[i]"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."[/i] - Ephesians 2:10

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Eli Brayley

"In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,
[b]Then[/b] He opens the ears of men,
And seals the instruction, directed to them,
That He may turn man aside from his conduct,
And keep man from pride;
To keep back his soul from the pit,
And his life from passing over into Sheol.”
[b]Job 33:14-16[/b]

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Paul

HOSEA 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

The Word Cords here – is spoken of as, friendly, and not as beasts or slaves.

The Lord draws us with Cords of Love. The problem is that we with our fallible minds, misinterpret the Love of God.

When loving God with all of your Hearts, Minds, and Soul how could you not love yourself and others as such.

The Love of God attracts the saved and the unsaved. It attracts the righteous and the sinner, both.
;-)

"[i]O righteous Father[/i], the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me." Joh 17:25

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Mike Balog

"He who overcomes..."
[b]Revelation 2:7,11,17,26; 3:5,12,21[/b]

"For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith.

Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"
[b]1 John 5:4-5[/b]

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Paul

[i]"The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still"[/i]
[b]Exodus 14:14[/b]

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William

[b]Hos 6:6[/b]
[i]For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.[/i]

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Jonathan Veldhuis

Galatians 2:18-21 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Why?

Galatians 1:15-16 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

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Phillip

[i]That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:[/i]
[b]1 Peter 1:7[/b]

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William