QUESTION: What was the reason and what was really happening on the Cross, when Jesus said, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
ANSWER: The phrase was a quote from the book of Psalms 22:1 indicative of one that was in deep suffering. The citing of this passage showed that He alone bore our sins to that cross (Isaiah 53:4-5) and that indeed what He was undergoing was the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. Certainly, it teaches us also the hatred that our Father has for sin; in that, while with the sins of the world upon His Son, apparently, God temporarily, turned away, rejecting Him in that moment, because of the great love that He had for you and me (John 3:16). Did Jesus have foreknowledge of the events of that day? Of course He did (Luke 18:31-34), but the human side of our Lord could not contain and uttered in much agony the phrase. Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani!
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Daily Reading
QUESTION: Some people say they have seen Jesus Christ. How is this possible if Jesus is a spirit?
ANSWER: Those today who say they have literally seen Jesus Christ are either lying or suffering from mental instability! Peter says in 1 Peter 1:8 that we “see Him not,” and though we “see Him not” we can still love and believe in Him. As a result, we can then “rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.” Christ says of His followers in John 20:29, “blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.” The apostle John tells us in 1 John 3:2 that we “know” when Christ appears we shall be like Him. He also says that “it doth not yet appear what we shall be.” Since the Bible says that we don’t yet know what we shall be like, it follows then that we have not yet seen Christ; nor know what He is like! If we now knew what He was like, that is, if we had seen Him, then we would already know what we will be like! The fact that “it doth not yet appear what we shall be” is evidence of the fact that none today have seen Him! The answer to the question is summed up in Paul’s statement of 2 Corinthians 5:7 that Christians (all Christians) “walk by faith and not by sight!” If one today had really seen Jesus then he or she would be walking by sight and not by faith, thereby negating and contradicting how God said Christians are to walk! Those who claim that God literally appeared to them or that God talked directly to them do so in direct opposition to His Word. If these cannot be shown the error in which they engage, they need to be avoided as false teachers who “serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the heart of the simple” (Romans 16:17-18).
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ANSWER: Those today who say they have literally seen Jesus Christ are either lying or suffering from mental instability! Peter says in 1 Peter 1:8 that we “see Him not,” and though we “see Him not” we can still love and believe in Him. As a result, we can then “rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.” Christ says of His followers in John 20:29, “blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.” The apostle John tells us in 1 John 3:2 that we “know” when Christ appears we shall be like Him. He also says that “it doth not yet appear what we shall be.” Since the Bible says that we don’t yet know what we shall be like, it follows then that we have not yet seen Christ; nor know what He is like! If we now knew what He was like, that is, if we had seen Him, then we would already know what we will be like! The fact that “it doth not yet appear what we shall be” is evidence of the fact that none today have seen Him! The answer to the question is summed up in Paul’s statement of 2 Corinthians 5:7 that Christians (all Christians) “walk by faith and not by sight!” If one today had really seen Jesus then he or she would be walking by sight and not by faith, thereby negating and contradicting how God said Christians are to walk! Those who claim that God literally appeared to them or that God talked directly to them do so in direct opposition to His Word. If these cannot be shown the error in which they engage, they need to be avoided as false teachers who “serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the heart of the simple” (Romans 16:17-18).
For Further Information Contact:Truth For The World P.O. Box 5048Duluth, GA 30096-0065e-mail: info@tftw.org
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
New Year 2008
Welcome, as we start out this year, I hope the post I post on blog helps someone to come to be faithful to our Savior Jesus Christ. I am using questions and answers from the Church of Christ at Duluth Ga. They are a true bible believing Church and have a wonderful web site. I also us E-sword bible using the new King James ver. At time to time I might put a blog of my on, but mostly will be bible. If you would like to commit I would love to hear what you would say. Have a blessed year, just remember all blessing come from God. Happy New Year
Daily Reading
QUESTION: Did Jesus become a sinner when He died on the cross for our sins?
ANSWER: No! 2 Corinthians 5:21 says that Christ “knew no sin.” It was because of this that He could be “made to be sin for us.” This passage does not teach that He became a sinner or even that He literally became sin. It is teaching that He suffered as though He were the sinner; that He only, because of His sinlessness, could do such and be the one perfect sacrifice (sin-offering) whereby “we might be made the righteousness of God in Him!” Those who teach that Christ became a sinner at the cross are in error!
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ANSWER: No! 2 Corinthians 5:21 says that Christ “knew no sin.” It was because of this that He could be “made to be sin for us.” This passage does not teach that He became a sinner or even that He literally became sin. It is teaching that He suffered as though He were the sinner; that He only, because of His sinlessness, could do such and be the one perfect sacrifice (sin-offering) whereby “we might be made the righteousness of God in Him!” Those who teach that Christ became a sinner at the cross are in error!
For Further Information Contact:Truth For The World P.O. Box 5048Duluth, GA 30096-0065e-mail: info@tftw.org
Monday, December 31, 2007
Daily Reading
1Jn 1:4 And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.
1Jn 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
1Jn 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
1Jn 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
1Jn 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
Daily Reading
QUESTION: Are there other messiahs today besides Christ?
ANSWER: No! “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). See also John 3:16; Ephesians 4:4-6; Hebrews 10:10. Those who claim to be messiahs and apostles today do so without biblical support and are leading the unlearned to destruction (Matthew 15:9-14).
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ANSWER: No! “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). See also John 3:16; Ephesians 4:4-6; Hebrews 10:10. Those who claim to be messiahs and apostles today do so without biblical support and are leading the unlearned to destruction (Matthew 15:9-14).
For Further Information Contact:Truth For The World P.O. Box 5048Duluth, GA 30096-0065e-mail: info@tftw.org
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Daily Reading
QUESTION: Will the heavens and earth literally be destroyed at His Second Coming? Will we literally meet Him in the air?
ANSWER: Yes! All of these things are to be taken literally! Note that in 2 Peter chapter 3, where the destruction of the heavens and the earth is foretold, that Peter compared it with what literally occurred when the earth was once destroyed by water. Both are instances of literal destruction! Those who obey and serve God faithfully in this life will literally meet the Lord in the air at His Second Coming (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). There is no reason to infer a symbolic interpretation of this passage!
For Further Information Contact:Truth For The World P.O. Box 5048Duluth, GA 30096-0065e-mail: info@tftw.org
ANSWER: Yes! All of these things are to be taken literally! Note that in 2 Peter chapter 3, where the destruction of the heavens and the earth is foretold, that Peter compared it with what literally occurred when the earth was once destroyed by water. Both are instances of literal destruction! Those who obey and serve God faithfully in this life will literally meet the Lord in the air at His Second Coming (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). There is no reason to infer a symbolic interpretation of this passage!
For Further Information Contact:Truth For The World P.O. Box 5048Duluth, GA 30096-0065e-mail: info@tftw.org
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