right

My friend Dana and I talk about how we want to make everything all right for those we love, and cannot. Her mother died of pancreatic cancer only a few months ago. We say to each other that if we were God we would make everything all right, and then we stop. Look at each other. Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would not make everything all right. We would not be human beings. … We agree sadly that it is a good thing that we are not God; we do not have to understand God’s ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all. But we do have to know in the very depths of our being that the ultimate end of the story, no matter how many eons it takes, is going to be all right.

—Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007)

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30/05/2026

The Future is Secure

You already know the ending.

Hope isn’t wishing for the best; it’s expecting the inevitable.

Worry always lives in the unknown. It imagines a future where things fall apart, where God doesn’t come through, where the story breaks down. But hope changes the lens. It doesn’t guess—it expects. Not because life feels predictable, but because the Author is trustworthy. The ending of your story isn’t uncertain—it’s already written. And it’s good. That doesn’t mean every chapter feels easy. But it does mean every chapter is moving somewhere. You don’t have to control what’s coming next. You can trust it. The future isn’t fragile. It’s guaranteed.

—Steve Martin

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