Living Creatures
Living Word
Living Oracles
Living God
Living Father
Living Bread
Living Water
Life-Giving Spirit
Living Way
Living Hope
Living Stones
Living Sacrifice
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The Spiritual Realm Permeates the Material One
Psalms 90:2
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BEFORE TIME
2nd Timothy 1:8-11
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... TIME ...
Psalms 104:19
LIFE ON
EARTH
Genesis 8:22
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~ AND SPACE ~
Amos 5:8
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HOLY
Ep.1:3-6
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CHRIST WAS
John 1:2-3
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PROMISED
Titus 1:2-3
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Omnipresent(here) + Omnipotent(commands) + Omniscient(knowing) = He Is
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How do we bless others?
● Harmonious (of one mind)
● Sympathetic (compassion for one another)
● Brotherly
● Kindhearted (tenderhearted)
● Humble in spirit (courteous)
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Look\
for the good in each of us.
Seek/
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Human life is a gift and a test of commitment
Present your bodies:
→ a living sacrifice
⮡ Holy, acceptable to God
⮡ Reasonable service
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Spirit gives life |
Words I speak are spirit life
Flesh profits nothing
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Life and peace
Spirit of the heart lamp
Spiritually minded
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Carnally minded
Death
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● Life is like a shadow
● Life is like a short vapor
● Life is labor and sorrow
● Life is filled with troubles
● Life is a choice between good or bad
● Life is for the conscious
● Life is God's test of a soul's commitment
● Life is a gift of Spirit
● Life is narrowly navigated unto eternity
● Life is more than physical desires
● Life is in the Son of God
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Mature
Love (Adult)
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Living Stones
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GIFTS
TONGUES
PROPHETS
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Apostles, Prophets, and CHRIST
(Child)
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● Spirit is life
● Live by faith
● In Christ we are made alive
● Reconciled to God through Jesus Christ
● We have to die to live
● In Him is the light of life
● Christ in you is the hope of glory
● In our trials, we are comforted in Him
● Love for one another is key to awakening
● To embrace His life reveals our true essence
● His Spirit sheds Grace on all that we are
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⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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● Born to trouble
● Many long for death
● There is no fear in love
● Perfect love casts out fear
● Fear involves torments
● Sorrow of heart breaks the spirit
● Sorrow can hold no hope
● Hope in God and Praise Him - it heals the soul
● Be humble in the Lord and He will lift you
● Sadness makes a heart wiser
● Godly sorrow produces repentance
● Repentance leads to salvation knowing His Purity
● Sorrow of the world leads to death
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● Weep not for the dead, weep for those without a home
● We will again see those found in God
● Knowledge increases sorrows,
yet it is good for a soul
● Only a fool frets against God
● All suffering falls short of the glory to be had in God
● Who we are prepares us for what is to come
● Servants of God are best able to endure suffering
● Accepting His salvation is part of salvation
● Believing in Jesus invites the criticism of the worldly
● Trust in God protects us from the abuses of man
● Faith knows we are of God,
Ponder on all that is good
● Prayer & gratitude connects one to the peace of God
● All suffering will cease upon His appearing
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Impact = To Make a Change
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DO NOT MISS THE TIME YOU HAVE
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What is it that we leave for others? ...
→ Every day is a page in your life.
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Some days are dark where others are light.
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| OOOOOOOO |
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Challenges
Trials
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OOOOOOo |
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Joys
Contentment
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WHEN PEOPLE COLLIDE = RELATIONSHIP
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REALITY = HOW YOU ARE REMEMBERED
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~ LEGACY ~
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Memory
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The First Page
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The Last Page
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DEMAS X
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Started well
Col. 4:14
Philemon 1:24
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Abandons the Work
2nd Timothy 4:10
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JOHN MARK √
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Starts as a Coward
Acts 13:13 ,
15:38
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Finishes useful minister
2nd Tim. 4:11
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HOW DOES YOUR STORY FINISH?
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What we must do –
1. Face the Foe
2. Complete the Course
3. Protect what is Precious
4. Collect the Crown
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CHAPTERS WELL WRITTEN?
