29 Thursday Nov 2012
Posted in TID BITS
If you were to ask an atheist about the creation of the universe he would immediately bring up The Big Bang Theory.
In discussing The Big Bang Theory, scientists often point to the fact that five specific components would have been necessary for creation:
1-Time, 2-Force, 3-Action, 4-Space, 5-Matter
….LET’S COMPARE…SHALL WE?…
In the beginning (Time) God (Force) Created (Action)
the heaven (Space) and the earth (matter). – Genesis 1:1
Sometimes they just don’t know how close they really are!!!
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28 Wednesday Nov 2012
Posted in GENERAL TEACHING
Occasionally, as we read Scripture we come across a fact that opposes the way that we’ve always believed.
St. Augustine of Hippo
For those who believe the Bible is God’s Word and is incapable of making an error, we are left only with the option of changing our thought pattern. The Bible wins them all!
A truth is a truth is a truth and it doesn’t become true just because we understand it. Likewise, it doesn’t become false just because we DON’T understand IT.
There are many things in Scripture that are true even if we don’t believe them or understand them…but the time is coming when we will indeed understand them!
Moses said: The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. – Deuteronomy 29:29
Paul said: For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. – 1st Corinthians 13:12
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28 Wednesday Nov 2012
Posted in GENERAL TEACHING
Many people would tell you they are a Christian and that they believe Jesus Christ is their Savior. They believe that their Salvation is secure because they are basically a good person and they have said the words…”Jesus is my Savior”…after all, just read this verse:
…‘That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.’ – Romans 10:9
Here’s were the problem is: This is not a simple recognition that God is the Creator and Lord of everything in the world, rather it is a DEEP PERSONAL CONVICTION , WITHOUT STIPULATION, THAT JESUS IS THAT OWN PERSONS MASTER AND SOVEREIGN.
The phrase “CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH’ assumes that person REPENTING from his sin. Without repentance there is no salvation!
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28 Wednesday Nov 2012
Posted in GENERAL TEACHING
When you are on the highway, you are expected to choose one lane to drive in, though there may be lanes to your left and right. You are expected to stay in your lane and not to swerve into the other lanes, because if you start to swerve to the left or to the right, you’re an accident waiting to happen. There’s a time and an appropriate way to change lanes.
God’s Word gives you a lane to stay in. That lane is based on the written Word and then affirmed by the work of the Spirit in terms of specific application. Stay in that lane and do everything He tells you to do and He will make your way prosperous. – Tony Evans
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27 Tuesday Nov 2012
Posted in UNCATEGORIZED
The mind of a man is like a sponge to information:
If he spends each of his waking moments listening to the things of this world, then he will naturally act in a worldly way.
However, if he fills his mind daily, with the things of God, he will naturally act in a way that is of God!
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. – Psalm 1:1-2
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27 Tuesday Nov 2012
Posted in GENERAL TEACHING
It was instantaneous! At the very second that Adam and Eve ate of the fruit (sinned), their spirit was separated from God (they died spiritually). Because they disobeyed Him, they were cutoff from all spiritual communication (they were separated from Him).
“And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” – Genesis 3:8-9
The LORD already knew where Adam was. The reason God called to him was for the same reason that a parent calls to his small children who are hiding: To announce His presence.
The communication between God, the man and the woman used to be an intimate one, but now it was gone. They had become spiritually dead. Now there was a separation: a holy God cannot commune with a sinful man. Because of this, Adam hid from God.
This little piece of Scripture shows us the beginning of the downward fall.
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27 Tuesday Nov 2012
Posted in DID YOU KNOW? (Trivia), UNCATEGORIZED
Q: How did the children of Israel go from being a blessed people in Egypt to a people who needed to flee Egypt?
A: Exodus 1:8 tells us that a new king (Pharaoh) came into power who did not know Joseph. This new Pharoah was fearful of just how large the Jewish population had grown. He was afraid that if he didn’t do something about them right then, that they might possibly turn on the Egyptians and make slaves of them. So he made them slaves.
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27 Tuesday Nov 2012
Posted in GENERAL TEACHING
No amount of knowledge of the Scriptures can equal a one-on-one relationship with Jesus.
Jesus told Nicodemus: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” – John 3:3
Just because we have head-knowledge doesn’t mean that we are spiritual, rather, we must have a TOTALLY NEW frame of mind about just how sincere sin is, and just how much we are in need of a Savior!
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. – Romans 12:2
“For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.” – Hebrews 4:2
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26 Monday Nov 2012
Posted in TID BITS
If we were to make the statement that “we see a picture’’ when really we are just holding a piece of the jig-saw puzzle, then we are actually only seeing a minute piece of the larger picture.
Only a few people have lived longer than 120 years (most living much less than that) but even 120 years is minute when considering eternity!
A person’s wealth and prosperous lifestyle is not evidence that he has given his life to Jesus (God’s son). When a person finds himself alone, naked and helpless in front of a mighty God at judgment, God will have for this person one and only one question: “What did you do with my son while you were alive on this earth?”…and his answer to this will determine his fate for all of eternity!
Doubtless, when a person comes to Christ his family and friends will believe that he is missing out on what life has to offer, but the truth is, this person is just answering God’s call. He would have to be totally stupid to trade God’s promises for what this world has to offer him!
His calling is for you also. He promises us that “anyone who goes after Him will find Him!”, and being a holy and perfect God, His promises must be true. All you have to do is come to Him. Honestly!
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26 Monday Nov 2012
Posted in TID BITS
Back in the early 90’s, I went down to the Guadalupe river to ride the rapids. When I got there it was late in the day and the sun would be going down soon, so I had to wait until the next day to actually go riding.
Since I had set up camp on the shoreline (spiders galore!) the river was in easy view for me. I watched as the water went rushing by…I could see the rapids…I could see how the water was affecting everything that was around it.
Then the next morning came and it was time for my ride! Grabbing an intertube, I was on my way. Once I stepped into the water though, I had a completely different perspective of the river than the one I’d had the night before. All of a sudden I was actually seeing things around me that I had only heard of before!
Now I could see the trees from a different angle…I could see brooks that I hadn’t seen before…I could see little waterfalls that I didn’t know were there. But what made the difference? My perspective changed when I no longer just viewed the river from the outside but I actually got into it!
The same thing applies to the Christian walk. We can know about Jesus and we can see His work from a distance but it isn’t until we Jump In His river that we know Him personally!
Jump In.
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