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For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to Preach the Gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made of none effect (I Cor. 1:17).

Several things are said in this very informative Passage. They are as follows:

1. “For Christ sent me not to baptize”: We learn here that Water Baptism is not to have the emphasis regarding the Gospel, and neither should any other Church Ordinance. The Cross of Christ is to have the emphasis.

Paul is not demeaning Water Baptism, but only requiring that it be placed in its proper perspective. It should be obvious to all that Water Baptism, as important as it is in its own way, is not essential to Salvation. If it is essential, then the Apostle thanked God that he saw so few saved. Nor is it essential to obedience, even as others claim, for, in that case, the Apostle thanked God that he had made so few obedient (I Cor. 1:14-16).

2. “But to Preach the Gospel”: In this particular Verse, we are emphatically told what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is. In brief, the Gospel is “the Cross of Christ.” In other words, the Cross must be the foundation of all we believe, teach, and practice. If it is not, then whatever it is we are proclaiming, is, pure and simple, not the Gospel. This is extremely important, as should be overly obvious.

If our Message is right, we will get the results that a correct Message brings forth. If the Message is incorrect, there will be no favorable results, because there can be no favorable results. The entirety of the Christian Faith rests on the correct Message. If that Message is corrupted, diluted, or perverted in any way, this means that it is no longer the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but something else entirely.

The Message must be “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.” This is where the emphasis must be, and in every capacity.

3. “Not with wisdom of words”: Paul here plainly says that intellectualism is not the Gospel. This means that humanistic psychology is not the Gospel. Once again, the Gospel is, and must be, the Cross of Christ. Preachers of the Gospel must “preach the Cross.”

4. “Lest the Cross of Christ should be made of none effect”: This tells us, in no uncertain terms, that the Cross of Christ must always be the emphasis of the Message. If it isn’t, all that Christ did will be to no avail.

This coming Sunday morning, how many Preachers are making the Cross of Christ of none effect, because they are preaching a false message?

Of course, only the Lord knows the answer to that; sadly, however, most fall into that category. This means that few people are truly being saved. Few are baptized with the Holy Spirit. Few are delivered, if any. As should be obvious, we should be very, very careful that we do nothing that makes “the Cross of Christ of none effect.”

— Donnie Swaggart (taken from the “Word for Every Day”)
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Your Word for Today

For the Preaching of the Cross is to them who perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the Power of God (I Cor. 1:18).

How is the Cross the Power of God? That is the great question of this Text.

First of all, the statement in this Bible Text tells us that outside the “preaching of the Cross” there is no “Power of God.”

Sin is a frightful business! Its bondage is so severe that man, with his ability, even religious man, holds no answer. In other words, there is no remedy for sin as it regards the intellectualism of man, the ability of man, or anything that man has. Sin is so powerful, so destructive, and so perverted that God had to become Man and had to go to the Cross in order that this most horrifying malady could be properly addressed. Otherwise, the human race was doomed!

Therefore, at the very beginning, we have to learn just how bad the problem actually is. That, within itself, is a problem. Mankind doesn’t admit how bad sin is, and the Church, by its actions, shows that it little understands the potency of sin. If it did, it would hardly try to adopt the bankrupt ways of the world in order to address this malady of darkness.

As it regards “power,” which is an absolute must if people are to be delivered, we must come to the conclusion that there is no power in a wooden cross. Likewise, there was really not any power in the death of Christ. Paul said that Jesus was “Crucified through weakness” (II Cor. 13:4). However, it must be understood that this “weakness” was contrived. In other words, He purposely did not use His Power to extricate Himself from the Cross. Had He done so, man could not have been redeemed. Furthermore, there certainly is no power in death itself, as would be overly obvious.

So, how does the preaching of the Cross bring about “the Power of God”?

It is not so much what happened at the Cross which brings about power, but rather what the death of Christ on the Cross made possible.

When Jesus died, He atoned for all sin — past, present, and future — at least for all who will believe (Jn. 3:16). Satan’s power over humanity is sin; with all sin atoned, however, Satan loses his legal right to hold man in bondage. And yet, Satan continues to hold untold millions in bondage. So, how do we reconcile this?

Those who are unconverted have not availed themselves of what Jesus did at the Cross, so Satan has a legal right to keep them in bondage. Millions of Christians also fall into the same category. They also have not availed themselves of what Jesus did at the Cross. So, in some way, Satan also holds these also in bondage.

That’s why Paul said, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage” (Gal. 5:1). I remind the Reader that Paul here is speaking to Believers.

