Monday, May 26, 2014

Your Identity in Christ


Friendship verse/4

You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

-James 4:4

Friendship verse/3

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work:  If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!

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Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Friendship verse/2

Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered,  or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared.

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Proverbs 22:24-25

Friendship verse.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

-Proverbs 18:24

Daily Devotional from Billy Graham. -26 May, 2014

You have your life through Christ Jesus. He showed us God's plan of salvation; he was the one who made us acceptable to God . . .
—1 Corinthians 1:30 (TLB)

More and more I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people. The power of personality is strong. One could find many illustrations to prove that often personality is greater than the idea. Such is the case with Christianity. The secret of the power of Christianity is not in its ethics. It is not in Christian ideas or philosophy, although Christianity has a philosophical set of ideas. The secret of Christianity is found in a Person, and that Person is the Lord Jesus Christ. Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.