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Four Generations (Proverbs 30:11-14) A. generation: That which is generated. 5. The whole body of individuals born about the same period; also, the time covered by the lives of these. 6. Family, breed, race; class, kind, or ‘set’ of persons. Obs. 1. Jesus described Israel of His day (especially its leaders) as being a childish, implacable generation. MAT 11:16-17. 2. Jesus ca...

Anger And Its Management I. Definitions. A. anger: The active feeling provoked against the agent; passion, rage; wrath, ire, hot displeasure. B. angry: Of persons: actively affected against the agent or cause of trouble; feeling or showing resentment; enraged, wrathful, irate. C. rage: Madness; insanity; a fit or access of mania. Obs. exc. poet. 2. Violent anger, furious passion, usually ...

Double Minded I. Definitions. A. double-minded: Having two 'minds'; undecided or wavering in mind. B. waver: Of persons, their sentiments, etc.: To exhibit doubt or indecision; to change or vary; to fluctuate or vacillate (between); to falter in resolution or allegiance; to show signs of giving way. C. establish: To render stable or firm. a) To strengthen by material support. b) To...

Soberness, Moderation, Temperance sober: Moderate, temperate, avoiding excess, in respect of the use of food and drink; not given to the indulgence of appetite. Of demeanor, speech, etc.: Grave, serious, solemn, indicating or implying a serious mind or purpose. moderation: Limitation, restriction; a fixed limit; a restricting provision or clause. Control, rule, governance. temperance: The practice or habit of restraining oneself in provocation, passion, desire, etc.;...

The Gospel Not Involved In Regeneration (Ten Reasons Why) I. The CONDITION OF MAN precludes it. The gospel cannot help: A. those who are dead. GEN 2:17; EPH 2:1-3; COL 2:13. B. those who cannot see it. JOH 3:3. C. those who cannot hear it. JOH 8:43. D. those who cannot understand it. JOH 8:43; ROM 3:11. E. those who will not seek God. PSA 14:2-3; ROM 3:11. F. those who cann...

The Unpardonable Sin (Blasphemy Against the Holy Ghost) I. There are three portions of Scripture where this subject is related. MAT 12:31-32; MAR 3:28-30; LUK 11:14-12:10. II. Seldom is all the information on any given topic in one place in the Scripture. A. Topics should be considered cumulatively by gathering the relevant information on that topic from the various places it appears in Scri...

2 Timothy 2:14-19 A. Paul here warns against unprofitable words and their effects which undo men but not God. B. “These things” (v. 14) could include all things which Paul had taught Timothy (v. 2) and specifically the faithful saying of the faithful God in vs. 11-13. 1. These include certain promises of God to the elect for whom Paul labored. v. 10. 2. They are certainties in spite of man’s unbelief. v. 13 c/w ROM 3:3-4. 3. ...

The Harmless Lord Jesus Christ I. Definitions. A. harm: Evil (physical or otherwise) as done to or suffered by some person or thing; hurt, injury, damage, mischief. Often in the set phrase ‘to do more harm than good’. B. harmlessness: The state or quality of being harmless; inoffensiveness. C. harmless: Free from harm or injury; unhurt, uninjured, unharmed. Now rare. 4. Doing or causing no harm; not inju...

Life From The Dead I. The theme of salvation is God’s will and power to miraculously make alive that which has not life. A. God made man out of non-living dust and breathed life into him. GEN 2:7. 1. Because God in power made Adam from that which had no power to do so of its own accord, Adam was the son of God. LUK 3:38. 2. Because God in power acted in the virgin Mary who had no power of ...

Distinctions Between Sexes I. This message is a summarized review of previous detailed messages preached on the topics. II. A major area where necessary distinctions are challenged is that of the sexes. A. sex: Either of the two divisions of organic beings distinguished as male and female respectively; the males or the females (of a species, etc., esp. of the human race) viewed collectively. B. God made two sexes at the...

Saul, Samuel and the Witch (1 Samuel 28) A. Samuel was a great prophet and well-noted in Scripture. PSA 99:6; JER 15:1. 1. He was the last of the judges of Israel before they had a king. 1SAM 7:15; ACT 13:20. 2. He anointed Israel’s first two kings, Saul and David. 1SAM 15:1; 16:13. 3. His ministry was a hinge of national and spiritual history. ACT 3:24. 4. This chapter shows that he even pro...

X. This section addresses the afterlife experienced between the death of the body and its resurrection. A. In PHIL 1:20-26 Paul expounds what life and death were for him. 1. For Paul, to live was Christ. a. Paul's life was given and sustained by Christ (GAL 2:20), was directed by Christ (1CO 9:21), was an instrument of Christ (ROM 15:18-19), and aimed at Christ in all things. PHIL 3:8. ...

