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101 | betrayed by a friend | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 210199 | ||
First you must confess your anger as sin to the Lord and ask for forgiveness. After a cooling off period when you feel you have your anger in control with the Lord's help call the person and tell them how much they hurt you. Express your forgiveness for what they did to you in whatever words you chose such as you don't hold it against them or whatever you feel appropriate. You could also tell them that you are holding them accountable and expect the funds to be repaid as that would be the right thing to do. During this time they may tell you why they did what they did and give you a better understanding of what they were thinking. You will feel better and have peace knowing you did what the Lord commands by forgiving this person and having this talk makes peace with them. Commit them into the Lord's hands to deal with their sin. You can then move on with your life and have a clean conscience knowing you did what you were suppose to do. Pray a lot about it and give yourself a little time for the hurt to mellow before you call them so you can control yourself. Blessings - Val Matt 6:12 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matt 6:14 "For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. |
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102 | Similar Barak in Judges - Barack Obama. | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 210770 | ||
Yes you are reading too much into this. There is a term in bible study called typology. Unless the bible says someone is a type we cannot say definatively someone is a type. The bible is very clear and in depth study keeps one grounded. There are many many names in the bible but having the same name as a biblical character is just that and thats all. I would encourage you to get in a good in depth study of the word. | ||||||
103 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 212260 | ||
Luke 12:15 Then He said to them, "Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions." The subject is money. The amount is more than is needed. The warning is not to let money become our god. We cannot serve God and money. How do we avoid this natural tendency toward greed? Giving to those in need. There are also verses that say we are to owe no man anything so we would not sell all we have because that would make us indebted to others. We are to be responsible with our resources. Not greedy and hording an abundance. |
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104 | what is ecotology | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 212517 | ||
Dear Keily, what is your interpretive approach to Revelation? Where do you see Israel in the end time? Happy New Year - Val |
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105 | what is ecotology | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 212526 | ||
Dear Keliy: Thank you for your answer. At Preceptaustin.org it gives the interrepative approaches to scripture. Knowing someone's interpretive approach helps to understand how they view passages. Usually how someone interprets Revelation 20 determines their interpretive approach. Happy New Year - Val | ||||||
106 | TRUE HEART OF WORSHIP | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 212744 | ||
What about a broken and contrite heart? - Val | ||||||
107 | TRUE HEART OF WORSHIP | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 212754 | ||
Psalms 51: 1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me. 4 Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me. 6 Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom. 7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have broken rejoice. 9 Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit. 13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners will be converted to You. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness. 15 O Lord, open my lips, That my mouth may declare Your praise. 16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. 18 By Your favor do good to Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, In burnt offering and whole burnt offering; Then young bulls will be offered on Your altar. Dear Azure, Adding to the discussion of worship, I see from David’s prayer the relationship he had with the Lord. In looking for what the Lord desires of us I see from verse 6 the Lord desires truth. I believe from this we can say that we can hide nothing from God. If we are not truthful with God and ourselves, facing our sins, bringing them to the Lord to cleanse us there is no worship for us. Only when we deal with our sins does true worship begin. We can go through the motions giving an outward appearance of worship; example, praying, singing, preaching, but if the heart is not right with God, He is not pleased, see verse 16. When the heart is right, verse 17, then the outward worship; i.e., praying, singing, preaching is pleasing to Him, verse 19. In regards to the worship in heaven, we know that we will be in our glorified bodies. There is no sin in heaven. Worship is something we do everyday of our lives. Every hour, every minute we are either pleasing to God and honoring Him with the sacrifice of our lives or we are displeasing to Him and need to bring those sins to Him to cleanse us. True believers are led by the Holy Spirit who brings these things to mind as we walk in the Spirit. Those who have yet to surrender their lives to Christ, the Holy Spirit convicts them of sin. They have an opportunity to surrender their lives to Him. If they continue in their unbelief there is no worship for them. They may go through the externals but the internal, the heart, that part which God desires, if it is not pleasing to God, all externals will not be pleasing. These are my thoughts. Thank you for your warm blessing, Azure. May our Lord richly bless you today and in the coming year. – Sister Val |
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108 | Is this stealing? | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 212882 | ||
Some people may download copyrighted material from the internet. Is this stealing? What would you tell people of faith who do this? I am not talking about on this website. It has become an issue on another site I use. It would be like making a copy of a book and supplying access to it for free while the author's site sells the material. What does the bible have to say about this? Please reference verses. Thank you, Val | ||||||
109 | Is this stealing? | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 212884 | ||
Dear Doc, I followed your commentary and verses and they shed excellent insight on this topic. Thank you once again for your guidance. Have a blessed New Year. I will meditate on this advice and use it as opportunity arises. Sincerely, Val | ||||||
110 | Is this stealing? | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 212895 | ||
Dear apalegreenhorse, This is a bible study forum. If you read the use and terms of the forum it might answer your question. Welcome to the forum. Val | ||||||
111 | its a ckass excercise due sunday | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 213597 | ||
