DYSMAS CONDUIT
FREE FOOD
(Isa 55:1)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
Good morning,
This is just a reminder that every day, while we are studying God’s Word to add to our website, someone from our ministry, Dysmas Conduit, is holding you up before the Lord in prayer. May He greatly bless you today as you pursue His will and He is glorified through you.
God’s blessings, our love,
George & Sidney Granger
Today’s Chapter in God’s Word
Romans 16
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Be sure to welcome our friend Phoebe in the way of the Master, with all the generous hospitality we Christians are famous for. I heartily endorse both her and her work. She's a key representative of the church at Cenchrea. Help her out in whatever she asks. She deserves anything you can do for her. She's helped many a person, including me.
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Say hello to Priscilla and Aquila, who have worked hand in hand with me in serving Jesus. They once put their lives on the line for me. And I'm not the only one grateful to them. All the non-Jewish gatherings of believers also owe them plenty, to say nothing of the church that meets in their house.
Hello to my dear friend Epenetus. He was the very first follower of Jesus in the province of
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Hello to Mary. What a worker she has turned out to be!
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Hello to my cousins Andronicus and Junias. We once shared a jail cell. They were believers in Christ before I was. Both of them are outstanding leaders.
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Hello to Ampliatus, my good friend in the family of God.
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Hello to Urbanus, our companion in Christ's work, and my good friend Stachys.
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Hello to Apelles, a tried-and-true veteran in following Christ.
Hello to the family of Aristobulus.
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Hello to my cousin Herodion.
Hello to those who belong to the Lord from the family of Narcissus.
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Hello to Tryphena and Tryphosa—such diligent women in serving the Master.
Hello to Persis, a dear friend and hard worker in Christ.
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Hello to Rufus—a good choice by the Master!—and his mother. She has also been a dear mother to me.
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Hello to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and also to all of their families.
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Hello to Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas— and all the followers of Jesus who live with them.
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Holy embraces all around! All the churches of Christ send their warmest greetings!
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One final word of counsel, friends. Keep a sharp eye out for those who take bits and pieces of the teaching that you learned and then use them to make trouble. Give these people a wide berth. They have no intention of living for our Master Christ. They're only in this for what they can get out of it, and aren't above using pious sweet talk to dupe unsuspecting innocents.
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And so while there has never been any question about your honesty in these matters—I couldn't be more proud of you!—I want you also to be smart, making sure every "good" thing is the real thing. Don't be gullible in regard to smooth-talking evil. Stay alert like this, and before you know it the God of peace will come down on Satan with both feet, stomping him into the dirt. Enjoy the best of Jesus!
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And here are some more greetings from our end. Timothy, my partner in this work, Lucius, and my cousins Jason and Sosipater all said to tell you hello.
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I, Tertius, who wrote this letter at Paul's dictation, send you my personal greetings.
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Gaius, who is host here to both me and the whole church, wants to be remembered to you.
Erastus, the city treasurer, and our good friend Quartus send their greetings.
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All of our praise rises to the One who is strong enough to make you strong, exactly as preached in Jesus Christ, precisely as revealed in the mystery kept secret for so long but now an open book through the prophetic Scriptures. All the nations of the world can now know the truth and be brought into obedient belief, carrying out the orders of God, who got all this started, down to the very last letter.
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All our praise is focused through Jesus on this incomparably wise God! Yes!
CURRENT PRAYER REQUESTS:
We just received a prayer request from my sister, Kim Peasley-Parker in
-- Sandy Brommer
THANK YOU FOR PRAYING FOR PASTOR BOB ALLMANN
Please remain in prayer concerning his continued healing and that he is upheld by the Spirit, becoming physically strong as he returns to serving the Lord… what he loves to do!
Please continue to pray for Billy Hamburg, whose doctors found 5 tumors in his bladder. He had surgery June 29th and the biopsy results showed a cancerous condition. He will be undergoing chemo & radiation treatments and will need the Lord’s Hand to overcome his anxiety as well as the cancer.
UPDATE:
After more testing, the doctors have found that, despite the number of tumors found in and around the bladder, that the cancer has NOT spread to any surrounding muscle tissue or organs. They are looking at completely removing the bladder and replacing it with a piece of intestine. WE PRAISE GOD AND GIVE HIM THE GLORY FOR THIS; WE ALSO PRAY THAT BILLY WILL RECOGNIZE THIS AS GOD WORKING IN HIS LIFE!!!!!!!!!
Please pray for Debbie, who has cancer in both lungs. She is having a special treatment done in
I just received a call from Lela Toner, Keegan is not doing well, the bacterial infection that he has is causing him to throw up everything he is being fed. He is even vomiting up what he is being given in the feeding tube. Please pray that the Lord would lay His healing Hand upon this little one. We know he belongs to Jesus. Also pray for the family they need the peace only Jesus can give. God bless you as you stand in the gap for this family. Carol Taylor
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR TODAY
OUR RELATIONSHIP TO SIN
by Neil Anderson
Romans 6:11
Consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus
Even though you are dead to sin, sin's strong appeal may still cause you to struggle with feeling that you are more alive to sin than you are to Christ.
But Romans 6:1-11 teaches us that what is true of the Lord Jesus Christ is true of us in terms of our relationship to sin and death. God the Father allowed His Son to "be sin" in order that all the sins of the world--past, present and future--would fall on Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). When He died on the cross, our sins were on Him. But when He rose from the grave, there was no sin on Him. When He ascended to the Father, there was no sin on Him. And today, as He sits at the Father's right hand, there is no sin on Him. Since we are seated in the heavenlies in Christ, we too have died to sin.
Christ already died to sin, and because you are in Him, you have died to sin too. Sin is still strong and appealing, but your relationship with sin has ended.
I've met many Christians who are still trying to die to sin, and their lives are miserable and fruitless as a result because they are struggling to do something that has already been done. "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death" (Romans 8:2).
Romans 6:11 summarizes what we are to believe about our relationship to sin because of our position in Christ. It doesn't matter whether you feel dead to sin or not; you are to consider it so because it is so. People wrongly wonder, "What experience must I have in order for this to be true?" The only necessary experience is that of Christ on the cross, which has already happened. When we choose to believe what is true about ourselves and sin, and walk on the basis of what we believe, our right relationship with sin will work out in our experience. But as long as we put our experience before our belief, we will never fully know the freedom that Christ purchased for us on the cross.
Prayer:
Lord, teach me not always to believe what I feel about my relationship to sin, but to believe the truth that I am dead to it.
…and…
Grace to You Weekend
John MacArthur
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Series: How to Talk to a Heretic
The Savior Silences the Sadducees
It's one of the most shocking scenes in the Bible . . .
a group of bullies surround Jesus Christ,
looking for a reason to sentence Him to death.
Who are Jesus' enemies? How does He respond to them?
Find out when John MacArthur
looks at one of the most explosive confrontations in Scripture,
today on Grace to You Weekend with John MacArthur.
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