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THE LORD’S COMING

October 24, 2022Uncategorized1 Peter, 1 Thessalonians, 2 John, 2 peter, 2 Thessalonians, 3 John, body, Christ, fifteen exhortations, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, holy kiss, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, King James Holy Bible, Luke, Mark, new testament, Old Testament, Repeat pastors, safe, soul, spiritabarkley8

1 Thessalonians 5

It’s suddenness (vv 1-11). Christ’s return is certain, but the day and the hour are not known, as Jesus said again and again (Matthew 24:36;42-43; 25:13; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 12:39, 46; 21:25-35). However, signs will precede His coming (Luke 21:25-35), so that patient believers may sense that it is near. But even those who are watching are warned to stay alert and self-controlled, lest they be caught off guard.

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WILL CHRISTIANS FACE A DAY OF JUGDEMENT?

September 20, 2022Uncategorized1 Corinthains, 1 john, 1st century, 2 corinthains, 2 John, 3 John, believers, books of the Bible, Christ, day, first century, forgiveng, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jesus, Jesus Christ, Judgement, Judgement day, judgemetn, judgment seat, lives, love, master, new testament, Old Testament, punishment, seat, soberingabarkley8

Believer was one day stand before Christ and be held accountable for how they have lived (2 Corintians 5:10). Apparently, believers in the first century trembled at the thought of such a judgment. Truly the thought of such a judgment. Truly the thought is sobering. Yet John shows how we can drive such fear of it from our lives.

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE BIBLE (ANGELS UNAWEAR)

April 27, 2022Uncategorized1 Peter, 2 John, 2 peter, 3 John, Angels, angels unaware, Christ, Ezekiel, Gaalatians, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Hebrews, hospitality, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, jews, love, manners and customs, Old Testament, philoxeniah, Zephaniahabarkley8

The Jews believed that God sometimes sent angels in disguise to test whether people were obeying the law of hospitality. They knew that this had happened to Abraham (Genesis 18:2-13) and to Gideon (Judges 6:17-22), and they believed therefore that the same thing might happen to them (Hebrews 13:2). This style of thinking gave rise to problems as well as opened the way for revelation. Many Jews thought that if they were in the house of God then they would be under God’s protection, and as a result tended to be careless in their daily living (Jeremiah 7:14). They did not realize that the glory of God had departed from the Temple and that it was no longer, therefore, the house of God (Ezekiel 11:23).

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SHEPHERD IMAGERY IN THE BIBLE

September 17, 2021Uncategorized1 Peter, 2 peter, 3 John, acts, bad leader, care for sheep, Chief Shepherd, Christ, compassion, Disciples, Ezekiel, flock, foreign, Genesis, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God's people, Good shepherd, imagery, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Actions, Jesus Christ, John, Mark, Matthew, Messiah, new testament, Old Testament, parables, prophets, Psalm, revelation, sacrifice, shepherd, shepherds, shepherds duties, Zechariahabarkley8

OLD TESTAMENT

God is the Shepherd (Gen 49:24; Ps 23; 80:1).
God’s appointed leaders are undershepherds (Ezek 34).
Many people in the Old Testament were shepherds by trade, like Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Rachel, Jacob, Moses, and David.
Foreign leaders were sometimes called shepherds when their leadership impacted God’s people (Isa 44:28).
The prophets depicted the distress of Israel without leadership or bad leader in terms of a flock without a shepherd (Ezek 34:1-10; Zech 10:2; 13:7).
The prophets used shepherds imagery to point to the Messiah to come (Ezek 34:22-24; 37:24; Isa 40:11; Zech 13:7; see also Matt 26:31; Mark 14:27).

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (FLESH AND SPIRIT)

September 17, 2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 john, 2 Corinthians, 2 John, 3 John, attitudes, Christ, confidence, dead, death, definition, definitions, definitions of the day, definiton, devil, died, dispositions, evil, flesh, Flesh and Spirit, flesh vs spirit, flesh was created, fleshly manner, Galatians, gentleness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, godly lifestyle, Goodness, Hebrews, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, jesus, Jesus Christ, kindness, law of sin, laws, license, living, love, lust of the flesh, Matthew, moral, new testament, Old Testament, patience, paul, peace, physical, physical bodies, power through christ, practice evil, presence, Romans, rule, Satan, self-gratification, signifies, Sin, sinner, sinners, sins, sleep, spirit, struggled, walk by Spiritabarkley8

Terms noticeably used in tandem in the NT to contrast diametrically opposed lifestyle. The term “flesh” is often ascribed the connotation of an ungodly lifestyle of selfishness and sensual self-gratification. The term “spirit” signifies the opposite characteristics. One who walks by the Spirit lives with a conspicuous God consciousness that directs his or her dispositions, attitudes, and actions.

