Topic:Sinful Morality READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 2:1-11 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Romans 2:1 Here Paul talks about those who pass judgment on …
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Topic:God Gave Them Over READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 1:24-32 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts, to sexual impurity, for the degrading of their bodies with one another. Romans 1:24 The wickedness at work among human beings follows a process which is identified in this …
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Topic:Suppressing the Truth READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 1:18-23 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to …
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Topic:Not Ashamed READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 1:8-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed — a righteousness …
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Topic:The Unequal Yoke READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 13:23-29 Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women? Nehemiah 13:27 The nations among whom Israel was called to live were unusually degenerate. They practiced public lewdness. …
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Topic:The True Sabbath Rest READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 13:15-22 In those days I saw men in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem …
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Topic:Are You Faithful? READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 13:10-14 I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because these men were considered trustworthy. Nehemiah 13:13a Notice how representative this …
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Topic:Drastic Action READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 13:1-9 I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room. I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense. Nehemiah …
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Topic:Giving Cheerfully READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 12:44-47 From the fields around the towns they were to bring into the storerooms the portions required by the Law for the priests and the Levites, for Judah was pleased with the ministering priests and Levites. Nehemiah 12:44b Those offerings and contributions were given …
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Topic:How To Celebrate READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 12:27-43 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres. Nehemiah 12:27 …
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