In order to understand this part we have to keep in mind that the Jews of old did not believe that all people were sinners. They believed that only those people who did live strictly according to the law were sinners. Paul wanted to explain to them that no one is acquitted on the basis […]
Read moreFor many people the gospel is simply too simple. They want to know what the catch is. Many of us get calls from people promising you the moon and stars, just to be told at the end of the conversation that you first need to pay a lot of money. It sounds so good, but […]
Read moreOne time or another we all fall into the trap of sin – some of us more often than others – and then we struggle to get over it. I don’t know whether it is because we struggle to forgive ourselves or whether we’re simply disappointed, but it remains difficult to get rid of that […]
Read moreThe world’s intention is to steal you away from God. The devil wants you for himself. There always is a second agenda and hidden powers that want to entice us away from God. And we don’t realise it. We don’t realise our day is completely filled with things which may sometimes be important things, but […]
Read moreWe got to know Paul as someone who didn’t mince his words. Again and again in his letters he said it straight-out: Change or burn. You come up against these words again and again. Here at the end of the second letter to the Corinthians Paul still didn’t mince his words: 3Now, preparing for the […]
Read morePaul was a bit anxious about going to Corinth again. He was unsure about what he would find. He was afraid there would be 20… quarrels, jealousy, flaring tempers, taking sides, angry words, vicious rumours, swelled heads, and general bedlam … Paul was afraid that he would find 21… that the crowd keeps sinning over […]
Read moreClick here to go to the Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 The devil will never come to me with the temptation to rob a bank or steal a Bar One in a shop. And he will never try and let me get caught up in a web of drugs. He knows that there is no hope […]
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