المحتوى المقدم من Colin Smith. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Colin Smith أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
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At the dawn of the social media era, Belle Gibson became a pioneering wellness influencer - telling the world how she beat cancer with an alternative diet. Her bestselling cookbook and online app provided her success, respect, and a connection to the cancer-battling influencer she admired the most. But a curious journalist with a sick wife began asking questions that even those closest to Belle began to wonder. Was the online star faking her cancer and fooling the world? Kaitlyn Dever stars in the Netflix hit series Apple Cider Vinegar . Inspired by true events, the dramatized story follows Belle’s journey from self-styled wellness thought leader to disgraced con artist. It also explores themes of hope and acceptance - and how far we’ll go to maintain it. In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews executive producer Samantha Strauss. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Apple Cider Vinegar yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts .…
المحتوى المقدم من Colin Smith. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Colin Smith أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
3 minute daily Bible reflections from Open the Bible UK, authored by Colin Smith, read by Sue McLeish.
المحتوى المقدم من Colin Smith. يتم تحميل جميع محتويات البودكاست بما في ذلك الحلقات والرسومات وأوصاف البودكاست وتقديمها مباشرة بواسطة Colin Smith أو شريك منصة البودكاست الخاص بهم. إذا كنت تعتقد أن شخصًا ما يستخدم عملك المحمي بحقوق الطبع والنشر دون إذنك، فيمكنك اتباع العملية الموضحة هنا https://ar.player.fm/legal.
3 minute daily Bible reflections from Open the Bible UK, authored by Colin Smith, read by Sue McLeish.
The glory that you have given me I have given to them. John 17:22 That is a staggering statement. You share in Jesus’ glory! This is the second dimension of your holiness. Donald Grey Barnhouse was a church minister in Philadelphia. He conducted many weddings, but he never took money for doing them. This is what he says: For many years it has been my custom whenever I married anybody, that when the bridegroom hands me an envelope, I go and say to the bride, “Here is my wedding present to you. If he has been very generous to the preacher, you’ve got a good sum.” Now look again at what Jesus says to the Father: “The glory that you have given me I have given to them” (17:22). We get the glory that the Father gave to the Son. How much is that? “The glory that you have given me.” Here is the amazing thing about being a Christian. It is not just that we will see the glory of Jesus, but we will share the glory of Jesus. His glory will be revealed to us, but His glory will also be revealed in us. When we see Him, we will be like Him (1 John 3:2). Notice that Jesus speaks of it as something that has already happened. “I have given” them the glory. The apostle John says, “We are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared” (1 John 3:2). Paul says, “Your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory” (Col. 3:3-4). You are like a tree in winter. It looks bare now, but its full glory is still to be seen. Christ has given you the glory that the Father gave to Him. Be who you are! What hope do you find in knowing that Jesus has already given you His glory and that one day it will be seen in full?…
“Yours they were, and you gave them to me.” John 17:6 In making you holy, God has put you in an entirely new position in relation to Christ and to the world. Four things are true of you in Christ: You are given, glorified, called, and sent. The first dimension of your holiness is that you are given. You are the gift of the Father to the Son. You are His, so be who you are. It is natural for us to think about Jesus being the Father’s gift to us, but did you ever stop to think about the fact that you are the Father’s gift to Jesus? That is exactly what we find here. “Yours they were, and you gave them to me” (17:6). “I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me” (17:9). Think about a wedding. The pastor asks, “Who gives this woman to be married to this man?” The father of the bride says, “I do.” Then he takes her hand and places it into the hand of the bridegroom. She is “given” to her husband. The Church is the bride of Christ. The Father has called you and has drawn you to faith, and He gives you to His Son Jesus Christ. It is significant that the Father’s gift to the Son is not the world. Remember, it was Satan who showed Christ the kingdoms of the world and all their splendour and said, “All these I will give you” (Mat. 4:9). Jesus turned His back on the offer. You are worth more than all the world to Jesus. You are given to Him by the Father. Reflect on the fact that you are a gift Jesus valued more than all the world.…
