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What is the difference between trusting God and testing God? What did Jesus and the Old Testament teach us about testing God? Should we seek out unnecessary danger and thus show our trust in Him, or would that be testing God? What should we do when the rules of God seem to be in conflict?

Published: 05.09.2021 Words by: Sam Church@9.30 at St Thomas' Enfield NSW Sydney

Some folks live life right on the edge of sin, not understanding that we are called to sin less. We need to understand that God desires that we live according to His Word and His will and that when we do this we can know we are in fellowship with Him.

Hebrews 2 begins with the first of 5 warnings given in the book. The author says in verse 1, “We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” Let’s see how this warning about the danger of drifting applies to us today. In this secular, anti-theist, amoral world we live in, perhaps drifting has never been easier.

Prayer is here presented as different moods

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