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 The Word for Today.     The importance of fellowship Mar 2, 2025 ‘All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship,’ Acts 2:42 NLT Euclid was a Greek mathematician who lived about three hundred years after Christ. He is best known for his thirteen-volume series of books called Elements. Two of his axioms of geometry have been revised to produce the modern saying: ‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.’ Another way of saying this would be ‘something happens in a group that doesn’t happen alone’. That ‘something’ is called ‘synergy’. It comes from the Greek word sunergia, meaning cooperation and working together. The New Testament church practised it: ‘All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer’ (Acts 2:42 NLT). Jesus described spiritual synergy in these words: ‘“Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth con...
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God's Mercy

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We all need the same grace

Jan 17, 2025


‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ Luke 18:13 NKJV


Jesus said: ‘Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, “God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.” And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, “God, be merciful to me a sinner!” I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; …’ (Luke 18:10-14 NKJV).


The difference between these two men is that the Pharisee was guilty of sins of the spirit, and the tax collector was guilty of the sins of the flesh. Pride shut the door of heaven to the Pharisee, and humility opened the door of heaven to the tax collector. The Pharisee said he was innocent but went home guilty. The tax collector acknowledged he was guilty and went home innocent. Notice, he doesn’t use the usual word for mercy. The word used here dates back to the Hebrew word kippur, which means ‘atonement’, as in Yom Kippur, which means ‘the Day of Atonement’. The word atonement means ‘to cover’. What the tax collector said was, ‘God, I’m admitting what you already know is true about me. I am a sinful man with a sinful heart. God, will you cover me?’ That’s all God needed to hear from him to save him—and that’s all God needs to hear from you too.


SoulFood: Isa 58-62 Luke 4:1-13 Ps 89:1-14 Pro 2:20

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