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Asa's perfect heart.
Despite his late life failing, we are told that "...nevertheless, the heart of Asa heart was perfect all his days". The Hebrew word, שָׁלֵם (shä·lām') means "complete, safe, peaceful, perfect, whole,…
Created 5 days ago
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When all else fails?
Asa sought God's will in so many ways. He clearly had a heart of continuous worship. However, are we not most likely to pray for God's help when our own strength is insufficient? Is this not idolatry?…
Created 5 days ago
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God's hatred
I recently saw a Facebook posting that read, "I WOULDN'T PRESUME TO TELL GOD WHO HE HATES", clearly meaning that God doesn't hate anyone. Well, I agree with the strict meaning of this posted statement,…
Created 6 days ago
Leviticus 26:14 (KJV), Leviticus 26:15 (KJV), Leviticus 26:16 (KJV), Leviticus 26:17 (KJV), Leviticus 26:18 (KJV), Leviticus 26:19 (KJV), Leviticus 26:20 (KJV), Leviticus 26:21 (KJV), Leviticus 26:22 (KJV), Leviticus 26:23 (KJV), Leviticus 26:24 (KJV), Leviticus 26:25 (KJV), Leviticus 26:26 (KJV), Leviticus 26:27 (KJV), Leviticus 26:28 (KJV), Leviticus 26:29 (KJV), Leviticus 26:30 (KJV), Leviticus 26:31 (KJV), Leviticus 26:32 (KJV), Leviticus 26:33 (KJV), Leviticus 26:34 (KJV), Leviticus 26:35 (KJV), Leviticus 26:36 (KJV), Leviticus 26:37 (KJV), Leviticus 26:38 (KJV), Leviticus 26:39 (KJV)
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The sovereignty of God.
It is often tempting to conclude that God is on your side because your sin is less grievous than your enemy's. However, God has more often used the more evil nation to chasten the less evil one. Simply…
Created 13 days ago
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Sexual license.
The Hebrew word, קָדֵשׁ (kä·dashe'), is usually translated "sodomite" or "male prostitute". It refers to males who engage in sexual, typically religiously sanctioned, acts with other males. The feminine…
Created 20 days ago
1 Kings 15:12 (KJV), 1 Kings 15:13 (KJV), 1 Kings 22:46 (KJV), 2 Kings 23:7 (KJV)
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Oh, except for just one detail.
David is consistently held up as a model of one who follows God whole-heatedly. This passage states this again and mentions just one issue of departure, but what a departure! Public adultery (remember…
Created 20 days ago
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How much tax is too much?
The burden of the Solomonic tax is not clearly known. We are only told that it was perceived as excessive and that a substantial increase was sufficient to cause civil war. However, a little math can…
Created 27 days ago
2 Chronicles 10:14 (KJV), 2 Chronicles 10:15 (KJV), 2 Chronicles 10:16 (KJV)
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To whom shall you listen
King Rehoboam at least thought to inquire of the old men, though he unwisely heeded not their advice. How many today would even consider asking the advice of the aged. It is likely that the king merely…
Created 27 days ago
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Westminster shorter catechism; question 39
Question 39 What is the duty which God requireth of man? Answer 39 The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will.
Created about 1 month ago
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Are we beings, becomings or have beens?
The pre-Soccastic Greek philosophers argued about whether we "are" or we "are yet to be", which led to a sense of cultural pessimism. Do I live now or am I only changing to a state yet to come? This argument…
Created about 1 month ago
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Is sadness better than joy?
Thoughts on Ecclesiastes 7:2 To understand Ecclesiastes, it seems to me that one must, as it were, climb into King Solomon's heart. This is the writing of an old man who has experienced absolutely everything…
Created about 1 month ago
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When is a bath not a bath?
Commentary on science of the bath (1 Kings 7:23 and 2 Chronicles 4:5) Bible critics have tiresomely used 1 Kings 7:23 to attempt to deconstruct Biblical inerrancy because the proportions of the molten…
Created 3 months ago
1 Kings 7:23 (KJV), 1 Kings 7:26 (KJV), 2 Chronicles 4:2 (KJV), 2 Chronicles 4:5 (KJV)
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Bad math?
Commentary on 1 Kings 7:23 Bible critics have tiresomely used this verse to to attempt to deconstruct Biblical inerrancy because the proportions of the molten sea (brass basin) suggest a mathematical…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-02-21
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obey now, feel later
For many, action is in bondage to emotion. We don't obey because don't feel like it, but the truth is that when I do what God commands he changes my feelings.
Created 3 months ago
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Discerning wisdom and folly
This chapter contrasts wisdom and folly. On the surface, they at first appear much the same. How then shall one know one from the other? It seems to me that there are at least a couple ways, one suggested…
Created 4 months ago
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recognize this?
Any reasonably well instructed Jew would have recognized what happened on the stormy lake in the gospel according to St. Mark, chapter 4, verse 39 ("And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the…
Created 5 months ago
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How does God harden a heart?
This is often wrongly seen as God creating fresh evil in Pharaoh's heart, but this assumes the wrong starting condition of it. Pharaoh's heart was fallen and evil, just as are all unregenerate hearts,…
Created 9 months ago
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marinating Moses
We must not forget that Moses spent the first 40 years of his life as royalty and the second 40 as an exiled nobody. God is speaking to a wretchedly humble and broken down 80 year old man, a man who was…
Created 9 months ago
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The leash of the Almighty
An all too common Arminian error is the assumption that men have righteousness within them sufficient to obey God's law, whereas the systemic doctrine of scripture is our utter inability to do so, what…
Created 10 months ago
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It shall be, or else
God uses the ceremony of the culture to say, "This thing shall come to pass or I shall be destroyed as the divided beasts." the very fabric of the universe is coherent in this covenant. If it is broken,…
Created 10 months ago
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exhibit "A"braham
For the dispensationalists: Please note that the apostles Paul and James, whose message you say to be contrary gospels, each use not only the same man but the same event in that man's life as exhibit…
Created 10 months ago
Genesis 15:6 (KJV), Romans 4:3 (KJV), James 2:21 (KJV), James 2:22 (KJV), James 2:23 (KJV)
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-08-17
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Blessed groups, not individuals
מִשְׁפָּחָה = families, clans, tribes, kinds; in short, groups of people are blessed. The elect are from them all but are not all of them.
Created 10 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-08-12
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