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A small group of young Christadelphian brothers have taken the time to produce this valuable resource for the brotherhood and beyond, they are using the Bible reading planner developed by Brother Robert Roberts called The  Bible Companion. The Bible Companion (or Bible Reading Planner) is a guide developed by the Christadelphians to aid reading the Bible. It was first produced by Robert Roberts when he was just 14 years of age, in about 1853, and revised by him over a number of years into its current format. 

 Most Christadelphians use this plan each day and it was designed to help you read the old testament once and the new testament twice each year.

 These readings which we feature are recorded using the KJV or the NKJV of the Bible and we hope will be helpful to those who may struggle with time or who have poor eyesight.

DRAMA AT ATHENS May 6

One of the better known stories in the Bible is when Paul was in Athens and confronted the idol worshippers. He

gave a challenging speech on Mars Hill, (modern Bibles translate it as Areopagus) Paul observes how religious (AV

‘superstitious’) they are! (Acts 17 v.22).

“Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious: for I passed along and observed the objects of

your worship.” He seizes on the fact they had even made an altar to the unknown god, in case they had missed one!

This is Paul’s chance to describe the God they do not know as the one true God, a God that is REAL and not the

product of human imagination. Today we have ‘evolution’ as a concept of human imagination which is, in a sense,

‘worshipped’ by many of the intellectuals of this age.

This ‘evolution God’ frees its worshippers from any sense of developing a conscience that they need to obey and

serve as the ‘being’ that created them. At the end of Acts 17 we read how “some mocked” [v.32] Paul’s message,

especially the teaching that the dead are to be raised. This is comparable to the way you hear some ‘mock’ today at

belief in the Bible.

It occurred to us to wonder why Paul performed no miracle at Athens as this would have challenged the thinking of

the people. When the Apostle’s started their preaching there had been a dramatic healing in Jerusalem. Miracles

occurred again in Cyprus and then at Iconium where “the Lord bore witness … granting signs and wonders to be done

by their hands” [14 v.3] and again at Lystra and Philippi. The healings helped convince many, so why not at Athens?

We suspect that the people of Athens were so set and confident in their ways of religious thought that they did not

deserve to witness a miracle! Is not that comparable to today? But is not the resurrection of the nation of Israel from

the dead a miracle!? . It is to those who know the word of God – a wonder that those who knew that word in the 19th

Century could anticipate this event, despite the lack of any political indication of this150 years ago. When the miracle

of Christ’s return overwhelms the world - it will be too late to start believing. Belief in God has its foundations built on

a true faith grounded in a real knowledge of His word! How strong is your foundation?

A small group of young Christadelphian brothers have taken the time to produce this valuable resource for the brotherhood and beyond, they are using the Bible reading planner developed by Brother Robert Roberts called The  Bible Companion. The Bible Companion (or Bible Reading Planner) is a guide developed by the Christadelphians to aid reading the Bible. It was first produced by Robert Roberts when he was just 14 years of age, in about 1853, and revised by him over a number of years into its current format. 

 Most Christadelphians use this plan each day and it was designed to help you read the old testament once and the new testament twice each year.

 These readings which we feature are recorded using the KJV or the NKJV of the Bible and we hope will be helpful to those who may struggle with time or who have poor eyesight.

A small group of young Christadelphian brothers have taken the time to produce this valuable resource for the brotherhood and beyond, they are using the Bible reading planner developed by Brother Robert Roberts called The  Bible Companion. The Bible Companion (or Bible Reading Planner) is a guide developed by the Christadelphians to aid reading the Bible. It was first produced by Robert Roberts when he was just 14 years of age, in about 1853, and revised by him over a number of years into its current format. 

 Most Christadelphians use this plan each day and it was designed to help you read the old testament once and the new testament twice each year.

 These readings which we feature are recorded using the KJV or the NKJV of the Bible and we hope will be helpful to those who may struggle with time or who have poor eyesight.

There are a number of reasons why Saul of Tarsus was a great choice to preach the gospel message. His Bible knowledge, zeal and courage being some of them. But perhaps one of the most important reasons was his perspective. He had his eyes opened by the Lord Jesus Christ, but he never forgot where he had come from. He had authority to say, “To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win the Jews… To those outside the law I became as one outside the law” (1 Cor. 9:20-21), because he knew what it was like. He understood how different people thought and what their perspectives were, because he had been there.

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A super class about perspective, What is the meaning of life? many have tried to answer this age old question from Man's perspective - But what about God's ?

"... AND FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY"                                                         

  May 5

There is a very interesting link between our 3 readings today.   The early church has a crisis 

meeting to decide whether the new Gentile converts should be expected to keep the Law of Moses.  

Leaders including Paul, Barnabas, Peter and James participate in, what we would call today, a high 

level conference in Jerusalem .

The end result is that a letter is compiled to be sent to all the churches telling them that it is 

not required that they should keep that Law, but it did add that they should “abstain from what has 

been sacrificed to idols … and from sexual immorality.” [Acts 15 v.29]

Our Deuteronomy reading (Ch.22) has a section headed ‘Laws concerning sexual immorality’ (v.13-30) 

in which rules  are  laid  down  that  the  people  must  abide  by  an  upright  moral  code  and  

that  a  woman  should  preserve  her virginity until marriage and if she is found not to have done 

so she is to be put to death “because she has done an outrageous thing … so you shall purge evil 

from your midst” [v.21].

There is no evidence that such punishment ever happened among the early Christians.  Baptism into 

Christ blotted out all past sins. However we read in Hebrews, “Strive for peace with everyone, and 

for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord … that no ‘root of bitterness’ springs up 

and causes trouble and by it many become defiled; that no one is sexually immoral or unholy …” 

[Ch.12 v.14-16]

Our other reading today was in the Songs of Solomon which is an allegorical story of true love and 

how a bride adores her beloved. “My beloved is mine, and I am his.” [ Ch. 2 v.16],  this is 

interpreted as illustrating Christ’s love for his church.    Paul was to write, “Husbands love your 

wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her … that she might be holy and true and 

without blemish” [Ephesian                                                   to be true members of

the body of Christ should bear these words very much in mind.

Bro Dan Blackburn leads us in the first part of this new bite-size series Looking at the Nation of Israel.

 ‘The events of the Jewish Revolt against the might of the Roman Empire form the historical backdrop for the Gospels and Letters of New Testament. The holy city of Jerusalem was destroyed and the Temple was burnt to the ground. The remnants of the nation of Israel were exiled from the land by the year 135CE, leaving them to wander through countries at the mercy of foreign governments who were hostile to their cause.  Jesus himself warns his disciples about the coming destruction on the city and the land, and history testifies to the veracity of his words.  It is in our days that we see the times of the favour beginning to dawn on Zion, leaving Assyrian and Roman exile in the shadow of the past.’ - Dan Blackburn

Interesting talk about this dramatic time period in the Lord's life.

Bro Jim Dillingham