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Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.

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Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
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Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
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If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.
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Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
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Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.
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