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All Authority Matthew 28:18 Excerpt When Jesus claimed “all authority in heaven and on earth,” He meant that there is no one or thing with power to limit His freedom of action ( cf .  Matthew 8 ). It is significant that this affirmation is linked with the command that we “go” and make disciples of all nations.   More Richards, Lawrence O.  The Bible Reader’s Companion . electronic ed. Wheaton: Victor Books, 1991. Print.

All Authority

All Authority Matthew 28:18 Excerpt When Jesus claimed “all authority in heaven and on earth,” He meant that there is no one or thing with power to limit His freedom of action (cf.  Matthew 8 ). It is significant that this affirmation is linked with the command that we “go” and make disciples of all nations.  More Richards, Lawrence O.  The Bible Reader’s Companion . electronic ed. Wheaton: Victor Books, 1991. Print.

All Authority

All Authority Matthew 28:18 Excerpt When Jesus claimed “all authority in heaven and on earth,” He meant that there is no one or thing with power to limit His freedom of action ( cf . Matthew 8 ). It is significant that this affirmation is linked with the command that we “go” and make disciples of all nations. Richards, Lawrence O. The Bible Reader’s Companion . electronic ed. Wheaton: Victor Books, 1991. Print.

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All Authority ‎Only gradually did the knowledge of all their curse come home to our first parents. “The sins of the fathers are visited upon their children.” Science joins with religion to warn us of this solemn fact. The evil that we harbor within ourselves, we transmit in some form to our children. They inherit always something of our weaknesses as well as of our better gifts. Perhaps when Cain was born his father and mother still harbored something of resentment and bitterness toward God ; for the boy grew into a man sullen of mood and selfish, stern and fierce of wrath. ‎The parents taught both him and Abel to worship God , to sacrifice to heaven some portion of their possessions by building altars and burning the offered gifts, so that the smoke rose to the sky. Abel made his offerings gladly, so that God was pleased by his pure and trusting faith. But Cain acted as Eve and Adam had in paradise, with suspicion of the Lord , distrust of His intent, and with secret ange...