Category Archives: depravity

prideful porneia

WHAT BLATANT SINS ARE WE TOLERATING? 1 Corinthians 5:1-3 1Co 5:1 It is actually being heard that there is sexual sin among you, and such extreme sexual sin that is not even tolerated even among the Gentiles, because a man … Continue reading

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made straight

GET IT STRAIGHT, WE ARE CROOKED Ecclesiastes 7:27-29 27 Take notice, this is what I found, says the Collector, while adding one thing to another to find how things work- 28 something my soul has searched for consistently, but I … Continue reading

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supervision

SOMEONE IS WATCHING Ecclesiastes 5:8-9 8 If you are overseeing a province and you catch someone oppressing its poor people, and doing unjust and unrighteous things, do not be surprised that it happened. Because the overseer is being watched by … Continue reading

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purple cloak

WE ARE BULLIES Mark 15:16-20 16 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (in other words, the Praetorium), and they called together the whole cohort. 17 And they dressed him in a purple cloak, and weaving together a … Continue reading

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confessions of the fallen

Isaiah 64:1-6 1 O that you would tear open the sky and come down, so that the mountains would shake at your face–[1] 2 like when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil– to make your name … Continue reading

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our real problem

Isaiah 59:1-6 Watch, Yahveh’s hand is not too short from delivering,[1] nor his ear too dull from hearing. 2 Instead, your iniquities have caused a division between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, … Continue reading

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Galilee in the future

Isaiah 9:1-7[1] 1 Because there is no gloom for that one people worried about. Like the time he ignored the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor the way of the sea … Continue reading

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Isaiah 2:5-9 5 House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Yahveh. 6 Because you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob, because they are full of diviners from east, and soothsayers like the Philistines, and … Continue reading

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a depraved mind

Romans 1:26-32 26 For this reason God gave them over to shameful passions. Because their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 27 and likewise the men also abandoned normal relations with women and were inflamed in their … Continue reading

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from emptiness to impurity

Romans 1:18-25 18 Because God’s wrath is now being revealed from heaven against people’s ungodliness and unrighteousness. They suppress the truth by their unrighteousness, 19 because what can be known about God is shown to them, because God has shown … Continue reading

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