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June 16, 2009

The only good in me.

Filed under: Life with anxiety. — onlyontheribs @ 1:21 pm

The only good in me comes directly from Jesus Christ.  Apart from Him I am nothing.  With Him, I have everything I need.  

Please read this passage below:

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  • Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.
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  • So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.
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  • And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What would this idlebabbler wish to say ?” Others , “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”-because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
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  • And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming ?
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  • “For you are bringing some strange things to our ears ; so we want to know what these things mean .”
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  • (Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearingsomething new.)
  • Sermon on Mars Hill
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  • So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects.
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  • “For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
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  • “The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands ;
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  • nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and allthings ;
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  • and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointedtimes and the boundaries of their habitation,
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  • that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
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  • for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’
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  • “Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.
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  • “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,
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  • because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.”
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  • Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, “We shall hear you againconcerning this.”
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  • So Paul went out of their midst.
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  • But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
  • I will follow Chirst with my live because He conquered death.  A feat yet to be matched in all of history.  

2 Comments »

  1. Dave, PERSERVERE! I can see the power of the resurrection shining through you again in amazing ways….Keep in the living and life changing Word of God, Pray continually without ceasing, and love like you are the only one they will encounter that day! Stay in His watchful presence. Peace, Joy, love, Jeffrey Hutch

    Comment by Jeffrey Hutch — June 30, 2009 @ 4:24 pm | Reply

  2. Hi Dave, Don’t know if you will see this comment but I lost your email…You need to check this out;
    http://www.todayinthewordradio.org
    hit past programs and find-
    Be Still and Know That I Am God, Part 2
    August 12, 2009 ….if you don’t want to hear the whole thing just start it half way through.
    Josh McDowell tells his story, one that includes domestic abuse, sexual abuse, drunkenness and a loving God.

    Unbelievable testimony-one that really literally changed me…Lory-(From Cornerstone)

    Comment by Lory — August 21, 2009 @ 10:28 pm | Reply


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