Overall, Rob Bell knows if he comes clean he could potentially lose a large segment of his evangelical audience, which has long grown tired of his balancing act on the precipice of orthodoxy and heterodoxy. EC services are sometimes extremely informal, while others are more formal. Did God first give a positive command about what they could do? I clothed the naked. Beginning in chapter three, Job starts complaining to God. However, if they still end up in prison for some reason, they still can – on their own accord later – change their minds and the judge would freely let them out and even pay for an awesome vacation to the Bahamas or another island paradise! The bottom line is that in this story God was telling Abraham that He, that is God, was going to save the human race by providing a substitute for sinners. It’s the story of two sons that Abraham had. I’m not going to read all of the verses, because we don’t have the time to read all of the verses. Let’s notice that as it’s found in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 27. You remember that I mentioned in a previous lecture, the principle of historicism. When I say to the wicked, ‘You wicked person, you will surely die,’ and you do not speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.” –Ezekiel 33:7-8. It is a principle of righteousness: the law of Yahuwah is never to be broken, that human laws may be obeyed. When we’re looking forwards and we’re going through these trials, it’s difficult many times for us to understand exactly what is happening. The Lord warned us in His Word that we are to earnestly contend for the faith, for false prophets would come and turn the grace of God into a license to sin (Jude 1:4). It says there in Psalm 24:1: So notice once again the idea that the world is the Lord’s, and all of the fullness thereof. And this dragon wants to devour the Child as soon as the Child is born. Because his “revelation” doesn’t line up with Scripture. That, of course, depends on whether or not you are saved or lost. He wasn’t a conservative, nor was he a liberal; he says he “pretty much walked the middle of the road.”. Now let’s being our study in Genesis chapter 2 and verses 16 and 17. Lets read Job 38, beginning with verse 1. On the third day he spoke the dry land and the trees and the flowers and the plants into existence. And we’re going to notice that history generally – in our lives specifically – are not composed of disconnected events that have no relation one to another. What is the body of man? In our study today we’re going to discuss the mysteries of life and death. And then he leaves the door way, way open.” According to Bell, so broad and wide is the narrow road, that you can take the broad road to Hell with the assurance that Jesus continues to “leave the door way, way open” until you decide to take the wide gate into Heaven. I highly recommend visiting the website of Secrets Unsealed, downloading and studying the resources that he presents for interpretation. The disciples. In other words, God inhabits a certain place, a certain location, which in this verse is called heaven. My question is, are these really the true criteria which should lead us in choosing which church we should belong to? Yahuwah has not given authoritative power unto any man in heaven or earth, to negate His Law. Obviously, the serpent, as he’s spoken of here in Genesis 3, was not part of the creation of God. ” We thought that this Man was going to redeem Israel and now is the third day since He was crucified. This is nothing less than a Counter-Reformation!” [8]. This is a very well known verse. He’s speaking about our day and age. And as we read Genesis 11, we discover that human beings did exactly the opposite of what God had told them to do. You see, what happened is that before sin entered into this world, everything was other centered; was centered towards helping others, living for others. Other terms sometimes used are “reimagine,” “tribe,” “story of Jesus,” “deconstruction,” etc. In other words, God expected Adam and Eve to reproduce, to fill the earth with a holy race, and that God’s kingdom would spread all across the earth. And now notice that this remnant has two characteristics. And then notice what he says in verse 6: Do you notice in this passage that at this point the devil has stolen the kingdoms of this world? God blessed them, and God said to them, And God said to them… Fourth element… Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth… And then the same idea is repeated as at the beginning of verse 26… and subdue it: have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth. Thanks to Tony Jones the dialogue on what to think about homosexuality has ceased. Such false prophets stand at the cross roads between the broad and narrow road, claiming to represent Christ, while pointing their followers toward the broad road that leads destruction, assuring them that it eventually leads to Heaven. 1:26-28) My point is that for the serious Christian, manmade (unbiblical) laws should have no bearing on how we think about someone’s “sexual orientation.” A Christian’s marching orders come from God! I’m just going to mention the verses and also what God did on that specific day. In fact they’re going to say, Where is the promise of His coming? They say, well, you know, my social life is excellent at church, and that’s the reason why I go to this specific church. At the beginning, man was created with a perfect body and he was placed in a perfect environment. In fact almost in every single battle that Israel was involved with, with the Philistines, they lost ground, and they lost battles; all because of the disobedience of Saul. Militant “gay” activists don’t want the public to know that it’s possible for a homosexual, who is in bondage to sin, to “change,” his/her orientation. But you’ll notice that the divisions of Western Europe are a continuation of Rome because the feet have iron just like the legs have iron but this is a different kind of Rome. It is going to be your very own son. He causes the grace that brings salvation to appear to all men (Titus 2:11). We’re going to first of all take a look at the environment which existed at these different stages. