Gold Tried in the Fire - Robert J. Wieland

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For surely you know that when we were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, we were baptized into union with his death." Romans 6:1-3, TEV. Magara has gotten this far in his Bible and he is concerned. He is still human—that he knows only too well. Maybe even painfully well. It didn't take long after his baptism for this to sink in. He still has his old sinful nature to contend with. He even discovers something else: evil desire seems enhanced now, and temptations are more alluring than they used to be. And he has heard of the African theologian who has come back from the overseas seminary who openly says that "occasional lapses" into sin are biblical and are "par for the course," that you simply cannot expect to overcome all temptations, and that the best you can hope for is to be a bit more discreet now. "Occasional lapses"—that's rather elastic, Magara realizes. The interpretation can be according to your individual desires—once a week, maybe even once a day? 8
According to his letter, Magara dreads these defeats, for they leave him feeling polluted, guiltridden, and dissatisfied. Although pastors say that Christ saves you in your sins because He has done it all for you and that you can't do other than continue to transgress, Magara would like to know about some "good news" that will do better than that. If Christ can't save you from sinning today, how can you be sure He can resurrect you later on? What kind of future life would there be if "saved" people haven't stopped sinning? The best "good news" he too often hears is the kind that Bishop Fulton Sheen marketed so enticingly: "One look at [Virgin Mary], and we know that ... because she is without sin, we can become less sinful."—The World's First Love, (London: Burns and Oates, 1953). p. 16. Emphasis supplied. Therefore, if this were true, Magara must not raise his expectations too high. The best he can hope for is a tapering off, becoming "less sinful," but always expecting those "occasional lapses" that 9
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Page 13 and 14: This is what justification is like,
Page 15 and 16: Hence we propose to lay Bible comme
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Page 29 and 30: was as yet uncircumcised. But that
Page 31 and 32: The subtle ideas of predestination
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Page 35 and 36: What "Every Man" Owes to Christ It'
Page 37 and 38: The answer he gave was that he beli
Page 39 and 40: of our infinite debt. Paul's insigh
Page 41 and 42: Chapter 4 Faith: What Is the Real T
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ejected the pagan notion of natural
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sincerely but unknowingly confused
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made heaven and earth." Revelation
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Two arms outstretched to save, Like
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Chapter 6 More About This Explosive
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Paul appears to make two exceptions
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is, non-faith. In those dark days h
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of Hebrews, we should not expect to
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phenomenon of New Testament faith,
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love [agape] of many shall wax cold
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could have been referring to the su
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Chapter 7 You Can't Crash If You Ke
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are never separate. Sanctification
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the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
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What Makes Our Battle an Easy One W
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He realized that his gun was useles
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Temptation, however strong, is neve
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His voice that you hear "behind you
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great front wheels yourself; but if
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Chapter 8 The Holy Spirit's Work Is
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It's like a guarantee: "You will no
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This is indeed the dynamic good new
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TEV. This word Helper is Comforter
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TEV. Of course, when you read "the
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against the Holy Spirit; but even t
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in Christ in the sense of appreciat
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emember, you don't get one four-bil
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hath God exalted with his right han
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easily he can fall. His loyalty to
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The drunk was wrong! "Without holin
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deity? Many even today feel they ne
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concepts which they have innocently
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Any "Christ" who did not truly "com
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her conception, so that she was una
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visiting us as a tourist. Medieval
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met our temptations as we must meet
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through the flesh, God sending his
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public example of them, triumphing
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carry. He has tasted my despair, my
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Chapter 10 Christ's Sanctuary Minis
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Lamb of God, who takes away the sin
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1. Why is Jesus called our High Pri
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vivid picture of this court scene b
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other words, sin can never be "remi
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complete. Since the atonement is re
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This basic relationship between Chr
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end until the problem of continued
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Hence the attempt to prove (a) that
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19. The Father, Christ, and all the
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world's cares and amusements, not o
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high priest is a symbol of a signif
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first and second apartment in terms
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options is the existence of two sep
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The ministry of Christ in the most
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These people had all lived in a sav
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4:15. Many Evangelicals frankly adm
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