When Jesus atoned for all sin, this means that the sin debt was paid, at least for those who will believe, which then gives the Holy Spirit the latitude to work powerfully within our lives. The power is in the Holy Spirit, Who manifests such on our behalf, at least if our Faith is correctly placed in Christ and the Cross. The Cross is what afforded this.

Whenever we preach the Cross, and when individuals believe what we preach, the Holy Spirit can then exercise His Almighty Power on their behalf, for He is God; then sin, in all of its forms, can be overcome; then every bondage can be broken.

That’s what the “preaching of the Cross” will do!

— Donnie Swaggart (taken from the “Word for Every Day”)
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Your Word for Today

But we Preach Christ Crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness: But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks (Gentiles), Christ the Power of God, and the Wisdom of God (I Cor. 1:23-24).

The story of the Bible is the story of Jesus Christ and Him Crucified. Every Sacrifice in the Bible points toward that coming event. The entirety of the Tabernacle and Temple, with all of its furnishings, ceremonies, and rituals, all and without exception, point to Christ in either His Atoning, Mediatorial, or Intercessory Work. In fact, the entirety of the Law pointed to Christ in some manner.

That’s why Paul said, “We preach Christ Crucified.”

He didn’t merely say, “We preach Christ,” but rather “We preach Christ Crucified.”

Many presently are preaching Christ, but, within itself, that is not enough.

Why isn’t it enough?

The Virgin Birth of Christ was an absolute necessity; however, had it stopped there, not one single soul would have been redeemed. The Perfect Life of Christ was an absolute necessity, but had it stopped there, not one single soul would have been redeemed. The healings and miracles were an absolute necessity, but had it stopped there, not one soul would have been redeemed.

Jesus had to go to the Cross. The Cross was ever His goal. Some 750 years before the fact, Christ said, “I gave My back to the smiters, and My cheeks to them who plucked off the hair: I hid not My face from shame and spitting.

“For the Lord GOD will help Me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed” (Isa. 50:6-7). His Face was set like flint for the Cross, meaning that He would not be deterred.

The preaching of Christ Crucified is the Doctrine of the Atonement. It is the very heart of the Gospel. Remove that and there is no Gospel, but merely the ramblings of demented minds.

Why is Christ Crucified a stumbling block to the Jews?

The Jews knew that anyone who was hung on a tree for committing a dastardly crime was cursed by God (Deut. 21:22-23). Jesus was hung on a Cross. So in the mind of the Jews, He was cursed by God. Consequently, He could not be the Messiah, or so they thought. For how could one who was cursed by God be the Messiah?

Christ was, however, not cursed by God, but rather was made a curse, which is altogether different (Gal. 3:13). He had to be “made a curse” because He had committed no crime or sin of any nature — ever! The reason His death had to be on the Cross is because He had to pay for the very worst sins that could ever be imagined; He therefore had to die even as the worst sinner would die, but not because of any sin that He Himself had committed, because, as stated, He never committed any.

In effect, He actually became a “Sin Offering.” But all of this was a stumbling block to the Jews.

Regarding the Greeks, i.e., “Gentiles,” the idea of a naked man hanging on a wooden gibbet, thereby redeeming the entirety of mankind, was, in their thinking, “foolishness.” Those problems remain even unto this hour! But in spite of all that, if “Christ Crucified” is faithfully preached, whether to Jew or Gentile, to those who accept Christ, He becomes “the Power of God, and the Wisdom of God.”

No other Message will bring about these twin attributes. We must “preach Christ Crucified,” i.e., “Christ Crucified” must be the underlying foundation of all that we believe and preach.

— Donnie Swaggart (taken from the “Word for Every Day”)
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Bread Crumbs “The Joy of Being Changed” September 21

There is never an end to the sanctification process. The Christian is called to be conformed to the image of Christ. This transformation begins on the day that they are born again and continues until their death or until the rapture of the Church. The joy of being changed cannot be compared to anything else in this present life. We have the privilege and the responsibility of watching the old lifestyle of s...in being eliminated even as new goals of righteousness and true holiness began to surface and dominate our everyday lives. Man is not capable of bringing about this transformation in and of himself. It requires the active grace of God, the moving and operation of the Holy Spirit. This only happens as a result of properly placed faith in Jesus Christ and what He has done for us at Calvary. All Christians are called upon to enter into this continual transformation. There is no challenge in life more demanding nor is there any testing in life as rewarding. There is no room in this process for compromise, no time to embrace the pleasures of sin, and no reward for denying our true condition. Christ has made being changed into His image available. Pursue it with all your heart!