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YOUTH
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EDUCATION
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FAMILY
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CAREER
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SPIRITUALITY
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OLD AGE
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KINGDOM
OF
GOD
Col.1:13-14
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LOVE
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Ec.11:9-10
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Prov.12:1
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Prov.22:6
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1st Jo.2:15
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1st Cor.16:14
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Titus 2:1-8
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HOLINESS
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1st Tim.4:12
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Prov.9:10
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Col.3:17-22
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Col.3:23
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1st Pet.1:13-16
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Rom.12:1
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ANGER
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Ec.7:9
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Prov.1:7
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Eph.6:4
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Prov.27:4
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1st Th.5:9-10
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2nd Tim.3:1-5
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SEPARATION
IN
DESOLATION
Ps.73:18-19
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LUST
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2nd Tim.2:22
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Jude 1:16
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1st Th.4:3-5
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1st Jo.2:16-17
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Mat.26:41
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Gal.5:15-26
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ARROGANT
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2nd Tim.3:2
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2nd Cor.10:5
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Is.5:21
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Is.56:11
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2nd Th.2:4
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Prov.16:18
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IN LIFE, WE SEARCH FOR REST.
Payment
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Path
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Goal
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Predicament
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Outcome
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| TIME |
EDUCATION |
OCCUPATION |
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BY CHOICE →
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BY FORCE →
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| TIME |
PERSONAL |
CONTENTMENT |
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FAMILY |
COMMITMENT |
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SECURITY →
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LONLINESS →
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SPIRITUAL |
LOVE |
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The Higher Road is the one less traveled.
A true believer inherits an ageless life
Equal to the angels
Neither die nor given in marriage
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Sons of God
Sons of the resurrection from the dead
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Counted worthy to attain that age
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Sons of this age marry
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Lawful Marriage in the sight of God
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God is serious about
His eternal commitment
and requires souls to have
honorable enduring vows.
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Male Virgin
( Free to marry )
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Female Virgin
( Free to marry ) |
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Become
One Flesh
Matthew 19:6
1st Cor. 7:10-11
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Widow
( Free to remarry )
1st Cor. 7:39
Romans 7:2-3
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Singles qualified for remarriage:
1) Opposite Sex Virgin
2) Divorced Innocent Party
3) Widow
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Divorced Couples
Parting for other than fornication
( Not free to remarry, only able to reconcile )
1st Cor. 7:10-11
Matthew 5:32
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Divorce
Malachi 2:14-16
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Divorced Innocent Party
Remained Moral & Loyal
( Free to remarry )
Matthew 19:9
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Adulterous Marriage
( Not accepted by God )
Matthew 19:9
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Divorced Guilty Party
Fornicator ( Not free to remarry )
Matthew 19:9
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The numbers are grim among us.
Latest Figures:
1980 divorce rate
Current divorce rate
Singles Living together
Marriage rate drop
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50%-55%
40%-45%
Tenfold increase since 1960s
30% less than 25 years ago
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Americans are waiting 5 years longer to marry
Only 63% American children grow up with both biological parents
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PARENTS = God’s Custodians in rearing children
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Divorce after divorce ...
1st marriage divorce rate = 50%
2nd marriage divorce rate = Higher chance than 1st
3rd marriage divorce rate = Higher chance than 2nd
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● Many choose just to live together.
● Many don’t want to make a mistake, like their parents did.
● Many take marriage vows lightly, like their parents did?
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In the Image of God:
1. Understanding
2. Feelings
3. Power of Choice
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Equal.
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ONE FLESH = UNION OF MINDS AND HEARTS
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1. One Union
2. Permanent
3. Believe God
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HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES = COMMAND
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NATURAL USE VERSES UNNATURAL USE OF GOD’S PURPOSE
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MAN ↔ WOMAN
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NATURAL
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HELPERS
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WOMAN ↔ WOMAN
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AGAINST NATURE
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DESERVING OF DEATH
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MAN ↔ MAN
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AGAINST NATURE
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DESERVING OF DEATH
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Marriage = Safety from being defiled
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Marriage = Protection of and for each other
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Marriage = Resists the Devil
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1. What do you want most for your children?
2. What is God's goal for your children?
3. What is the role you have for your children
to reach God's goal for your children?
4. What part does the church play in helping
your children reach that goal?
5. Do children copy and imitate their parents?
6. How do parents most effectively teach their
children? - Problems to overcome.
