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05/29/2025

Forgiveness

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

If you feel guilty about sins from your past, the Scriptures have a special assurance for you. Since the Corinthian believers were also struggling, Paul offered to them—and us—this counsel and hope: “Such [sinners] were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor. 6:11).

In the verses preceding these encouraging words, Paul lists some disgraceful lifestyles that continue to the modern day. Every week, pastors hear from people who ask whether the Lord can forgive them for a homosexual lifestyle, adultery, abusive behavior, or one of a host of other transgressions. The answer is yes. He can and will forgive the Christian’s every sin, in accordance with 1 John 1:9.

Until a believer understands how the Lord forgives and removes sin, he or she will carry the guilt. Promises to do better end in futility. Forgiveness is based only on the shed blood of Jesus Christ. He bore your sin on the cross and died in your place. When you acknowledge that He alone can make you righteous before God, then you are set free. You are given a new mindset—one guided by the Holy Spirit to focus upon the things of God instead of your sinful desires.

Do you wake up each morning to face another day of dragging your guilt around? You don’t have to. The Lord is waiting to take that load from you and cast it as far as the east is from the west (Ps. 103:12). All you must do is hand over your burden and receive His forgiveness.

Be Blessed

Robbie Warren

05/18/2025

His Perfect Timing

Hebrews 12:3-11

Sometimes our life can seem like a long, dark tunnel. Perhaps we are unable to discover a solution for a problem, or we cannot find relief from pain. Regardless of the direction we turn, we can’t find hope for anything better than our present circumstances.

Thankfully, we serve a God who feels our pain and knows our limitations firsthand. Jesus Christ walked through the valley of the shadow of death and cried out, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Mark 15:34). This means that when our faith is stretched to the breaking point, our strength is exhausted, and our dreams are shattered like glass, Jesus understands. And He asks us to hold on, even when everything in us screams to give up.

Giving up means abandoning God’s help for our own strength. We try to manipulate a situation or simply avoid pain. In essence, we are choosing to believe that Satan in his worldly power is stronger than Christ within us—which is the exact opposite of what the Bible says is true (1 John 4:4). Of course, the devil is not more powerful, but we let him win a battle if we give up on the assurance that God will see us through difficulty. When we have that attitude, we miss the Father’s blessing and limit our usefulness in His kingdom.

Even when we cannot detect His presence, God is working every moment on our problem. But we must trust His perfect timing for revealing the answer. Your Father knows your hurt, and He will bring you through that dark tunnel. Do not give up before receiving His blessing.

Be Blessed

Robbie Warren

05/13/2025

He Started

You must not have any other god but me.
—Exodus 20:3

It’s interesting to me how God chose to begin the Ten Commandments.

He started with two commands that deal with everything: “You must not have any other god but me. You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods” (Exodus 20:3–5 NLT).
That covers it all. If you get this down, then you will have the Ten Commandments working in your life. Jesus said, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment” (Matthew 22:37–38 NLT).

If we love God with all our hearts, souls, and minds, then we’re not going to have another God before Him. We’re not going to bow down before a false image of God. We’re not going to take his name in vain, and we’ll set a day aside to worship Him.
If we love our neighbors as ourselves, we’re not going to steal from them. We’re not going to lie to them. We’re not going to murder them.

The reality of it is that if we love God, we will do the right thing. We will want to honor Him in the right way.

However, it all starts with how we prioritize God in our lives because we will serve what we worship. If God is number one in our lives, then everything else will find its proper balance. On the other hand, if God is not number one in our lives, then everything else will be in chaos.

Be Blessed

Robbie Warren

05/04/2025

Let Nothing Hold You Back

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
—Hebrews 12:1

I’ve read that a successful Olympic athlete will work out an average of four hours a day, 310 days a year for six years to prepare for competition. Olympic athletes have to be disciplined, because they’re competing for the gold.

On more than one occasion, the Bible uses the analogy of running a race. For the Christian, the race of life is knowing God and having a relationship with Him. But it isn’t enough just to run the race. We have to finish the race we’ve begun, and that takes discipline.

I know the trend today, especially among younger people, is to say that we don’t really have winners or losers. You get a participation trophy for just showing up. But that isn’t real life. We need to understand that in the race of life, there are winners and losers.

God wants us to win the race that we’re running right now. The Bible tells us, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us” (Hebrews 12:1 NLT).

We don’t want anything to hold us back. There are things that help us run faster, and there are things that stop us from making progress. But obeying the Lord isn’t a duty; it should be a delight.
I’ve met runners who enjoy running. Sometimes after they go for a run, they’ll say, “That was a great run!” I’ve never had a great run, by the way. I’m always looking forward to when it ends.

But if you’re walking with the Lord, if you’re running your race for Him, then you’ll discover there’s joy in it. So run to win.

Be Blessed

Robbie Warren

05/02/2025

The Task of a Lifetime

And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
—Philippians 4:19

The great British preacher Alan Redpath said, “The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.”

That is called sanctification. Salvation is instantaneous. But sanctification, which is becoming more like Christ, takes a lot of time. In fact, it takes a lifetime.

Just one month after God parted the Red Sea for the Israelites and delivered them from their enemies, they basically said to Moses, “Oh, great. You just brought us out here to die! We remember how awesome it was back in Egypt. We had pots filled with meat. And there was so much bread!”

Actually, that wasn’t true at all. They suffered in Egypt. They were in pain. It was hard for them. But the Devil is cunning, and sometimes he will bring back certain memories from our past. But they’re never the miserable memories, of course, when we faced the repercussions of our sins.

