Daily Archives: 05/17/2024

CAN YOU GET ANYTHING YOU WANT IF YOU HAVE FAITH?

05/17/2024UncategorizedGod, 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)

05/17/2024Uncategorizedfisherman 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)

05/17/2024Uncategorizeddefiniton 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)

05/17/2024UncategorizedChrist, 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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