Archive for January, 2004
Recently migrated from the Admin’s Notebook before I shut that down.
Nobody’s Perfect.
We live in the age of mediocrity.? No longer are there absolutes, there are only opinions.? No longer are there standards, there are individual convictions.? Few? have truly decided to understand that there are no shades of gray.? In the perfect brightness of the Lord our God there is black and light.? Nowhere in the Bible does it speak of reproving the works of grayness and nowhere does it mention living in the gray.
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Tags: christian life, perfection
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Recently, a friend asked me when the 7 Feasts occured in the Jewish
Calendar. The question came up because we were taking a look at the Day
of Pentecost and how long Christ was on Earth. We’ve both been in
enough meetings where we knew that 50 days after the Passover was the
Day of Pentacost….but what did that mean? It meant we had assimilated
information without verifying the facts.
Thus began the hunt and of course we sought the Bible:
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Tags: calendar, israel
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Character Profile: Titus
- Paul instrumental in his salvation (Titus 1:5)
- Mentioned by Paul as seemingly known by the Galatians (Gal 2:1-3)
- Went with Paul to Jerusalem (Gal 2:1-3) likely on the matter of circumcision in Acts 15 perhaps as
- Titus, an uncircumcized Greek who wasn?t compelled by his adversaries to get circumcized. (Gal 2:3);
- Attesting to his strong character Paul even states that Titus walked in the same spirit and step as himself (2 Cor 12:18)
- He was to meet Paul at Troas (2 Cor 2:12)
- Made a beginning of a work in Corinth (perhaps in relation to the gift offering) and he was subsequently urged to complete in the Corinthians this gracious work (2 Cor 8:6)
- Was sent to Corinth by Paul (2 Cor 8:16-22, 2 Cor 12:17; 2 Cor 12:18)
- Was received with trembling and love by the Corinthians (2 Cor 7:15)
- His love of the Corinthians increased from this experience (2 Cor 7:15)
- Met up with Him in Macedonia and proved to be a great comfort (2 Cor 7:5-6)
- Comforted the workers, himself and Paul (2 Cor 7:7) by seeing the earnest desire of the Corinthians towards Paul
- Found his spirit refreshed by the Corinthians (2 Cor 7:14)
- Paul calls him his partner and fellow worker among the Corinthians (2 Cor 8:23)
- Left to do a work in Crete (Titus 1:5)
- Was to rejoin Paul in Nicopolis (Titus 3:12)
- Perhaps went to Rome, but eventually seems to have left Paul and went to Dalmatia?the reason is not explained (2 Tim 4:10)
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We find ourselves in the dawning of the Church and her separation from Judaism, defining herself as an entity created by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. The time period is after the ascension of Christ. The disciples had found themselves with the resurrected Lord, for a period of no less than forty days (Acts 1:3), sitting under His teaching and in awe that their Lord was indeed alive. He had ascended on the Mount of Olives (Acts 1:9) caught up into heaven and taken in a glorious cloud of God’s shekinah glory, and they were left listening to the words of angels comforting them that Christ would return in the same way that He left (Acts 1:10).
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13 January
Posted by uplook
R.
P. Amos
This chronicle deals with man?s
need for God?s gospel. To desire the good news one must
understand the bad news. The sudden appearance of a fire truck
is not good news unless there is first the bad news of a fire.
The opening verses of Romans
1 give an overview of the gospel?s nature.
1:1 |
?ORIGIN - God |
1:2 |
?AUTHENTICITY - prophetic
Scriptures |
1:3 |
?SUBJECT - God’s Son, Jesus
Christ |
1:5 |
?OBJECTIVE - obedience of
faith |
1:5 |
?SCOPE - among all nations |
1:5 |
?PURPOSE - for His Name |
1:7 |
?CAUSE - grace |
1:7 |
?EFFECT - peace |
1:16 |
?FORCE - power of God |
1:16 |
?PROMISE - salvation |
1:16 |
?CONDITION - belief (trust)
in the Lord Jesus |
1:17 |
?CHARACTER - righteousness
(justice) of God |
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Reynaldo Reynoso (admin)
In the furtherance of our understanding of Biblical judgement, we find that our logical thinking begs a question.
Well said, you may say, we are to judge but according to a proper scale and first working on ourselves. But, the critic may wonder if I am ignoring a fact that what Jesus was talking about was the obvious and not judgement. “Judgement is finding out someone?s worth” the critic may add. In fact, some others may add, there is so much danger in this that Jesus emphasized in the book of Luke (the same Sermon) not to judge.
And it is an honest question: How does a person judge the heart of another?
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Reynaldo Reynoso (admin)
Recently, I followed a link into
The Christian Forums. That stray click has left me lost from The Bible Archive for several weeks. After being submerged in various arguments for this time, I’ve grown tired from my lack of sleep and find that I must post some of this in the Archive. I would normally put this in the Admin’s Notebook, but it stood apart from my usual ramblings.
It has been stated, in different settings and different ways, that a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ as fulfilling Christ?s prescription to love one?s neighbor, that one is not to judge others. What has been used to support this are the very word?s of Christ Himself when speaking to His audience He told them that “Do not judge each other!”
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