Episode 576 The Christian Fear of Money: A Mature Biblical Perspective
A statement by Jesus can lead some believers to fear money or any level of wealth. What should a wise, balanced believer make of this verse?

A statement by Jesus can lead some believers to fear money or any level of wealth. What should a wise, balanced believer make of this verse?
The modern world embraces a death culture from abortion to euthanasia not knowing that these things have an unknown distant past. ONE OF THE ODDEST things revealed in Bible history is the magnetic attraction of paganism idolatry and false gods like Molech a death god. Whenever Israel lost strong Bible leadership they would slip back into paganism,why?
Does the Apostle Paul state in Romans 10:13 that all a believer has to do is call out the name of Jesus to be saved? Is it sort of like a magic word or phrase needed for salvation- Is this true? Is it just that easy or is it a misunderstanding when taken out of context?
The first half of the epistle by the Apostle Paul, is about doctrinal poisons that threatened this congregation that had never seen him. He explains that Christ is the head of the church and all things must focus on Him. Jesus’s headship is vital.
Our goal is to know God not just about him. We need to know Jehovah our God, and His laws, how He thinks, of course, thereby to really understand. We need to use Bible study to help develop a deep relationship with God.
Some Bible scholars assert that Paul canceled the Old Testament Holy Days for New Covenant gentile believers. Other scholars assert the obvious truth that these Holy Days were observed by the early church.
Timothy was Paul’s primary successor in his missionary work to the gentile world. Paul realized that the younger man would be around, hopefully for many years afterwards. Therefore the training of Timothy was crucial.
One critical example is the struggle to maintain true leadership in Corinth. In order to fully understand the books of Corinth in the Bible, one must better see the full context. Because of false apostles that crept in after Paul’s departure, he is forced to defend his authority to lead. One will more fully benefit from and understand II Corinthians when seen in this context. They challenge whether he is a real apostle and his veracity regarding missed visits. Paul begins with saying he somewhat...
Before he is destroyed by a returning Christ and His saints, he will exalt himself beyond measure.
Daniel 7:7-8 NKJV 7 "After this I saw...a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. 8 "I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a ...
The natural starting point is the surety of the inspiration and existence of a super natural Being allows for a solid foundation. The complexity and obvious design of everything in our universe proves the existence of God. The complexity of DNA alone is enough to indicate God’s great biological engineering.
Malachi’s Strong Warning for Israelite’s who doubted God’s Love is shocking! The last Prophet gave some startling messages to the returnees about their love for the most high God. God loves His people even when they are misguided. The people were not appreciating or feeling the blessings, and said to God “ How have you loved us?” God replies bluntly
Malachi’s Challenge : Do You Really Love God ?
God in His fairness, has another time period for most to gain salvation because most in this age, are allowed to be deceived by Satan. This period is often referred to as the day of salvation when all get a fair chance to repent. One cannot repent if they are blinded to the full truth about right and wrong. This world is clearly deceived but note:
The Biblical Days are not arbitrary, they convey the salvation plan of God to us. Note the first one-the Passover, it conveys the message of God passing over our sins because of the blood of the Lamb.
The Lord’s Supper #apostle #apostlepaul #podcast #galatians
Some of the great prophets in the Bible had miraculous births from mothers unable to conceive. This led to the child being given special importance and attention such as Isaac and John the Baptist. Hannah asked the High Priest for a child and if her prayer was answered, she would dedicate the child to God.
Samuel
Many believe that this baptism is also one of spiritual fire within the believers. They say it will ignite a fire within the believer. Is this the primary meaning of Mathew 3:11. This appears at first glace to be a desirable thing.
Some critics of the Bible look often look for statements they can use to claim that the word of God is quite fallible. They wish to exploit any thing they can use. We must become competent workman in our use of the Bible. Let us look at one of the verses used by them to undermine scripture :
Often people ask why would God make the Bible hard to understand. A good deal of the word of God is not so clear that one cannot misunderstand it. This is obvious. Most of the prophets will somewhat alter their topics every fifteen verses or so. Why? Note what God said to Israel:
The Bible Can Be Confusing
When the Apostle to the gentiles arrives in the capital city of the entire gentile world, he arrives with tremendous credibility and gravitas. God had allowed him to perform miracles and give divine advice to his ship mates during the stormy, dangerous trip to Rome. Paul has just made a strong witness in Jerusalem, the center of the Jewish world and now he is about to make an even greater gospel witness in the center of the rest of the world. He starts with warning them:
LUL Ricks short Paul Enters Rome #apostle #paul #galatians #history
When Paul journeyed to Jerusalem for his last visit and great witness to his own people why was it such a major event ? Paul had been turning the Roman Empire upside down. The world was now confronted with either worship of the true creator God or the superstitious, destructive occult world of idols. The Apostle Paul was the trans-formative agent in the world.
Paul’s final visit to Jerusalem
It is assumed that the power of the IDF will give Israel some level of victory, it may take another year. Then what should they do to insure longer periods security and prosperity?
God revealed to the Apostle John, colorfully, the closing of the salvation process for all men and women in this last chapter. Using the tree of life mechanism to convey immortality to mankind, we will all who remain faithful, be healed of mortality.
Best of episode 12
The Apostle James is clear and straight forward in declaring that a believer must look to God thru His laws, and act accordingly. A true believer must not only listen to God but act. A person’s actions reveal what he really believes.