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Tree of Knowledge
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God's plan for your personal Salvation comes
from His grace, His Character, His Mercy and
His Unending Love for you personally. Free
from personal works and the merits of man,
God's perfect plan found a way to bring
eternal life to all who freely choose to
partake of it. We
want you to know that Jesus Christ had you
personally in mind as He hung on the cross,
He bled and died just for you, in your
place, as your substitute...so that you
could accept the free gift of eternal life
by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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What many
believers do not realize is that The Living
God has an incredible and wonderful plan for
the lives of each and every believer.
As long as you are alive on this planet, God
still has a plan for your life. For
new believers, it is critical to find out
what to do next after having accepted the
free gift of Salvation.
New-to-the-faith or long-time Christian,
you'll find that what happens after
salvation is critical in the life of the
believer.
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Did you know
that many wonderful things happened to you at the
moment you received Christ at salvation?
Many of those things are addressed in this
study of the specifics of what makes our
salvation so great. Wonderful,
incredible things happened to you and
continue to happen to you, courtesy of the
grace of Almighty God. This study
provides an excellent place to begin for the
new believer and a place to remind the
not-so-new believer just exactly what they
still have in Him.
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Many believers
worry about losing their salvation. It
is the position of the enemy to keep us in
doubt and worry regarding our salvation so
that our spiritual growth and rest in the
Lord are hindered, and sometimes altogether
shut down. That's exactly where the
enemy wants us to be in our spiritual
growth: completely shut down.
God Himself assures us in His Word that our
salvation is held securely in the
mighty hand of the Living God, and that no
one and no thing can separate us from Him.
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Does Heaven
really exist? What will it be like?
What happens when the believer dies?
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Grace means kindness, mercy, forgiveness and
blessing. Grace is free, unmerited and
undeserved. Grace is how great God is. Grace
depends on the character of God not on the
character of man. Grace and religion are
mutually exclusive.
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Is God knowable? Is He some
mysterious, impersonal, far-away spirit who
cares little about the goings-on of man?
Or is He a personal, knowable, loving
Creator God, Lord and Master of the Universe
who loves us deeply and personally?
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Each Member of The Godhead has a specific
role. There is unity and equality
among God the Father, God the Son, and God
the Holy Spirit. Three in one, Our God
is an awesome God.
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Volition: Your choice, your free-will
decisions for or against Christ, for or
against salvation, for or against His Plan
for your life on a daily, and sometimes
moment-by-moment, basis.
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Just what is it inside you that makes you
want to do bad things anyway? Even the
Apostle Paul himself struggled with
recurring sin, wondering why he continued to
do the things he did not wish to do, but
could not seem to consistently do what he
knew he should do. Find out what's
going on inside you and the consequences of
saying 'No' to God and 'Yes' to the Sin
Nature. Knowing the facts is half the
battle.
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Flesh vs. Spirit: What in
the world does THAT mean? Flesh vs.
Spirit defines who we are on a
moment-by-moment basis. The battle
that rages within; Flesh vs. Spirit is...
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Jesus Christ truly is the
Alpha and Omega of Existence...Christ is "God
giving God" to redeem mankind...Christ cannot
ever receive enough glory for all that He
has done for mankind. And, we cannot begin
to understand ALL that Christ has done.
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There were two trees in
the Garden of Eden that would come to divide
the course of the human race throughout
history - The Tree of Knowledge of Good and
Evil and the Tree of Life. One of these two
trees will be chosen by all men. Throughout
our lives, believers and unbelievers must
make choices between the fruit of these two
trees. In them is revealed the mystery of
the ages.
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Man was originally
created 'trichotomous' – body, soul and
spirit. A study of Genesis 2:17 reveals that
the Hebrew word for “die” is in the plural
and should have been rendered “dying
(spiritually) thou shalt die (physically)." Adam did not
die immediately. He lived to be 930 years of
age.
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Christ is the
manifestation of God’s Grace for salvation.
The Holy Spirit is the manifestation of
God’s Grace for living the Christian life.
God’s Plan cannot fail and neither can you if
you stay in fellowship through the
utilization of 1 John 1:9. When we are in
fellowship, God is glorified – He gets the
credit, not you – this is Grace by God’s
design for the believer. If believers would
stop their love affair with certain sins (and
their own ego) they could experience the
true and full power of the Holy Spirit.
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The word Grace and its
eternal meaning were forever exalted by the
incarnation of Jesus Christ in hypostatic
union. The one and only true Messiah (Jesus
Christ) is God’s Grace personified to the
world - Jesus Christ is the personification
of Grace; the personification of Love; the
personification of Truth; Jesus Christ is
the personification of God in the flesh.
Jesus, the Christ is the humanity of the
eternal being - God. Failure to understand
the humanity of Christ and the Deity of
Christ in hypostatic union is perhaps the
most controversial doctrine in Christiandom,
second only to the doctrine of Grace. |
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“If we are faithless, He
remains faithful for He cannot deny Himself”
(II Timothy 2:13). Because God is Immutable
(unchanging), He does not change His mind!
He will always be faithful to you.
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Man has not evolved, he has
devolved.
Man is not evolving from a lower form of
life to higher form of life except through
the delusions of his imaginations and
perhaps excess alcohol, both of which are
self-deceiving. In fact, the opposite is
true…. Man started out at the height of
perfection from the hand of God (Genesis
1:26-31; 2:7-9). At the fall (Genesis
3:7&8), Eve and Adam plunged from the height
of Grace to the pit of disgrace. Creation
has never been the same.
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Andrew was crucified on
an x-shaped cross in Patras, Greece. After
being whipped severely by seven soldiers,
they tied his body to the cross with cords
to prolong his agony. Followers of Andrew
reported that, when he was led to the cross,
he saluted it in these words: “I have long
desired and expected this happy hour. The
cross has been consecrated by the body of
Christ hanging on it.” He continued to
preach to his tormentors for two days until
he expired. Can you imagine, with his joints
pulling apart, no circulation in his arms,
unable to get a deep breath, in excruciating
pain, thirsting, dying and yet he kept not
only his faith but witnessed to the seven
who beat him and crucified him.
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When you are following God’s plan for your
life, you will accept the circumstances of
your life peacefully because you know God is
in charge and has allowed them in order to
make you what he
wants you to become. In so doing God is
glorified as we advance in spiritual
maturity.
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Biblical evidence is and
must be the basis for theological
conclusions. Systematic Theology is based on
Scripture not philosophy, therefore Bible
Doctrine becomes the ark of Divine Viewpoint
afloat in the oceans of human opinion and
knowledge. It is the cork in the floodgates
of Satan’s cosmic world system. Scripture
enlightens our Divine Viewpoint - it is
viewing life through God’s eyes.
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After the fall of Adam, Satan
became the ruler of this world. His
counterfeit philosophies of life and
religions are his strategies to deceive and
confuse believers and unbelievers alike.
Satan has a counterfeit system for God’s
Plan. Satan is anti-Christ and is behind
everything that is anti-God. He has a
counterfeit plan for the ministry of the
Holy Spirit which is the purpose of this
detailed study. |
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If you are a believer in the
Lord Jesus Christ, you have an incredible
amount of "grace gifts" which were bestowed
upon you at the very moment in which you
believed. It is of tremendous importance that you realize all that you have in Christ so that you will be able to glorify Him to the maximum as you execute the spiritual life.
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