Author: AshleyStrong

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The World Through Him Might Be Saved

Knowledge is not salvation. Nor is good works. You should know the Bible, but even more important, you should understand the God whom the Bible reveals and the salvation that God offers. 

When the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness, God sent a plague of serpents to punish the people for their rebellious attitudes. Those doomed to die from snakebite could be healed by obeying God’s command to look up at the elevated bronze serpent and by believing that God would heal them if they did (Numbers 21: 8-9) Similarly, our salvation happens when we look up to Jesus, believing he will save us. God has provided this way for us to be healed of sin’s deadly bite….

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Keep Your Faith Firm

John 2:23-25

23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feastday, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. 

24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, 

25 and needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. 

Jesus, the Son of God, knows all about human nature. He was well aware of the truth of Jeremiah 17:9, which states, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jesus was discerning and he knew that the faith of some would-be followers was superficial. Some of the same people claiming to believe when it is exciting and everyone else believes the same way. But keep your faith firm even when it isn’t popular to follow Christ. – Study Bible KJV

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Not My Home

As Born Again people

We will suffer in this world, but we are not of this world.

“This world is not our home. We are just passing through. We do not belong here. Everything down here offends us as Christians if we are a true believer. We march to a different drumbeat. What the world applauded, we don’t. What the world approves of, we don’t. We get offended by the things we see on the television, we get offended by the things we read online and in the paper. No one cares…

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A Light In This Dark World

Matthew 5:13-16 13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

If a seasoning had no flavor, it has no value. If Christians make no effort to affect the world around them, they are of little value to God….

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Did Man Write the Bible?

Listed below are some ways we know the man did NOT write the bible and also, what I am going to say next is contrary to what some teach but man is a complete failure in this day and age of Grace, as well as in every dispensational age. This includes me and you. We do not deserve what Jesus has done for us. But it is given to us, as a gift, from God. It is up to us to accept.

Over and over again we have proven that we fail when tested and we like to blame everything….

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Misinterpreting the Bible

We need to be aware of misinterpreting the bible. It is done far too often. What I mean by this is taking a verse or verses and applying them to a situation that has nothing to do with those verses. Keep in mind,  If we can rightly divide the bible then we can certainly wrongly divide it. 

If you are being taught something I strongly suggest you go back and reread it for yourselves and check out the whole chapter. You may find out what was taught to you was not what the bible said at all. And the bible warns us of false leaders…..

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Dispensational Truths

What is Dispensation? A period of time, during which man has been tested with respect to his obedience to some specific revelation of the will of God. There are 7 dispensations in the Bible.

During those periods of time, man has been tested and tried on the presence of Obedience, and in every case, man has failed. Man is a sinner and If you are saved we are in a constant battle with our old flesh.

The 7 dispensations in the bible are:… 

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Call Out to God in Your Distress

Do you have enemies? Do you maybe need deliverance out of the hand of your enemies like David? David was protected from Saul. Saul was a king who at one time used to murder Christians for thier beliefs. (He later was used by God and became an important Christian in the bible.) 

David Praised the LORD. He is his rock, fortress, deliverer, shield, his saviour, horn of his salvation, high tower, refuge.

The following verses are in reference to those who called out to God during their distress throughout the Bible….

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Nothing can separate us from Gods love!

Romans 8:30-34

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us…

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Which Destination do you Choose?

Hi everyone! I have been thinking about this post for a while and while at church Sunday one of the members of the church (we don’t currently have a pastor) preached about this very topic! I was so excited and thought to myself “YES! I have help getting this down on paper”

Before I go any further I would just like to send out a big Thank You for the two men who get up and preach God’s word and volunteer their free time until God sends a Pastor. Also a shout out to the Pastor Gary who does come once a month to preach to us! He was one of my pastors when I went to church as a kid and went with my mom. How ironic is that?!

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