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Thoughts for the Journey
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(A day in the life of a Baptist preacher. This is my blog. Sometimes I update it every day and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I ramble, sometimes I rant and every so often, I have something relevant to say.)
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Paul, whom I believe wrote the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews, advised us Christians … “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.”
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Not so much in the Synoptic Gospels, Matthew and Mark and Luke … but especially in the fourth Gospel is Jesus found often referring to “His Hour.” He told His Mother in John 2:4, “Mine Hour is not yet come!” Then in John 7:30, when an attempt was made to arrest Jesus … “Then they […]
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The Lesson’s Title came to me earlier today as I was reading the little Book of 1st John, the largest Epistle John (the Disciple) wrote. He also scribed two shorter Epistles, little letters. And in addition to them he penned the Books of John (our fourth Gospel) and Revelation, the New Testament’s Volume about “things […]
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In the later days of the New Testament (Paul and John and Peter particularly, their Epistles) a false belief had risen that is called (today) gnosticism. Part of this system of heresy was the thought that Jesus did not have a literal body. That He was merely spirit, nothing physically substantial about Him! But friends, […]
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The Old Testament Prophet Amos does this consistently! He has God enumerating the sins of wicked people, Nations particularly! Eight times, I just counted, the Prophet uses this same sobering pattern! For eight different people groups. Amos 1:3 is a good example: “Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I […]
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