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DEFINITION OF DAY (LAYING ON OF HANDS)

July 27, 2022Uncategorized1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, 2 Timothy, acts, apostles, Authority, bless, burnt, definition, definition of the day, definitions, definitions of the day, hand, hands, heal, laying, laying on of hands, Leviticus, ministry, Numbers, paul, prayer, self-discipline, sinned, sinners, sober, violenceabarkley8

Symbolic ceremonial act used to invoke a divine blessing or establish a connection for the purpose of sacrifice, ordination, or to impart spiritual gifts.

OLD TESTAMENT: A primary used of laying on of hands in the OT was sacrifices. In Lev 16 the Lord instructed Moses and Aaron concerning the Day of Atonement. At a particular point Aaron was told to place his hands upon a live goat and “confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites-all their sins-put them on the goat’s head” (Lev 16:21), transferring the sins of Israel to the goat.

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WHY DID JESUS USE MIRACLES?

July 8, 2021UncategorizedAuthority, Christ, demonic spirits, disease, emphatically, evil, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, heal, John, Kingdom of God, Lazarus, lives, Matthew, Messiah, miracle, miracles, Nazareth, Old Testament, peace, presence of God, signal, son of god, spirits, tombabarkley8

Christ did miracles to authenticate His claims to be the Messiah. John called these supernatural acts “signs”-events intended to point people to God, to signal the presence of God with His people. Who but God has authority over nature, disease, death and evil? A carpenter from Nazareth calming a raging storm, giving sight to the blind, calling Lazarus from the tomb, and driving out demonic spirits, emphatically demonstrates that He is the Son of God.

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AGAINST SO MANY BIBLICAL COMMANDS, HOW CAN SOLOMON ADVISE THAT THERE IS A TIME TO KILL, TO TEAR DOWN, AND TO HATE?

April 14, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, Church, curiosities, customs, death, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, preach, preaching, primitive, prophet, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorized12 oclock, baby, birth, birthing, build, builders, building, context, cried, cry, crying, dead, death, destruction, die, died, ecclesiastes, event, heal, healing, human, joyous, kill, killed, killer, killing, laugh, laughter, life, live, o'clock, repeat, rhythms, season, seasons, solomon, tears, time, twelveabarkley8

Solomon’s list of times and “seasons” must be viewed within the larger context of life an history. He is not necessarily saying, “Hey, it’s twelve o’clock, time to kill-so go out and bump someone off.” Rather, Solomon insists that human life takes place within a larger framework of events that repeat down through history: laughter, tears, killing, healing, destruction, building, death, birth.

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MEN OF THE BIBLE (MEN OF FAITH: FIND A WAY)

January 25, 2019Uncategorized4, Christ, Faith, four, galilee, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, heal, healed, healing, jesus, Jesus Christ, leper, Mark, men of faith, Men of the Bible, peter, sins, supernaturalabarkley8

The word about Jesus’ ability to heal the sick had spread to the point that when He returned to Peter’s house after a trip through Galilee (where He had recently healed a leper), a large crowd gathered outside, hoping for an encounter with Jesus. Continue reading MEN OF THE BIBLE (MEN OF FAITH: FIND A WAY) →