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What is expected:
1. Men/Husbands/Fathers
2. Women/Wives/Mothers
3. Elders/Deacons
4. Teachers/Preachers/Students
5. Civic/Personal/Family/Work
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HOME = SPIRITUAL LIFE CENTER
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Our homes can become centers of spirituality if:
1. LOVE OF TRUTH
2. LOVE OF GOD BY LOVING OTHERS
3. LOVE OF STRANGERS
4. LOVE OF LOST
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LOVE OF STRANGERS = HOSPITALITY
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Truth Produces Homes of:
1. JOY
2. HUMILITY
3. COURAGE
4. CONFIDENCE
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Why we will suffer.
1. Envy of our joyful commitment and happy family life
2. Anger with God's announcements of truth
3. Differences in not following the ways of the world
4. We don't fight back while holding the truth
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There are two basic inferences
with regard to the origin of life and its diversity:
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Natural Causes
(General Theory of Evolution)
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Life forms from simple
substances by natural means
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Creation
(Intelligent Design)
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Life forms by the
intelligent shaping of matter
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Extremes producing biased turmoil:
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Faith in Science ←→ Faith in God
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* Note: Origins of the universe and life are neither observable nor repeatable.
The Rational Approach:
Judgment of Reality?
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OOO Evolution OOO
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Intelligent Design
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Evidence
Facts of nature
Details are precise
Some aspects forever remain unknowable
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OCCURING EVENTS ARE:
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Inevitable
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contingent, had to happen, random regularity
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Chance
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What is the complexity,
probability of it not occurring randomly
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Designed
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Specified, does it contain information?
Repeatable?
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Prevailing World View:
Evolution or Intelligent Design
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● Personal bias can blur one from seeing truth.
● Emotions can obscure good judgment
● The data is that it is
● Methods of science judge the world,
- constructions of man or Intelligent Design?
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ALL LIFE HAS:
20 Amino Acids
Proteins, enzymes
“Workers”
- Right and Left Nature
- Life is restricted exclusively
to left sided connectivity
Proteins = Shapes and mobility
Enzymes = Tools and machinery
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Genes – Nucleic Acids
DNA, RNA
“Reproductive”
DNA ~ Double Helix
RNA protein assisted
1. Transcription
2. Migration
3. Translation
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* Note: Both are required for the functioning of life.
Proponents of Evolution
(Reductionism)
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Proponents of Creation
(Intelligent Design)
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Complex organisms arose
from simple incremental
steps
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Complex organisms
were divinely created by
a miraculous occurrence
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Jellyfish
Limpid
Snails
Fruit Fly
Eagles
Human Eyes
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– Light sensitive tissue
– Cup with light sensitive spot
– Primitive lens
– Compound eye
– Sharp long distance vision
- Miraculous or incremental?
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Depolarization → Hyperpolarization → Charge to the Brain
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15 Billion Defenses:
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Stem cell → B cell → antibody → virus, bacteria
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Judge
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o Natural Causes oo
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OOo Intelligent Design
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Facts
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JESUS CHRIST = ETERNAL LIFE
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WILL WORK
FOR FOOD
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WILL REBUKE
FOR FOOD
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ETERNAL LIFE
HOPE
PROMISED
IN THE WORLD TO COME
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God calls for us to hear
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His Command = Everlasting Life
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Free Gift = Justification of Life
One Man's Obedience = Many Made Righteous
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Grace + the Gift = Life in Christ
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Gift of God = Eternal Life
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Hears
His Word
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Believes
in Him
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Everlasting
Life
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Forgiveness
of Sins
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Promised
Inheritance
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Sanctified
by Faith
in God
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Fundamental Equation of Eternal Truth
