.K.! NEW CHRISTIAN....WHAT NOW? by Elmer G. Magnussen
If you are a new Christian, there are some very
important things you need to
know. First, you need to know exactly what has happened to you. Second,
you need to know God's provisions for your future growth and service to Him.
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The entire world today is seeking wisdom! Education is prevalent in every
city. Literally thousands of young and old alike are attending universities.
But how many of them really know the meaning of wisdom? Wisdom is seeing
things from God's point of view.
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The following testimony is that of a man by the name of Andre.
I WAS IN PRISON, AND YOU CAME TO ME (Matthew 25:36c)
"My testimony to my Christian Brothers and believers in Jesus Christ our
Savior. I want to thank the Lord for saving me from the life I was once
leading. First of all, I was living in darkness and I thought that I truly
loved the way I was.
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1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the
LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall
not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of
the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day
ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
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Today's Bible Study
JUNE 16
JUNE 16
Psalm 32 is another song of penitence and was no doubt
occasioned by David's sin with Bathsheba. The background for this
Psalm is II Samuel 11 and 12. David lusted after his neighbor's
wife, committed adultery, made the husband drunk, had him murdered,
and then covered the whole affair for at least a year. David was not
a young man when he fell into these sins; he was a mature man ruling
over a great kingdom. In this Psalm David could find no words to
express his shame and humiliation.
I firmly believe there is a difference between a sin of
weakness and a willful, habitual sin. A good man may sin, but,
because of that sin, his heart will be broken. This was the case
with David. He had sinned; he knew he had sinned; and his remorse
showed him to be a good man. A wicked man is much different from
David. He purposely, willfully, and habitually sins, with no
remorse. There is no sorrow, or no repentance because of his sin.
And he would commit the same sin again.
Psalm 32 speaks of the wonderful forgiveness in Christ.
Psalm 33 follows with joy and praise. We have no new song until we
become children of God through the shed blood of Christ. In Psalm 34
David thanks God for wonderful deliverance. In every trouble David
went straight to God in prayer. At every deliverance he went
directly to God in thanks and praise. What a glorious thing to thus
live in God! Someone has said, "Thank God for the starlight, and He
will give you the moonlight. Thank Him for the moonlight, and He
will give you the sunlight. Thank Him for the sunlight, and by and
by He will take you where He Himself is the Light.".
Psalm 35 is a cry for help in distress and is known as an
Imprecatory Psalm. Other such Psalms are 52, 58, 59, 69, 109, and
137. They must be understood as the prayers of the godly in a day of
great apostasy and violence. The Spirit of God prays through them
for the destruction of the wicked. To see a conflict here with
Jesus' teaching of love and forgiveness is to misunderstand God's
holiness when His grace in Christ has been rejected.
Madam Guyon
