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                    Why does sometimes the change seem so slow?
This happens more promptly in some folks than others. Because, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come Sometimes people ask, ‘why don’t we see a lot of change? Why don’t we see all these folks living but for
                    
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                    Contributed by David Goering on Aug 24, 2018
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Your family and one of your best friends families has decided to go camping, but you forgot to bring a container for water, on your way to the campsite your friend sees a container in the ditch he stops and picks it up, it has a skull and crossbones on the outside of the container, it says poison
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Aug 7, 2009
                
                
                
                    ROSEMARY'S RAG DOLL
There is a natural, logical kind of loving that loves lovely things and lovely people. That's logical. But there is another kind of loving that doesn't look for value in what it loves, but that CREATES value in what it loves. 
Like Rosemary's rag doll. When Rosemary, my
                    
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                    DYING IN THE OCEAN OF GRACE
Dr. Gerstner, "Christ has done everything necessary for his [sinners] salvation. Nothing now stands between the sinner and God but the sinner's good works. Nothing can keep him from Christ but his delusion that he has good works of his own that can satisfy God. If men
                    
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                    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Mar 14, 2005
                
                
                
                    The story is of the little ragged, wretched, starved, emaciated boy who goes to a country school, and they have passed the rule that any boy that is found stealing a lunch will be beat with thirty stripes on his naked back. Upon a day, a lunch is stolen, and the school finds out it is that
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A Georgia farmer, ragged and barefooted, was standing on the steps of his tumbledown shack. 
A stranger stopped for a drink of water and just to pass the time of day he asked: "How is your cotton coming along?" he asked. 
"Ain’t got none," replied the farmer. 
"Did you plant any?" asked the
                    
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                    Contributed by Bret Toman on Dec 10, 2012
                
                
                
                    So many people believe they can be right with God, they can have peace with God, they can deflect God’s anger from them by being good and doing good. They rightfully understand there’s a debt that they owe. But they don’t understand it’s a debt they could never repay. And to try to repay it does
                    
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                    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
                
                
                
                    The King James version translates this verse saying, “Our righteousness is as flighty rags.”  
	The word translated there as “filthy rags” literally means, “menstrual cloth.”  Forgive my bluntness but God says the best thing you have ever done, apart from Him, stinks like that.  When we do things,
                    
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                    Contributed by Carl Benge on Apr 21, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." It isn't the cleverness of our methods, the techniques of our ministry, or the wit of our sermons that puts power in our testimony. It is obedience to a
                    
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                    Main Idea: The only thing that can wash away sin is the blood of Jesus. 
Verse: “But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6 NKJV). 
Illustration: A smelly man came to visit me. He needed a bath so bad. He wanted to hug me and talk to me. I
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    From rags to riches. These kinds of stories always excite us somewhat. They are feel-good stories and they always offer to the common person a bit of encouragement to make something of ourselves in life. HAVEN’T WE ALL DREAMED AT ONE TIME OF PERHAPS DOING SOMETHING GREAT OR EXTRA-ORDINARY?
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                    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
                
                
                
                    AP story from Hutchinson, KS:  A ragged peddler who told a friend he didn’t have $5 to pay a debt, was found dead the next morning in his apartment here amongst littered filth - and $61,000 in bonds and currency.
The man, Ramond Mishler, 48, died of malnutrition.  Police and executors confirmed the
                    
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                    Swindoll states from his book Living on Ragged Edge, “But the flesh will answer back, ‘Aw what’s the rush? Why not wait until you have sown a few wild oats? Why not wait thirty or forty years until you’ve had a pile of fun doing things your own way then turn to God? I mean, you get the best of both
                    
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