Eternal Life = May Know God and Christ
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God has Expectations of His souls
Eternal Life to:
● patient continuance in doing good
● seek for glory
● seek for honor
● seek for immortality
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Belief Drives Actions
● Whoever believes in Him / not perish / eternal life
● He who believes in the Son has everlasting life
● Who hears My word and believes has everlasting life
● Jesus is the bread of life unto eternal life
● Whoever eats My flesh & drinks My blood has life
● He gives His sheep eternal life
● Words God has spoken will judge all on the last day
● Eternal life is that they know God and Jesus Christ
● He who sows to the Spirit reaps everlasting life
● Eternal life to steadfast in goodness who seek Him
● Grace reigns to eternal life through Jesus Christ
● Wages of sin is death/ God’s gift is eternal life in Christ
● God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son
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The Bible is one’s roadmap to Eternal Life
● Paul’ s longsuffering patterns believers on God
● Justified by His grace / heirs according to the hope
● He wishes none perish but all come to repentance
● Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life
● He’s the author of eternal salvation to all who obey
● In Jesus Christ, this is the true God and eternal life
● The promise that He has promised us--eternal life
● Keep the love of God looking for the mercy of Christ
● Our citizenship is in heaven which we eagerly wait
● Will be a resurrection of the just and the unjust
● God gives them light & they shall reign forever
● His blood has established an everlasting covenant
● Our everlasting God calls for obedience to the faith
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Forgiveness allows an entrance unto eternity
● God is forgiving people who are not worthy
● God forgives to show his righteousness & his nature
● We forgive to show our nature in righteousness
● Forgiveness is not a feeling, it is a decision
● We must have forgiving hearts to receive forgiveness
● It is about mercy, not insignificance
● Forgiveness is a way of life god demands
● All have sinned worthy of death
● We need Jesus’s sacrifice to have our sins forgiven
● He forgives those that humbly turn to Him
● He forgave to show us how to forgive
● We can only be justified through belief Jesus
● Redemption/forgiveness comes through His death
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Forgiveness is a Principle of Heart
Time does not return to the valleys left behind
Lazy man
has nothing
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Diligent soul
is rich
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Lust swells from discontent hearts
Fulfilling the desires of lusts:
→ of the flesh
→ of the mind
By nature children of wrath
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Only by depths of understanding is freedom found
Godly sorrow
⮡ Repentance leading to salvation
⮡ Not to be regretted
⮡ Producing:
● Diligence
● Indignation
● Clarity
● Vehement desire
● Zeal
● Vindication
Sorrow of the world
⮡ Produces death
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The battle is lost if courage is not maintained
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Which is able to
save your souls
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Receive with
meekness the
implanted word
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Lay aside
all filthiness
overflow of
wickenness
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Permanence is a vapor without strength of Faith
Let us walk properly, as in the day
⮡ Not in:
● Revelry and drunkenness
● Lewdness and lust
● Stife and envy
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Jesus Christ
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Will
Power
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A blanket of reason has been thrown to all men
Be made for all men:
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Desires all
Men to be
Saved
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→ Supplications
→ Prayers
→ Intercessions
→ Giving of thanks
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GOD
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⮡ That we may lead
Quiet and peaceable life
in all godliness and reverence
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Knowledge of the truth
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Finding life reveals the womb of our creation
Whoever loses his life
For My sake will save it
Come after Me
Deny oneself
⮡ Take up one's cross daily
⮡ Follow Me
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Festering on the puss of one’s emotions denies holiness
● None of our desires are hidden from God
● God satisfies the desire of all living things
● Only by diligent works can true value be found
● Better with good purpose than wandering desires
● Desiring a heavenly home is a natural part of hope
● Salvation comes by submitting to God’s own truths
● Put to death evil desires & all that goes against God
● Regrets deliver spiritual strength otherwise missing
● Turn from evil and receive the implanted word
● The desires of the wicked will perish
● Desires absent of God’s will obtain nothing
● Walking with Christ denies passions of the flesh
● Without peace and holiness one falls short of grace
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Stubborn hearts often are unable to release pain
The LORD is near:
a broken heart
a contrite spirit
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↔ Saves such
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Many are the
afflictions of
the righteous
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Weakness overwhelms those unable to believe
● You shall not murder
● A murderer shall be put to death
● Told of old, murderers are in danger of judgement
● Whoever hates his brother is a murderer
● Cowards and murderers will not enter the kingdom
● Seeking death comes by widespread despair