2 Timothy 2:19 - Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Pastor Loren Larson
Loren Larson Ministries

 

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The Miracle of God’s Word

Galatians 5:12
I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

The false teachers seem like weeds in the garden that never stop spreading, and this is even so in much of the Lord’s Church today. When the Scriptures are being used outside of the context of the Gospel/Message of the Cross, the people of God are being troubled. Paul says he desires these people to be removed from the earth, which is what being cut off refers to. There are some today who just simply do not know, which will bring trouble enough, but there are some today who know but who have rejected the focus of the Gospel/Message of the Cross, and this is more than just trouble, but destruction.

The entire letter to the Galatians is concerning their departure from faith in the Cross of Christ, and their call to repentance and return to this EXCLUSIVE OBJECT OF FAITH. It is not doing what the Bible says that made us obedient before God, but when we believed upon the obedience of Christ unto death at the Cross (Romans 6:17, Galatians 3:1). Of course, then receiving the Holy Spirit, He began to fulfill the Righteousness of the Law in our hearts (Romans 8:4), as He attempts to guide us into ALL Truth (John 16:13), but only can do so as our faith remains in that which made us obedient in His eyes. If we aren’t very careful, we will find our faith has moved from Christ’s work at Calvary to what we are doing, and this to be sure is a place of death (Romans 7:9).

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And I, Brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the Testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him Crucified (I Cor. 2:1-2).

Concerning Paul’s statement, Williams says, “As today, so in Paul’s day, people demanded that the Gospel should be preached in ‘terms of modern thought’ embellished with scholastic learning, convincing logic, forensic reasoning and cultured eloquence. The Apostle refused, declared such culture to be the wisdom of this world, and said that preaching according to the Divine Wisdom was preaching in the Power of the Holy Spirit, and that that was the only power which effected the moral result of the new birth.”

So the theme of the preaching of the Apostle, which also should be our theme — which must be our theme — was the Divine Person and atoning Work of the great God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

I think Paul definitely could have been labeled an “intellectual.” He was one of the most educated men used by the Holy Spirit in the writing of the Scriptures. However, he purposely never used any of that particular learning, rather concentrating on one aspect, which from him we learn is the very heart of the Gospel — “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.”

Changed lives are to be the end result of the Gospel. That refers to the entire gamut of society, even to the worst cases of bondage. Every single person in history who has ever been changed for the good, that change has been effected by the Lord Jesus Christ, and only by the Lord Jesus Christ. Millions down through the ages can declare that testimony.

But Paul proclaims here that that which makes the work of Regeneration, the work of change brought about in the hearts and lives of individuals, is the Cross of Christ. As we keep saying, and even as Paul proclaims here, Christ and His Cross must never be separated. By that we speak of the benefits of what He did.

As we have stated many times:

Jesus Christ is the Source, and the Cross is the means, by which all these things are done.

The word “determined” lends credence to the idea that Paul was tempted to go in other directions; however, the Holy Spirit insisted that if the purpose of the Gospel is to be realized, then the theme must always be “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.” That, and that alone, is the answer for hurting, dying, sin-benighted humanity. There is no other solution for man’s dilemma, even as there needs be no other solution.

— Donnie Swaggart (taken from the “Word for Every Day”)
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Bread Crumbs “The Part-Time Believer” September 22

Are you a full-time Christian? It is funny that that question would even come to mind. In today's postmodern world, I am fearful that many who call themselves Christians are only part-time believers. By this I do not mean that a person has to walk around quoting Scripture all day or even that they have to share their faith with every single person they see. But give some honest thought to the amount of time t...hat you spend thinking about or focusing upon something other than those things which are attached to your relationship with God. Do you find yourself leaving God out of a great portion of your thought life each day? Have you compartmentalized your relationship with Him? Is your heart dominated by the purpose of God in your life or the sanctification process that God is working in you? Do you focus upon the performance of some aspect of ministry? Or, have we relegated God's input and influence in our life to limited times in the day? Or even just a part of one day each week? If this is so, we need to repent of the mindset of being a “part-time” Christian. God is not a part-time God and He does not deserve or desire a part-time people!

Romans 14:12 - So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Pastor Loren Larson
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The Miracle of God’s Word

Galatians 5:13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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Paul reminds us here that we as the Children of God have been called unto the liberty wherewith Christ liberated us, and that is to The Faith of the Cross. This is the only Way we will be able to serve one another by love. If our faith is not in the Cross of Jesus Christ, then it is not the measure which we were given at the born again experience (Romans 12:3), which only works by love (Galatians 5:6), therefore we will only TRY TO WORK HARD to love each other.

