🌸Stephanie🌸

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[Grace to You @gracetoyou]

Click here to read the rest of "The Servant Leader Warns" on the GTY blog.

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[Tom Ascol @tomascol @tomascol]

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; & Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived & became a transgressor."
—1 Tim 2:12–14

It's not complicated, just unnpopular.

[🌸Stephanie🌸 @AngelnZeus]

@HabsOnReddit Should have dumped you instead of Gallagher

[🌸Stephanie🌸 @AngelnZeus]

@JoshuaBarzon Grace Church CA!!

[Coleen Guzman @gypsyOTR]

“Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.”
~Proverbs 4:25-27🕊

[John MacArthur Publishing Group @jmacpg]

Today’s Devotional: “Justification and Righteousness”

“No weapon that is formed against you will succeed; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the inheritance of the slaves of Yahweh, And their righteousness is from Me,” declares Yahweh.” (Isaiah 54:17)

God declared that His people will be vindicated and will ultimately prevail. But they will succeed not because of their own 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, but because “their 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 is from Me,” explained the Lord (Isa 54:17). Some translations render this with the word “vindication” instead of 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, but the reason they will be vindicated is because of their 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀. As Isaiah 53:11 stated, God’s 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 Servant will declare His people 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 (or, “justify the many”; 53:11).

However, the only reason God could declare His people 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 is because the Servant’s 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 would become their own. The Servant proved to be 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 where the people had failed to be 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀. Therefore, for them to become 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀, His own 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 would need to become their 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀. That was the only way God could count them as 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀.

This is exactly what is described in Isaiah 54:17: Yahweh declared that His people’s 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 came not from themselves but rather “their 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 is from Me.” This exact concept is picked up in the New Testament in 2 Corinthians 5:21: “He made Him who knew no sin 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 sin on our behalf, so that we might become the 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 of God in Him.”

We praise God that we are justified not because of our own works, which are filthy (Isa 64:6), but because of Christ’s 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀. Since His 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 is never tarnished, even when we fail as believers, our standing before God never falters.
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[Hymns of Grace @HymnsofGrace]

“Holy, Holy, Holy” is a reminder of a truth we never outgrow. God is holy, exalted above all creation, and worthy of all praise. These timeless truths remind us who God is and call us to worship Him rightly.

Recorded at this year’s Shepherds Conference.

The full video of “Praise to the Lord” and “Holy, Holy, Holy” is available on YouTube. Link in bio.
Let us know what these hymns mean to you in the comments.

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[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Goodness. What a prophetic quote from 44 years ago.

[🌸Stephanie🌸 @AngelnZeus]

@theolojesus @Phil_Johnson_ What a gift

[🌸Stephanie🌸 @AngelnZeus]

@megbasham @DrPatrick Praying for you! You’re so pretty!💕

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Every single day of my childhood, my parents asked the same question at dinner. Not “What did you learn?” but “Who did you serve?”

Wonderful reflections from Ben Sasse’s daughter.

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[The Master's Seminary @MastersSeminary]

"My prayer and longing, not just for pastors but for all believers, is that they would come to the end of their lives and be able to exhale with the apostle Paul, I have fought the good fight. And as long as we are alive, this fight will never end. The characters change, the scenes shift, but the battle remains the same—the fight is always and ever over the Word of God... The hardest part of the fight is to not become so jaded by the battle that you lose your love, compassion, and joy with the people you shepherd week in and week out. The wonderful thing about a long-term ministry is that you are surrounded and supported by so many loving and faithful people who are living evidence of genuine, flourishing Christianity. Pastors would do well to stay at a church long enough to see that." — John MacArthur https://t.co/FuvMSGavv6

[Trevor Sheatz @TrevorSheatz]

Hell is a real place of eternal punishment for those who reject Christ. There's no middle ground or second chance after death. Repent and believe today.

[Biblical and Reformed @reformedhg]

I believe that the most universal gift, the most universal blessing that comes from God’s common grace to humanity is time; time to repent, time to believe, time granted by God’s patience. He is patient because He is merciful.

John MacArthur

[🌸Stephanie🌸 @AngelnZeus]

@megbasham @k8carl Beautifully written

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

The best advice I can give you is this: look unto Jesus, and behold His beauty in the written Word.

Do not look first to yourself. You will either become proud by what you think you see, or despairing by what you know is still there. Look to Christ. He is the Saviour, the righteousness, the refuge, the strength, and the hope of every weary soul.

“Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith” (Hebrews 12:2).

We do not behold Christ through imagination, emotion, or religious noise. We behold Him where God has revealed Him clearly, in the Scriptures. The Word shows us His holiness, His mercy, His wounds, His obedience, His blood, His resurrection, His intercession, and His glory.

“These are the Scriptures that testify about Me” (John 5:39).

A soul that keeps looking at itself will soon become restless. But a soul that looks to Christ in the Word will be humbled, strengthened, corrected, comforted, and made steady.

So open the Bible. Look for Christ. Behold Him there. Sit under His truth until your fears are quieted, your sins are exposed, your faith is strengthened, and your heart remembers again that He is enough.

“Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces will never be ashamed” (Psalm 34:5).

[Hymns of Grace @HymnsofGrace]

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For a limited time, the Hymns of Grace pew edition is available for $15 each, regardless of quantity ordered. You may also want to add several copies of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs for just $5 each. These resources are especially helpful for Bible studies, family worship, and small gatherings.

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