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It
is a challenge to make a selection of only five since each of us
have many
that are precious to us and hold revelation and understanding.
5
SCRIPTURES THAT HAVE GREAT IMPORTANCE
TO MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
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Isaiah
41:10 "Fear
not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes,
I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."
(Scholars
report that there are 365 similar texts found in the Bible that
use some form of this verse.)
Why is it important to me?
These are the first words the Lord spoke to me when he revealed
himself to me on the night of my first God-encounter.
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Ephesians
2:8
"(8) For by grace you
have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it
is the gift of God, (9) not of works, lest anyone should boast.
"
Why is it important to me?
The rediscovery of this scripture brought about the Protestant
reformation as it revealed the gift of a loving God.
It also shines the light of truth on false teachers and cults
who add 'works' to earn salvation.
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Romans 1:16
(16). "For I am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for
it is the power of God
to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and
also for the Greek."
Why is it important to me?
This scripture reveals that it is God Himself who causes us
both
to will and to do.
The product of our life as a Christian believer is comprised
of our response to God's leading and unction. We respond to
the motivation that He places within us.
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John
15:18,19
(18) "If the world
hates you, you know that it hated Me before
it hated
you.
(19) If you were of
the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you
are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore
the world hates you."
Why is it important to me? The world system is at enmity
with God. It expresses the principles of the god of this world,
Lucifer. True Christian redemption separates us from the world
and from its values and fellowship. Likewise we live a life
where we are constantly aware of the tension between God's ways
and the accepted ways of this world.
This will often have as a consequence, persecution, even martydom.
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1 Corinthians 15: 51-54
(51) Behold, I tell you
a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed
(52) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed. (53) For this corruptible must put
on incorruption, and this mortal
must
put on immortality. (54)
So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal
has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
Why
is it important to me? We are given an amazingly great and
precious promise of the resurrection. Which is the full
redemption and the ultimate gift of believing. We eagerly await
that that final redemption when we receive our long-awaited
bodily redemption where mortality is clothed with immortality.
This is part of our "blessed hope." Looking
at the total sweep of history and present day events, it is
plain to see that this day is approaching swiftly.
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