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Key Verse
- For the message of the cross is foolishness [absurd and illogical] to those who are perishing and spiritually dead [because they reject it], but to us who are being saved [by God’s grace] it is [the manifestation of] the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18 AMP
Examples
1. Receiving More
- So take care how you listen; for whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.” Luke 8:18 NASB
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- So be careful how you listen; for whoever has [a teachable heart], to him more [understanding] will be given; and whoever does not have [a longing for truth], even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.” Luke 8:18 AMP
2. Late Starts
- Take what is yours and go; but I want to give to this last person the same as to you. Matthew 20:14 NASB
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- Take what belongs to you and go, but I choose to give to this last man [hired] the same as I give to you. Matthew 20:14 AMP
Never late to start going after GOD.
3. Believing First
- Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” John 11:40 NASB
What the world says: See and then we will believe. See below
- If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe Him. Matthew 27:42 NKJV
Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord. So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His
side, I will not believe.” John 20:24-25 NKJV
The Kingdom operates opposite to this. See Jesus’s response to Thomas
Jesus said to him,“Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” John 20:29 NKJV