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Gospel of … Part 2

     Simply stated The Gospel of Jesus Christ is that He died for our sins, He was buried, He rose from the grave after 3 days and 3 nights and that HE IS GOD.
  Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 15:19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
Romans 15:29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
2 Corinthians 4:4  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2 Corinthians 9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
2 Corinthians 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
Galatians  1:7  Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
1 Thessalonians 3:2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
2 Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

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Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
It is explained in:
Romans 10:9-13 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

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Yes, while Peter and Paul were alive on the earth, there were two Gospels: One to the Jew (circumcision) Peter, and another to the Gentiles (uncircumcision) Paul.
Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
The Jew (circumcised) was to believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was their Messiah.
The Gentile (uncircumcised) was to confess (out loud) that the Lord Jesus Christ was God and that he died, was buried, and rose again.
Then, during Paul’s Ministry it changed:
Romans 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

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Is only found in 2 of the 4 Gospels:
Mark 1:14-15 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Matthew 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
The Kingdom the Lord Jesus presented was the 1000 years when He shall rule over the Earth.
Apply the rule: Who said it and to whom was it spoken to!
The Lord Jesus said it …to the Jew.
The Apostle Paul (Apostle to the Gentiles, Church) never mentions the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
The Gospel of the Kingdom of God DOES NOT apply to the Church (Believer’s)! But there is a kingdom for believer’s today: a spiritual kingdom.
Colossians 1:13-14 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Ron Rhodes, Theology Professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, offers this bite-sized definition of the Kingdom of God: “God’s present spiritual reign over His people (Colossians 1:13) and Jesus’ future reign in the millennial kingdom (Revelation 20).”

Old Testament scholar Graeme Goldsworthy summarized the Kingdom of God in even fewer words as, “God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule.”

Also see Kingdom of God

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Dates of Old Testament

This came from Edwin R. Thiele’s The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings and John Schaller’s Book of Books

Date(BC) Book(s) Lived

1500 Genesis Job
1400 Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy
1300 Joshua Judges (1-3)
1200 Judges (3-5)
1100 Judges (6-10) Ruth
1000 Judges (11-21) 1-2 Samuel 1 Chronicles (10-22)
900 1 Kings (1-16) 1 Chronicles (23) Proverbs Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
800 1 Kings (16- 2 Kings 13) Joel Obadiah
700 2 Kings (13-18) Amos Hosea Isaiah Jonah Micah
2 Chronicles (25-32)
600 2 Kings (19-24) Hosea Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel
Daniel Mica Nahum 2 Chronicles (33-36) Habakkuk Zephaniah
500 2 Kings (24-25) Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel
2 Chronicles (36) Haggai Zechariah Ezra (1-6)
400 Ezra (7-10) Nehemiah Malachi Esther

And then 400 years of silence!

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MEN of GOD

Men of God were not perfect. A look at some of them:

Adam disobeyed God. See Genesis 3
Cain Murdered his brother Abel. See Genesis 4
Noah Got drunk. See Genesis 6-9
Abraham lied. See Genesis 12
Isaac lied. See Genesis 25
Esau sold his birthright. See Genesis 25
Jacob lied, adultery. See Genesis 25,29-30
Saul turned his back on God See 1 Samuel 15
David murdered …. Adultery. See 2 Samuel 11,12

These are just a few.
All mankind is guilty of Sin.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
How then can we get right with God?
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
BUT, They had … FAITH in GOD!!!
Read Hebrews 11. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Believe the Gospel:
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 …how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Believe and confess that Jesus is God.
Romans 10:9-13 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. … For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

        Are you a man of God?

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Better Than

The apostle Paul, writing to believing Jews tells them of what is BETTER …
(and they apply to ALL believers!).
Hebrews 1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Hebrews 6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Hebrews 7:7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Hebrews 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Hebrews 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Hebrews 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Hebrews 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
Hebrews 11:40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

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Fountain of Life

“The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.” (Proverbs 14:27)

This beautiful phrase, “fountain of life,” is used several times in the Old Testament, serving as a metaphor to illuminate a number of important aspects of spiritual faith and experience. Our text stresses “the fear of the LORD” as providing deliverance from death to life, picturing this new life as flowing from a heavenly spring.

