Without the element that is given in this sermon, what God really wants absolutely cannot be done. The entire Old Testament is witness of this, and what we have been given by God can easily be taken in a rather downcast spirit because it …
As students of the Bible, we are all familiar with some of the details of the Noachian Flood recorded in Genesis 6-8. We remember the prelude to the Flood in which God describes the reasons why He considered it necessary to send it. We …
Leviticus 23:9-21 covers God's instructions concerning making the wavesheaf offering, the counting of the seven weeks, and the observance of the Feast of Weeks, called Pentecost in the New Testament. With an understanding of the …
(13) Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. (14) And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. (15) Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!
Maintaining good physical health is a stewardship responsibility that comes with our calling. We owe this obligation to our Creator God just as surely as we have spiritual responsibilities toward Him. We may deem these physical …
Last time, we began to consider the Greek phrase, mia sabbaton, which underlies most translations of the English phrase, “first day of the week,” in reference to the day of Christ’s post-resurrection appearance (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19). Significantly, sabbaton is plural, indicating it was not only the day we call Sunday, but it was the first of the weeks—the first day in the count to the Feast of Weeks. In addition to these five occurrences in the gospels, mia sabbaton is found in two other places. The sixth appears in I Corinthians 16:1-2: Now concerning the …
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