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Due to technical difficulty, and a time crunch, Keith wraps up this 2 part series as a solo episode. Continuing to review what Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15). After a quick revieew of some of the points we made in the previous installment, Keith shares a few final points.

Check out show notes from the previous installment, but working from memory, Keith mentions:

* Repent

* Honor God’s Law

* Love Your Enemies

* Seek God’s Kingdom

* Ask, Seek, Knock

continuing on, only a handfuul of the laws found on our referenced web site are covered. The final two being the two great commands to love the lord, and the next one like it. to love your neighbor as yourself. According to Paul, all the law can be summed up in the command to love your neighbor. It's a command to not only love those who are lovable, or in the same social stratisphere as yourself, but to love the one who might be hard to love.

As a final bonus, Keith shares part of a recent Bible study, where Paul writes to the Romans. In the brief span of a bout 9 verses, at least 24 commands are listed. The first group in how believers ought to be treating each other. Here's a short list from Romans 12:9-13.

* Real love, deep love, no faking it.

* Hate evil, cling to good.

* honor each other,

* Be patient in affliction,

* Be persistent in prayer

* Share with believers in need.

* Pursue hospitality.

here's another short list, this time from Romans 12:14-18 and focusing on others who may actually want to do you harm. It still applies to fellow believers as well.

* Bless those who persecute you.

* Bless and do not curse.

* rejoice with the joyful, and weep with the mourners.

* live in harmony, not being proud

* Do what's right, not repaying evil for evil.

* live honorably.

Yikes! those are tough enoughcommands to live up to with people you like, let alone maintaining that standard wuith those who might want to feed you to the lions.

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This material, and the full list of 49 commands, is adapted from the Commands of Christ Pocket Guide.

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Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (). But just what are these commands?

Today, Nathan Caldwell joins Keith Heltsley in the first part, of a 2 part discussion on top commands that Jesus told his followers to do. We compare our lists, based on a blog article located at: What are the commands of Christ?

In no particular order, we begin with...

* Be Born Again

“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” ().

* Repent

“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” ().

* Follow Me

“And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” ().

* Baptize My Disciples

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” ().

* Make Disciples

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations . . . teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen” ().

* Honor God’s Law

“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill” ().

* Seek God’s Kingdom

“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” ().

* Ask, Seek, Knock

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened” ().

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This material, and the full list of 49 commands, is adapted from the Commands of Christ Pocket Guide.

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In this spectacular miracle that gets mentioned in all four gospels, it's said the first miracle wasn't in the feeding of the crowd, but that a boy still hadn't eaten his lunch yet. Still, even the smallest of contributions go a long way.

Today, we dive in deep to learn as much as we can about depending on Jesus when life overwhelms. Also in relying on wealth or physical resources to satisfy. Following his instruction turns out to be easier on us as we pass along the things he supplies. The deepest hunger any of us can have is for spiritual food. Make Jesus your spiritual king.

Using the ESV (English Standard Version), here's a few notes to consider on

Verse 1-4

1 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.

2 And a large crowd was following him because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.

3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.

4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

The importance of this miracle is underscored by its appearance in all 4 gospels.

"After this..." though Jesus did plenty in the area of Galilee up to this point, a great deal of his ministry here is glossed over. Time has passed, and Passover is here again likely the following year after events of chapter 2.?

Why were the crowds there? one theory claims they may also have been on the way to observe Passover. The crowds followed Jesus to have their physical needs met.

Before dealing with the immediate need, Jesus had withdrawn with his disciples to prepare them for his final days.

Verse 5-6

5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?"

6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

Jesus was fully aware of the people and their need. he offered his disciples the chance to make their own solution. his request held them responsible to do something, despite the great need of the crowd.

It was a test, but he knew their situation, the disciple response, and his own solution.

Verse 7

7 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little."

A Denarius. a day's wage for a common worker. the wage for minimum wage worker.. 200 denarii might be the amount to get a modest meal for each of the families among the crowd. it would amount to 200 days wage, or 8 month salary to provide for all who were present.

Verse 8-9

8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?"

Andrew is always found bringing people to Jesus. Instead of searching money sources, he scouts people, and food supply. But all he can find is the meager lunch of a boy.

According to Expositors Bible Commentary: Barley loaf, the most cheap kind of bread. the fish, could be pickled fish. Little more than an appetizer.

Verse 10

10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

"Sit down." Jesus stopped asking, relying on men, and began practical instructions.

J Vernon McGee comments on the tribal grouping, colors, and numbers in the picturesque scene.

Verse 11

11 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated.

John 6.1-15

Questioning the Logic of Christianity (Answers and responses to the questioning)

Coronomancing the World, Sham Spade, and more!

Featuring:

Nathan Caldwell

Jerry Kokich

Jimmy David Robbins

Julie Westlake Sooter

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In an effort to address common challenges to God or the Christian faith, Keith returns to respond to a few short clips from the world of Youtube. The presenters are not known by us, or the context of the lecture or debate. Sticking only to the brief statement, we look at why their logic fails, and sometimes backfires.

Religion makes people feel guilty. Is it wrong too doubt religion, or to question what it teaches? Doubts are normal, and questions can indeed expose faulty dogmas. But it can also enforce what is true. Having a question doesn't make you a bad person, sin makes you a bad person. Claiming you're a Christian when you don't believe in the teachings of Christ makes you a hypocrite. Confront those doubts, ask questions, but seek the truth.

There is no God in the patterns. A first-year college experiment in critical thinking seems to cast a poor light on the matter of God. Do you want to always make the right choice? It begins with two types of errors, and making false-positive mistakes (Type 1), over the more dangerous false negative (Type 2) error. Though both represent errors, the Type 1 error is always better to make. It allows you to live to see another day, and learn to advance to recognizing real dangers and real safety. Is the Type 1 error the source for belief in God and other supernatural things? Maybe, probably, but it keeps you safe until you can learn about real threats to survival. with enough Type 1 errors, while more data is gathered and analyzed, you can now advance to discovering which dangers are real or imagined. You can begin to distinguish which agencies, supernatural or natural, are beneficial. Which ones are very real predators who want to do you harm?

Debunking functional design. In setting up an argument, the presenter places God in a kind of circular logic called "Infinite Regression." hint: the instant your argument entered infinite regression, you've just lost your argument. It exposes a weakness that falls apart, contradictions in what you're trying to prove.

The claim: if the complex design requires an even more complex designer, then who created God. He has to be even more complex than his creation, right?

The answer to this infinite feedback loop has two basic solutions. The first is to examine each and every claim to the solution or to address them in batches. This is what relativism tries to do. however, with an infinite number of solutions, there is never an end to it.

Since this is circular logic, using the point in the claim as part of the answer, the thing to do is take it out of the answer. In other words, claiming God is inside the created universe, as yet another created thing is pointless. If he is to be proved the actual creator, by definition, he is outside the limits of time, space and matter. He is the uncaused cause of creation as we know it. It requires no faith, but it diffuses the circular logic.

If the solution to the creator is not satisfactory, a different logical argument to disprove God needs to be set up than the one presented.

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