Bible Study

God’s Timing

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Genesis 8-9 & 1 Corinthians 11

Today’s passage was the continuation of Noah’s Ark, and one thing I always find interesting when I first noticed it was Genesis 8:15-17. When we get to this part of the story we always focus on Noah sending out the raven, and then sending out the dove three times, we tend to skip over these three verses where it is God commanding Noah to exit the ark. God sealed them in the ark, and it was God Who told them it was finally safe to come out of the ark. Often times we may be called to do something and are desperate to get it started, or we are impatient to see the answer to our prayers work out; that we will move ahead of God and not wait for His timing. You see this will lead to results that aren’t the best, that is not to say they won’t work out, it just isn’t the best of what God has to offer. You see Noah could have left the ark when he noticed that the ground was dry, or even mostly dry; but surviving woul have been harder as the land might not have been suitable at that time to sustain life, We might not know the why, but we do know that Noah did wait for God’s timing to tell him when to leave the ark.

So, is there anything where you are having to wait on God’s timing? Has there been times when instead of waiting on God, you went and did your own thing? I pray that each of us has the patience to wait on God and His promises. Have a blessed day.

Listen to the warnings

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Genesis 6-7 & Luke 17:27-37

Today was the first part of, probably one of the most well known stories’ of the Old Testament, Noah’s Ark. The story where God sent a flood to kill all life on earth due to their wickedness, violence, and evil (different translations use these words interchangeably). Then in Luke we see one of many instances where Noah is used as an example by Jesus, regarding the Second Coming. How people will be living their lives like normal, ignoring the sign of God’s coming judgement, I mean it would be hard to miss the guy building the large boat, some traditions hold that this took place in an area where no body of water suitable for a boat of such size was close by or in other words this boat was landlocked, and wonder what is going on only to be told to repent due to God’s coming Judgement. You see it isn’t that there aren’t signs of God’s coming judgement, but that many choose to ignore those signs, wanting to be the god of their own life and ignore those who preach the true God.

Genesis 2 & 1 Corinthians 15:45-58

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“helper suitable for” or “helper corresponding to”

The Hebrew words used for this phrase is a picture of one that comes along side to help. The phrase is just about literally one who helps parallel, or opposite, to. Man and Woman are designed to work together as a team, helping each other, supporting each other in their weaknesses, encouraging each other in their strengths, and excelling as a team where they are equally matched. The relationship is not to be one of superiority, or adversity; but to be one of cohesion. This is a concept I think those of us that are part of western individualistic cultures have forgotten, it is also interesting that the word translated in Genesis 2 for “alone” is bad. We were not designed to be alone, we were designed to be part of a family; both spiritually and physically, for those that are single the two are sometimes combined. This is why it is important as believers that we are part of a local church; because that is our spiritual family and at times functions as a stand in for the physical family, helping out during times of need.

So, let me leave you with this. Are you part of a local church? If not, why? What keeps you form connecting with other believers, what is keeping you in the “bad” state of being alone? Just like there is no “perfect” family, there are no perfect churches; but there are churches that will feel like home.

December 31, 2022 – Forward to a New Year

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I thought I would take the time to make this post describing what I hope to do through 2023 and possibly beyond, Lord willing. Starting tomorrow I am working on a Bible reading plan on YouVersion that will take me through the Bible in about 2 years. I know there are 1-year plans out there, but I often find I spend more time trying to get through the reading that I don’t try to absorb and learn from what I am reading. At least starting out I will try to use the Christian Standard Bible (CSB); my choice was between that, the New King James, English Standard Version, and New American Standard Bible (1995 a& 2020 versions). With having a NKJV, ESV, and NASB (1995) study bible close at hand I may still reference them while doing my daily reading.

So, what I will be doing is in the morning as part of my daily routine I will work on that day’s Bible reading, taking notes about what stands out to me and what I feel God revealing to me through His word. I will use these notes to create a daily blog post for the Becoming God’s Man website and try to do a short 1-minute video to go along with it for our social media accounts, if not check out at least our Facebook page and YouTube channel for the videos.

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Year of the King – St Pete Dream Center Table Talk

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After one of the guys talking about God placing on his heart that 2019 is the “Year of the King” we get on to talking about expanding God’s Kingdom.

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The Word of God – St. Pete Dream Center Table Talk

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This week I went into our video archive and found this gem where those of us at the Friday morning prayer breakfast took a look at having a thirst for the Word of God.

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Stop the Spiritual Fluff – 1 John 4:1

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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1 ESV

Who are you listening to? What preachers and speakers do you regularly follow? Do you take what they tell you as gospel truth or do you regardless test what they are teaching against the Word of God? John wrote to the early church warning them about false teachers and he wasn’t the only person to warn the church. Paul in his farewell address as well as when writing to Timothy warned against those that would come in teaching what people want to hear rather than teaching the Truth.

Today in the world of televangelists and mega churches we find ourselves in a similar situation. Crowds gather more to where they are being told what they want to hear rather than what they need to hear. They want the what amounts to being spiritual sweets while neglecting the spiritual nutritional substances. The problem is much like with our own diet we cannot live on only cakes, pies, and ice cream as our nutritional intake, a spiritual diet of nothing but spiritual fluff is also unhealthy.

That is why we need to test the spirits. We need to be sure that our spiritual diet is healthy. We do this by making sure that the teaching we listen to is firmly grounded in the Bible and not taken out of context. We need to remember that just because it sounds good doesn’t make it true. So let me leave you with this, what does your spiritual diet look like? Do you test the spirits to make sure what you are taking in is healthy or do you just settle for spiritual junk food?

Psalm 119:9 – Why is Bible Study Important?

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How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Why is it important to study the Bible? Well if you were to ask the psalmist, he would tell us that it is to keep us focused on God and to help keep us from falling into sin. The more time we spend in the Word the more we see how we should be living and acting. We see how we should keep our focus on God as He is the only one worthy of our worship; and whatever has our focus, whatever takes our priority is that which we worship. Spending time in the Word keeps our mind and hearts centered on God, guarding our way and keeping it pure.

The best illustration of this in practice is when we look at the temptation of Christ. After Christ was baptized He went into the wilderness for forty days at the end of which Satan came and tempted Him. We see in the narrative that with each temptation Christ countered Satan by quoting Scripture.. But now here is the thing, it is not just enough to know Scripture, we can’t just memorize verses and just quote them at times of temptation; we need to understand what the verse actually means so we can use them appropriately. We even see this with Christ’s temptation, in one instance Satan, seeing Christ countering him with Scripture, used Scripture to try to get Christ to sin by twisting the intended meaning of the verse to suit his purpose. Someone not grounded in Scripture might look at it and think, “you know you’re right,” but because Christ knew His Scripture, He was able to say, “you’re wrong and according to Scripture here’s why.”

So have you been finding it hard to stay on track in your faith? The first thing to do is look to see if you have been neglecting your Bible, and start digging into His Word.