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WHERE DID MORAL RULES COME FROM

12/03/2025UncategorizedChrist, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Gospel, jesus, Jesus Christ, moral, new testament, Old Testament, peopleabarkley8

For Adam and Eve to live as full human beings, they would need to obey God. That would require moral limitations, boundaries that they would carefully observe and not trespass, as a sign of obedience. God applied one restriction on their use of creation- one tree whose fruit they could not eat. It was that same tree, of course, that provided the proverbial apple that has gone down in history-the agonizing first taste of human sinfulness.

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW PT 3

12/03/2025UncategorizedGod, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, the gospel, The saintsabarkley8

GOD’S STORY

When the Events of This Book Happened:

During Jesus’s earthly life, 6. B.C. – A. D. 30

Matthew’s Gospel begins with the announcement of Jeus’s coming birth, ca. 6 B.C., and ends with his post resurrection ministry in the spring of A.D.

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO (MATTHEW PT2)

09/30/2025UncategorizedGod, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Gospel, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, the gospel according to matthewabarkley8

Teachings about God – The First Gospel shows God in action, taking the initiative in fulfilling the Scriptures about the coming Messiah. It teaches about the Trinity, and it contributes greatly to the Christian understanding of the deity of Christ. Jesus’s constant reference to himself as the Son of Man plays a key role in understanding Jesus’s earthly mission.

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THE ULTIMATE BIBLE GUIDE (THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO NAHUM PT2)

02/05/2025UncategorizedBible, Christ, God, God the Son, Gospel, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, Nahum, new testament, Old Testamentabarkley8

GOD’S STORY –

When the Events of this Book Happened:

Sometime between 663 and 612 B.C.

During this time, Assyria dominated the ancient Near East. Samaria and the northern kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria in 722. In 663, Assyria had conquered the magnificent Egyptian stronghold of Thebes, located on the Nile River some 400 miles south of the Nile Delta. In Nah. 3:8, the prophet reminded the Assyrians of their great triumph. (“No” in the KJV is an alternate name for Thebes.) His argument was, if mighty Thebes fell, who are you to think you will stand

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (TAX COLLECTOR PT1)

09/20/2021Uncategorized20 percent, abusers, alcohol, business, Christ, connotations, dishonest, everyday life in bible times, feared, fruit, gluttons, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Gospel, Gospels, grain, greek, half-shekel, Hebrew, herd, inheritances taxes, Jesus Christ, Jew, jews, Leviticus, Luke, manner, Matthew, oil, Old Testament, pagans, pay, picture, produce, Promised land, prostitiutes, public sinners, region, regions, Romans, sanctuary, Sin, sinned, sinner, sixty-five years, state, state taxes, system, tax collector, tax farming, two drachma, wineabarkley8

During the Roman era, tax collectors and the manner in which taxes were collected evolved and varied from one region to the next. Here we offer a general picture of the process that will allow us to appreciate the role tax collectors played in the Gospels. Taxes were paid to both the temple and the state, each of which established its own tax code without consideration of the other. First-century Jews paid a religious tithe of their produce, herd, and flock (Lev 27:30-32); they were also required to pay the half-shekel or two-drachma tax for sanctuary upkeep (Exod 30:13; Matt 17:24). The state demanded taxes that included a poll tax levied on males fourteen to sixty-five years of age and females twelve to sixty-five, real estate tax, customs tax collected at road and harbor stations, a tax on produce that amounted to 10 percent on grain and 20 percent on wine, fruit, and oil, a 1 percent income tax, and sales and inheritance taxes.

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EVERYDAY LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES (STONING “AS A FORM OF EXECUTION” PT2)

09/17/2021Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 1 samuel, 2 Chronicles, 2 Kings, 2 Samuel, anger, angry, Christ, David, dead, death, executed, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's Word, Gospel, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus's death, Joash, John, Joshua, Leviticus, Matthew, mob, Moses, Naboth, new testament, Numbers, Old Testament, paul, Rehoboam, Sin, sinned, sinner, sinners, sins, Stephen, stone, stone them, stoned, stoning, stoning women, violenceabarkley8

These laws sound rigid and austere in their proclamations, and we cannot say for sure how often this particular punishment was employed. What we can say for sure is that exceptions were allowed, as illustrated by Jesus. He did not demand that the woman caught in adultery be executed but instead disarmed her executioners and urged her to leave her lift of sin (John 8:3-11).

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WHAT IS GRACE?

09/17/2021Uncategorizedbenefit, bill, cared, Christ, dead, death, devil, Ephesians, eternal plan, evil, Faith in Christ, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God's grace, Gospel, grace, hope, humiliation, initiative, jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, Matthew, new testament, our sins, Pray, prayed, prayer, referring, Satan, sending, Sin, sinner, sins, what is grace, worshipabarkley8

We hear the word a lot around Christian circles, sometimes referring to a prayer before a meal, sometimes to a great big idea associated with the gospel, sometimes as a girl’s name. Paul’s used the term throughout his letters to speak of God’s special favor to every person, the underserved benefit we have of God’s mercy in sending Jesus to die for our sins.

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SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY (2 CORINTHIANS 11:3-15)

09/06/2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, abasing, apostles, black, burdensome, Church, dark, deceitful workers, exalted, false Apostles, God, God freely, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Gospel, jesus, Jesus Christ, light, Macedonia, Matthew, ministers, new testament, night, Old Testament, paul, preach, preached, righteousness, rude, rude speech, Satan, scripture of the day, scriptures of the day, scritpures, service, speech, supplied, supply, transforming, white, workabarkley8

⁵For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

⁶But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

⁷Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

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HOW CAN JESUS BE CONSIDERED SINLESS WHEN THE BIBLE DESCRIBES HIS ANGER?

08/19/2021Uncategorizedapostles, Christ, devil, Disciples, dramatic, Ephesians, evil, facts, four Gospels, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, Gospel, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, mad, market, market place, Matthew, military campaigns 17 years, money, money changers, motivating power, new testament, Old Testament, passoin, power, Sin, sinned, sinner, temple, worship, worshiper, worshippingabarkley8

All four Gospels describe Jesus clearing the money changers form the temple; none use the term “anger” as part of the description. We infer anger from the facts given and from the passion mentioned in John 2:17.

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NAMES OF GOD (GOD)

08/16/2021UncategorizedChrist, diciples, disciple, eyes, Father, flesh, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Gospel, hands, jesus, Jesus as God, Jesus Christ, John, lived, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, resurrection, spirit, Thomasabarkley8

JOHN 20:27-28: Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger and behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing And Thomas answered and said unto him, my Lord and my God.

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