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Word for the Week 2005
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| The Best Year of Your Life | | Week 1, 2005 - As we begin this year with our study of biblical prophecies of the last days, we have evidence of their fulfillment on every news station. The Lord said in Mark 13:8, “For nation will arise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom...
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| Crossing Over | | Week 2, 2005 - The recent earthquake and tsunamis that struck so many countries in the Indian Ocean are taxing the whole world’s relief efforts. In human life lost, it will go down as one of the worst natural disasters in human history. It does have...
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| Victory Over Death | | Week 3, 2005 - Last week we discussed how the Jordan River, which represents death, overflowed all of its banks all the days of the harvest. This was a prophetic sign that during the harvest (the end of the age), we can expect death to be overflowing...
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| The Liberty of Death | | Week 4, 2005 - More than two decades ago the Lord spoke to me and some of my friends that the cross would become popular again. This will be the time when the church truly crosses over and begins to possess its Promised Land. We have come to that time...
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| The Great Change | | Week 5, 2005 - More than two decades ago the Lord spoke to me and some of my friends that the cross would become popular again. This will be the time when the church truly crosses over and begins to possess its Promised Land. We have come to that time...
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| The Prevailing Heart | | Week 6, 2005 - As we previously covered, the Israelites did not go willingly in the baptism represented by the crossing of the Red Sea. The Lord basically had to trick them into it, giving them no other alternative because of the enemy that pursued...
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| The Fighting Heart | | Week 7, 2005 - As we have been covering the last few weeks, the church now stands on the brink of one of the most important advances in history. It is an advance that must take place. If the church continues to wander in the wilderness, it will only...
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| Weakened Warriors | | Week 8, 2005 - As we continue our study of how the church will cross over and begin to possess its Promised Land, this week we will look at the first great event after crossing the Jordan, which we see in Joshua 5:2: “At that time the Lord said to...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part I | | Week 9, 2005 - As we have discussed, in Scripture “the flesh” is a metaphor for the carnal nature of fallen man which is in opposition to the Spirit of God. The attributes of this carnal nature are listed in Galatians 5:17-21:
Now the deeds of the...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part II | | Week 10, 2005 - Last week we began a more in-depth look at Galatians 5:18-21,starting with the first work of the flesh that is listed there, “immorality.” This week we will look at the next two, which are “impurity” and “sensuality.” Impurity is the...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part III | | Week 11, 2005 - As we have been taking a more in-depth look at the works of the flesh listed in Galatians 5:18-21, covering immorality, impurity, and sensuality, we will continue this week with the next in the list—idolatry. We may think that no...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part IV | | Week 12, 2005 - This may seem like quite a diversion from our study of end time prophecies to be doing such an extensive study of the works of the flesh listed in Galatians 5:18-21.However, this understanding is essential if we are going to be...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part V | | Week 13, 2005 - This week we continue our study of the works of the flesh with “enmities.” The Greek word that is translated here is thumos, which is sometimes translated “fierceness indignation, wrath, hostility, or hatred.” In my search of...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part VI | | Week 14, 2005 - The next work of the flesh in this study is "strife." This is from the Greek word, eritheia, which is usually translated "contention" or "strife," but also could be translated "intrigue." By implication, this is the tendency to...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part VII | | Week 15, 2005 - The next work of the flesh in this study of Galatians 5:19-21 is "jealousy." This is another deadly and devastating evil that continues to cause much destruction in the world and in the church. As the Scripture also testifies, it is...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part VIII | | Week 16, 2005 - In Galatians 5:20 the next "work of the flesh" noted is "outbursts of anger." Today we would call this "losing your temper" or "going ballistic." Losing control of our anger is a work of the flesh, and like all works of the flesh it...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part IX | | Week 17, 2005 - The next “work of the flesh,” noted in Galatians 5:20 is “disputes,” or as it is called in some translations, “strife." Like all of these works of the flesh, they overlap each other in ways, and then feed each other. Worse than that...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part X | | Week 18, 2005 - The next “work of the flesh” noted in Galatians 5:20 is “sedition” (KJV). This word is also translated “rebellion” or “division.” Its implication is more than just resisting authority, but also to incite others to rebel or turn...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part XI | | Week 19, 2005 - The next "work of the flesh," noted in Galatians 5:20 is translated "heresies," or "factions." We often relate heresy to teaching a false doctrine, but a heresy is actually creating a division or faction in the church.
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part XII | | Week 20, 2005 - The next “work of the flesh” we will study from Galatians 5:20 is “envying.” This is similar to “jealousy” that we studied previously, but not quite the same. Jealousy is more directed at a person, while envy is directed more...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part XIII | | Week 21, 2005 - The next “work of the flesh,” we will study from Galatians 5:22 is “drunkenness.” Of course, getting drunk, or high, should have no place in the life of a Christian. To become drunk is at best to reduce your ability to control...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part XIV | | Week 22, 2005 - Before we continue this study of the works of the flesh, I would like to remind you how these relate to our study of the biblical prophecies about the end times. Our main goal for studying the end times is to be able to...
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| Creating a Clean Heart - Part XV | | Week 23, 2005 - The last of the works of the flesh that Paul lists in Galatians 5 is “carousing.” This is more than just joking around. The Greek word that is translated implies being loud and foolish. The carnal nature is prone to being self-centered...
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| Preparing to Take the Land | | Week 24, 2005 - Briefly reviewing what we have covered earlier in this study, after Paul recited the experiences of Israel in the wilderness, we read: “Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part I | | Week 25, 2005 - Now it came about when they had finished circumcising all the nation, that they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." So..
