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Post by Redeemed on Apr 21, 2023 8:47:11 GMT -8
God created everything:
In the beginning. God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1
Look around you... where did everything come from? Sure, light came from the sun... trees grew from seeds... people were born to their mothers, but where did all these things originate ultimately? How did the sun take its place in the sky? Where did the very first seed producing tree come from? How did your great, great, great Grandmother start the line of people that produced you?
The answer is found in Genesis 1: God made everything.
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Post by Redeemed on Apr 23, 2023 7:04:22 GMT -8
God simply spoke things into existence.
Then God said, "Let there be light", and there was light. Genesis 1:3
Talented people make useful and beautiful things that enhance our lives, The houses we live in, the foods we eat,. the art we enjoy But every artisan must begin with some kind of raw material... would, stone, grain, pigments. Not so with God.
When God wanted to create, are inconceivable universe he simply said the word... and it happened. light sky, dry land, plants and animals...All rules at the command of the one true God. that's just one example of His amazing power.
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Post by Redeemed on Apr 24, 2023 10:42:51 GMT -8
In the beginning, the world was perfect.
Then God saw everything he had made and indeed it was very good. Genesis 1:31
The Garden of Eden was an astonishingly beautiful Paradise, but Eden was just part of the big picture. All of creation on the entire planet was "Very good." All of the plants and animals were flawless.
Our planet today is far from perfect. We live in a fallen world. Disease and death, thorns and thistles have overtaken paradise. And yet, pause for a moment, and you will still see so much beauty shining through that it will take your breath away.
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Post by Redeemed on Apr 25, 2023 12:39:12 GMT -8
The devil caused doubt and dissatisfaction.
5.For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessing and calamity.
6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate. Genesis 3:5-6
Adam and Eve were living in Eden. They didn't have a problem or a care. They should have been perfectly content, and they were... that is, until the devil lied and" explained" that God had deceived them in order to withhold the best from them. If they ate the forbidden fruit, the serpent insisted, they would be wise like God.
The only way to believe the devil was to disobey God... and that's what Adam and Eve people have been falling for that same trick ever since.
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Post by Redeemed on Apr 26, 2023 9:09:30 GMT -8
Sin is destructive.
For the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23
Adam and Eve's Innocence was shattered the instant they disobeyed God. the sweet taste of the forbidden fruit was still on their tongue when its poison began its deadly work, quicker than a serpent venom. Their minds were darkened, And they began seeing everything from a skewed, selfish perspective.
First of all, they died spiritually that day and began to die physically as well. The wages that there's been paid them was death.
Thankfully, God had already planned the antidote to the devil's poison.
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Post by Redeemed on Apr 27, 2023 12:32:11 GMT -8
Sin separates humanity from God.
Your iniquities have separated you from your God;
and your sins have hidden his face from you. Isaiah 59:2
Disobeying God came with a huge price:
Humanities relationship with the divine was surrendered. To this very day, mankind's iniquities separates us from God. We can no longer see his face. "We grope for the wall like the blind" Isaiah 59:10
When we have no relationship with the Lord, when the power lines are down, when doubt, denial, and disobedience leave us in darkness, how can we communicate with God? We can't.
Thankfully God has already planned a way to turn the lights back on. He sent us His Son Jesus, he is the light.
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Post by Redeemed on Apr 28, 2023 8:45:49 GMT -8
Man at his best is insufficient.
Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust on the scales. Isaiah 40:15
We pride ourselves that we've come a long way. And we have. As magnificent as Mankind's civilizations of the past were, Think of the astonishing Technologies modern world.
But none of our accomplishments can begin to compare to the eternal, Omnificent God who created the vast universe, started every swirling galaxy turning, And said to every distant giant star, "Be!"
The Bible pegs us accurately: Our greatest nations are dust specs, and we're like microbes living on them.
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Post by Redeemed on Apr 29, 2023 13:51:54 GMT -8
We are very important to God.
What is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you visit him?
Psalm 8:4
Since God is the infinite creator, Who are we that He should care about us? why would God even give humans a second thought... particularly since we rebuild against Him?
It is precisely because God is infinite that He can watch a distant asteroid, and yet still notice when I hair. from our head falls to the ground on earth. It is precisely because God is our creator... that He loves us. even in our fallen state.
