Genesis 3:20-24
November 29, 2010 at 8:24 pm | Posted in Bible Study | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, animal, ateasetees, Bible, blood, cherubim, Christian, church, clothing, compromise, cover, death, Eden, evangelism, faith, Fall, fellowship, flaming sword, Garden, Genesis, God, gospel, grace, ground, hell, holy, hope, human, husband, immortality, Israel, Jesus, judgment, law, life, living, love, marriage, mercy, money, mother, murder, pastor, peace, perfection, prayer, promise, repent, salvation, scripture, serpent, sin, skins, ten commandments, thistles, thorns, tree, Trinity, truth, wife
Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”– therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.
Here, we finish up the third chapter of Genesis. Verse 20 starts with yet another pointer that many who hold to evolution ignore or pass off on. Adam called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living. This means that there weren’t any other humans on the planet at the time (something that the gap theory proposes). Adam and Eve were the first two humans on the planet. They were the cause of sin, and every human being, because they come from Adam and Eve, are born into sin. The good news about this is that Jesus Christ also can be the sacrifice for all of the sins of every person that has ever lived. Continue Reading Genesis 3:20-24…
Persecution Friday: Iran – Pastor Charged with Apostasy
November 26, 2010 at 4:36 pm | Posted in VOM Fridays | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, apostasy, Assize, ateasetees, Bible, Christian, church, compromise, convert, court, death, evangelism, executed, faith, Gilan, God, gospel, grace, hell, holy, homosexuality, hope, Iran, Islam, Israel, Jesus, judgment, jury, law, life, love, marriage, martyr, Mohammed, money, murder, Muslim, pastor, peace, persecution, prophet, prosecutor, repent, salvation, scripture, sin, ten commandments, theologian, truth, Voice of the Martyrs, Youcef Nardarkhani
For more news on what’s really happening to Christians around the world go to the Voice of the Martyrs website: www.persecution.com
Iran: Pastor Charged—Apostasy
The Assize Court of the province of Gilan, in Iran, has officially charged Pastor Youcef Nardarkhani with denying that Mohammed was a prophet. The court stated that this resulted in apostasy because Nardarkhani believes in Jesus and has shared his faith with others, according to The Voice of the Martyrs.
The indictment, which was issued by a public prosecutor in the presence of a jury, stated, “He has frequently denied the prophet hood of the great prophet of Islam and the rule of the sacred religion of Islam. … He has proven his apostasy by organizing evangelistic meetings and inviting others to Christianity, establishing a house church, baptizing people, expressing his faith to others and denying Islamic values.”
According to court documents, when Pastor Youcef was asked about his faith, he told authorities, “Since I was born in a Muslim family, I was Muslim until I converted to Christianity at the age of 19.” He openly acknowledged accepting Jesus Christ. Continue Reading Persecution Friday: Iran – Pastor Charged with Apostasy…
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 25, 2010 at 7:58 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, ateasetees, Christian, church, compromise, death, evangelism, faith, God, gospel, grace, hell, holiday, holy, hope, Israel, Jesus, judgment, law, life, love, marriage, mercy, money, murder, pastor, peace, praise, prayer, repent, salvation, scripture, sin, ten commandments, Thanksgiving, truth, worthy
Just wanted to take some time to wish all the readers a Happy Thanksgiving! Whether you are actually celebrating the US holiday or not, I would like to encourage you to take some time today and thank God for all that you have. While I realize that some may not think that they have much worth being thankful for, I am sure that everyone has at least one thing. Today, thank God for that one thing and praise Him because He’s worthy!
