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One of the great tricks of Satan is to tempt us to trade our freedom for illusory promises.  Often, a false sense of freedom and life actually leads to slavery and death.  We see that in our world today.  He plays on our longing for Edenic rest to trick us into hellish torment.  Instead of
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The people of Israel were despised by the Egyptians from the outset. The Israelites, like their fathers and their fathers before them, were shepherds. Patience, courage, love, watchfulness, foresight, stewardship, justice and discipline were the skills they needed to survive. They survived by properly caring for sheep, and their shepherding skills spilt into their civil
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In Genesis 37, Joseph’s brothers sold Joseph into slavery and covered it up with his bloody robe. Two Sundays ago, I said God used their circumstances in Genesis 42 to convict Joseph’s brothers of their sin. In Genesis 44, we learned that God tested them to see whether or not they had actually repented of
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This is the third of a three part post on Genesis 6:2. The first dealt with the interpretation, the second the argumentation, and now we turn to the application. So what’s the point? First of all, the point is accuracy. We need to work hard to understand the Word of God. It is worth it.
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This is the second of a three-part series on Genesis 6:2. The first focused on explaining the text, the second focuses on arguing for the explanation, and the third will focus on the application. There are two main interpretations of the sons of God and the daughters of man in Genesis 6:2. The first is
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This is the first of a three-part post on Genesis 6:2. This post focuses on the explanation, while the subsequent posts will focus on the argumentation and the application. Who are the sons of God and the daughters of man in Genesis 6:2? There are two main interpretations of this text. The first is that
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