Daily Archives: 11/04/2024

SCRITPURE OF THE DAY (MATTHEW 6:1-18)

11/04/2024UncategorizedChrist, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, scripture of the dayabarkley8

1. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

²Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

³But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

⁴That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

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WHO’S WHO AND WHERE’S WHERE IN THE BIBLE (EDEN)

11/04/2024UncategorizedEden, Eve, fruit, garden of eden, God, God the Father, God the Son, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, serpentabarkley8

This homeland of the first humans Adam and Eve-may have been paradise for them, but it’s torment for Bible experts. Scholars can’t figure out where it was or even what it was. At times, the creation story in Genesis says Eden was a garden. Other times, Eden was a region that had a garden: “God planted a garden in Eden” (Gen 2:8). Perhaps it was both-the name of the garden and the territory, the way “Babylon” once described an empire and its Captial city.

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DEFINITON OF THE DAY (JOY PT2)

11/04/2024UncategorizedGod, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, new testament, Old Testamentabarkley8

As Jesus’ death approached, He told His followers that soon they would be like a woman in labor, whose sorrow would be turned into joy (John 16:20-22). Later they understood when the dark sorrow of the cross gave way to the joy of the resurrection (Luke 24:41). Viewed from this perspective, eventually they came to see that the cross itself was necessary for the joy to become real (Heb 12:2). Because of His victory and the promise of His abiding presence, the disciples could rejoice even after the Lord’s ascension (Luke 24:52).

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