We're back looking at Adam and all the foundational truth of scripture found in Genesis. We see how Adam is juxtaposed with Christ. We see the plan of God already unfolding for the sacrificial death of Christ. We look at the different bodies God sees. We also examine the ideas of body, soul, and spirit. We see Christ in Abraham and Isaac's journey to Mount Moriah. All in all, Christ is exalted. Finally, we see the extent of the Love of Christ for his creation.

We start our whirlwing tour of scripture by taking a look at the origin of it all. Do you believe in the theory of evolution? I used to. I was a huge fan of the Cosmos series of the early 1980s. But by the time I graduated from university, I had already essentially abandoned it. So, when I finally came to faith in Christ, I could begin to investigate God's plan for this old earth. We jump right in to the Book of genesis and briefly look at Adam and Eve in the Graden, their loss, their punishment, their hope. We look at Noah and Abraham. We take a look at a couple of "Bible Commands" that would be stupid for us to try and obey today! God said build an ark! But we don't obey that command for two reasons: God was speaking to us and there is no flood coming. That is, the economy or dispensation has changed. The conditions have changed. That's the groundwork we need to start to understand how to "rightly divide the Word of Truth" as Paul commands us in 2 Timothy 3.

We start our journey through scripture by looking at the Lord's warnings in regard to being deceived. We again the centrality of context to all scripture interpretation.

We take a look at a couple of quotes from John MacArthur as he sets out to correct what he sees as false teaching. We pause to remind ourselves that we are all subject to error. We are all limited in our capacity to grasp all of scripture. So, we must all be prepared to examine, reexamine, and even modify or discard our own doctrines if the scripture moves us to. In the end, we all will answer as indivduals before God for what we believed and taught. It behooves us to keep certain doctrines in pencil and to always remember we are not the judge of another man's servant. We certainly should be checking each other's teachings, but let us be care to distinguish between holding a false doctrine and being a false teacher. When Paul addresses false teachers, there is attached to the teacher a motive. We need to be aware of those motives, but slow to assign motive without evidence.

In our brief time today, we meander through world events and look at this inhospitable home of ours which we call Earth. We ponder the idea of all of us switching our voter registrations to UNAFFILIATED and let the candidates debate the issues and win our votes with arguments, not with slogans.

More holiday season grumbling about taking verses out of context. We look at just a few verses which are often cut in half in order to fit a predetermined theology. We clarify what the "spiritual" kingdom is. The Kingdom of God represents a very large rulership of the Lord. Not all hopes are the same. We also wander, again, into the war in Ukraine. We end on a few thoughts on economics and freedom!

We pause this Christmas season to remember that Christmas is a very very Israeli holiday. We'll look at prophecy, we'll look at the epistles, we'll tread the sacred ground quoted by Linus in "A Charlie Brown Christmas." O Come O Come Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel! The Lord's birth is about the King coming to take the throne of his father David. We're in a pause at the moment, but that Kingdom will come!

Our Apostle Paul tells Titus that those teaching false doctrines, leading away believers, must have their mouths stopped (Titus 1:11). What does that mean in a practical sense?

A bit more on Nazis (real ones, no dime store phonies), the Spiritual and Physical aspects of the Kingdom in scripture, in the context of time and marriage. A mish-mash of stuff today for this holiday season.

We're looking very broadly at the Kingdom of God in scripture. On the way there, we stop by the Holocaust museum and have a few more words to say about the recent talk of Hitler in the news. God's Kingdom (physical and spiritual) is sure, but in the meantime, let's learn from history. Tolerance does not mean approval, but it does mean we should be listening to each other and banding together against those who would stifle speech or separate people into groups so they can demonize them.