But with whom was he furious forty years? Wasn’t it those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the desert? But with whom did he swear that they were not to enter into his rest? Wasn’t it the unbelieving ones? (Hebrews 2.17-18, Smythean) In Hebrews, the writer spends the first half of the book pleading with [...]
And this is the boldness (parresia) which we have toward him, that, if we ask (aitometha) anything according to his will, he heareth (akouei) us: and if we know (oidamen) that he heareth (akouei) us whatsoever we ask (aitometha), we know (oidamen) that we have the petitions which we have asked of him. (1 John [...]
Therefore I say to you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them. (Mark 11:24, RV) For this cause I say unto you – All things whatsoever ye are praying for and asking believe that ye have received, and they shall be yours. (Mark [...]
“Verily I say unto you, [that] [w]hosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it.” Mark 11:23 (RV) Receipt of the God-kind of faith does not render a [...]
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