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THE ALTAR OF INCENSE

August 30, 2021Uncategorized1 john, 1 samuel, 2 John, 2 Samuel, 3 John, blood, bread, burn, burned, burning, Christ, Christ death, day of Atonement, Deuteronomy, Ezekiel, glory, glroy, God, God is God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's People, gold lamps, golden lamps, high priest, holy place, Holy Spirit, incense, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, lamp, Leviticus, Matthew, most holy place, new testament, Numbers, Old Testament, people, Pleased, Pray, prayer, prayers, presence, Psalm, revelation, Romans, sacrifice, symbol, symbolic, tabernacleabarkley8

Any priest could offer incense accompanied by some of the grain offering on the altar of incense. It is possible that priests offered incense by itself, although there are no clear indications for this practice (Leviticus 10:1-3; Numbers 16:16-18; Deuteronomy 33:10; 1 Samuel 2:28; Ezekiel 8:10-11).

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THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

August 23, 2021Uncategorized1 john, 1 Peter, 2 John, 2 peter, 3 John, bad deed, bad deeds, Christ, circumstances, deed, deeds, desires, Deuteronomy, Ephesians, Exodus, Ezekiel, faithfulness, forbearance, fruit of the spirit, Galatians, generosity, gentleness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, good deed, good deeds, Goodness, happiness, harmony, Hebrews, humility, Isaiah, James, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, joy, kindness, love, Luke, Matthew, meekness, nehemiah, new testament, Old Testament, outward, paul, peace, peter, Proverbs, relationships, reliability, Romans, sacrifical, self-control, severely, Sinful, spirit, Titus, tried, trustworhiness, victory, Zechariahabarkley8

The aspects of the fruit of the Spirit advocated by Paul in Galatians 5:22-23 occur not only here but also elsewhere in the Scriptures. Most of the attributes are those by which God himself lives.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (TRINITY PT 2)

May 17, 2021Uncategorized1 john, 2 John, 3 John, atonement, definition, earth, Ephesians, Father, Genesis, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Godhead, HCSB, hovering, John, John's Gospel, New Tesatment, NIV, Old Testament, paul, pronoun, resurrection, Romans, Scripture, suffered, theologians, theological, theologically, theology, voluntarilyabarkley8

In the work of creation, God the Father brought the universe into being out of nothing by the agency of His Word and His Spirit. In the first chapter of Genesis, one reads, “God created the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1). The unformed and uninhabited earth is covered by darkness and water, but the Spirit of God is “hovering” over the waters of the earth, ready to bring form to the earth so it can be inhabited. God then speaks: “Let there be light” (Gen 1:3). Throughout the works of creation, God the Father speaks forth His Words (i.e. the Son), and the unformed

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MEN OF THE BIBLE (JOHN “THE DISCIPLE JESUS LOVED”)

May 14, 2021Uncategorized1 john, 2 John, 3 John, Apocalyptic, bansihed, boldness, Christian church, death, disciple Jesus loved, End, eveangelist, fierce, fiery tempers, final days, Galatians, Gospel of John, growing pains, imprisonment, John, Judgement, loyalty, Luke, Mark, martyr, Matthew, Men of the Bible, new testament, Old Testament, Patmos, peter, pillars, prison, Revelations, temper, theologians, theological, theologically, theology, tortue, trouble, women of the bibleabarkley8

John wasn’t always known as “the disciple Jesus loved,” Jesus called him and his brother the “Son of Thunder” (Mark 3:17), likely because of their fiery tempers. Fits of temper occasionally landed John in trouble, such as the time he wanted to call down a fiery judgment from heaven on a Samaritan village that refused to welcome Jesus (Luke 9:51-56).

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WHAT IS A SOUL “3 JOHN 2”

June 10, 2019Uncategorized3 John, 3 John 2, abuse, abused, Adam, beloved, Bible, body, capacity, Christ, cross, doctor, Eve, evil, Genesis, gift, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Gods creation, Holy Bible, human, image, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, neurophysiology, physical, self-consciousness, Sin, sinners, soul, soul health, soul healthy, speak, spiritual life, taintedabarkley8

soul-leaving-bodyy

No doctor operating on a patient has ever discovered an organ called the soul, yet we have no better term to describe what distinguishes human beings from every other part of God’s creation. Only people have the unique gift of self-consciousness, the ability to reflect on their own experience, to interpret it to others, and then to speak about it. A famous professor once said, “Dogs bark, but dogs never bark about barking.” Continue reading WHAT IS A SOUL “3 JOHN 2” →