Dear 4191: The church at Antioch sent Paul and Silas on their first missionary journey. This church was believed to have more gentile christians. The home church at Jerusalem was mostly made up of jewish converts to chrisitanity. It was lead by James, Jesus brother. It was harder for them to accept this "new thing" of the gospel being available to gentiles because before they had always been told to stay away from gentiles. Jesus spoke to Peter in a vision and told him to preach to Cornelius, the first gentile convert. And so Peter explained it to the people that he was not to call anything unclean that God had made clean and that the gospel was to be proclaimed to them. Another point was that later Peter would when he was in Jerusalem would not eat with gentile believers perhaps because he wanted the people's approval. Paul called him out on this and said it wasn't right so to speak. Some of the jewish converts wanted the gentile converts to add their jewish traditions to their christianity; the leaders met for a church council and the results of that were that the gentiles would not have to do that but they were to abstain from immorality, things sacrificed to idols and one more I don't remember right now. The other Jew-Gentile controversy was that there were Jews who were not really converts and they hated the fact that Paul was offering salvation to the gentiles; they would follow him around the cities and cause him trouble, stirring people up and the like; they were called jewdaisers, that is the wrong spelling. If you have any reference books on the life of Paul, skim through them quickly before Sunday. They will give you a lot of information. Sincerely, Val | ||||||
112 | Paul's missionary work created a controv | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 213638 | ||
Dear 4191, that would be Paul and Barnabus rather than Paul and Silas. Silas joined later. Sincerely, Val | ||||||
113 | continued pursuit, or saving faith | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 213818 | ||
Dear Beja, I believe faith grows. A genuine faith in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Let me give an example. Look at Lot and Abraham. Abraham was concerned you might say with the things of God. Lot on the other hand was concerned with the here and now yet Lot was a righteous man. Who had the "bigger" faith. I would say Abraham. Lot on the other hand had a lot of family and friend problems to the extend that they laughed at his faith. Sincerely, Val | ||||||
114 | This generation will not pass away.... | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 214281 | ||
Dear Wordoer, Welcome to the Forum, You lost me with the cross references in Jermiah, Judges, Mark and Jude. Could you elaborate? Sincerely, Val | ||||||
115 | Why was being born a Jew so important? | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 214383 | ||
Dear Humility, this question reminds me of why it is important to read the whole counsel of scriputure. In Genesis you will find the redemption plan of God. Be sure and mark all the references to Abraham, who he was, where he was and what was promised him. As you read through the entire counsel of God you will see this redemption plan unfold. If you desire their is a precept upon precept bible study called Covenant which may be purchased at Precept.org. This study pulls the whole scripture together. Sincerely, Val | ||||||
116 | Why was being born a Jew so important? | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 214583 | ||
Whosoever will may come. God chose Abraham because He loved him. Sincerely, Val | ||||||
117 | Does God lead us to sin? | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 215869 | ||
Hi Doc, it is good to see you again. Hope you are well. I am so sorry for the lost of our brother Hank. I know ya'll were good friends. He helped me a lot in my christian walk. Regarding the question of Pharoah, let me ask you, why do people ask questions that seems to put God in an inappropriate light. Is it that if they can prove the bible shows that God is unfair in their thinking that they prove somehow it is not to be trusted. I find this question is asked over and over and over again. What do you think the motive behind it is? Do you think that people are confused as to who God is, what the bible is or both? Just a few thoughts. Your research was very good and I enjoyed reading. Sister Val |
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118 | Does God lead us to sin? | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 215962 | ||
Dear Doc,very well say, thank you. You gave me a lot to think about. Grace to you - Sister Val | ||||||
119 | Salvation for the Gentiles | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 219632 | ||
God from the beginning offered salvation to the gentiles. We see this in the third chapter of Genesis. Abel was righteous, Cain was not. As time went on all mankind became exceedingly wicked except for Noah found in Genesis the sixth chapter. Thus the flood came and mankind began again with Noah and his three sons. Salvation means believing God. In the old testament people were saved by looking forward to the birth of Christ. In the present people are saved by looking back to the cross. Mankind has always had an opportunity to believe in the one true God. In the new testament we see the first gentile convert is Cornelius. You can find this in the book of Acts. Before that time people became what we call proselytes to the Jewish faith in Jehovah God. Christ broke down that dividing wall. | ||||||
120 | Salvation for the Gentiles | Bible general Archive 4 | Val | 219666 | ||
Let me bring the following to the table. I don't have a lot of time so you will have to look up the scriptures for yourself by searching these characters of the bible. Abraham - God told Abraham in you all the nations of the earth will be blessed. By looking at this one statement we have drawn our conclusion that He was speaking about Christ Jesus. We know there is only one name that was given through which men may be saved according to Peter and that was Jesus. Salvation therefore came through Abraham's righteous line because of the promise God made to Abraham. What is this blessing? We draw this conclusion; that men may be saved, have eternal life through Jesus. Now the question is; is He talking to just the 12 tribes of Israel or is He including all people of the earth? From Revelation 7:9 we draw the conclusion that he was speaking of all mankind as we see it was all tribes, peoples, and tongues in verse 9 before the throne. Abraham had a miracle son at an old age with his elderly wife. The son's name was Isaac, the son of promise. Follow Isaac's line down and it takes you to David. In the book of Ruth we see Ruth was a gentile so this would enable Jesus to be the kinsman redeemer for the gentiles as well as the jews. I believe Mary's line also came through Abraham. So we come full circle. Now what does the verse mean to Abraham; in you all the nations of the earth will be blessed mean? Is this promise only to the 12 tribes of Israel? First the blessing means life for those who believe (have saving faith) in Christ Jesus. Second, the blessing is for every tribe, nation and tongue of the earth. So Abraham and his descendants looked forward to the cross. I believe my friend gave you the Isaiah passage of the suffering servant which is a picture of the cross. Maybe some of the others can elaborate on any questions you may have. Merry Christmas! |
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