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath. 3 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Not only do we find the death sentence falling upon man, but also death came into all of creation in consequence of sin. And then he leaves the door way, way open.”, “Forgiveness is unilateral. Now the question is: what are those names? Let them have dominion. (Josephus, Jewish Wars 2.140). What he has come to believe is born out of his compassion for those who struggle with same-sex attractions. So obviously, faith helps us look into the future. You see, as I have read books from many different denominations about the Battle of Armageddon they have very much to say about the waters of the Euphrates drying up and the kings from the east and the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet and the three evil spirits like frogs. The Bible tells us that Adam and Eve sinned, and as a result creation, to a great degree, was thrown into disarray. ” How was man made originally? “…the Emerging Church movement is characterized by a fair bit of protest against traditional evangelicalism and, more broadly, against all that it understands by modernism.”, “They [the emerging generations] are disillusioned with institutionalism and see the church itself as an obstacle to faith.”, “the Emerging Church is a place where people have felt the freedom to explore questions and experiment with new forms of lifestyle and corporate practice.”. It says in verse 11: So we see that every intent of the heart of man was only evil continually. The ecosystem was in perfect balance. ” And then in Luke chapter 24 and verse 21 we hear the disappointment of these men. First of all, in these verses there is a moral authority who is God. Past history will be repeated; old controversies will arouse to new life, and peril will beset God’s people on every side. It is even used to emphasize the unending eternity we will experience as believers, in contrast to the temporal age of the present material world. Now who is crowned? They had no reason to, because God told them that they could eat of every tree of the garden. What is the testimony of Jesus? We find the following words: Now let’s stop there. It says there: Basically, this text is telling us that God made the visible universe from that which could not be seen. God has seen fit in this matter to bring the minds of His people to His word, to give them a clearer understanding of it.”—Ibid., vol. A story where David, against all odds, overcomes and defeats this, supposedly, invincible giant. He reveals to us that He has no pleasure in the death of anyone, “For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD; so turn, and live”(Ezekiel 18:32). Now in our study today we’re going to notice that in the group, which is classified as the wicked, there are three different kinds of people, whereas on God’s side there is only one type of person. Sin continues as part of the punishment and the ground for it.” (D.A. Now if perfect conformity is not given to the ten commandments then they require the death of the individual who transgresses them. Again, Carson says in regard to Matthew 25:46: “What is hard to prove, but seems to me probable, is that one reason why the conscious punishment of hell is ongoing is because sin is ongoing.” (D.A. And that might be self-explanatory, but we’re going to examine what the Bible has to say about the body. And the emphasis is that Enoch – this man who walked with God, this man who pleased God – actually rebuked the evil which was in the world before the flood and prophesied about the final judgment against those who practice wickedness and who live ungodly lives in the end time. The emergent-friendly, Global Dictionary of Theology, makes a distinction between ‘Hopeful Universalism’ and ‘Convinced Universalism’: “Hopeful universalism finds reason in Scripture to be hopeful that everyone will be saved, but they do not believe that we can be certain of this. We need to go back to Genesis chapter 15 and verse 4. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” Now the only way in which creation could be restored to the condition that it was in originally, is if man offered a perfect life of obedience to the law, because the law says obey and live. It says there: Now there are three elements in this passage that I want to underline: 1. the expression, in the beginning. Shunning stale traditionalism in worship, church seating, music, etc. It says: Four ideas. Finally, in chapter 38. We would call them ungodly. Rob Bell is changing the message of the Gospel for the sake of broadening his audience. “He graduated from University of Maryland with degrees in English (BA, summa cum laude, 1978, and MA, in 1981). Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. Genesis 1 verse 27 simply says that God made man and woman, male and female, but it doesn’t explain how. In other words, Jacob and Esau represent two different types of characters that will distinguish one group from another upon this earth, particularly in the end time. Israel, in other words, needed someone to recover the kingship, which had been lost by Saul. I want to start out by saying that I do not believe very much in conspiracy theories. 6:15). You remember that king Nebuchadnezzar had this dream and in the dream he saw a gigantic image. [3]. But I wonder if you have ever thought of Leonid Brezhnev as a servant of God? First of all man was given dominion and secondly, the territory of his dominion was everything relating to planet earth. It is important for believers to be aware of this devilish device, for it is widely used by Governments and organized religion to garner support and conformity to unbiblical practices. And so a better translation, as many modern versions have it, is that they travelled towards the east. “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.” –John 3:36. He talked very little of the life beyond this one…”, “Hell is our refusal to trust God’s retelling of our story,”, “We create hell whenever we fail to trust God’s retelling of our story.”, “…a word that refers to the big, wide, terrible evil that comes from the secrets hidden deep without our hearts all the way to the massive, society-wide collapse and chaos that comes when we fail to live in God’s world God’s way.”, “We do ourselves great harm when we confuse the very essence of God, which is love, with the very real consequences of rejecting that love, which creates what we call hell.”, “My experience has been a lot of Christians built whole dogmas about what happens when you die, and we have to be very careful we don’t build whole doctrines and dogmas on what is speculation.”, “You’re the one making speculation about the after life.”, “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.”, “absent from the body… [and] present with the Lord.”, “the wicked, following whatever degree and duration of pain that God may justly inflict, will finally and truly die, perish and become extinct for ever and ever.”, punishment: but the righteous into eternal, “For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”, “…there is no shred of evidence in the N.T. 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