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. 430) Heb 12:5-6 . . My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He punishes everyone He accepts as a son. Christians have to expect that God is going to find fault with their lives from time to...

. Conscience In the beginning, mankind's moral perception was created in the image and likeness of God (Gen 1:26-27) and given a grade of excellence. (Gen 1:31) But then came the forbidden fruit incident whereby mankind's moral perception became humanistic. ● Gen 3:22 . . And the Lord God...

. Parables Jesus is famous for teaching with parables, and for the longest time I was under the impression it was his peculiar academic technique, but the fact of the matter is: Jesus' method was punitive. There were a number of people throughout the land of Israel in his day who had neither...

. 429) Heb 12:1 . .Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us NOTE: The term "cloud" was possibly an ancient figure of speech...

. ● John 15:6 . . If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. We used to burn slash and yard debris when I was a kid living in the environs of San Diego back in the late 1940s and early 1950s...

. 428) Heb 10:35-36 . .Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of perseverance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. The kind of perseverance the author is talking about is not the dogged determination...

. Love There are at least two Greek words for love in the new testament; possibly a third that I haven't found yet. One of the words is agape (ag-ah'-pay); spelling varies depending whether it's in the form of a noun, verb, or an adjective. Anyway, agape is a sort of general purpose word for...

. Grace ● Eph 2:8 . . For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. Grace isn't a substance, rather, it's a characteristic; and tells us a great deal about the supreme being's personality. The Greek word basically refers to...

. 427) Heb 10:25 . . Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another There are secret believers who avoid being seen with Christians so they'll not be identified with them, i.e. they're ashamed and embarrassed of their trust in Christ...

. 426) Heb 10:24 . . And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Man is a species of life that is quite naturally, and comfortably, inclined to provoke and annoy each other and bring out the worst in their fellow men. It is Christ's expectations that his own...

. Faith Mark Twain defined faith as believin' somethin' that ain't so. Twain's quip isn't all that far off the mark because the fact of the matter is: Christianity contains a large number of elements that cannot be proven true by means of empirical evidence. ● Heb 11:1 . . Now faith is being...

Gray areas are regulated by the 14th chapter of Romans. _

. Hope ● 1Pet 3:15 . . Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. The Greek word translated "hope" basically means to anticipate (usually with pleasure) and to expect with confidence. Note the elements of anticipation...

. 425) Heb 10:23 . . Let us cling to the acknowledgment of our faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised) "He is faithful" could also be said "He is unwavering" One can scarcely blame the author's Hebrew audience for wondering if perchance they're making a really big mistake...

. 424) Heb 10:21-22 . . Since we have a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience. Sprinkling and washing were employed during Yom Kippur as a means of ritually...

. Resurrection Hypertension-- a.k.a. high blood pressure --is sometimes called the silent killer. Well; most folks are aware of the physical resurrections spoken of by Dan 12:2, John 5:28-29, and Rev 20:12-13, but there are subtle resurrections going on all around us all the time that are not...

. The Name ● Gen 2:4 . .These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that The Lord God made earth and heaven. The "Lord" part of Lord God is translated from the four-letter tetragrammaton YHVH which is sometimes spelled YHWH. The correct...

. 423) Heb 6:1-3 . . Let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment...

. 422) Heb 4:14-16 . .Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every...

. Yom Kippur The Great Day Of Atonement-- a.k.a. Yom Kippur --is huge in the Levitical sacrificial system because when the ritual is conducted properly by the appropriate holy men, it addresses an entire year of the nation of Israel's sins. However, there has been neither a Temple nor a a...