You were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:11 Here, Paul is talking about something that has already happened. “You were sanctified.” In this case, it is not an ongoing process. It is a completed act. The word holy, or holiness, is used in two ways in the Bible. The original Hebrew word could mean two things: “set apart” or “brightness.” The first meaning describes a position, in which something was set apart for a special purpose. In the Old Testament, you could have a table or a chair that was “holy.” It was set apart for a special purpose. When we read, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Ex. 20:8), it means keep this day different and set apart from all other days. The second meaning describes a process of gradual inward change in a person, by which the character of God is reflected with increasing brightness. That’s what Paul is praying for when he says, “May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely” (1 Thes. 5:23). This is why we might hesitate when asked if we are holy or sanctified. If they are asking if our life is a true reflection of the radiant brightness of the glory of God, the answer is no. Only a small part of His love is seen in us, and it is mingled with many other things. We are in the process of becoming holy. If the question is, “Have you been set apart for a special purpose?” the answer is yes. In Christ, we are set apart as God’s people, for God’s purpose. That is what Paul is talking about when he says Christ is our holiness. You have been placed in a new position, and you are set apart by God for a new purpose. How do the two meanings of holiness help you better understand God’s work of sanctification in your life?…
Christ Jesus, who became to us… sanctification. 1 Corinthians 1:30 We have seen that in Christ you are clean, and in Christ you are free. Now we come to the third dimension of who we are in Jesus Christ: Christ is our holiness. Another word for holiness is sanctification. These words mean the same thing, and it is worth knowing them both. Now this is an area where it is easy to become confused, so it is important to think clearly. If someone asks you, “Are you justified, forgiven, and reconciled to God?” you will say, “Yes.” If they ask, “Are you redeemed?” you will say, “Yes.” This is something that has happened. It has been accomplished. But if they ask, “Are you holy?” or “Are you sanctified?” we may hesitate. We normally think about holiness or sanctification as an ongoing process. Justification is the once-and-for-all event in which we are brought into a right relationship with God. Sanctification is the ongoing process of growth by which we are made increasingly like Christ, and it is never complete in this life. We think that maybe it would be true of us just a little bit in twenty-five years, but right now it sounds like something that we are not! If you are married and you ask your spouse, “Do you think I am holy?” the response may be, “You cannot be serious!” So, holiness sounds like something that we are not, and something we cannot really imagine ourselves being. It feels as if anything about us that was holy would be just a little false. While it seems natural for us to say, “I have been justified,” we do not feel that we could ever come to the place of saying, “I have been sanctified.” How would you describe the difference between justification and sanctification to someone else?…
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 There is a wonderful line in Victor Hugo’s great book Les Misérables. It is the story of Jean Valjean, a heartless criminal. A bishop shows him great kindness, and it changes his life. But later in the story, Jean Valjean’s past gets the better of him, and he steals a coin from a little boy. This is what Hugo says about Jean Valjean: Let us say simply it was not he who robbed, it was not the man but the brute beast that through habit and instinct stupidly placed its foot on the coin... When the intellect woke again and saw this brutish action, Jean Valjean recoiled with agony and uttered a cry of horror. It was a curious phenomenon, and one only possible in the situation he was in, that, in robbing the boy of that money, he committed a deed of which he was no longer capable. Like Jean Valjean, your sin is not who you are. It is who you were, it is not who you are. You may still fall into some of the things that you once did in the cage. You may do them out of habit. You may do them out of weakness. You may do them out of choice. But you do not have to do them. The fundamental truth about you in relation to sin’s guilt is that you are clean. The fundamental truth about you in relation to sin’s power is that you are free. Your life has been redeemed by grace. Be who you are. Have you been redeemed? Be who you are!…
Consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:11 Maybe you are thinking, It’s all very well to tell me that I am free, but I don’t feel very free. In fact, sometimes I feel totally defeated. That’s not surprising. If you have thought of yourself as a slave for years, it’s no easy thing to start living the life of a free person. We hear that Christ has redeemed us, but we do not feel redeemed. We continue to think of ourselves as if we were in the cage. If you are to be who you are, here’s what you need to do. 1. Tell yourself the truth “Consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus” (6:11). The biggest cause of defeat is that we go on repeating the lies of the enemy. You look at some big sin and you say, “I can’t stop this.” Stop talking defeat. Tell yourself the truth. 2. Put up a fight “Let not sin… reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions” (6:12). Sin is not your master so don’t do what it says. When a voice in your head says, You know you can’t say no to this, say to that voice, “You’re no longer my master. I don’t need to listen to you.” 3. Offer yourself to God “Present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life” (6:13). How many Christians feel that they have nothing to offer Christ? If you are in Christ, you are alive to God. If you are alive to God, then your life is useful to Him. Offer yourself to God as one who has been brought from death to life. Which of these three steps do you find hardest to follow? Which is easiest?…
Christ Jesus, who became to us… redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30 Notice the centrality of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is at the heart of everything that is truly Christian. The way in which you become free is not through a technique but through a person. Christ is our redemption. “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36). Paul gives us a marvelous description of the man in the cage in Romans 7. He describes the experience of a man who is overwhelmed by the compulsive power of sinful habits. The man says that he is a prisoner of the law of sin. He is unable to do the good that he wants to do, and he keeps repeating the same evil that he intended to avoid. Finally, he says: “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Rom. 7:24). Notice the question. It is not “What will deliver me?” It is “Who will deliver me?” Many people who struggle with compulsive behaviours are asking the wrong question. If you ask, “What will deliver me?”, there are all kinds of answers on offer: spiritual disciplines, accountability, counselling, getting involved in a ministry, and making Christian friends. All of these may be helpful, but none of them will get you out of the cage. You can pray in the cage, set up accountability in the cage, get involved in ministry in the cage—and all of these can be very helpful in changing your behaviour, but at the end of the day, you are still in the cage. The biblical question is never “What will deliver me?” It is “Who will deliver me.” And the answer is, “Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!” (7:25). Christ has become our redemption. The Lord sets prisoners free! In your own life, have you been focusing on “What will deliver me?” or “Who will deliver me?”…
How can we who died to sin still live in it? Romans 6:2 What does Paul mean when he says that we have “died to sin”? Most of us find that sin is still pretty much alive, and sometimes very powerful. If you are in Christ, you are now in a whole new position in relation to sin. You are not in the cage, you are in the field. Sin is still your enemy, but it is not your master. That’s why Paul says, “Sin will have no dominion over you” (6:14). The angry man will still shout instructions across the road. And when he does, you will feel that you should do what he says. After all, that’s what you got used to doing. But the angry man is no longer your master. You are under no obligation to do what he says. You are free! Paul is not saying that we are sinless. Nor that we will have no further struggles with sin. He is saying, “You are a new person in Christ.” Sin is still your enemy, but it is no longer your master. That’s a huge difference. Once you were held hostage. Now you are in a position to fight. There’s all the difference in the world. The angry man may come over by the road and start shouting orders at you, but you do not have to do what sin says. You are in an entirely new position. Sin is no longer your master. How could understanding your new position help you in your own battle against sin?…
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son. Colossians 1:13 Sin is a power. When it gains a grip in your life, it will not let go. Paul says, “Sin reigned” (Rom. 5:21). It is like a tyrant. It bossed you around. The impulses of sin were in the driver’s seat of your life. Sin was your master. But now, in Christ, Paul says we have “died to sin” (6:2). He does not say we must die to sin. He is saying that we have died to sin. We have been united with Christ in His death, and that is why we will be united with Him in His resurrection (6:5). We know that “our old self was crucified with him” (6:6). Sin will no longer be our master (6:14). Imagine you are traveling down a road, and on one side is a high chain-link fence. On the other side is an open field. There are people behind the fence and people in the field. You discover that the fence is part of a huge cage, and the people inside cannot get out. A man in the cage is shouting orders. Sometimes the people protest, but eventually they do what he tells them. That’s a picture of what Paul is saying. “Sin reigned.” Sin told you what to do. The Bible speaks about this in many ways. You belonged to the “domain of darkness” (Col. 1:13). The whole world is “imprisoned… under sin” (Gal. 3:22). When you came to faith in Jesus Christ, you “died to sin.” You popped up on the other side of the road. You were translated from one realm to another: out of the cage and into the field. How does the image of the cage and the field help you understand the reign of sin in your life?…
Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 The gospel touches the deepest issues of our lives, even the most powerful issues of temptation and addiction. Is Christ able to help you here? If we are to be delivered from sin, we need more than a Saviour who is able to forgive our sins. We need a Redeemer who is able to break the power that leads us to sin. In 1 Corinthians 6, we find real-life examples of how Christ sets people free. Notice the patterns of compulsive behaviour: The sexually immoral—includes the whole world of sexual addiction. The thieves—who are takers rather than givers. The greedy—who are unable to control their spending. The drunkards—folks under the power of alcohol. The revilers—people who cannot control their tongues. The swindlers—those who have never cut a straight deal in their life. That’s what they were. But not now! Paul reminds them that “you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (6:11). The gospel is the power of God for the salvation of all who believe (Rom. 1:16). That is the significance of redemption—the ability of Jesus Christ to set us free from deeply ingrained patterns of compulsive behaviour. IIn what areas of life are you in need of Christ’s redemptive power to set you free?…
Christ Jesus, who became to us… redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30 If we are in Christ, we are a new creation. The old has gone and the new has come. The heart of the Christian life is that you discover who you are in Jesus Christ, and then be who you are. We’ve seen that the first step in discovering our new identity in Christ is knowing that you are clean. The second step is knowing that you are free. Redemption is a freedom word. It is about setting a person free by the payment of a price. The word “redeem” was often used of slaves in the ancient world. If a person was a slave, you could redeem that person by paying a price. It was also used in pawn shops. If you ran out of money you could take something valuable like a gold ring to the pawn shop, and you would get money for it. The pawn shop would hold the ring for thirty days, and during that time you had the right to redeem it—to buy it back. If you weren’t able to do that, somebody else could buy it. As long as the ring was at the shop, it was in the power and possession of the pawnbroker. Only when it was redeemed was it brought back to where it belonged. One of the most wonderful names ever given to our Lord Jesus Christ is the title “Redeemer.” Christ is your righteousness—that means He releases you from the guilt of sin. Christ is your redemption—that means He delivers you from the power of sin. How does it change your view of yourself to understand that Christ has paid the price to gain your freedom?…
Christ Jesus, who became to us … righteousness 1 Corinthians 1:30 In order to understand your purity in Christ, the first thing you need to know is that Christ is your righteousness. The second thing you need to know is that Christ’s righteousness is yours. Imagine that you are living in a derelict building that will soon be pulled down, and you have nowhere to go. Then you meet a man who offers his home to you. You tell him you have no money for rent, but he says that there will be no rent. You ask how long you can stay, and he tells you that you can live there as if the home was your own. He tells you that he has several homes, and that each day he comes by to clean them and tend the garden. “You won’t see me,” he says. “I only call when my tenants are away.” When you find the house, you are overwhelmed. It is the home of your dreams. But more than that, it is truly your home. It’s not your home by right, but it is your home by grace. How do you respond? Enjoy it! In the same way, Christ’s righteousness is yours, so enjoy it! Why live under a continuing burden of guilt when the righteousness of Christ is yours? You say you are ashamed and cannot forgive yourself. Start looking at Him. As you see what He has done for you, you will begin to love Him. You don’t need to live in shame. You don’t need to impress God with your own righteousness. You are clean, so enjoy your position in Christ. Be who you are. The Christian life is not about pretending to be what you are not. It is about being who you are. You are clean. Be who you are. On a scale of 1 (I’m living in shame and guilt) to 10 (I’m finding my rest in Jesus and enjoying His righteousness), what is your experience of the Christian life?…