In the same way, the Israelites had memories that weren’t even based on reality. And the first step to going back is looking back.
God told Moses, “I have heard the Israelites’ complaints. Now tell them, ‘In the evening you will have meat to eat, and in the morning you will have all the bread you want. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God’” (Exodus 16:12 NLT).

The Israelites had never read the book of Exodus, so all this was happening in real time. God was saying, “I’ll give you meat,” and it rained quail. Then came the bread, a sweet, flaky substance called manna.

God has promised to supply all our needs “according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19 NKJV). But He has not promised to supply all of our wants. God always will provide what we need, when we need it—sometimes before, but never after.

Be Blessed

Robbie Warren

04/29/2025

Encouragement to get Up.

Dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. And be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself.
—Galatians 6:1

During the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, two runners in the women’s 5,000-meter race were into their final four laps when they collided. Nikki Hamblin from New Zealand fell first, causing Abbey D’Agostino from the United States also to fall. It would have been understandable if D’Agostino got up and went around Hamblin and finished the race. But this is what was amazing. D’Agostino reached down and helped Hamblin get up. Then, for a time, they began to run together. And when the injured D’Agostino fell to the ground, Hamblin stopped to help her. Both made it across the finish line. Although they didn’t win the race, they finished the race.

Afterward, Hamblin said, “Suddenly there’s this hand on my shoulder, like, ‘Get up, get up! We have to finish this!’” Hamblin went on to say, “I’m never going to forget that moment. When someone asks me what happened in Rio in 20 years’ time, that’s my story.”

Sometimes we stumble and fall. And sometimes we need a little help. Galatians 6:1 says, “Dear brothers and sisters if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. And be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself” (NLT). Instead of kicking a person when they’re down, help them get up again so they, too, can finish the race.

Maybe you started off in the Christian life with a bang. You were off the blocks and running your race, but then you stumbled and fell. You can get up and still finish the race. Make your life count. Look for opportunities to honor the Lord. I have found that those who think the most of the next world do the most for this one.

Be Blessed

Robbie Warren

04/25/2025

Prodigal or Pig?

It would be better if they had never known the way to righteousness than to know it and then reject the command they were given to live a holy life.
—2 Peter 2:21

I have a Coworker that has a pet pig, and they named him Sunday. He sounds like a pig, he looks like a pig, and if he were given the choice, he would like to be back in the mud like a pig. That’s because a pig is a pig.

Jesus told a story in the gospel of Luke about a son who ran away from his father, went to a far country, and made a mess out of his life. But then he came to his senses and returned home, and his father welcomed him and forgave him. We call him the prodigal son. And a prodigal always will come back home to the Father.
So, are you a prodigal son or daughter, or are you a pig? I don’t mean that as an insult. You decide which one you will be.

The Bible tells us, “It would be better if they had never known the way to righteousness than to know it and then reject the command they were given to live a holy life. They prove the truth of this proverb: ‘A dog returns to its vomit.’ And another says, ‘A washed pig returns to the mud’” (2 Peter 2:21–22 NLT).

When people make professions of faith and then fall away, the question is not whether they lost their salvation. The question is this: Were they Christians to begin with?

You know whether you’re a believer by where you end up. If you end up returning to your commitment to Christ, it shows that you’re merely a prodigal. If you’re a prodigal, then you will want to come back to God.

But if you’re a pig, then you will go back to the way you were living before because you never believed.

You see, not everyone wants to change. God offers us forgiveness, but we have to be willing to do our part.

Be Blessed

Robbie Warren

04/19/2025

Broken

Many of us are broken, we are fractured, and we have been wounded and hurt. Over the course of time we have become accustomed to ignoring the pain. We have found it easier to pretend like we are whole and complete and just deal with the pain and brokenness internally. God’s desire for us is that we would bring our brokenness to Him. He longs to heal our fractured souls and broken hearts.

Jesus didn’t wait for people to come to His table. He went into the streets and got them. Jesus taught us to honor others. There is still room at God's table, and it is our job to invite everyone; the broken, the outcasts, the lonely; to enjoy His eternal feast.

2 Corinthians 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

Be Blessed

Robbie Warren

04/18/2025

04/18/2025

Work It Out

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
—Philippians 2:12–13

A New York woman who survived the Spanish flu in 1918 also survived the coronavirus at age 101. So what’s the secret to her longevity? Her family said she loves to eat Oreos.

I don’t know about the health benefits of Oreos. But experts tell us there are health benefits from exercise. And just as we need to work out physically, we also need to work out spiritually, if you will.
The apostle Paul wrote, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:12–13 NKJV).

We need to work out what God has worked in. Notice that Paul didn’t say, “Work for your salvation” because salvation is a gift from God. Ephesians 2:8–9 tells us, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” (NKJV).

I know that God has forgiven my sin and that I will go to Heaven when I die because I believe His promises and have received His gift of eternal life. If you haven’t received that gift yet, you can ask Jesus Christ to come into your life. He’s just a prayer away.

So then, what does it mean to work out your own salvation? Remember, Paul was writing to Christians. In fact, he addressed them as “all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi” (Philippians 1:1 NKJV). From the original language, work out also could be translated, “work it out,” “carry it out completely,” or “bring it to full completion.”

The Bible tells us that the Christian life is like running a race or being in a war. There’s effort involved. So work out and live out your own salvation.

Be Blessed

Robbie Warren