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The Wall Dwellers: An Allegory Concerning the False Convert

Philippians 2:13 13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. "I don't want to. I just can't do what God wants me to do. I don't feel any desire to obey God. I guess I can't then. I'll just have to wait until God makes me want what He wants." Have you ever...

John 1:10-11 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. Bill hasn't spoken to his wife in days. Lynn has shut the door quite literally to interaction with him for many...

John 14:1-3 1 "Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3 "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to...

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 15 "See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; 16 in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the...

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion...

Philippians 4:6-7 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Increasingly, I encounter...

Ephesians 2:4-6 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ...

Romans 1:28-32 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are...

Romans 8:16-18 16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this...

Hebrews 3:12-14 12 Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. 13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14...

Hebrews 5:12-14 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid...

1 Kings 11:1-9 1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the sons of Israel, "You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate...

Hebrews 12:15 15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Hurt and offense and the bitterness that results can be among the most difficult things to abandon. Very often, bitterness feels...

1 Corinthians 10:31 31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. I was talking with a woman yesterday who was feeling deeply despondent and apathetic about herself. A writer, she has been working on a novel for the past two years and is now drawing...

There once was a kingdom ruled by a Great and Mighty King, perfect in wisdom, justice, mercy and love. He reigned from a vast city, bright and beautiful, its massive towers, shining and eternal, rising upward out of sight into the clouds. The white wall encircling the city rose hundreds of feet...

Isaiah 55:9 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. When a person considers God, they can't help but do so from their own frame of reference. This means, among other things, that the person comprehends God in...

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of...

2 Corinthians 7:1 1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Sanctification - the pursuit of holiness - is the process whereby a child of God is set apart in moral purity and...

I used to be a big “gym rat.” For over thirty-five years, it was my daily habit to spend an hour or more at the gym lifting weights. For a time, in my early twenties, I even dabbled in powerlifting. There were people at the gym with whom I’d become friends and we’d help and cheer each other on...