“When we consider Eph. 4:32 and Col. 3:13 about forgiveness, we usually take away from those verses that our motivation to forgive is because God forgave us, which is true. But consider the fact that in Eph. 4:32, God the Father didn’t forgive you for your sake. He forgave you for Christ’s sake. Not only did the Father automatically forgive you but notice that He forgave you for Christ’s sake. The Father forgave you automatically for His Son’s sake because it was His Son who went through the shame, the agony, the torture of that death on the cross for all yours sins! God forgave you automatically for His Son’s sake because He will never betray His Son! He will never betray the love His Son showed you on that cross! It’s for His Son’s sake that He will never betray the perfection of what He accomplished at Calvary! Thus, we should also forgive others for Christ’s sake because of what He accomplished for us on the cross.”
Cover Your Head Because of the Angels
“How can we figure out what Paul has in mind here with this reference to angels? I would suggest the solution is easy and determined by the context. Not the immediate context but the context of all the previous references to angels in 1 Corinthians.”
There’s a Scandal in my Church!
“Consider this verse. Heb 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. This verse speaks of the hardening character of sin. If one allows unrighteous thinking to govern his mind, if one allows the deceitfulness of sin to take over his thinking, it leads to a hardened heart, which is the beginning of a downward spiral in the spiritual life of any believer. He’s shipwrecking his own faith. A hardened heart leads to the incremental death of each fruit of the Spirit, which leads to the death of your entire spiritual life, which leads to secret sins, which then leads to open sins, which leads to blasphemy and a seared conscience, and before you know it, that believer is no better than an unbeliever.”
“With God, testament and covenant could be used interchangeably, because the testament IS the covenant. What God testifies BECOMES the new covenant with that person.”
“How did the Israelites take down the well-defended great wall of Jericho? With the ark of God and the blowing of trumpets. How did Shamgar smite the 600 Philistines? With the ox goad. How did Gideon’s 300 defeat thousands of Midianites? With pitchers, lamps, and trumpets. How did David subdue and kill the mighty Goliath? With just a stone in his sling. THE LAME TAKE THE PREY.”
Angels Ascending and Descending
“What the Lord is saying to Nathanael, “Do you think that what just happened with Me is amazing? You’re going to see even greater things than this. You’re going to see, from this moment forward, the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. It would be Nathanael’s distinct blessing to see the entire government of Heaven serve the Messiah of Israel, because He would now be the object of attention of the entire heavenly host just as He would be the object of attention of the entire nation of Israel because the time was now at hand when all things that the prophets had written were to be fulfilled.”
Did John Time Travel in Revelation?
“Notice also that John writes about being in the future in the past tense. He says, ‘I WAS in the Spirit ON the Lord’s day.’ That’s like saying, ‘Yesterday, I time-traveled into the future to witness the Day of the Lord, and then I came back.’ Or ‘I traveled into the future yesterday and came back to tell you this story today.’”
Who was Alexander the Coppersmith?
“So, based on the snippets of clues in Scripture, it’s possible we may be looking at a tale of two brothers. Both were sons of the very man who helped Christ carry His cross up Calvary’s hill. One believed. The other did not. And the one who refused to believe, his name was Alexander. He was a coppersmith in Ephesus. The whole city was turned upside when Paul came in preaching his gospel of grace. People probably stopped doing business with him because he was a Jew despite the fact that he was an unbeliever like many other Jews. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Paul has a close, loving fellowship with his brother and his mother. Oh, the rage he felt toward Paul. If only he could just get his hands on him. He will not give in to reason. He’ll beat him within an inch of his life, which is probably what he did. Now Paul warns Timothy: keep an eye out for Alexander the coppersmith. He did me much evil. Don’t try to talk to him. Don’t try to reason with him. Just run.”
95 Theses Against Modern Translations
“The second principle is that there must be access to those copies. The preserved text would not only exist in a multiplicity of copies, but those copies would be available to God’s people to possess, study, copy, and translate. These texts would not be hidden under a rock, buried in a vault, or inaccessible in a private library or monastery.”
250 Things the Holy Spirit Does for Us
“250. Finally, the Word He inspired, is for us, ‘is a Hammer (Jer. 23:29) with which to break the hard heart; it is a Critic/Discerner (Heb. 4:12) of the ‘thoughts and intents of the heart’; it is a Mirror (2 Cor. 3:18; Jas. 1:25) to reveal the true condition of man; it is a Laver (Eph. 5:26; Ps. 119:11; John 15:3) for the washing of the defiled; it is Seed (Luke 8:11; 1 Pet. 1:23) for the soil; it is the Sun (Ps. 19:1-6) for the seed sown; it is the Rain and the Snow (Isa. 55:10,11) for the seed sown; it is Food (Job 23:12) for the hungry,–milk for babes (1 Cor. 3:2; Heb. 5:12, 13) bread for the more mature (Deut. 8:3; Isa. 55:1, 2), strong meat for the full grown (1 Cor. 3:2; Heb. 5: 12-14), and Honey for all (Ps. 19:10); it is Gold (Ps. 19:10; 119:72) for the poor; it is a Lamp (Ps. 119:105; Prov. 6:23; 2 Cor. 4:6; 2 Pet. 1:19) for the traveler; it is a Sword (Eph. 6:17; Heb. 4:12; Rev. 19:15) for the soldier; and it is Fire (Jer. 20:9; 23:29; Ps. 39:3) to impel the believer to service’ (quoted from Baker’s ‘Dispensational Theology’).”
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