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WHAT ARE CITY STREETS FOR?

September 25, 2022Uncategorizedblessed, business, children, Christ, city, communication, cupboards, delivered, devil, evil, full, function, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, harm, home, hope, jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, playing, prey, priority, recreation, safe, satisfied, security, streets, vulnerable, workabarkley8

City streets serve the function of communication and commerce. Without streets, goods cannot be delivered, and people cannot conduct business. But there’s another function, perhaps even more telling.

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (PRIESTS AND LEVITES)

July 25, 2022Uncategorizedchristians, Father, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Good Samaritan, holy place, Jesus Christ, jews, John the Baptist, leper, Levites, Leviticus, Luke, most holy place, new testament, Old Testament, priests, work, Zachariasabarkley8

The priests and Levites were about their work in New Testament times. They are familiar in the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:31).

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DID THE KINGS HELP OR HURT ISRAEL AS A NATION?

June 1, 2022Uncategorized1 samuel, 2 Samuel, Christ, Deuteronomy, Egypt, forsaken, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, help, human, humans, hurt, Israel, jesus, Jesus Christ, judge, King, Kings, leadership, Lord, Matthew, Nation, nations, Old Testament, reign, vioce, workabarkley8

In demanding a king, Israel became like every other nation of the world. Instead of asking God for relief from counterfeit spiritual leaders, they cried, “Give us a king!” They rejected God’s rule in favor of human leadership.

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WHAT IS SPIRIT WAREFARE?

September 20, 2021Uncategorizedbattleground, Christ, devastation, devil, diseas, ecological, evil, forces, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's Kingdom, great number, intensity, jesus, Jesus Christ, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, person, Satan, sickness, soul, spiritual warefare, workabarkley8

It is cosmic conflict between the forces of good and evil. The outcome has been determined, but eh ongoing conflict still includes a great number of victories and defeats. The soul and life of each person is the battleground.

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

September 6, 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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JESUS AND SACRIFICES

August 30, 2021Uncategorized1 corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Beginning, bullet points, connection, cross, crucified, crucifixion, day of Atonement, dead, death, died, fulfillment, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, high priest, jesus, Jesus and sacrifices, Jesus died on the cross, John, John the Baptist, Luke, Mark, Matthew, New Testament sacrifices, Passover, paul, Paul's affirmation, penalty, propitiation, records, Romans, sacrifice, workabarkley8

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SHOULD CHRISTIANS FOLLOW OTHER PEOPLE, OR SHOULD THEY ONLY FOLLOW GOD?

August 20, 2021Uncategorizedability to speak, Christ, compassion, evil, exult, Faith, follow, follower, follower of Christ, follower of God, follower of people, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, grow, help, helped, helper, jesus, leader, Matthew, mature, mentor, new testament, Old Testament, person, persons, Pray, praying, Satan, skill, skilled, skills, steps, teach, teaching, walk, walk in faith, work, youngabarkley8

Surely they should follow God, but following God requires that we observe and follow leaders who are following God. Mature Christian mentors help our faith develop and our understanding of God’s will to grow.

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SCRITPURE OF THE DAY (HEBREWS 3:7-15 “BE FAITHFUL”)

July 22, 2021UncategorizedBeginning, Christ, confidence, End, err, Father, fathers tempted, fiath, generation, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Harden, Heart, hearts, Hebrews, Holy Ghost, jesus, Jesus Christ, living, living God, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, partakers, provocation, rest, saith, scripture of the day, stedfast, temptation, wilderness, work, wrathabarkley8

⁷Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

⁸Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

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IS WEALTH IMMORAL?

July 20, 2021Uncategorized1 Timothy, Bible, blessing, Christ, Church, evidence, evil, family, financial, given, giving, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, immoral, jesus, Jesus Christ, lazy, leisure, love of money, Matthew, money, money wars, new testament, Old Testament, rich, root, sorrows, soul, spake, successful, supply, time, wealth, workabarkley8

Not in itself Wealth can be the source of great blessing when used properly. But money is indeed the world’s preeminent symbol of success and, as such, a constant threat to the soul’s primary loyalty. As evidence of this, we no longer question these “givens” about modern life.

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WHY SHOULD WE WORK IF HARD WORK PROVIDES SO FEW REWARDS?

June 29, 2021UncategorizedChrist, ecclesiastes, foolish, gift, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, God's gift, hard work, home, jesus, Jesus Christ, labor, labors, lumpy, mattress, meaning, Old Testament, solomon, unfair, work, workedabarkley8

Solomon investigated hard work as a possible way of supplying meaning to life. He realized, however, that if he worked, at the end of his life he would have to leave all the fruit of his labors to people who had not worked. He concluded that this would be foolish and extremely unfair.

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