VI. The entire person of the elect, including his body, is the purchased possession of God. 1CO 6:20; JOB 14:12-15; 19:25-27. A. The inward part of man lives on after the body dies. LUK 16:22-24; REV 6:9-10. B. Cultures and religions worldwide have believed in life after death of the body. 1. “O happy day, (says he), when I shall quit this impure and corrupt multitude, and join myself to that divine company and council of souls who have q...

God’s Appointments I. Definitions. A. appoint: To determine authoritatively, prescribe, decree, ordain. trans. To determine authoritatively, prescribe, fix (a time, later a place) for any act. B. ordain: To appoint, decree, destine, order. trans. To appoint (a person, etc.) to a charge, duty, or office. Of the Deity, fate, or supernatural power: To appoint as part of the order of the universe or...

Death I. die: intr. To lose life, cease to live, suffer death; to expire. II. Scripture identifies six types of death: A. Spiritual death in trespasses and sin. GEN 2:17; EPH 2:1. B. Separation from fellowship and accord with God. JAM 5:19-20; EPH 5:14; 1TI 5:6. C. Physical death. JAM 2:26. D. Reproductive death. ROM 4:19. E. Death unto sin (repentance, sanctification). ROM 6...

Psalm 130 I. This psalm directs us towards the true hope of God's Israel which is redemption from ALL iniquities. vs. 7-8. A. This Israel can only be spiritual Israel: the elect of God out of all nations who are the children of promise. ROM 9:6-8, 22-24. 1. Natural Israel is not universally redeemed from all iniquities. ROM 9:27-29. 2. Unless David was a false prophet...

The Primacy of Peter? (An Overview) A. Roman Catholicism holds that the Apostle Peter was given primacy (first in order, rank, chief place) by Jesus Christ in the visible church. 1. The church is supposed to be built upon Peter, the vicar of Christ. 2. Peter is supposed to have been the first Pope and the succession of popes flow from him in perpetuity of headship. 3. If t...

IX. Consider the path of the true Old Testament scriptures. A. Recall that Jesus Christ authenticated the true O.T. as consisting of the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms written in Hebrew, excluding the books of the Apocrypha. MAT 5:18; LUK 24:44. B. apocrypha: A writing or statement of doubtful authorship or authenticity; spec. those books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, which were not originally wr...

Rationalizing I. rationalize: trans. To render conformable to reason; to explain on a rational basis. b. To clear away by reasoning. c. Psychol. To give plausible reasons for (one's behaviour) that ignore, conceal, or gloss its real motive. A. The truth of God is in accord with sound reasoning. We subscribe to a rational faith that can be declared. ACT 17:1-3; 1PE 3:15. B. Sinfulness, though, reaso...

VI. HAG 2:10-19. A. The twenty-fourth day of the month is significant throughout the remainder of the chapter. vs. 10, 18, 20. 1. Haggai delivers two messages: one to the priests and the people to snap them to attention for their good, the other to the governor to encourage and bless him with promises for he had been good. 2. Christian experience is marked by significant days also: not by high days which ...

VII. It has become fashionable in modern Christianity to assume that a bonafide translation is impossible and the truth of God (Scripture) is confined to “original” languages. Consider: A. When someone is desperate to cling to an error which is refuted in the KJV, there is a tendency to appeal to the “original” Greek as found in an ancient manuscript. 1. Which Greek? There are two lines of Greek texts. a. One comes from...

V. Here are some “bullet-points” of review and for further investigation concerning the giving and preserving of the written scriptures. A. God writes. EXO 31:18; HEB 8:10. B. God intends differing languages. GEN 11:6-9. C. God intends translation. ACT 2:1-11. D. God intends copies. DEU 17:18-20. E. God inspires originals, copies and translations. 2TI 3:15-16. F. God inspires flawed men to deliver His words: prophets, apostles, scribes, even tr...

Rendering Tribute To God (Mark 12:13-17) A. Definitions. 1. tribute: A tax or impost paid by one prince or state to another in acknowledgement of submission or as the price of peace, security, and protection; rent or homage paid in money or an equivalent by a subject to his sovereign or a vassal to his lord. 2. transf. and fig. a. Something paid or contributed as by a subordina...

H. “The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts” (v. 8). 1. They need not be concerned about the relative absence of the gold and silver that were part of the first temple’s glory. 1CH 29:1-5, 14-16. 2. This temple would one day be graced by the Messiah Whose salvation and gospel were richer than silver and gold. 1PE 1:18-19; ACT 3:6-11. 3. Christ is greater than the temple (MAT 12:5-6). Compare “in this place” with HA...

IV. Consider the nature of Scripture. A. It was given by inspiration of God. 2TI 3:16; 2PE 1:21. 1. This inspiration was direct Divine guidance of the person to Whom it was given. 2SAM 23:2; ISA 8:1; JER 36:1-2, 4. 2. This inspiration extends beyond mere general concepts to words, grammar and even diacritics. GAL 3:16, 29; MAT 5:18; 22:31-32. Our Bible 12-1-24 ...