Tonight, we start on a journey regarding eternal rewards. This journey will take months as we dig into God’s Word concerning the many references on rewards. It’s important to study it and to make it part of your life because it has eternal ramifications and we need to know what God’s Word says about it. …
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Are You Motivated? – by Joseph Cortes
Open your Bibles to I John 4:19. Last week we opened this series with “Is It Worth It?” and I gave examples of an athlete, a junior executive and a student, working hard, determined to reach their goals. In the athlete example, I used the Olympic games and how an athlete strives to win the …
He No Longer Counts Sin Against Us – by Joseph Cortes
Psalm 32:1 reads, “Blessed…” [A better translation of this word in context would be oh the bliss.] “Oh the bliss is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered [concealed].” Now, I’ve preached through the Table of The Lord series and the Change of Mind series that our sins are not just covered any longer, that is Old Testament. In the New Testament, our sins …
God Will Give You Enough – by Joseph Cortes
Malachi 3:8 reads, “Will a man robe God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed (A better translation is ye are rendered powerless) “Ye are rendered powerless: for ye have robbed me, this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there …
They Shall Be Fattened
They Shall Be Fattened – by Joseph Cortes Matthew 5:6 reads, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” Blessed is makarios in the Greek, but unfortunately some dictionaries have translated it as happiness or happy. Happy is a temporary physical state that we experience when reacting to something that pleases us, but …
Weapons of Righteousness unto God
Weapons of Righteousness unto God – by Joseph Cortes Romans 6:13 reads, “Neither yield ye your members as instruments [weapons or arms is the word used in the Greek] of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as weapons [not instruments] of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion …
What Did Paul Want?
What Did Paul Want? – by Joseph A Cortes Hebrews 5:13 reads, “For every one that useth milk is unskilful [without experience is a better translation] in the word of righteousness:” There’s no doubt that Paul wanted everyone to understand what righteousness is, how to get it, and not how to fabricate it in your …
There Is No Other Way
There is no other way – by Joseph A. Cortes In Ephesians 6:14 reads, “Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness [dekiosuna in the Greek].” In previous messages on this subject, the truth is what is true in the matter under consideration. Many Christians want to place everything else as the truth, and there are …
Are We All God’s Children?
Are We All God’s Children? – by Joseph A. Cortes John 1:12 reads, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power…” [Power here, in the Greek, basically means he is giving you the privilege and the right] “…to become the sons of God, even to them that believe [pisteuo; trust and confidence] on his name [Jesus Christ]: which were born, not of blood, …
God’s Seal Of Ownership
God’s Seal Of Ownership – by Joseph A. Cortes Ephesians 1:13, “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,” [here is another promise]“which is the earnest of our inheritance until the …