Ah, the beatitudes: I’ve heard so many completely different interpretations of these scant handfuls of words. “Blessed are the poor.” Does this mean 1) God saves the materially poor to make up for their poverty on earth; 2) Christians should strive to be poor; or 3) even the poor are blessed? To begin, there’s a clear juxtaposition between the beatitudes…
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What it is to Pray with the understanding
by John Bunyan, modernized; scripture quotations from HCSB 1. What it is to pray. 2. What it is to pray with the Spirit. 3. What it is to pray with the Spirit and with the understanding. 4. Use and application And now to the next thing: what it is to pray with the Spirit and with the understanding also. Paul…
What it is to pray with the Spirit (Part 2 of 4).
by John Bunyan, modernized with HCSB SECOND. I will pray with the Spirit. Now to pray with the Spirit—for that is the praying man, and none else, in order to be accepted of God—it is for a man, as we have said, sincerely and sensibly, with affection, to come to God through Christ, and so on. That sincere, sensible, and…