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Nov 2, 2024 · Acts 23:11-22 teaches us to rely on God’s protection and encouragement in times of danger. Paul’s experience shows that God’s promises sustain us, and His providence works through both divine encounters and the actions of people around us. We are reminded to trust in God’s plans and to seek wisdom in discerning the support He provides.
- Barry Coker
- Creation
- The Fall
- Judgment and Re-Creation
- The Abrahamic Covenant
- The Covenant at Sinai
- The Palestinian Covenant
- The Davidic Covenant
- The New Covenant
General. God created a perfect universe where everything was in order.1 Everything came into existence by obedience to God’s word (Ps. 33).2Human life was the crowning point and the focus of God’s creation. Human Life. HumanlifeinGenesis1isthe“imageofGod.” The image is not shape or structure, but capacity.3 According to Genesis 2:7, the body plus t...
The Act. The woman was beguiled by Satan to disobey God. The temptation denied the word of God, doubted the goodness of God, and appealed to her desire to be like God, knowing good and evil.12 Adam sinned willfully when the woman gave him the fruit. Thus, Paul would say, “By one man sin entered the world, and death by sin.” The Oracle. Immediately ...
The narrative in Genesis continues this cycle of creation--failure--judgment--redemption. In fact, this continues through the Bible—it is the story of the Bible. The work of God’s redemption begins to take on the form of re-creation. Rebellion. As the story progresses, sin gets worse and worse, until by the time of the Flood the knowledge of evil c...
The Faith of Abraham. The covenant would have to be made with a true believer. And so Genesis 12 records the call of Abram with divine promises. And Genesis 15:6 tells us that he “believed in the LORD, and he [the LORD] reckoned to him righteousness.” Abram had left Ur by faith; the covenant was made with Abram the believer. Here was the beginning ...
A Holy Nation, A Kingdom of Priests. At Mount Sinai God established a covenant with Israel (Exod. 24) that formed them into the nation, the people of God. The purpose was to form a nation that would be holy, so that it could be a priestly nation (Exod. 19). This recalls the intent of the Abrahamic Covenant promises that the seed would be the means ...
General. This covenant is not really a totally new covenant, and it is not called the Palestinian Covenant--in fact, the word Palestine was only used here because it conveniently made the point of the covenant with reference to the land--but it was not the land of Palestine in those days. The point is that there was a second giving of the law, so t...
General Circumstances. From God’s plan it had always been the will of God that His theocracy would be centered in Jerusalem and be administered by His king who would be known as His Son.33The plan of creation, reiterated by the covenants, promised a SEED and a LAND and DOMINION. The Davidic Covenant would now take the promise of dominion and ratify...
Judgment. As the nation sank more and more into idolatry and unrighteousness, the message of judgment through captivity became more pronounced, until the blow came and all the promises of God seemed to come to an end. God used the wicked nations to judge Israel, ultimately to purge the nation of idolatry and rebellion. Never again did the nation em...
No. The Bible clearly shows where Paradise is located. The Apostle Paul tells of a man who was taken in a vision to God's throne—"how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter" (2 Corinthians 12:1-4). Paradise is located in the presence of God's throne. What is Paradise?
Oct 23, 2023 · Paradise is mentioned three times in the Bible. It first appears in Luke 23:43. “And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.”. Here Jesus was dying on the cross. He was in between two thieves. One thief said unto Him, “Lord, remember me when thou come into thy kingdom.”.
Aug 10, 2014 · Over 40 men took an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul, but God had other plans. In an amazing act of providence, God had overruled their plans and protected Paul with a detachment of 470 troops. The works of God's providence are his most holy, wise and powerful preserving and governing of all his creatures and their actions. God could use even non-believers and Gentiles to ...
Jan 23, 2024 · The story of Paul is one of redemption in Jesus Christ. However, to gain the full measure of the man, we must examine his dark side and what he symbolized before becoming “the Apostle of Grace.”. Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in ...
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Jan 30, 2024 · Acts 13 recounts Paul’s first missionary journey. While Paul was in Antioch, he was separated by the Holy Spirit, along with Barnabas, for the work of the gospel. After the brethren had fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them out to Seleucia and then from there, they sailed to Cyprus.