Genesis 3:14-19
November 22, 2010 at 1:22 pm | Posted in Bible Study | Leave a commentTags: abortion, Adam, America, anger, angry, ateasetees, beginning, betray, Bible, blame, Born Again, bruise, childbirth, Christian, church, compromise, confess, covet, creation, cross, crucify, curse, death, descendant, desire, devil, die, disobey, emnity, eternal, evangelism, Eve, faith, family, federal head, fellowship, flame, flesh, Genesis 3, glory, God, gospel, grace, gracious, hate, hatred, head, heart, heel, hell, holy, honor, hostility, husband, Jesus, Judas, Judge, judgment, just, law, leader, lie, life, love, lust, man, marriage, mercy, money, moral, murder, New Testament, Old Testament, omniscient, open theism, pain, pastor, peace, perfect, Pharisee, praise, prayer, promise, Protoevangelion, punishment, rebellion, repent, rule, salvation, Satan, scripture, seed, serpent, sin, sovereign, steal, sweat, ten commandments, thistle, thorn, truth, universe, unjust, value, wife, woman, world
The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life; And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.” Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.” Continue Reading Genesis 3:14-19…
Genesis 3:8-13
November 15, 2010 at 9:42 pm | Posted in Bible Study | Leave a commentTags: abortion, Adam, America, ateasetees, Bible, blame, Christian, church, commandment, compromise, confess, creator, cross, danger, darkness, death, deception, disobedience, disobey, echo, Eden, evangelism, Eve, faith, fear, fellowship, fig leaves, fruit, Garden, Genesis, gift, God, gospel, grace, guilt, hammer, hell, hide, history, holy, homosexual, homosexuality, honest, hope, husband, immorality, intelligence, Israel, It is finished, Jesus, judgment, justice, knife, knowledge, law, lie, life, light, love, man, marriage, mercy, mock, money, mortify, nails, naked, natural, negative, opened, paradise, pastor, peace, perfect, positive, prayer, reconcile, relationship, repent, salvation, Satan, scripture, serpent, shame, sin, tempt, ten commandments, tree, truth, wife, woman, works
They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” He said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.” Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” Continue Reading Genesis 3:8-13…
Persecution Fridays: Pakistan Asia Bibi Death Sentence
November 12, 2010 at 5:24 pm | Posted in VOM Fridays | Leave a commentTags: abortion, alive, America, appeal, Asia Bibi, ateasetees, attorney, beat, Bible, blackened, blasphemy, Christian, church, compromise, cross, death, discussion, donkey, evangelism, faith, family, God, gospel, grace, hell, holy, hope, Islam, Israel, Jesus, Judge, judgment, law, life, love, marriage, martyr, mercy, money, mosque, murder, Muslim, Nankana, Pakistan, pastor, peace, police, prayer, prophet, religion, renounce, repent, salvation, scripture, sin, ten commandments, truth, village, Voice of the Martyrs
For more news on what’s really happening to Christians around the world go to the Voice of the Martyrs website: www.persecution.com
Pakistan: Asia Bibi—Death Sentence
On Nov. 8, Asia Bibi was sentenced to death by a judge in Pakistan, according to The Voice of the Martyrs contacts. The judge also fined Asia $1,190 (U.S.) and told her she had seven days to appeal the decision. VOM contacts reported that her attorney will appeal the sentence. Asia was arrested by police on June 19, 2009, and charged with blasphemy after she engaged in a religious discussion with co-workers. Many of the local women, including Asia, worked on the farm of Muslim landowner Muhammad Idrees. During their work, many of the Muslim women had pressured Asia to renounce Christianity and accept Islam.
Her family is one of only three Christian families in a village of more than 1,500 families.
On June 19, there was an intense discussion among the women about their faith. The Muslim women told Asia about Islam, and, according to VOM sources, Asia responded by telling the Muslim women that Christ died on the cross for our sins. She told them Jesus is alive. “Our Christ is the true prophet of God,” she reportedly told them. Upon hearing this response, the Muslim women became angry and began to beat Asia. Then some men took her and locked her in a room.
They announced from mosque loudspeakers that she would be punished by having her face blackened and being paraded through the village on a donkey. Local Christians informed the police, who took Asia into custody before the Muslims could carry out their plan. She is currently being held at the police station in Nankana city. Christians there had urged the police not to file blasphemy charges, but police claimed that they had to go forward because of pressure from local Muslim leaders. VOM is assisting Asia’s family and urges you to continue praying for Asia and her family during this difficult time. Pray that her appeal will be successful and that God will act on her behalf. Pray that Christians in Pakistan will continue to stand for Christ.
Genesis 3:6-8
November 8, 2010 at 12:08 pm | Posted in Bible Study | Leave a commentTags: Abraham, Adam, adult, adultery, America, ancestors, argument, ateasetees, atheist, beauty, Bible, blood, bride, bridegroom, Britain, broken, Christian, church, co-worker, compromise, consequences, covenant, death, decay, depravity, desire, distraction, dogging, Eden, evangelism, Eve, evil, evolution, faith, faithful, Fall, fame, fig, fight, fighting, forsake, gain, gap theory, Garden, glory, God, good, gospel, grace, heart, hell, hide, holy, hope, hurt, husband, imagination, intelligent, Jesus, job, judgment, kiss, knowledge, law, lie, life, love, lure, man, mankind, marriage, mercy, millions of years, ministry, mirage, money, murder, naked, order, peace, pornography, power, prayer, process, progressive creation, reality, reasoning, rebel, repent, resist, salvation, Satan, science, scripture, serpent, sex, shambles, sin, smart, tempt, ten commandments, tension, theistic evolution, trap, truth, unblemished, voyuer, wife, wise, works
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
It’s somewhat odd that such a short passage of scripture would contain the beginnings of the fall and corruption of mankind, but it does. These three verses show the process of how Adam and Eve fell then, and how man still falls today. In the 6,000 or so years that the earth has been around, the process hasn’t changed. So why does it still happen? How do we recognize it when it comes our way? How do we stop it from affecting us? Continue Reading Genesis 3:6-8…
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