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Time, a Spiritual Entity in a Material World – In the Beginning (Part 5)

April 14, 2018

Time is the first thing that God explicitly sanctified.[1] God’s primary sanctuary wasn’t matter (an idol), space (a temple), but time. Matter, space, and time conceptually correspond with body, soul, and spirit.[2] Scripture attests to the difficulty of differentiating between soul and spirit.[3] Time and space are equally intertwined, which is why physicists often refer to them as the space-time continuum.[4] The introduction of time into our universe and spirit into Adam follow a similar pattern.

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Freed from Satan to Serve God – The Blood of Sprinkling (Part 6)

June 10, 2017

The devil is a defiler. He tries to distract us from God by calling our identity into question. “If thou be the Son of God,” he said to Jesus in the wilderness. If we take his bait, we disobey God and our conscience becomes defiled. But he couldn’t shake our Lord. Jesus was secure in His identity. He had the word from the Father, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” With full assurance of faith, He countered each of satan’s attacks with “It is written.”

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The Cleansing of Our Conscience – The Blood of Sprinkling (Part 5)

June 3, 2017

When our own conscience accuses us, worshipping God is not only difficult; it can be downright frightening. Without a means of being cleansed, we are left with only two approaches. We either cry out with Isaiah that we are unclean and undone and stand in jeopardy of death in the face of a holy God[1] or we harden our hearts and allow our conscience to be seared.[2] Our heavenly Father has given us the blood of the Son so that we need not do either. Christ died unto sin once that we might be alive unto God.

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The Purpose of the Passover – Behold the Lamb! (Part 3)

April 7, 2017

What was the ultimate purpose of the Passover? Was it only for protection from the destroyer? Surely, the plague was …

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The Imagination Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

November 14, 2015

Our culture spends billions of dollars on the consumption of manufactured dreams. With childlike ease, we suspend disbelief as the …

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  • Understanding Predestination – The End from the Beginning (Part 4)
  • Foreknowledge and Fate – The End from the Beginning (Part 3)
  • Evolution and Time – The End from the Beginning (Part 2)

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