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Let's Be Like Daniel...
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. (Daniel 6:10)
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Random King James Bible Verse...
2 Samuel 5:21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
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Please be aware that we address all sins, including of adult nature. Young children should not be free to be browsing all of the content, however, it is appropriate for young teens and upwards.
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Free Online Bible Study Time
Contact us regarding one-on-one online studies with a live person. We can conduct them via e-mail exchanges, messaging (chat), or video/audio method by something like Skype. Topics can be preset or if there's something on your mind. (Sign me up.)
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Basic Belief
This site is a non-denominational site not just being Bible based but solidly Bible structured.
We believe that we are saved alone by Jesus who "came into the world to save sinners." (1 Timothy 1:15).
But we also believe that he commanded us to "go, and sin no more" (John 8:11)
This is not in our strength but Jesus is "able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy" (Jude 1:24).
We do believe that all of us are in ignorance to the full knowledge of God's ways, however, "the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent" (Acts 17:30).
And if our hearts are ever in love with God, then we should not be guilty of Jesus' words. "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil" (John 3:19).
To find out what we should and should not do, we believe we are to "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15).
Concluding there is a right way and many wrong ways to study, we use the method of "precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little" (Isaiah 28:10), which means that we pick a topic, collect all the verses and in so doing, we have God's Word and not our opinion.
And we believe that "All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works" (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Notice we are to learn from the scriptures to live righteous lives.
Intead, all we here is condemnation of any such thought, despite James writing, "Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works" (James 2:18).
In short, we are not saved by works but our works show evidence we are saved for we believe "to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness" (Romans 6:16).
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Morning Thought...
Friday, December 6, 2024
Job 9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Although God does control the breath of life in every soul and can cut off the supply at any time, on the other hand, anyone can understand that after losing one’s children and wealth along with the wife being against him, bitterness would be filling up Job. Now, how much do appreciate every breath you take as being a gift from God?
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Words Mean Things...
Friday, December 6, 2024
In Matthew 5:27, Jesus says, “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Yes, that is one of the Ten Commandments. Then Jesus went on to say, “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” It appears that Jesus was replacing the Ten Commandments especially when He said the same thing about killing (Matthew 5:21-22). However, that is not true. Jesus was addressing the thoughts of people towards the Ten Commandments. They did not think they could break the commandments by mere thought. How we know Jesus was addressing thoughts and not trying to replace the Ten Commandments is answered by Proverbs 6:25, where it says a similar thing that Jesus said: “Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.” So, are you one that allows your thoughts to wander onto sinful subjects but as long as you do not put them into practice, you believe you are alright in the eyes of God, or do you see how even mere thoughts may be in violation of the commandments and therefore you are “bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5)?
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Evening Thought...
Friday, December 6, 2024
Luke 8:32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
We have unclean spirits to enter into unclean animals. Did you know that the identification of unclean is not a mere label that could be removed by even Jesus but is descriptive of the way the animal digests contents turning them into either poison, even a mild form, or excreting the poison?
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