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part II | | Week 26, 2005 - For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, "You shall love your...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part III | | Week 27, 2005 - As we have discussed, Israel was not just called out of bondage, but into the glorious freedom of God and into a new land of promised prosperity and blessing. Likewise, we are not just called out of this world, or this present evil...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part IV | | Week 28, 2005 - One reason why we spent so many weeks examining the works of the flesh before doing this study is because our carnal, selfish nature must be dealt with before we can be entrusted with the true riches of the kingdom. Some of...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part V | | Week 29, 2005 - As we continue our study of the Promised Land, we want to be more specific about what the promises of God are for us. Just what does a “land of milk and honey” mean for us as Christians? It is a place of prosperity and blessing, which...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part VI | | Week 30, 2005 - As we have studied in II Corinthians 9:8-10, it should be the goal of every Christian to have:
1) all grace, abounding
2) all sufficiency, in everything
3) an abundance for every good deed
4) our seed multiplying so that...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part VII | | Week 31, 2005 - Before we study the fruit of the Spirit and into much more about our inheritance in the Promised Land, we must first prepare the ground for the seed so that it can bear fruit, which is what we have been doing for the last few...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part VIII | | Week 32, 2005 - We have been briefly discussing how the seedbed of the fruit of the Spirit is New Testament church life. Of course, another main seedbed of this fruit is family life. This is why both of these, church life and family life, are under...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part IX | | Week 33, 2005 - As we continue our study on the fruit of the kingdom, we will begin this week with the most important text in the Bible about bearing fruit, which is the statement of the Lord Himself on this matter, as recorded in John 15:1-8...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part X | | Week 34, 2005 - The fruit of the Spirit is listed in Galatians 5:22-23:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control...
These are the characteristics which every Christian...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XI | | Week 35, 2005 - As we begin our study of the individual characteristics of the fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23, we need to remember that this is exactly what they are—individual characteristics of the “fruit of the Spirit,” singular...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XII | | Week 36, 2005 - In the midst of so much suffering that we are witnessing from the Katrina disaster, this study may seem out of place. However, I think the timing is perfect. It is the joy of the Lord that is our strength in any situation, and we can...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XIII | | Week 37, 2005 - "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God” (Matthew 5:9).
Since the time when there were just two brothers on the entire planet they had trouble getting along. One of them basically said, “This world is...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XIV | | Week 38, 2005 - We are spending a bit more time on this aspect of the fruit of the Spirit because it is so crucial to abiding in the Spirit, and is becoming increasingly crucial for our times.
As we have addressed in detail before that the...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XV | | Week 39, 2005 - A few years ago I had a dream in which I was mountain climbing with many thousands of people. Hundreds were all connected together by the lifelines that mountain climbers use; many were falling off of the mountain and being lost...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XVI | | Week 40, 2005 - The next fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5 is PATIENCE. As we have stated, there is actually one fruit of the Spirit and these are all characteristics of it. Therefore, they are all linked and intertwined so that if you...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XVII | | Week 41, 2005 - The next fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5 is “kindness,” which is defined as being considerate, generous, and benevolent. Kindness is the character trait that is the opposite of selfishness, and is the nature of one who...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XVIII | | Weel 42, 2005 - The next aspect of the fruit of the Spirit is “goodness” (Galatians 5:23). The Greek word that is translated for “goodness” is agathosune, which is defined as “virtue” or “beneficence.” This is still a very broad concept that I would...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XIX | | Week 43, 2005 - The next aspect of the fruit of the Spirit is “faithfulness” (Galatians 5:22). As we have discussed, the characteristics of the Spirit are called “fruit” because it must be cultivated and grown. It takes faithfulness, which is...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XX | | Week 44, 2005 - The next aspect of the fruit of the Spirit is “gentleness” (Galatians 5:23). This is defined as being “mild, kind,” or “not being rough, violent, harsh, or severe.” Some people may be born with a natural gentle demeanor, but the fruit...
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| The Fruit of the Land, Part XXI | | Week 45, 2005 - It is interesting that the last aspect of the fruit of the Spirit is “self-control” (Galatians 5:23). Many Christians, in seeking to become submitted to the Holy Spirit or to eschew glory for anything that is accomplished through...
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| Taking the Land, Part I | | Week 46, 2005 - Before we began our study of the works of the flesh and growing in the fruit of the Spirit, we were studying what it means to possess our Promised Land. I want to return to this with a brief reminder of what we covered there so we...
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| Taking the Land, Part II | | Week 47, 2005 - The four main events that we have covered on this subject have been:
1. The crossing of the Jordan River represents the death that the people of God must enter into by dying to self, and how death would overflow all of its...
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| Taking the Land, Part III | | Week 48, 2005 - Immediately after Joshua’s encounter with the Captain of the hosts, he had to face the seemingly impossible, impregnable stronghold of Jericho. Of course, the Lord could have flicked Jericho with His little finger and it would have...
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| Taking the Land, Part IV | | Week 49, 2005 - Now Jericho was tightly shut because of the sons of Israel; no one went out and no one came in.
And the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.
“And you shall march...
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| Taking the Land, Part V | | Week 50, 2005 - As we continue our study from the rest of Joshua 6, we learn how Israel crossed over to possess the Promised Land by capturing Jericho through faithfully following the Lord’s orders. However, before they blew the trumpets and shouted...
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| Taking the Land, Part VI | | Week 51, 2005 - As we continue our study of crossing over to possess the Promised Land this week, we want to examine in a little more depth the reason for the ban that caused Achan to get into trouble. This ban was that the people could not keep any...
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| A Word For The Coming Year | | Week 52, 2005 - I want to take a break from our ongoing study of the last days to share with you some of the things that I believe we can expect, and therefore need to prepare for, in this coming year.
First, this will be another year of very...
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