Designed to Be Like Him: Understanding God's Plan for Fellowship, Conduct, Conflict, and MaturityA practical and powerful reminder that new life in Christ gives us a whole new purpose - and a new goal for every aspect of life...we have been designed to be like Him. |
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... sins of the world . Eiljah did not speak of the glories of prophecy , nor did Moses speak of the triumphs or failures of the law . They talked with the Lord about " the decease which he should accomplish at Jeru- salem . " Just as ...
... sins of the world . Eiljah did not speak of the glories of prophecy , nor did Moses speak of the triumphs or failures of the law . They talked with the Lord about " the decease which he should accomplish at Jeru- salem . " Just as ...
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... sin . Adam was created with an untried innocence . Adam was given the capacity of choice , and Adam could choose to sin , or choose to obey God . But to say that Adam's likeness to God was a moral or ethical likeness would be to say ...
... sin . Adam was created with an untried innocence . Adam was given the capacity of choice , and Adam could choose to sin , or choose to obey God . But to say that Adam's likeness to God was a moral or ethical likeness would be to say ...
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... Sin severed the creature from fellowship with the Creator ! And the effects of Adam's sin are far - reaching . In the first chapter of the book of Romans , the Apostle Paul shows the effects of Adam's sin . First of all , the apostle ...
... Sin severed the creature from fellowship with the Creator ! And the effects of Adam's sin are far - reaching . In the first chapter of the book of Romans , the Apostle Paul shows the effects of Adam's sin . First of all , the apostle ...
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... sins . " We have been given a new capacity of heart in order that the new heart might exercise itself Godward . Third , we have been given a new will in order that we might obey God . Peter says , in II Peter 1 : 4 , that believers are ...
... sins . " We have been given a new capacity of heart in order that the new heart might exercise itself Godward . Third , we have been given a new will in order that we might obey God . Peter says , in II Peter 1 : 4 , that believers are ...
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... sin , his mind was darkened so that he did not know God ; his emotions were de- graded so that he did not love God ; and his will was deadened so that he did not obey God . All of Adam's children have been born with an incapacity for ...
... sin , his mind was darkened so that he did not know God ; his emotions were de- graded so that he did not love God ; and his will was deadened so that he did not obey God . All of Adam's children have been born with an incapacity for ...
Contents
A Good Conscience Before God | 166 |
Do All Things to the Glory of God | 174 |
How Far Can a Christian Go? | 179 |
The Goal of the Christian | 189 |
DESIGN FOR CONFLICT | 197 |
The Christian and the World | 199 |
The Christian and the Flesh | 208 |
The Whole Armor of God | 215 |
The Old Will | 68 |
The New Will | 76 |
What Is Man? | 85 |
The Judgment at the Cross | 94 |
DESIGN FOR CONDUCT | 103 |
Crucified with Christ | 105 |
Dead with Christ | 116 |
Resurrected with Christ | 123 |
Filled with the Spirit | 131 |
Yielding to the Spirit | 141 |
Liberty in the Christians Life | 148 |
Giving No Offense | 158 |
The Girdle of Truth | 224 |
The Breastplate of Righteousness | 230 |
Shoes for Your Feet | 236 |
The Shield of Faith | 243 |
The Helmet of Salvation | 250 |
The Sword of the Spirit | 257 |
DESIGN FOR MATURITY | 265 |
Coming to Maturity | 267 |
Steps to Maturity | 276 |
Scripture Index | 284 |
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Page 44 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth...
Page 239 - Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Page 210 - This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Page 63 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 192 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Page 16 - And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord. So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
Page 14 - And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
Page 111 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 156 - But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.