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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: Batunde Ordered by Date |
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1 | Filled with His words? | John 7:39 | Batunde | 151024 | ||
Dear Ray, Sorry, I had already posted my note before I realised that your question was based on another thing entirely. I indeed goofed. I thought your question was on ingredients of service which I responded to. I do not, however, see how the other eight posts have relevance in this case as they were responses to different questions. God bless you. Yours in Him, Batunde |
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2 | Do I really have to love everyone? | 1 John 4:7 | Batunde | 150844 | ||
Thanks Chris. Thank God for He has shed his love abroad our hearts but it requires a deliberate action on our part. | ||||||
3 | Filled with His words? | John 7:39 | Batunde | 150839 | ||
The major ingredients of a service are exhaltation/preaching, prayer, singing songs in psalms and bible songs.I Cor. 14:23 and Eph. 5:19 The mode of worship must be in the spirit. Every service should be directed to worshiping Him, our everlasting father. God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth, God demands in John 4:24. All other things introduced into worship are at best worldly and at the worst idolatory and satanic. The church should stop all these gimmicks which is to appeal to membership drive. God is able to draw men unto himself. All the church need to do is to lift God up in quality worship through prayer and spririt filled songs. God is able to save by his Spririt. God knows the heart. | ||||||
4 | Good Christian People | John 16:33 | Batunde | 150837 | ||
That christians experience the bad side of life is normal. Although he is not of the world, he is still in the world physically. The world is characterised by evil whose master/ruler is the devil. God allows the evil to come acroos the way of christians in order to test them and to mature them. The response of the christian to this bad situation will be determined by his level of faith and maturity. The christian should understand that he will face adverse situations and that the saviour is with him or her in it and since He; that is Jesus Christ overcame, he or she will definitely overcome. The story of Job readily come to mind. Job was righteous to the extent that God was boasting about him and this caused his travails. In the process, he lost everything and became a loner in serious suffering. But in the end the bible recalls that God blessed the later days of Job than his beginning. This means that Job came out victorious. The christian should take a cue from Job. |
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5 | Do I really have to love everyone? | 1 John 4:7 | Batunde | 150832 | ||
Yes God is love. So if you are a child of God, you share in parts of the attribute of your father. So you are to love everybody. For example, man disobeyed and fell short of God's glory. Man pitched his tent with the enemy of God, satan by obeying him. But God, despite our disobedience and enmity towards God, He still sent His only begotten son in order to save us from the clutches of satan and sin. What God hates in us is the sin in us. So, in like manner, you are to hate the sin in that wicked unbeliever and not the person. You show your love towards that your enemy by praying for him that he might be saved and stop living out the attributes of his master, satan. God says that you should love your enemies and bless them that curse you; Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; So, you show your love to them by praying for them and when opportunity lends itself, preaching the gospel to him. God bless you. |
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6 | details of exchanging shoes tradition? | Ruth 4:1 | Batunde | 135215 | ||
Please check Ruth 4:7. The bible is the most authentic source of this information that I can lay my hands on now. If there is any other source, it will be secondary. Shalom. | ||||||
7 | Why bad things happen? | Bible general Archive 2 | Batunde | 135214 | ||
John 16:33, These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Job 1:1, There was one man in the land of Uz, whose name of Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and eschewed evil. Job was a man who feared God. He was righteous and God blessed him with great wealth and children. God attested to Job's right standing before Him (Job 1:8) but satan, the adversary had a different view of Job (Job 1:9-11). His opinion was that Job maintained a right standing because God favoured him with riches and wonderful children. Satan sought God's permission to tamper with Job's riches, children and even his body thus bringing great grieve, sorrow and pain on Job. But God allowed it in order to test the integrity of Job's heart and prove Satan wrong. Job went through the tribulation and his riches, family and health was restored in