And He has a wonderful plan for us.
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Post by Redeemed on May 15, 2023 12:55:20 GMT -8
The blood of sacrifices covered sin.
"The life of the flesh is in the blood, And I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls."
Leviticus 17:11
The punishment for sin is death, So when someone sinned, legally, their blood had to be Spilled. God allowed a substitute, however. He ordained that his people sacrifice an animal to atone for their sin. The Hebrew word for atonement is "Kaphar" to cover. The same word used for the pitch that God instructed Noah to cover the inside and the outside of the Ark with.
This atonement was good for one year and then it had to be repeated. In a real spiritual sense the blood of the Lamb or goat covered over a person's sin.
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Post by Redeemed on May 16, 2023 12:52:18 GMT -8
No one fully obeyed the law of Moses.
Whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. James 2:10
To help people stay in loving relationships with him and others, God gave them the law of Moses. This law contained according to the rabbis 613 Commandments. And people had to obey them all. It wasn't enough, to keep the command "You shall not commit adultery," But disobey, "You shall not gossip."
But people are only human, And the best of us mess up. Just try giving generously and cheerfully to someone whom you know won't repay you. As a result, no one kept the law perfectly.
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Post by Redeemed on May 17, 2023 10:08:55 GMT -8
God had a solution to sin.
God sent forth His Son...To redeem those who are under the law. Galatians 4:4-5
God was aware that even good-hearted, since your people couldn't obey the law without fail and that those who tried hardest to be righteous were often, self-righteous legalist. God was as displeased with merciless, unloving "Righteousness" as He was with thoughtless unloving sin.
For their part, the common people that the religious called "sinners" we're aware of their failings, yet weary of trying to live up to impossible to keep standards.
The time was right, so God sent Jesus into the world with mercy and truth.
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Post by Redeemed on May 18, 2023 10:50:02 GMT -8
Jesus' life is a fact of history.
We did not follow cunningly devised Fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but where eyewitnesses. 2nd Peter 1:16
The gospels tell the facts of Jesus' birth, Life, death, and Resurrection. These aren't made up Fables like the Insane Adventures of Greek gods. No, the powerful miracles the apostles describe actually happened! Peter, John, and Matthew were eyewitnesses.
In addition, tens of thousands of people from one end of Israel to the other had met Jesus and seen his miracles. As Paul pointed out, "This thing was not done in a corner" Acts 26:26
Make no mistake: The four Gospels are accurate historical reports.
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Post by Theophilus on May 21, 2023 10:18:44 GMT -8
Jesus is a perfect representation of God.
He is the image of the invisible God Colossians 1:15
The Bible tells us that God has great love for us, But He knew we were all basically from Missouri the show me state. And we needed to be shown. So, God sent His only Son to earth to demonstrate what His love was like.
Jesus was the perfect representation of God, and He empathized with us and put up with everything we endure: Hunger, Thirst, Weariness and Temptation. By living among us, by caring for us...then giving His very life...Jesus showed us that God indeed loves us.
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Post by Theophilus on May 22, 2023 12:12:21 GMT -8
Jesus' blood completely cleanses us.
Jesus Christ... loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood. Revelation 1:5
When John the Baptist, saw Jesus he shouted "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" John 1:29
He was right: Jesus was the final perfect sacrificial lamb, who offered his own lifeblood to save us. Jesus' blood didn't just temporarily cover our sin like the blood of sacrificial Lambs had done.
Jesus took our Iniquities completely away. His blood washed away our sins, leaving us clean. and he did it one time, once and for all.
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Post by Redeemed on Jun 1, 2023 10:51:07 GMT -8
There's infallible proof that Jesus Lives!
After His suffering, He presented Himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. Acts 1:3
When Jesus appeared to His disciples after raising from the dead, they recognized Him all right, but thought they were seeing His ghost. So Jesus offered his disciples proof that it was really Him. He ate food and told them,"Touch Me."
That convince them!
For the next 40 days, before he ascended to heaven, Jesus appeared to over 500 people and offered many infallible proofs that He had indeed been resurrected from the dead. He wanted us to know that fact beyond all doubt
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