Notes from My Bible

1 Thessalonians 4:4
...that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable...

vs. 4 --> Body is not just the physical, but mental and emotional. These too need to be conducted in holy and honorable ways.

Notes from My Bible

2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

He called us into this fellowship with Himself (1 Cor. 1:9), and because he called us He is faithful and will complete His work (1 Th. 5:24).

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Ephesians 4:17-19
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.

As Christians, our understanding is not darkened and we are not separated from the life of God, we are His children; therefore, we have no reason to live in ignorance.

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2 Corinthians 4:15
All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

vs. 15 - "all this," all that God brings me through is for my benefit and His glory

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2 Corinthians 5:7
We live by faith, not by sight.

5:7, Amplified---
For we walk by faith [we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk] not by sight or appearance.

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"The learning by heartbreaking experience of the utter sinfulness and reigning power of self in the everyday Christian life is the means whereby we come to know the Lord Jesus beyond the birth phase--as our Savior, on to the growth phase--as our Lord and Life."

Notes from My Bible

"Wisdom and philosophy never found out God; He makes Himself known to us through our needs, necessity finds Him out. I doubt much if we have ever learned anything solidly except we have learned it thus."

J.N. Darby

Notes from My Bible

Sometimes when I'm flipping through my Bible, I come across a passage with a little note that catches my eye. I always enjoy reading these forgotten notes and am often surprised by their insightful timeliness. I thought I'd begin sharing them here.

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"You were bought with a price, you are my daughter."
(That's like your undeniable worth!)

Having been bought--paid for--solidifies that we have value. Compared to Christ our value is nothing, but God looked out and saw what He could do in and through us and that gave us worth in His eyes--His plan gives us value.

Not only that, but the payment for us gave to us an intrinsical value.