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How Racism Will Affect Your Relationship With Jesus Christ

May 30, 2023Uncategorizedblack lives matter, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, government, Jesus Christ, love all, new testament, Old Testament, people, race, racism, racistabarkley8

Racism is a destructive force that not only affects individuals and communities but also has profound implications for one’s spiritual journey. The inherent prejudice and discrimination associated with racism can hinder our ability to cultivate a meaningful and authentic relationship with Jesus Christ. In this article, we will explore how racism severs the bond between believers and Christ, referencing scriptural passages that highlight the importance of love, unity, and acceptance in the Christian faith.

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BIBLE CUSTOMS & CURIOSITIES (EQUAL ACCESS TO GOD)

August 28, 2022Uncategorizedaccess, atone, atonement, bible customs and curiosities, bottom, certain, Christ, curiosities, customs, customs and curiosities, Equal, equal access to God, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, grace, Hebrews, Holy Bible, Holy Ghost, holy place, Holy Spirit, human sin, Jerusalem, jesus, Jesus Christ, jews, KJV, large curtain, love, Mark, Matthew, mercy, miraculous, new testament, offer sacrificies, Old Testament, people, sacrifices, separated, Sin, sinned, sinner, split, The Most Holy Place, twain, veilabarkley8

This veil, or curtain, separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place in the Jewish temple at Jerusalem. Only the high priest was allowed behind this curtain, and he could go into the Most Holy Place only once a year-on the Day of Atonement-to offer sacrifices to atone for the sins of the people (Lev 16:34).

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SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY (JEREMIAH 39:11-18)

September 8, 2021UncategorizedAhikam, Babylon, chief, Christ, Ebed-Melech, Ethiopian, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, jeremiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, King, King Nebuchadnezzar, Lord, Matthew, Nebuchadnezzar, new testament, Old Testament, people, prison, prisons, prizeabarkley8

¹¹Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

¹²Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

¹³So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes;

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THE MOST HOLY PLACE

August 30, 2021Uncategorizedark of the covenant, blood, Christ, devil, Exodus, fifteen feet, God, God is King, God of the Universe, God the Son, God's People, guidance, Hebrews, Holy of Holies, holy tent, incense, jesus, king of kings, Lord, Man, Matthew, meeting place, most holy place, Nation, nations, once a year, people, priests, Protection, room, Satan, section, Sin, sinned, tabernacle, ten cubits, tent, tribes, veilabarkley8

The Tabernacle must have been a great mystery for people. Even priests did not know everything about this holy tent. A place where only one man, once a year, entered; where God’s powerful presence was visible; where the high priest brought blood and incense to do a ritual of atonement for the sins of the all the people; the Tabernacle was a place of wonder.

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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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SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY (LUKE 12:40-56)

August 30, 2021Uncategorizedaccomplished, baptism, baptized, beat, believers, blessed, Christ, cut, daughter-in-law, divided, division, drink, drunken, due season, earth, family, Father, father in law, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, household, jesus, Jesus Christ, law, Lord, Luke, Matthew, mother, mother in law, new testament, Old Testament, people, peter, portion, risen, ruler, Scripture, scriptures of the day, servant, shower, sister, Son, Son in law, son of god, Son of Man, straitened, sunder, three, unbelievers, wiseabarkley8

⁴⁰Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

⁴¹Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?

⁴²And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

⁴³Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

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WHY WOULD EZEKIEL-OR ANYBODY-SPEAK TRUTH TO STUBBORN PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO LISTEN?

August 10, 2021UncategorizedChrist, desire, Ezekiel, firsthand, forgiveness, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gossip, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, people, preach, realtionship, show, Sin, sinner, speak, strength, Truth, wordabarkley8

God call on Ezekiel’s life and the task given him was based on who God was an God’s hatred of sin. Ezekiel experienced God firsthand, taking in His Word (he ate the scroll given him God) so completely that it was a part of him.

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A PRAYER ABOUT (GOSSIPING)

July 22, 2021Uncategorizedbusiness, Christ, devil, Ephesians, evil, Father, forgive, friends, gabfest, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, gossip, gossiping, group, guilty, guit, Heavenly Father, Holy Father, jesus, life, malice, Matthew, Men, mind your business, new testament, night out, Old Testament, others, people, relationship, Satan, speak, talk, talkative, terrible, womenabarkley8

Lord, I got caught in gossip today. I didn’t mean to though. A group of us were just talking about this and that, and You know how women are. We’re so into relationships and what others are doing.

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WHY SEGREGATE AND PUNISH PEOPLE WHO NEED MEDICAL CARE?

June 17, 2021Uncategorizedabsence, Adam, Beginning, ceremonial, Christ, Corpses, disease, Eve, God, God the Father, God the Son, God's holiness, government, jesus, Jesus Christ, kindness, law, Leprosy, Lord, medial, medical care, new testament, Numbers, Old Testament, people, punish, punish people, relative, religious, requirement, ritual law, segregate, sexual purification, skin, token, uncleanness, woman's menstrual cycleabarkley8

In Old Testament times, medical care took second priority to the keeping of ceremonial law in this case, the interest of the law was in a broad category of ritual impurity called “uncleanness.” Uncleanness in the presence of the Lord was to be avoided at all cost. The modern rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” which many governments today consider inviolable, were far down a list topped by ceremonial purification in several forms. Again, the main concern was to reflect God’s holiness.

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WHAT’S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT THE PREDICTION OF NINEVEH’S DOWNFALL?

May 21, 2021Uncategorized300 years, Almighty God, Assyria, capital, city, city of nineveh, conqureed, empire, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, high, invisble, King, learning, Nahum, nineveh, path, people, powerful, predict, prophecy, techonology, theologians, theological, theologically, theology, three hundred years, wallsabarkley8

At the time of Nahum’s prophecy, Assyria (of which Nineveh was the capital) was the most powerful empire on earth. For three hundred years the Assyrians had conquered all people’s in their path. Nineveh, the shinning center of Assyrian culture, learning, and technology, was

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