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  • Foundation of the World

    2 Peter 3:3-14 The word “world” in Greek is kosmos which can mean the heavens and earth, the universe.
    Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; Revelation 21:1 New heavens and new earth
    2 Peter 2:4 and 5 The first heaven and earth were destroyed with the flood.

    1. Genesis 1 to the Flood (Genesis 11)

    2. The flood to Christ’s return (present)
    3. Christ’s return through eternity
    Matthew 13:34-36 Two Greek words are translated as foundation:

    1) Katabole translated 10 times foundation and once conceive in Hebrews 11:11. All the other uses are with the phrase “foundation of the world.” “Foundation” in this context means the act of founding or establishing, the beginning point.

    2) Themelios translated 16 times foundation, used most often as laid down as a foundation of a building, wall, or city. Luke 6:48
    Hebrews 11:11 “Conceive” is katabole.
    Matthew 13:35 is quoted from Psalms 78:2. To which world is he referring?
    Matthew 25:34 – 36 The Kingdom was prepared after the fall of Adam and Eve.
    Luke 11:50 The prophets began after the flood.
    John 17:24 If God loved Jesus before He created the first heaven and earth, then He knew that Adam and Eve were going to sin and had another plan in mind.
    Genesis 1:26-31 Are we to believe that God said what He said, but the whole time He knew they would sin and we would need a savior?
    Ephesians 1:4 Before the destruction of the first heaven and earth, God had a plan that included all who would believe.
    Isaiah 46:10-13 God has known and does know the end of many things from their beginning.
    Hebrews 4:3 Talking about Israel entering into the rest that would be theirs after entering the promised land
    Hebrews 9:6 This cannot be talking about before the fall of Adam and Eve.
    1 Peter 1:20 Jesus was known before the destruction of the first heaven and earth but not before the first was created.
    Revelation 7:8; 13:8 The book of life started after the fall of man and still has enterers today.

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    50 min
  • Glory to God for the Birth of His Son

    Luke 1:1-5
    Zacharias was a priest after the division of Abijah. (I Chr 24:10)
    Luke 1:6-27
    In the sixth month of Elisabeth’s pregnancy, the angel Gabriel visited Mary in Nazareth.
    Luke 1:28-33
    This child that would be born would be the Son of the Most High. The Lord God would give him the throne of his father David. (I Chr 17:11-15; Jer 33:14-21, Rom 1:1-4)
    Luke 1:34-35
    Through this divine action, the child would be called the Son of God. Jesus was the second Adam (Luke 3:38; Rom 5:12-19; I Cor 15:21-22), made in the image of God (Col 1:15; Gen 1:27). He was the promised seed of the woman (Gen 3:15, Gal 4:4-5), the man that would bring salvation to humanity (ITim 2:3-5).
    Luke 1:36-45
    Mary’s visit to Elisabeth was in her first month of pregnancy. This encounter verified to Mary the promise God had made.
    Luke 1:46-56
    Mary exalts Yahweh, rejoices in God, and declares the mighty deeds of God, while giving glory to the Father.
    Luke 1:57-80
    John the Baptist is born, and Zacharias gives praise to God and blesses Yahweh for remembering His holy covenant and bringing this salvation to God’s people. Again, the Father God is glorified.
    Luke 2:1-7
    The birth of Jesus the Messiah
    Luke 2:8-14
    The angels praised God, saying, “Glory to God in the highest.” Again, the Father is glorified.
    Luke 2:15-20
    The shepherds returned, praising and glorifying God. The Father is glorified
    Luke 2:21-35
    Simeon blesses God, giving the Father glory for being able to see Yahweh’s Messiah.
    Luke 2:36-38
    Anna the prophetess gave thanks to God the Father.

    Glory to God in the highest! The Messiah was born.

    The post Glory to God for the Birth of His Son first appeared on Living Hope.
    48 min
  • Glorify God (Part One)

    Yahweh’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.
    – Lamentations 3:22 and 23

    O Yahweh, Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders? – Exodus 15:11

    “Yours, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O Yahweh, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.

    Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all, and in Your hand is power and might; and it lies in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone. – 1 Chronicles 29:11 and 12

    The Rock! His work is perfect, for all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is He. – Deuteronomy 32:4

    Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite. – Psalms 147:5

    Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. – James 1:17

    “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, Who was and Who is and Who is to come.” – Revelation 4:8b

    “Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.” – Revelation 4:11

    “Great and marvelous are your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are your ways… – Revelation 15:3b

    Yahweh, Yahweh God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished… – Exodus 34: 6 and 7

    For Yahweh your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe. – Deuteronomy 10:17

    “Am I a God who is near,” declares Yahweh, “and not a God far off?”

    “Can a man hide himself in hiding places so I do not see him?” declares Yahweh. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares Yahweh.
    – Jeremiah 23:23 and 24

    Do you not know? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. – Isaiah 40:28

    Yahweh longs to be gracious to you, and therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For Yahweh is a God of justice; how blessed are all those who long for Him. – Isaiah 30:18

    Yahweh abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment,

    And He will judge the world in righteousness; He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity. – Psalms 9:7 and 8

    There is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. – Hebrews 4:13

    `Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations. – Numbers 14:18

    Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. – 1 Timothy 1:17

    Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. – Ephesians 3:20 and 21

    To the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen – Romans 16:27

    Sing to Yahweh, bless His name; proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.

    Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.
    For great is Yahweh and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.
    Ascribe to Yahweh the glory of His name; bring an offering and come into His courts.
    Worship Yahweh in holy attire; tremble before Him, all the earth. – Psalms 96:2-4, 8 and 9

    The post Glorify God (Part One) first appeared on Living Hope.
    54 min
  • Worship the True God (Jeremiah 10:1-16)

    Jeremiah 10.1-2
    be separate (Leviticus)
    – no eating unclean animals (Lev 11)
    – no mixing seeds for fields (Deut 22.9)
    – no plowing with an ox & donkey together (Deut 22.10)
    – no mixing fibers for clothing (Deut 22.11)
    – tassles on the four corners of garments (Deut 22.12)
    – no working on Saturday (Ex 20.8-11)
    – no cutting/tattooing when mourning the dead (Lev 19.28)

    Lev 18.24-26; 20.7-8, 22-26

    – God gave them customs different than the nations to keep them separate/holy
    – Why? To prevent syncretism (idol worship, moral evil, etc.)
    signs of the heavens
    – “Astrology, first elaborated in the temples of Mesopotamia, whence it spread to Greece and Rome, was an extremely important element in ancient civilization. Every level of society was affected by its fatalistic belief in the influence of the apparent motions of heavenly bodies on human destinies. During certain periods of antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages, it commanded the ardent allegiance of the best minds; even emperors resorted to it.” Abraham J. Heschel, The Prophets (Peabody: Prince Press 1962), part II, p. 20.
    – These signs included comets, eclipses, unusual cosmic occurrences

    Jeremiah 10.3

    customs are a delusion
    examples of delusions in our own culture today:
    – lying is ok, if nobody gets hurt
    – stealing is fine if someone really needs it
    – marijuana is ok since it is not a hard drug
    – getting drunk is fine so long as you are celebrating something with friends
    – ladies and gentlemen, the nations are still deluded (more than 2,500 years later)
    – going down stream, cultural currents carry you if you do nothing, must engage your arms/legs swim against current towards God…b/c at the end–if you just give up–is a waterfall and death
    supreme example of delusion => idolatry
    – cutting wood takes work, no chainsaw, story from Michael’s house (demonstration?)

    Jeremiah 10.4-5

    utter folly of idolatry
    – the person makes the god
    – utter paralyzed nature of idols
    – cannot exist without being made
    – cannot dress itself
    – cannot stand on its own w/o tottering
    – cannot walk
    – cannot do harm
    – cannot do good
    – utterly impotent, frozen, limited, motionless, finite, sub-human
    – yet, thousands and millions have worshiped them for thousands of years (in a mere 3 verses Jeremiah has deconstructed the whole practice!) What does that tell us? They were all stupid? No! To think that is to fall into the trap of chronological snobbery…rather, this should tell us that it is extremely difficult to see above the crowd, to hear the one instrument playing a different song in the midst of a symphony, to detect inconsistencies within one’s own worldview and culture
    o for example, common sense changes in every generation (calling vs. going to websites to add event to community calendar, getting paid more vs. getting an extra day off work, bloodletting, thinking the world was flat—that the sun orbited the earth)

