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Adiós a mis amigos, Mayo 2025

Ian Johnson May 14, 2025 0 Comments

Adiós por ahora, mis amigos

Hay mucho que todavía yo no sé.
Habrá cosas que yo no puedo saber.
¿Si otra vez nos volveremos a ver?
De cierto, hay mucho que nunca sabré.

¿A dónde nuestras vidas nos llevarán?
¡Eso es el rompecabezas más grande!
Viendo mañana, nadie ahora rinde
Ni si al buen lugar nos traerán.

Pero sí, conozco a mi futuro
Entero a sí mismo él me traerá
Aunque él me da un camino duro.

Debo creer que completos nos hará
Que confían en su amor seguro
Y en su amor mis amigos guardará.
Una bendición para algunos queridos amigos que me han rechazado, y para mis compañeros de la Universidad este semestre.

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Not Abolishing the Law But Fulfilling It

Ian Johnson May 1, 2025 0 Comments

Not the smallest piece of the Law has ever been abolished. But its summary, and its fulfillment, is its command to love my neighbor as myself. If I love myself as I should, and love others in the same way, I will fulfill the Law. But I must come to Jesus to be taught the way of love and to be given the power to love as he does. Then he will fulfill the whole Law through me, in the love he shows others through my life.

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I Can’t Control the Orbit of Saturn

Ian Johnson April 27, 2025 1 Comment

This is the report of a prayer time earlier this week in which the Holy Spirit interrogated me about how a passage in Colossians 1 that I was praying through applied to my life, as enlarged by some later meditation. God is able to take care of even of the people I worry about and other believers I’ve hurt, Reconciliation comes only from Him. Enough people have watched me tear myself apart this year with worry and self-condemnation that I knew I should make it public to reassure them that I’m still listening to God. It may also be helpful to other chronic codependent worriers who hear it.

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To Find Mercy, Show Mercy; To Find Freedom, Set Others Free

Ian Johnson February 8, 2025 0 Comments

In just the same way that showing love toward those who hate me is acting like my Heavenly Father does, being supernatural. so being kind toward evil people and merciful toward all who need mercy is also showing God in my life. I cannot be free while judging other people worthy of bondage for their offenses against me. I will only find freedom by setting others free.

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The Golden Rule: Showing Myself to Be God’s Child

Ian Johnson January 30, 2025 0 Comments

The Golden Rule: When I love and do good to my enemies, I am doing what my Heavenly Father does for me. And I am showing myself to be his child.

Application of the Golden Rule: When I love and do good to my enemies, I am doing what my Heavenly Father does for me.
And I am showing myself to be his child. I am being supernatural rather than merely natural.

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What Should I Do when Other Christians Tell me Not to Pray for Them?

Ian Johnson January 5, 2025 1 Comment

When other believers reject me so completely that they order me not to pray for them, this doesn’t change what God tells me to do for them. I should continue doing good to them, as the opportunity presents itself. Galatians 6:7-10. This includes praying for them.

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A Visit with the Second Servant in Debtors’ Prison

Ian Johnson January 2, 2025 2 Comments

Links: This post read as a YouTube video. Full playlist for this series. Remember the other servant? The one the Unforgiving Servant threw in prison instead of showing him mercy? I thought so. Most people don’t. I know nearly everyone thinks this story is only about the relationship between the Lord and the Unforgiving Servant. That’s why it is usually…
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A Visit with the Unforgiving Servant on the Rack. What did he Still Owe?

Ian Johnson January 1, 2025 1 Comment

Links: This post read as a You Tube video. Full playlist for this series. We now continue with the story of the first servant—the one whose Lord forgave him an astronomically large debt, but who then wouldn’t forgive his fellow servant a debt of three months’ wages. While the two servants were the only parties to the debt, they were…
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Is Infinite Forgiveness shown to Us by God? Are We Supposed to Do the Same?

Ian Johnson December 31, 2024 1 Comment

Links: This post read as a YouTube video . Full playlist for this series. The next part of Jesus’ discussion of forgiveness in Matthew 18 asks the question “is infinite forgiveness shown to us by God. and are we supposed to do the same?” Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me,…
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“If two of you shall agree on earth” refers to the reconciliation procedure

Ian Johnson December 29, 2024 1 Comment

Jesus’ promise to answer prayers made by any two believers who are in agreement is a part of his discussion on reconciliation of offenses. Strictly, it applies to prayers made as a result of reconciliation. This underscores the importance of reconciliation between believers to Jesus.

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Adiós a mis amigos, Mayo 2025

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