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REWARDS AT THE RAPTURE AND THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT

  https://pastormiketaylor.blogspot.com/2020/10/rewards-at-rapture-and-great-white.html by Pastor Mike Taylor   10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.  11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.  12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;  13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.  14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.  15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire..” st  (1 Corinthians 3:10-15)  How is Christianity different from all other man-made religions? Bein...

Why Jesus Was Not a Woman

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  desiringgod.org /articles/why-jesus-was-not-a-woman  October 11, 2020  David Mathis  David Mathis is executive editor for desiringGod.org and pastor at Cities Church in Minneapolis/St. Paul. He is a husband, father of four, and author of Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines. More by this author  Executive Editor, desiringGod.org  God became a man, and not a woman. Jesus was a son, not a daughter; a brother, not a sister. He did not labor in childbirth, and until his public ministry began, he worked to provide for his family as a man.  As with his Jewishness, the manhood of Christ is a stubborn, objective fact of history that unsettles modern sentiments, and holds important lessons, challenges, and encouragements for both men and women alike, and especially so in our times of such confusion about sex. So, could Christ have come as woman and not as man?  Without pretending to answer the question exhaustively, one way ...