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Romans on Righteousness (Part Three)
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Submitted by BrownBible 31 months, 3 weeks, 6 days, 1 hour ago
(by Ken Brown) If you have accepted Jesus Christ as lord and believed God raised him from the dead, you are righteous and you have peace with God. This is a big deal. So many believers do not understand their relationship with their heavenly Father. They think they are likely on the outs with Him due to some whatever and need to do SOMETHING (though they are usually not sure exactly what) to make peace with God. There is NOTHING any of us can do to make peace with God. For one thing, we already are at peace with Him. For another, none of our works could ever be good enough anyway. It is not what we do to be at peace with God; it is what Jesus Christ did that brings peace.
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How Big Is Your God?
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Submitted by BrownBible 32 months, 1 day, 14 hours ago
(by Jane Harvester) Are you limiting God's might by mere circumstances? I invite you to open your mind enough to let the Creator of the Universe help you out of your troubles.
One of my favorite records of deliverance is in the book of Daniel. He was a Godly man who was recognized for his wisdom and placed as one of the main heads of the kingdom he was in. He so distinguished himself that the king sought to put him in charge of the whole of the kingdom. However, his coworkers were not happy at this idea and tried to find fault in him to make charges against him, but were unsuccessful. The plot thickens...
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Romans on Righteousness (Part Two) | The Brown Bible
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Submitted by BrownBible 32 months, 3 days, 21 hours ago
(by Ken Brown) Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin? I should say so!! Now THAT would be quite the deal to get in on would it not? Who is it that gets to have this amazing grace?
In Part One, we investigated the first three chapters of Romans and saw the introduction of the truth that righteousness comes by faith (pistis, belief: in this case, the correct belief regarding Jesus Christ) not by the Old Testament law. Chapter four gives Abraham as the precedent for righteousness coming by faith without the law.
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Romans on Righteousness (Part One) | The Brown Bible
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Submitted by BrownBible 32 months, 1 week, 4 days, 8 hours ago
(by Ken Brown) Righteousness basically means rightness. The earliest English versions of the Bible used the word, rightwiseness. When Romans speaks of ones righteousness, or rightness, it refers to ones rightness before God. It is the condition of being before God as one ought to be. This is not a side note when it comes to right believing. What constitutes being right before God, and why, is as fundamental as it gets.
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Mohammed and the Mountain | The Brown Bible
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Submitted by BrownBible 32 months, 1 week, 4 days, 15 hours ago
(by Ken Brown) My father was on a construction project endeavoring to position a very large piece of equipment close to where it would be most efficiently used. Significant effort was to no avail. Finally, my father told his co-worker they were just going to have to leave the equipment where it was and walk back and forth to it from their project to use it. He then said, If the mountain won t come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must come to the mountain.
His co-worker was immediately offended and scolded back, Don t quote the Bible to me!
...I ll bet there are other lines you have heard incorrectly attributed to the Bible. I d love to hear your stories. Your comments on this will be interesting and informative. Or maybe you have questions. Does such and such come from the Bible? We would love to hear from you too.
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The Unity of the Spirit
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Submitted by BrownBible 32 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 16 hours ago
(By Ken Brown) What brings people together? Family relationships can be a cause even when there are no shared experiences. Two brothers raised separately might still feel an affinity toward one another for no other reason than that they are brothers. Common ideologies bring people together as do common goals. Neighborhoods form in which residents share a common cultural background. Seniors congregate at the senior center and bond together. Their age, and the challenges that go with it, giving them common ground. Shared experiences tend to bring people together, especially when those experiences are dramatic and/or unusual.
There are many other things that bring people together, but there is one element that is the bottom line for each of these things: something shared.
In God’s Word, we believers are directed to keep, or guard, the unity of the spirit. The key to maintaining the unity of the spirit is not to endeavor to become more like one another. It is to continually recognize that our differences are relatively insignificant compared to what we share.
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What About Tithing? Do I Need to Tithe? | The Brown Bible
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Submitted by BrownBible 32 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 4 hours ago
(by Ken Brown) Tithing, paying one tenth, is based on the Old Testament law which we are no longer under. But what about today in this administration of grace in which we live?
Christians can certainly give one tenth of their incomes if they want to and even correctly call it their tithes since tenth part is all the word tithe means, but there is no commandment in effect today to do so. Giving is encouraged in the New Testament, but there is no statement as to how much.
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