What the LORD Requires

Many people spend much of their time trying to perform religious duties.  Religious duties that help them feel as though they are doing something that really obligates God to bless them, or to save them. They may have it in their mind or heart; If I just help this neighbor build that fence, then God …

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Why Will You Perish?

I hear people ask, "Why would a loving God send people to hell?"  My answer has been, "He does not".  Some who hear my answer and ask then, "Do you not preach that sinners go to hell?" or something along that order of thought.  Of course I do believe  in hell.  I believe in hell …

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My Covenant will I Not Break, Nor Alter the Thing that is Gone Out of My Lips

"If his children forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments; if they break My statutes, and keep not My commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail. My covenant will …

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113011 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good

"Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?   Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit …

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081211 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness

"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.  Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.  For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.  Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done …

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061611 The LORD look upon it, and require it

"Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.  And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.  Yet he sent prophets …

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060311 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD…

...Even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;  and enquired not of the LORD: therefore He slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse." 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 (KJV) Today's Bible Reading - …

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040411 …They have also transgressed My covenant…

"And the LORD said unto Joshua, 'Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?   Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own …

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Verse Of The Day 062710

"Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy.   He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins …

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Verse Of The Day 062010

"Woe unto them! for they have fled from Me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against Me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.   And they have not cried unto Me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they …

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