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@Andreat89272541 Caleb was 85 when he finally got his land. He asked for the hardest piece: the hill country full of giants. "Give me this mountain" (Joshua 14:12). Forty-five years of waiting and his faith was still sharp. The God who kept Caleb strong still keeps every promise He made in Jesus.

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@renewingprotest That admission is where the gospel starts. Ezekiel 36:27: "I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes." Jesus kept the law in our place, and the same God who forgives also promises the Spirit to help us walk in it.

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The same word shows up in heaven's song. Revelation 5:9: the Lamb was slain and "hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation." Bought from every nation. Nobody is too far for that price.

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Paul used a marketplace word for what Jesus did. Agorazo: to buy and take home.

"For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." 1 Corinthians 6:20

Who do you know that needs to hear they were bought?

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@SkyVirginSon Even in that cry He still said "My God." Twice. Feeling abandoned and still holding on to Him by name. On the dry days, try praying just those two words.

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@Suarezz1910 Solomon had wealth, wisdom, pleasure and power, and still wrote "all was vanity and a striving after wind" (Ecclesiastes 2:11). If meaning still feels far away, read the Gospel of John this week and see who Jesus says He is.

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@FlyoverConservs @DineshDSouza A Bedouin shepherd found that scroll in a cave in 1947. It dates to about 125 BC, and Isaiah 53 is in it. The pierced servant, written down long before the cross. Easy to read that chapter with fresh eyes once you know that.

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@kyletanderson "Before Abraham was, I am" - John 8:58
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." - John 1:1

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In Bible times, a respected older man running in public was seen as undignified. This father ran anyway. That's how Jesus described God.

"His father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." Luke 15:20

Have you ever felt too far to come back?

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In 2004 a crew fixing a broken sewer pipe in Jerusalem hit some old stone steps.

It turned out to be the Pool of Siloam. The one from John 9, where Jesus sent a blind man to wash and he came home seeing.

If you could stand in one place from the Gospels, where would you go?

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@CornPopsSister1 Jan Hus was burned in 1415 for preaching the Bible in Czech. A century later Luther read his writings and said, "we are all Hussites without knowing it." The Reformation had roots long before 1517.

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@albert70x7 Notice who does the wiping: God Himself. That's how close He plans to be when He brings us home.

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@chwhitt Declared righteous in Christ today, and still being made new by Him every day after. Which half do you find harder to believe some mornings?

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@Geebuilt Exodus 22 gives the reason for caring about the stranger: you were strangers in Egypt. God asks us to make room for outsiders the way He made room for us. Matthew 22 is that same love, said in two lines.

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@American_VET2 The word that gets me is "immediately" in verse 31. Peter's prayer was three words long and Jesus didn't wait for him to finish sinking.

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@WinnersWhispers Amen. And the One who started that work won't leave it half done. Philippians 1:6.

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@Rfrmd_Rstr8nist @jaredhmoore Thanks for the thoughtful reply. If it's only the pattern that matters, why does Genesis 1 number every day and close it with "evening and morning"? The text seems to want us to count them.

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@ryness @jaredhmoore Fair point that God's time isn't ours. The text does draw a boundary around the days though. Genesis 1 closes each one with "evening and morning," and Exodus 20:11 says six days, then the seventh. I'd rather take the text as it stands.

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Jesus said one Greek word before He died: tetelestai. It showed up on receipts back then and meant "paid in full." John 19:30. The debt has a receipt now, and it carries His name.

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@mwiine_bri66880 And He didn't even need the rest. He blessed that day so we could have it. Good night to you too.