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SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY (GALATIANS 5:1-12 “FREEDOM IN CHIRST”)

08/23/2021Uncategorizedbondage, ceased, Christ, circumcised, cross, effect, Faith, fall from grace, freedom in christ, Galatians, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, grace, hinder, jesus, Jesus Christ, judgment, judgmetn, justified, law, love, lump, new testament, Old Testament, persecution, persuasion, righteousness, Sin, sinned, sinner, trouble, true, Truth, yokeabarkley8

5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

²Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

³For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (GOVERNMENT “THE NATURE AND CALLING OF MAN”)

08/23/2021UncategorizedAdam, affirms, Authority, bible definition, bible dictionary, chapters, complex, creation, CSB, definition, definitions, definitions of the day, devoted heart, dominion, earth, effect, fallen world, female, flows, fundamental, God, God is Lord, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, gods, government, ground, Hebrews, helper, humanity, images of God, jesus, Jesus Christ, KJV, Lord, male, mankind, Matthew, metanarrative, NIV, NKJV, polemically, Psalm, psalmist, roman government, rule, Sin, sinned, sins, vice-regentsabarkley8

The fundamental truth about government in the Bible’s worldview and metanarrative is that the one triune God revealed in the Scriptures of the OT and NT is the sovereign ruler from which all authority flows. Whatever man and human governments are, they are not to be confused with god(s)-though some may make claims to that effect. On the other hand, they are not mere usurpers upon the creation. Man is the pinnacle of God’s creation. The psalmist, echoed by the writer of Hebrews in the NT, marveled poetically that God was “mindful” of man at all (Ps 8:4-6 NIV; Heb 2:6-8 KJV); but Scripture affirms human dominion over the earth (Gen 1:28-30; Psa 8:6-8; 115:16).

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HOW CAN SALVATION BE CALLED A FREE GIFT?

08/23/2021Uncategorizedamount, bore, candle burning, charitable giving, Christ, cost, daughter, death, died, element, eternal, free gift, free lunch, God, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, good living, Holy Justice, jesus, Jesus Christ, kid, kids, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, passed, passes, price, Romans, salvation, satisfying, Sin, sinned, sinner, Son, wages, winner, winningabarkley8

“There’s no free lunch” speaks to the truth that things that might appear to have no cost often carry a huge price tag. Indeed, that proverb describes salvation, too. To the recipient, the gift of salvation is free. People cannot buy any element of salvation. No amount of good living, candle burning, charitable giving, or caregiving can contribute even a fraction to the cost.

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SCRITPURES OF THE DAY (MATTHEW 9:1-8 “JESUS FORGIVES AND HEALS A PARALYTIC”)

08/19/2021Uncategorizedarise, arose, Christ, city, dead, earth, evil, forgivgen, God, God the Father, God the Son, good cheer, Healer, Heals, Heart, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Forgives, lying on bed, Old Testament, paralytic, passed over, scripture of the day, scritpure, Sin, sinned, sinner, sinners, sins, Son, Son of Man, walkabarkley8

9 And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.

²And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

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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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A LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT (HEROD AGRIPPA I)

08/17/2021Uncategorizedacts, AD 44, Christ, dead, death, deathly, die, died, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greek, half century, Herod Agrippa I, Herod the Great, history, James, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, King, Kings, new testament, Old Testament, sick, Sin, sinned, wormsabarkley8

The grandson of Herod the Great, Herod Agrippa is best known for being the first to execute one of Jesus’ disciples. “He had the apostle James (John’s brother) killed with a sword. When Herod saw much this pleased the Jewish leaders, he arrested Peter” (Acts 12:2-3). An angel freed Peter.

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HOW IS MARRIAGE LIKE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHRIST AND THE CHURCH?

08/12/2021UncategorizedChrist, christians, Church, devoted, divine mission, domination, Ephesians, equips, family, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Husbands, jesus, Jesus Christ, lifelong, Lord, lordly, love your wives, marriage, married, Matthew, new testament, nurture, Old Testament, pretext, responsibility, sacrifical, saviors, service, Sin, submission, tenderness, wife, wivesabarkley8

The bible confronts a husband and wife with the lifelong challenge of patterning their relationship after the relationship between Jesus and the church. Certain assumptions follow.

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

08/10/2021UncategorizedChrist, 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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DEFINITION OF THE DAY (IGNORANCE)

08/09/2021Uncategorized1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, acts, Christ, common images, crucifying, definition of the day, definitions of the day, divine counsel, Ephesians, God, God the Father, God the Son, high handed, ignorance, jesus, Jesus Christ, Leviticus, Matthew, Numbers, obedience, Old Testament, power, powerful, premeditated, Proverbs, Sin, sinned, sinner, willful sinabarkley8

Old Testament law distinguished between sins of ignorance, or sin unintentionally (Lev 4:2, 13-14; Num 15:24-29), and premeditated sins (“sin presumptuously” or with a high hand, Num. 15:30-31). Sins committed in ignorance incur guilt (Lev 4:13,22,27); however, the sacrificial system provided atonement for such sin (Lev 4; 5:5-6). In contrast, “high-handed” or “presumptuous” sin is an affront to the Lord punishable by exclusion from the people of God. The Law provided no ritual cleansing for such sin (Num 15:30-31).

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BIBLE BOOK OF THE DAY (ZECHARIAH)

07/22/2021Uncategorized18 years, 25, 25000, 332, 332bc, bood, Christ, church family, december, end time, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's help, grandson, greece, Haggai, Heaven's army, Iraq, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Lord, main point, Matthew, November, October, Old Testament, Persia, poor, rich, Sin, sinned, sinner, temple, town, writer, Zechariahabarkley8

Most other Bible prophets lived before God punished the Jews by exiling them to Assyria and Babylon, in what is now Iraq. So those earlier prophets warned the Jews where they were headed if they didn’t stop sinning. But even those prophets offered hope, promising that God would bring the Jews home one day.

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