    Jeremiah 10.6-7

    an eruption of praise
    – overwhelmed by the contrast Jeremiah erupts into praising God
    – Yahweh is great, powerful, feared, beyond all the wisest men of the nations

    Jeremiah 10.8-9

    more deconstruction
    – idols must have been impressive or else the statement “their idol is wood!” would be superfluous
    – pictures of Titus head
    – so, imagine a massive standing structure, in the inner part of a holy shrine, with incense burning, ornately decorated with gold and silver, and with priests dressed in fine clothing
    – he names the ingredients of the idol (wood, gold, silver, clothing)
    – all the work of craftsmen, skilled men and women

    Jeremiah 10.10

    the living God
    – Yahweh is the true God
    – living, everlasting, king, powerful, wrath

    Jeremiah 10.11

    non-creator gods will die
    – this verse in Aramaic
    – commandment: tell them “the gods that…”
    – people were about to go into captivity into Babylon where Aramaic was the common language
    – was Jeremiah giving the people of Israel the exact words to say to their captors in the very language they would understand?

    Jeremiah 10.12-13

    – powerful, wise, and genius creator
    – power over waters, clouds, lightning, rain, and wind

    Jeremiah 10.14-15

    – every man (i.e. all idolaters, cf. NET)
    – images are deceitful, they appear to be grandiose but they can’t even breathe (my dog can breathe, pigs can breathe, a rat can breathe)

    Jeremiah 10.16

    – portion: “Yahweh, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants is not like them” (NET)
    – again he is called the creator
    – Israel is God’s special people

    some context:

    – Babylonia was gobbling up countries left and right
    – the great Assyrian Empire had fallen to Babylonia
    – Judah and her capital, Jerusalem, was hanging on by a thread in Jeremiah’s liftetime
    – early message: repent, give up the sinning
    – later message: do not resist Babylonia, God is using them to punish you
      o people will go into captivity
      o they will live in Babylonia for 70 years
      o then they will return to the holy land and rebuild Jerusalem
    – the people already had constant trouble with idolatry from the time they came out of Egypt, to when they were in the desert, to when they first entered the promised land under the Judges, to the kings starting with Solomon onwards
    – now they would see new and strange idols that the powerful Babylonians worshiped
    – there would be a massive temptation to worship the gods that defeated their own Yahweh
    – one may think Jeremiah’s task was impossible…how could a people who never really gave up idolatry in their entire history suddenly give it up when they were now living scattered abroad among the idolatrous Gentiles?
    – yet, it worked! the Jews were cured of idolatry and when they came back, they never again returned to idolatry since

    for us today:

    – do you live as if God does not exist all week except Sunday morning once in a while?
    – be real honest with you
    – Jer. 10.10 “but Yahweh is the true God”
    – is Jesus Yahweh? (Acts 3.13)
    – Jesus himself said he had a God (Rev 3.12)
    – if Jesus is not Yahweh, then you should not worship him
    – idolatry is worshiping someone in Yahweh’s place
    – golden calf wasn’t a new God, but a new way to worship the invisible God (Ex 32.4-5)
    – if you are worried Jesus won’t get the worship…don’t…every Sunday hundreds of millions of Christians rise early to praise him as God

    concluding points:

    – Yahweh is the living, powerful, wise, genius creator at whose wrath the nations tremble. He is the one who controls the waters, clouds, lightning, rain, wind. He is great, powerful, and to be feared. He is the inheritance of God’s people. Worship God, he is worthy.
    – truth matters, our current cultural climate devalues truth saying that being nice is all that matters…I’m sure there were many nice idol worshipers, but God was still offended at such behavior as we can see over and over in the Scriptures. Truth matters. Love matters. Let’s do both, and not just fall into the mold set for us by our culture.