The Cross was the work of love, and when our faith is there and there alone, we will by the Spirit of God, be able to serve one another by love. This is an impossibility when the focus is not Christ and His atoning sacrifice, and why the devil himself is in the attempt to pull many away from exclusive faith in the Cross to what “HE CALLS” love. Love only flows into each heart and out to others by the Holy Spirit if it is the Love of God that was shed abroad in our hearts when we were born again (Romans 5:5). The problem among the Galatians is that they were being tempted to operate as though they were under Law, and there my friends, there will only be much activity and labor with no fruit or rewards (Revelation 3:1). Cling to that nail scarred hand and you will be found serving others by love.

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What is all this? How is this "Discussion Forum". You seem to be unless I am wrong forgive me but just copy and pasting someone else?

Not sure why you posted all this here...

 

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Your Word for Today

But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (I Cor. 2:14).

The true Christian life is unintelligible to human wisdom, just as God’s Mind and Ways are beyond natural wisdom.

The Scripture declares that all unsaved individuals are “dead in trespasses and sins” (Eph. 2:1). And “dead” is “dead”! This means that the unconverted individual is totally depraved, has no true knowledge of God, has no true understanding of God, has no true understanding of the things of God, etc. The unconverted man is dead to God in every respect.

That’s why it is foolishness to appeal to the lost by the means of intellectualism. No matter how much one tries to explain something to a dead person, such explanation obviously is lost. How can a dead person understand anything concerning that to which he or she is dead?

For a person to be saved, the Word of God must be ministered in some way to such a heart and life. It may be in the form of preaching, or the words which are Scriptural in a song brought to the heart of the person, or even a Scripture learned as a child brought to the heart of the individual. The point I am making is that, in some way, the Word of God must be tendered toward the lost soul, that is, if the individual is to be saved.

While the unredeemed person doesn’t understand the Word, and cannot understand the Word, still, the Word forms a basis on which the Holy Spirit works, without which He will not work. As the Word in some way goes forth, and as the Holy Spirit quickens it to the heart, the person is brought under conviction, and the one thing they do then know is that they are lost. In other words, they are convicted of their lost condition.

There is a pull generated then by the Holy Spirit to bring that person to an acceptance of Christ, Who Alone can meet and change the condition of the heart. If such a person then believes in their heart on Christ, that person is then Born-Again — instantly Born-Again, we might quickly add.

So, understanding the condition of the lost soul and how the Holy Spirit works, Preachers should realize that if they fail to preach Jesus Christ and Him Crucified, if they fail to make that the foundation of the presented Gospel, there will be no spiritual results.

The Word is clear. The Message is clear. There is no reason that Preachers of the Gospel should take any other tack than that laid down by the Apostle Paul. “Excellency of speech or of wisdom” will serve little purpose. The Message must be “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.”

— Donnie Swaggart (taken from the “Word for Every Day”)
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What is all this? How is this "Discussion Forum". You seem to be unless I am wrong forgive me but just copy and pasting someone else?

Not sure why you posted all this here...

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst (intense desire) after Righteousness: for they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6

But first of all, must be truly empty of all self-worth.

 

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Bread Crumbs “Freed From Sin” September 23

What did Paul mean when he stated, “He that is dead is freed from sin?” First, it is vital that we grasp the truth that the word sin in this context is not speaking of acts of sin, but rather, the sin nature, indwelling sin. The sin nature is the corrupting force inside every human being that bends the heart towards sin and selfishness. The sin nature is still resident within the heart of every believer. Paul is not ...speaking of a natural death but rather the victory over the sin nature that occurs when we are united with Christ by faith. Literally, we are baptized into Christ, and then, in the mind of God, we are crucified with Him. God does not rehabilitate us, He eliminates us and then builds us spiritually from scratch, producing a new creation. The sin factory is shut down as a result of our simple child-like faith in Jesus and what He did for us at Calvary. Can the sin nature revive? Yes, it can! But today I begin my journey in Christ, secure in the knowledge that Jesus’ death on the Cross has provided me with freedom from the influence and the dominion of the sin nature. Let us always and forever begin there!
Romans 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

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The Miracle of God’s Word

Galatians 5:14
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Everything we are called to do as the Children of God has to take place BY FAITH or else it isn’t the Lord working in and through us BY GRACE, and Jesus taught us that we can DO NOTHING without Him (John 15:5). The Law was completely carried out and obeyed in its fullest by Christ through His perfect obedience, and that obedience was unto death on the Cross, therefore for the Law to be fulfilled in us, our faith must be in Him and His Atoning Sacrifice.

