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1 | I need references as to where to find th | OT general | tommyboy | 201678 | ||
Try Psalms 149 and 150. Tommyboy | ||||||
2 | study notes on the woman at the well? | John 1:1 | tommyboy | 190722 | ||
Fountain Or Well John chapter 4: Jesus went to the city of Sychar. He was passing through Samaria. He went to Jacobs Well: verse 6 says in the greek the fountain (paygay). A woman of Sychar came out to the well (frear in greek). It is interesting to note that Jesus and the woman were in the same place, but the bible (in the greek) says when refering to Jesus that he was at the fountain, and when refrering to the woman that she was at the well. Jesus then proceded to ask the woman for a drink. She was suprised that he would even speak to her let alone ask her for a drink, because, as she said the Samaritans and the Jews had nothing to do with one another. She said so. Jesus then said to her that if she knew who it was that had asked her for a drink that she would ask of him and he would give her living water. She then said sir thou hast nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water? Jesus ignored the question and said that whoever drinks of this water, referring to the natural water in the well, will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I give, referring to the spiritual water from the fountain, will never thirst, but the water that I give will become in them a fountain, springing up into eternal life. Though they were in the same place, they were not. For the woman was, by her carnal outlook, locked into seeing only the physical. While Jesus was speaking of the spiritual. There were two sources of water there; a well, and a fountain. Both were real, but it took spiritual vision to see the fountain. The woman said that the well was deep and it took hard effort to get to it's water, she was correct. Therefore she could not see how Jesus could access it's water. Jesus was talking about a fountain of spiritual water that took no physical effort to get, just faith, and once it was recieved it would turn into a fountain of water, in the person who recieved it, springing, or gushing up, contiualy renewing itself, into eternal life. The woman was caught up in the drudgery of everyday life and was missing the spiritual side of life. Then she encountered Jesus and everything changed, not only for herself, but for her entire village. We must guard against the physical hardships of life, that we all have to one extent or another, overwhelming us to the end that we miss the more important spiritual things in life. When we have to go to the well, to maintain ourselves physicaly, let us not forsake going to the fountain for spiritual refressing. Tommyboy |
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3 | Should Christian men wear a beard? | 1 Chr 19:5 | tommyboy | 190721 | ||
I know of no scripture that prohibits men from wearing a beard even though the church I go to is a member of an organization that teaches that men should not. I will not name the organization. The rational behind this is that wearing a beard is "worldly", I think that it probably comes from the fact that so many groups such as the hippies, beatnicks ect. that had life styles opposed to christianity wore beards that it was decided that to wear a beard would tend to associate the wearer with these groups and their life styles. I personally dissagree with this rational. Tommyboy | ||||||