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Thoughts, encouragement, and lessons from the recovery journey.
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The Weak and the Strong
Romans 14 1. Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. 2. One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not…
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LIVE IN THE LIGHT
Romans 13 Submission to the Authorities 1. Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so…
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A LIVING SACRIFICE
Romans 12 Living Sacrifices 1. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God this is your spiritual act of worship. 2. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.…
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ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE GRAFTED
Romans 11 The Remnant of Israel 1, I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2. God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah how…
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CLOSER THAN YOU REALIZE
Romans 10 1. Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought…
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GOD’S MERCY, HIS CHOICE
Romans 9 God’s Sovereign Choice 1. I speak the truth in Christ “I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit“ 2. I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my…
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HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS
Romans 8(b) Future Glory 18. I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the…
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FORGIVEN, NOT CONDEMNED
Romans 8 Life Through the Spirit 1. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2. because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. 3. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was…
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LAWS TO LIVE BY – NOT TO DIE BY
Romans 7 An Illustration From Marriage 1. Do you not know, brothers for I am speaking to men who know the law that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? 2. For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive,…
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DEAD TO OLD HABITS – ALIVE TO NEW LIFE
DEAD TO OLD HABITS – ALIVE TO NEW LIFE Romans 6 Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ 1. What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2. By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3. Or don’t you know that…