● The desire to die during hardship roots from anger
● Seeking death leaves one empty in darkness
● Hope in God lifts a soul from being disquieted
● We can help each other to stop suicidal thoughts
● Broken hearts are healed by faith in God
● Faith in God helps our ability to endure
● Men always ought to pray and not lose heart
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Envious self-seeking imprisons unsatisfied hearts
Envy
Self-seeking
Confusion
Every evil thing there
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Choices under life and death confront us all
Holiest of all is what He’s gives as vessels of life
The Spirit of God dwells in you
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You are the temple of God
Defile the holy temple of God
⮡ God will destroy him
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The good intent of His creation has always been
For we are His workmanship
⭨
Created in Christ for good works
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God prepared beforehand
⮡ that we should walk in them
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To be alive one must stand on the shoulders of God
I am the resurrection and the life
⮡ Believe in Me
⮡ Though he may die
⮡ He shall live
→ Whoever lives and believes in Me
⮡ Shall never die
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Loneliness sinks in darkness absent of His light
● Hating life comes by feeling endless hard work
● Oppression more often finds no relief
● Arrogance/wickedness void of God destroys a soul
● Self-seekers oblivious to God’s word invite troubles
● Trusting God and leaning on Him is the true path
● Life and death are before all in a call to choose life
● To find God’s truth is to find true life
● God will destroy all defiling the Spirit’s holy body
● Our body is the temple of God’s given life
● We were created in Christ to pursue good works
● Casting all our care upon God eases suffering
● Belief in all Jesus is delivers eternal life
● Those who endure will inherit beyond wonderful
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In God find joy that triumphs over the world
Life = has the Son
Does not have life = has not the Son
Eternal life to who believe in God
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The Light has been given to know
Expectation of the
Creation eagerly waits
↓
Revealing of
the sons of God
↓
Children of God
⭩ ⭨
Spirit Himself
Bears witness
with our spirit
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Glorified
together ⭨
⭦
Spirit of
adoption
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Led by the
Spirit of God
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Sons of God
Suffer
with Him
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If children, then heirs of God with Christ
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Once one finds God all unfolds in Him
Eternal life
⮡ Know the only true God
↓
and Jesus Christ
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There is no greater hold than love’s purest form
→ Love
| ⮡ the LORD your God
| with all your heart
| with all your soul
| with all your strength
| with all your mind
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⮡ Your neighbor as yourself
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He has risen to show us the truth
● It is God that breathed life into mankind
● Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s
● Men die once and after appear for judgment
● God ordains Jesus only, through we must be saved
● All we have has been given to us by God
● Without Jesus, one has no life in God
● Not believing in Jesus invites the wrath of God
● Eternal life is knowing God and Jesus Christ
● Loving God with one’s all & neighbor delivers life
● God’s gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus
● Jesus holds the keys to life and death for each of us
● Believing Jesus rose from the dead is our faith
● Baptism raises us from death to life/working of God
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No Object can Replace the Spark of Life
Idols of the Nations
⮡ Work of men's hands
⮡ silver and gold
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● Have mouths; do not speak
● Eyes they have; do not see
● They have ears; do not hear
● No breath in their mouths
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🡢 Who trusts in them is like them
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Imaginary Life unto the Inanimate is Fantasy
Who says to silent wood, stone
'Awake! Arise! It shall teach!'
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Woe to him
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Idols of many forms are loved more than God
Sin more and more
⮡ Made molded images
⮡ Idols of their silver
🡣
According to their skill
🡢 Work of craftsmen 🡠
Love
They say, "Let the men kiss them"
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To Deny Truth does not Negate Truth
Everyone is dull-hearted
⮡ Without knowledge
Shame by molded falsehood image
🡣
They are futile
a work of errors
In the time of their punishment
⮡ They shall Perish
DIE
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Life is Given in the Image of our Living God
Why should
you die?
💀 ⛲
Turn from
your wicked
ways and live!
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What is cherished in heart is where life journeys
● The worship of idols leaves the spirit dead
● All should beware of the worship of things over God
● Skills used for false worship is sinful
● Countless gods fill the histories of man up to today
● Hearts that depart from the LORD are cursed
● God requires our love/walk in His ways for our good
● God is the creator of all things by His power
● Put off one’s transgressions and put on a new heart
● God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked
● Return to God and He will return to you
● Proclaimed of old the LORD calls for all to repent
● Put to death evil desire, & covetousness = idolatry
● Do not lie and be renewed in the knowledge of God
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