That I may… be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own… but that which comes through faith in Christ. Philippians 3:8-9 The issue on the last day will not be how righteous Christ has made you but how righteous Christ is for you. Some think the important thing is how righteous we have become. If you put sugar into a cup of tea, it makes the tea sweet. In the same way, they say, Christ imparts His “sweetness” (or righteousness) to us. In a sense, this is true—the likeness of Christ is formed in the life of the believer. But if your entrance into heaven rested on the degree to which you had become like Jesus Christ, you would be on shaky ground. This is what Paul was getting at when he said that we “glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh” (Phil. 3:3). He wanted to “be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ” (3:9). If your righteousness is in Christ, there are two things you can be sure of. You can’t foul it up. If your righteousness was in you, you could foul it up at any time. But nothing you do can make Jesus less righteous. And if your righteousness is found in Him, it is absolutely secure. You can’t boast about it. Paul states that none of us has anything to boast about, and that if we boast, we should boast in the Lord (1 Cor. 1:29, 31). Charles Spurgeon said that our justification is entirely of God’s grace: “We don’t lend one little finger to this work of God. And that’s just as well because we would give all the glory to the little finger.” Christ is your righteousness. In what ways might you be trying to “sweeten the tea” of your own righteousness?…
Christ Jesus, who became to us… righteousness. 1 Corinthians 1:30 If you are to grasp and enjoy your new purity in Christ, there are two things you need to know, and they are both right here in this verse. The first one is that Christ is your righteousness. Your faith does not make you right with God, nor does your repentance, or your performance in the Christian life. Your service cannot make you right with God, nor can your ministry, or anything else that you offer to God. What would you want God to examine on the last day? You might be thinking, “My faith is genuine, but it is far from perfect. My repentance is genuine, but it is not yet complete. My Christian life is a work in progress. My ministry has its failures as well as its successes, its missed opportunities, its neglected duties.” On the last day, we all have to give an account of our lives, but if our eternity depended on what we’ve done for God, we would have no hope whatsoever. Augustine once said, “I do not dare to commend the works of my hands for fear that you may find more sins in them than merits.” If our hope rested on anything that we offer to God, then it would soon melt away. Here is the wonderful thing: For those who are in Christ, what gets examined on the last day is not your faith, your repentance, your Christian life, or your ministry. It is your Saviour. And there is no fault in Him. He is righteous. Reflect on the comforting truth that our hope for eternity depends not on what we’ve done but on Christ’s righteousness.…
To the one who… believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness. Romans 4:5 God justifies sinners. This is mind-boggling. You would expect this verse to say that God justifies the righteous. If God is just, surely He should be looking to justify people who have not broken His law. But nobody is righteous—not even one person (3:10). If God justified only the righteous, none of us would have any hope. The good news of the gospel is that God justifies the ungodly. He throws out the legitimate charges against us. And He does this freely and justly on the basis of the redemption that came by Jesus Christ. Justice fell on Him so that mercy would be released to us. God says, “You are justified.” You are forgiven. You are clean. You are righteous, in and through Christ. We believe this, but it feels like believing something that’s not really true. Your life is far from what you want it to be, and much further from what God wants it to be. If people knew what I was really like… you say to yourself. And the devil says it to you as well. We are righteous in Christ, but it is also true that we still sin. It is easier to see our sins than our righteousness, so it is tempting to think that our sins are the greater reality. How can you be clean when you have done some stupid thing that you deeply regret? Or when your heart has been violated by images you find hard to forget? Or when you have come through experiences that made you feel wretched and worthless? These are huge questions, but if you are in Christ, this is what God says: “You are clean.” How big of a gap is there between what God says about you and how you feel about yourself?…
مرحبًا بك في مشغل أف ام!
يقوم برنامج مشغل أف أم بمسح الويب للحصول على بودكاست عالية الجودة لتستمتع بها الآن. إنه أفضل تطبيق بودكاست ويعمل على أجهزة اندرويد والأيفون والويب. قم بالتسجيل لمزامنة الاشتراكات عبر الأجهزة.