A very similar verse is Proverbs 13:14: “The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.” Thus, the fear of the Lord is somehow tantamount to “the law of the wise.” Those who are wise will fear the Lord and thus receive living water from “the fountain of life.”

King David penned the wonderful truth of Psalm 36:9: “For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.” “God is light” (1 John 1:5),
so “the fountain of life” becomes the source also of all true light, whether physical or spiritual. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4).

The same word is rendered as “well” in Proverbs 10:11: “The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.” When a believer has received life from the divine fountain, his testimony becomes a fountain of life.

The Lord Himself is the fountain of life in Jeremiah’s prophecy, but the supposed people of God have refused to drink. “For my people . . . have forsaken me the fountain of living waters” (Jeremiah 2:13; 17:13).

Nevertheless, this fountain is still there for all who will come. The Bible’s last promise has to do with this great fountain, which yields “a pure river of water of life, . . . proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. . . . And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:1, 17).
Psalm 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Revelation 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

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In All Things

1 Corinthians 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 10:33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

2 Corinthians 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
2 Corinthians 6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 7:11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
2 Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
2 Corinthians 11:6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

Philippians 4:12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Colossians 3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;

1 Timothy 3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

2 Timothy 2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
2 Timothy 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Titus 2:7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
Titus 2:9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
Titus 2:10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Hebrews 2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Hebrews 13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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Some WORLD and BIBLE Part 3

586 BC to 4 BC
586
Judah (southern kingdom) falls to Babylon
Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism, born in Nepal
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon dies
Aesop writes his fables Confucius, famous Chinese scholar, born
King Cyrus the Great conquers the Medes and founds the Persian Empire;
Lock and key, water level, and carpenter’s square invented
Horseback postal service in Persian Empire
539
Babylon overthrown by Cyrus of Persia
First Jewish exiles return to Jerusalem
Tragedy emerges as a form of Greek drama
Polo a sport among Persians
Public libraries open in Athens, Greece
New Temple completed in Jerusalem
Rome becomes a Republic
Glass first imported into China from Near East;
Indian surgeon, Susrata, performs cataract operation;
Origin of Halloween, a Celtic festival
490
First time Greek men choose short haircuts
Esther becomes Queen of Persia
480
Golden age of Athens, Greece, begins
470
Socrates, philosopher of the ancient world is born
460
Birth of Democritus, who introduced an atomic theory by arguing that all bodies are made of invisible and unchangeable atoms
Ezra returns to Jerusalem
The Parthenon built on top of Athens Acropolis
445
Nehemiah builds Jerusalem wall
Greek sculptor Pheidias makes a 60 foot high statue of Zeus –
one of the seven wonders of the ancient world
Romans agree to concept of a dictator in times of military emergency
Malachi becomes a prophet
400
SILENCE FROM GOD – Last 400 years
399
Socrates condemned to death by Athens jury
390
Aramaic begins to replace Hebrew as Jewish language
380
Aristotle born
375
Plato writes his most famous book “The Republic”
331
Alexander the Great defeats the Persian Empire
312
Rome builds first paved road, the “Appian Way” from Rome to Capua
285
Hebrew Old Testament translated into Greek and called the “Septuagint”
241
Romans conquer Sicily and add their first non
-Italian territory to the Roman Empire
220
Great wall of China built
169
Temple of Jerusalem plundered by Antiochus IV
165
Judas Maccabaeus begins a revolt against Antiochus IV
Jews and Astrologers banished from Rome
First Chinese ships reach east coast of India;
Ball bearings used in Danish cart wheels
100
Julius Caesar, first emperor of Rome, born
51
Cleopatra becomes last independent Egyptian ruler of the ancient world
44
Julius Caesar elected dictator for life, then assinated that same year
43
Romans conquer England and make it part of Roman Empire until 442 AD
30
Cleopatra and her lover, Mark Antony both die by suicide
Herod the Great made king of Judea by the Romans
Sumo wrestling in Japan
Mary mother of Jesus born
20
Herod the Great begins remodeling the Temple in Jerusalem
4
CHRIST IS BORN IN BETHELEM

*Dates are best extimates

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