    The post Worship the True God (Jeremiah 10:1-16) first appeared on Living Hope.
    50 min
  • Guided by the Holy Spirit

    Matthew 4:1 The spirit is not a person rather a thing. Right in the beginning of the Bible in Genesis 1:2, we see that the spirit is the creative, animating power or divine influence of God. The gift of holy spirit bestowed upon those of faith is God’s supernatural empowerment designed to help believers to know and do the will of God.

    God is not lead by the spirit rather He leads others with the spirit including his son. Jesus walked perfectly his meekness and obedience to the spirit’s leading.

    Mark 1:12 the spirit drives him but does not force him It guided him!
    Luke 4:18 consecrating Jesus to the Messianic office, and furnishing him with the necessary powers for its administration
    Acts 10:38 he was anointed with holy spirit and power
    John 1:19-36 Each record of John he talks about Jesus baptizing with spirit which has a different purpose
    Acts 2:4, 33
    Luke 11:9-13 faith that we have this empowerment, willingness to accept its leading and aggressiveness asks, seeks, knocks
    John 16:13 the spirit will guide you not just teach you if you are willing to be guided.
    John 14:12 in the context of teaching about the spirit he makes this statement
    Psalm 29:1 and 2 the purpose of the spirit is help with reconciling the world and to glorify Yahweh

    The post Guided by the Holy Spirit first appeared on Living Hope.
    37 min
  • Perseverance

    Colossians 1:9-12 our aim as Christians is perseverance and perfection – Mary

    The reason games are fun is the possibility of winning. We often measure success and failure by what we accomplish.

    Isaiah 38:16-ff
    Hebrews 3:1-19
    Hebrew 11:13-16 – Ezekiel 14 Noah, Daniel and Job

    On July 4, 1952, at the age of 34, Florence Chadwick attempted to become the first woman to swim 21 miles across the Catalina Channel, from Catalina Island to California coast. The ocean was ice cold, the fog was so thick that she could hardly see the support boats that followed her, and sharks prowled around her. Several times, her support crew used rifles to drive away the sharks. While Americans watched on television, she swam for hours. Her mother and her trainer, who were in one of the support boats, encouraged her to keep going. However, after 15 hours and 55 minutes, with only a half mile to go, she felt that she couldn't go on, and asked to be taken out of the water.

    “Look, I'm not excusing myself, but if I could have seen land I know I could have made it.” The fog had made her unable to see her goal, and it had felt to her like she was getting nowhere. Two months later, she tried again. The fog was just as dense, but this time she made it. After 13 hours, 47 minutes, and 55 seconds, she reached the California shore, breaking a 27-year-old record by more than two hours and becoming the first woman every to complete the swim.

    Philippians 4:4-9

    Thankful – Horatio Spafford “it is well song” stop the negativeness and the complaining

    Humble – God centered not self centered

    Involved not with the world but with the church

    Naturalize – Naturalization ceremony stay committed to God daily

    Kingdom – finish line

    The post Perseverance first appeared on Living Hope.
    45 min
  • More Than a Conqueror
    Redemption

    Romans 3:19-24 We have redemption in Christ by grace, a gift of God.

    Galatians 1:3-5 We have been rescued out of this present evil age.
    Colossians 1:13 and 14 Rescued from the domain of darkness
    1 Peter 1:18-25 The price paid for redemption was the blood of Christ.
    Ephesians 1:7 -14; 4:30 The day of our full redemption is yet to come.
    Romans 8:23 We enjoy redemption now, but there is also a future redemption when Christ returns.
    Luke 21:20-28 When Jesus returns, complete redemption will be realized.

    Righteousness

    Romans 1:16-18 The righteousness of God is revealed in the Scriptures.

    Romans 3:10, 21-26 Righteousness is a gift through Christ.
    Romans 4:1-5 Righteousness was credited to Abraham because of faith and grace.
    Romans 5:17-21 We accept this righteousness by faith.
    Galatians 5:5 We wait for the hope of righteousness. We are righteousness now, but not until Christ returns will the fullness of our righteousness be realized.

    God’s Child

    1 John 2:28-3:3 The righteous ones are the sons of God now.

    3:4-10 Simple truth is set forth so we can easily discern if we are the children of God.

    You are what God made you to be.

    Romans 8:23 – 25, 28-39

    The post More Than a Conqueror first appeared on Living Hope.
    38 min

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