Evil Regards Others as its Personal Property

John 8:34  Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. Recently I was reminded, as I often am, of some of the wicked people I have had to deal with...

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Who is Really on the Lord’s Side?

1Jn 2:9-10  Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.  (10)  Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. There are many statements of...

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The Many Little Popes in Evangelicalism – How Evil Creeps in

Gal 2:6  And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me. The Apostle Paul was not being arrogant when he...

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Another Way the Wicked Creep into Local Churches

John 1:12-13  But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,  (13)  who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the...

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A Church in which Evil is Justified

Rom 6:1-2  What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?  (2)  By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? My good friend Phoebe who grew up in...

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How Local Churches Become Enslaved to Evil – Part 5

Gal 5:19-21  Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,  (20)  idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,  (21)  envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned...

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Christian – Do Not Permit Anyone to Put a Yoke on You!

Gal 4:3-7 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. (4) But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under...

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