If we are to love our neighbor as ourselves, this means we will esteem our neighbor above ourselves (Philippians 2:3), for this is what love does, and then we will see the very manifestation of Love, which was manifest at the Cross of Christ (1 John 4:9-10). This can only take place properly BY THE SPIRIT of God through faith in the Cross, or else it will just be us trying hard to work to love our neighbor. We might think we are doing good today, but tomorrow comes! Let us hold fast to this like precious faith never looking away from Christ and His Sacrificial work, for there we will find His Grace which flows through there and there alone (Galatians 2:21).

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Your Word for Today

Know ye not that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? (I Cor. 3:16).
It is the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity, Who has always carried out the Work of God on Earth. In fact, the Word of God begins by telling us that “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” (Gen. 1:2). As someone has well said, “The Moving of the Spirit is the beginning of life, and without a Moving of the Spirit, there is no life.”

Regarding the Godhead, the only thing the Spirit of God didn’t do on this Earth was the great Redemption process of Christ in coming to this world and dying on a Cross. But yet, the Holy Spirit most definitely superintended that great Work, the greatest Work of the ages, from beginning to end. The Holy Spirit even told Jesus when He could die.

Paul wrote, “How much more shall the Blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?” (Heb. 9:14).

It is the Holy Spirit Who makes Christianity different than any religion in the world. Nothing can compare with Bible Christianity.

Once I asked a Muslim why my Telecast was not allowed to air in Muslim countries, adding that Muslims could be on Radio or Television all over the United States if they wanted to be. He passed it off as just being their law, etc. But the real reason is that Islam cannot compete with Bible Christianity, and neither can any other religion.

Tragically, however, much of modern Christianity is corrupt, which means there is no Moving or Operation of the Holy Spirit. As such, the Church becomes ineffective. For the Church to be effective, for our lives to be effective, there must be a Moving and Operation of the Holy Spirit in the Church. This is absolutely indispensable!

When the Tabernacle was constructed, almost immediately after the Law was given by God, the Lord took up residence in the Tabernacle, actually residing between the Mercy Seat and the Cherubim (Num. 7:8-9; I Sam. 4:4). When Christ came, the Holy Spirit dwelt in Christ to a degree unknown by others (Lk. 3:22; 4:18-19; Ps. 45:7).

But the advent of the Cross, which atoned for all sin, satisfied the sin debt owed by all people. So now, upon confession of Faith in Christ, i.e., trusting in what He did for us at the Cross, the Holy Spirit comes into the heart and life of the Believer to abide permanently, as Paul records here.

Jesus actually had said, “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (‘parakletos,’ which means ‘one called to the side of another to help’), that He may abide with you forever (before the Cross, the Holy Spirit could only help a few individuals, and then only for a period of time; since the Cross, He lives in the hearts and lives of all Believers, and does so forever);

“Even the Spirit of Truth (the Greek says, ‘The Spirit of The Truth,’ which refers to the Word of God; actually He does far more than merely superintend the attribute of Truth, as Christ ‘is Truth’ [I Jn. 5:6]); Whom the world cannot receive (the Holy Spirit cannot come into the heart of the unbeliever until that person makes Christ his or her Saviour; then He comes in), because it sees Him not, neither knows Him (refers to the fact that only Born-Again Believers can understand the Holy Spirit and know Him): but you know Him (would have been better translated, ‘but you shall get to know Him’); for He dwells with you (before the Cross), and shall be in you” (which would take place on the Day of Pentecost and thereafter, because the sin debt has been forever paid by Christ on the Cross, changing the disposition of everything) (Jn. 14:16-17).

However, it’s not finished yet!

The ultimate desire, that, in fact, which will be the ultimate conclusion, is when God changes His Headquarters from planet Heaven to planet Earth, which the last two Chapters of Revelation proclaim. Then everything will be as it ought to be.

John said, “And I heard a great Voice out of Heaven saying (according to the best manuscripts, the Voice now heard was heard “out of the Throne”), Behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God (finally proclaims that which God intended from the beginning).

“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes (actually says “every teardrop” in the Greek, referring to tears of sorrow); and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain (addresses sin and all its results): for the former things are passed away” (refers to the entire effect of the Fall) (Rev. 21:3-4).

— Donnie Swaggart (taken from the “Word for Every Day”)
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