folds )Job 42:10). Job was a kind of old testament christian. So, this might be the case of any christian who is doing well before God. God would want to proof such christian and later add greater blessings and anointing upon him. So, you can see that satan is the source of evil for God does not test with evil and cannot be tested with evil (James 1:13). However, God has reassured believers that although they will face tribulations but in our tribulations and troubles we should remain cheerful for He, being an overcomer, has overcome and we, being his followers, will surely overcome. The tests and trials that we face is to promote us. For through testings and trials our face is strengthened and we ourselves move towards being perfected. All we need at times like this is patience in continual holding to God. Please endure in prayer and you will surely overcome. The grace of God be with you. (Amen). |
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8 | kinsman redeamer and jewish tradation | Ruth 4:1 | Batunde | 135211 | ||
The account of Ruth who lost her husband, a Jew, in Moab is a good example of how the jewish tradition practise the "Kinsman Redeemer". Ruth, a moabite, followed her mother in law, Naomi, to the land of Israel after the later lost her two sons and husband. Although Boaz, a wealthy man was a kinsman to Elimelech, the husband to Naomi and father-in-law to Ruth, he could not outrightly marry or inherit the possessions of his kinsman for there was one who was closer to Elimelech. To be able to redeem the possessions of Elimelech, he had to invite the one closer-kinsman to the gate with the elders as testifiers. The closer kinsman had no interest in neither Elimelech's possesion nor his wife, Ruth and this he declared publicly at the gate before the elders. This was confirmed by both parties exchanging a pair of shoes. Having secured the consent of the closer one, Boaz redeemed Ruth and the parcel of land belonging to Elimelech. Thus Ruth became Boaz's wife and all other possessions of the dead became that of Boaz. Incidentally, this was the lineage from which our Lord Jesus Christ came to earth as man-child. | ||||||
9 | What is the "perfect law?" | James 1:25 | Batunde | 133557 | ||
James 1:22-23 The perfect law of liberty is the word of God. In James 1:22, it is called the Word. The word "liberty" is used to qualify the Word of God in order to show its saving grace. In Romans 10:8, it is called the word of faith. Verse 9 declares if you acknowledge and confess with your lips Jesus as Lord and you believe in your heart that God raised from the dead you will be safe. Jesus is the word personified (John 1:1). He has come to redeem mankind, to set at liberty those who are in bondage of satan and sin. So, the good news, the gospel, of our Lord Jesus Christ is the law of liberty. It is the law that sets free from bondage to law of Moses although Jesus Christ came to fulfil the law as written in the books in that by His spirit, the law is written in our hearts and we are thus responsive and responsible in keeping the law. We look intently at the law of liberty by reading and studying the word of God. Through this, we see ourselves as in a mirror, the way God sees us and we are able to amend our ways and thus by doing the word, we are transformed (Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 3:18). We have to continue to look at the mirror of God's word in order to experience the desired change in God's own standard. By this, we are changed from glory to glory. |
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10 | Anarchy or pacifism? What's biblical? | Ex 3:9 | Batunde | 133361 | ||
Exodus 3:9-10 Tells about the call of Moses and his assignment. To deliver the people of God from bondage. Also, vs 19-20 tells the nature of the assignment. Pharaoh will not release God's people except with mighty hands. So, the only language is confrontation in this assignment. The people must be delivered by force. On the other hand, Daniel was a slave boy who grew in the court of the king. He learnt leadership role and assumed same in the king's court. God used him as an example of the excellence found in him as God and His chosen people, Israel for he was full of wisdom (Daniel 1:20-21, 4:8). Also, he was a glaring example of a pious man in exile. He couldn't have shown any resistance since he was not a leader but a mere priviledged slave in the court of his master. His is divine positioning to interfere and contribute in a godly manner in the affairs of his captors. So it is not pacifism but being God's hand in the government of Israel's captors. God was to be exalted and glorified through Daniel (Daniel 4:37, 6:26-27,) |
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11 | The folded napkin in John 20:7 | John 11:44 | Batunde | 130130 | ||
The napkin is an article of dressing, and handkerchief worn on the head (See Acts 19:12). It is probably to complete the dressing of the corpse as laid in the sepulcre. | ||||||