Spiritual Gifts part 197: Our sin nature is our enemy in the race.
Pastor-Teacher
John Farley Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Spiritual Gifts Part 197: Our sin nature is our constant enemy in the race.What is discernment?
Matt 7:16
John 15:2 Suffering is part of the plan of God for our life. Several N.T. passages have this string of growth by stages. Each time the growth results from some form of suffering or affliction. At every step, at every cross roads, there is a hurdle. Sometimes it is affliction. Other times it is worry. Or riches. Or pleasure.
His great desire is that we leap over each and every one by believing His promises about what awaits on the other side of that hurdle.
ogkos;
In connection with the metaphor of the contestant, ogkos
Weights are not necessarily or even primarily external.
Luke 21:34 The weights are hindering our advance in the growth in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now it is crucial to know HOW we are supposed to lay aside these weights.
1 Peter 5:7 We are supposed to let our Lord bear our heavy burdens, and in exchange take His easy yoke. Is this thing a weight, or is it a wing?
euperistatos
skillfully surrounding i. e. besetting, namely, to prevent or retard running:
antikeimai ;
antikeimai
1 Cor 16:9
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