CAN YOU GET ANYTHING YOU WANT IF YOU HAVE FAITH?

May 17, 2024UncategorizedGod, God the Father, God the Son, Jesus Christ, Old Testamentabarkley8

God is not a supernatural vending machine. Jesus did not mean we can fulfill our selfish desires if we simply believe they will happen. There are some leaders and churches that teach that health and wealth are available to all Christians who have faith. That dangerous teaching not only puts the focus on the temporal comforts of life but also leads a believer to think that any shortage of health or wealth is the result of unbelief. That is not what Jesus taught.

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS (FISHING)

May 17, 2024Uncategorizedfisherman of men, fishing, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, new testament, Old Testament, peter, rod and line fishing, spear fishingabarkley8

The early Jewish people do not seem to have been very good in boats although they liked fish (Numbers 11:5). The only navy they had was sunk in port in a storm at Ezion Geber (1 Kings 22:48). The Philistines came by sea from Cyprus, and the Phoenicians were a seafaring nation, but little is heard about fishing.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (HOLY SPIRIT AS A PERSON)

May 17, 2024Uncategorizeddefiniton of the day, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christabarkley8

The popular notion of “personhood” is based on the idea of individuality and of the possibility of conscious tow-way communication with another embodied person. One does not relate to the Spirit in quite the same way as one does to a human, but the Spirit is a person, nonetheless. The Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to engage the Devil in spiritual conflict (Luke 4:1-13). It is the Holy Spirit who effects new birth (John 3:1-16). In John 14:16 Jesus told His disciples that He was going to send them “another Counselor,” referring to the Spirit. There are two Greek words for “another,” one meaning another of the same kind (allos) and the other

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WHO’S WHO AND WHERE’S WHERE IN THE BIBLE (PETER’S DEATH)

May 17, 2024UncategorizedChrist, dead, death, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, history, jesus, Jesus Christ, kill, nero, new testament, Old Testament, peter, peter's death, romeabarkley8

The Bible doesn’t say exactly how or when Peter died. But it hints. How. Jesus told Peter, ” ‘When you are old, you will stretch out your hands. .’ . . .Jesus said this to let him know what kind of death he would die to glorify God” (John 21:18-19).

When. First Peter places the apostle in Rome. Several Christian writers from early centuries say he died there-crucified.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE BIBLE (MICHAL)

May 14, 2024Uncategorizedabarkley8

To win the girl of his dreams-Saul’s daughter Michal-David had to come up with foreskins from one hundred Philistines; he came up with two hundred.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (MOTHER)

May 14, 2024Uncategorizedabarkley8

Female parent who carries, give birth to, and cares for a child. Usually refers to humans but may refer to animals or even as a metaphor for deity. In the Bible a wife has two equally important roles; to love, support, and provide companionship and sexual satisfaction for her husband and to bear and rear children. So important was the latter that a stigma was attached to barrenness (Gen 16:1-2; 18:9-15; 30:1; 1 Sam 1:1-20; Luke 1:5-25, esp. vs 25).

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WOMEN OF THE BIBLE (RIZPAH, HER NAME MEANS “A HOT STONE OR COAL”)

May 14, 2024UncategorizedDavid, God, Jesus Christ, Rizpah, Saul, women of the bibleabarkley8

HER CHARACTER: Saul’s concubine Rizpah was the mother of Armoni and Mephibosheth. Though a woman with a few rights and little power, she displayed great courage and loyalty after the death of her sons.

HER SORROW: That her only sons were executed, and their bodies dishonored because of their father’s crime.

HER JOY: That the bodies of her sons were finally given an honorable burial

KEY SCRIPTURE: 2 Samuel 21:8-14

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SHEPHERD IMAGERY IN THE BIBLE

May 7, 2024UncategorizedGod, Jesus Christ, shepherdsabarkley8

OLD TESTAMENT

God is the Shepherd (Gen 49:24; Ps 23; 80:1).

God’s appointed leaders are underspends (Ezek 34).

Many people in the Old Testament were shepherds by trade, like Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Rachel, Jacob, Moses, and David.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (LUKE 17:5-9, FAITH AND DUTY)

May 7, 2024UncategorizedAsk, Bible, Holy Bible, John, Luke, Mark, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, Romans, scripture of the dayabarkley8

5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

6 He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.

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THE MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE TRINITY PT 3

May 7, 2024bible customs, bible studies, bible study, bible times, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, TrinityBible, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, KJV, new testament, Old Testament, trinityabarkley8

MISUNDERSTANDING #5 “The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are just different titles for Jesus, or three different ways that God has revealed himself.

Truth: The Bible clearly shows that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct persons

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