Saturday, April 30, 2011

Daily Bible Study Links – Sat. 4-30-2011

Daily Bible Study Links – Sat. 4-30-2011
Today’s Daily Bible Study:  


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Saturday – Daily Bible Study – Psalm 9:9 –  Describe the stronghold  

Prior studies of the past week:
Friday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:8 –  What is the greatest failure  
Thursday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:7 –  Who is the heir and what is the inheritance
Wednesday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:6 –  What is the most important thing in life 
Tuesday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:5 –  What is true  
Monday – Daily Bible Study – Isaiah 1:11 –  What is not efficacious worship 
Sunday – Daily Bible Study – Greatest Story Ever Told – Jesus Christ and Salvation – How is one saved  

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Psalm 9:9

Copyright Ó 2011 J. Neely
Psalm 9:9

9 The LORD [Yahovah] also will be a refuge [misgab] for the oppressed, [dak] a refuge [misgab] in times [`eth] of trouble. [tsarah] KJV-Interlinear

9 The Lord also will be a stronghold for the oppressed, A stronghold in times of trouble,  NASB

Refuge means a high place.  This is a crag or a safe place on a cliff or the wall on the side of a mountain way up high.  A place that is inaccessible to anyone or anything, from any direction.  This is an absolute place of safety and security, Psa 18:2; 46:7,11; 48:3; 59:9,17; 94:22.

God is a rock, a tower, a refuge, and place of safety, a fortress.

He is this for the oppressed.  Anyone who resides in this world is oppressed by evil, by sin, by death.

However, only those who look to Him, come under His protection.  Only those who look to Him in accordance with his terms of the proper function of the spiritual life.  Namely, having believed (saved), residence in fellowship, positive teachable attitude toward doctrine, advancement by means of study, and so forth.

Oppressed applies to everyone who is small.  We are all small.  It applies to those who are crushed.  We are all crushed by the environment of sin and evil in this world.  It applies to those who are the downtrodden, to the victims of tyranny and injustice.  We are all targets of Satan’s cosmos policies.

He is a refuge for those who are in times of trouble.  The word is in the feminine, ‘tsarah.’  It is typically the females that suffer the most in life and in history due to anguish, suffering, bias, prejudice, adversity, all due to a male dominated world.  History is full of examples of female suffering from a long list of adversities in life due to their gender, their physical weakness, due to their relative and helpless role in life.

To every person, the world offers nothing but impossible barriers over which none of us can get over or around.

To every person, the world offers a status of helpless oppression.

However, there is one refuge, one helper, one to whom we can turn to find safety, peace, hope,  and a future.  That one person is the second person of the Trinity, the only God who has a personal name, Jesus Christ, to which we can look through doctrine.

But we approach Him through doctrine alone, and never through the energy of our own efforts, never through the energy of our own design.

To those who comply, God is an impregnable fortress, in which the world has no power, nor access.

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Daily Bible Study Links – Fri. 4-29-2011

Daily Bible Study Links – Fri. 4-29-2011
Today’s Daily Bible Study:  


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Friday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:8 –  What is the greatest failure  

Prior studies of the past week:
Thursday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:7 –  Who is the heir and what is the inheritance
Wednesday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:6 –  What is the most important thing in life 
Tuesday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:5 –  What is true  
Monday – Daily Bible Study – Isaiah 1:11 –  What is not efficacious worship 
Sunday – Daily Bible Study – Greatest Story Ever Told – Jesus Christ and Salvation – How is one saved  
Saturday – Daily Bible Study – Greatest Story Ever Told – In the Beginning  - What is the outline 

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Revelation 21:8

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Revelation 21:8

8 But [de] the fearful [deilos], and [kai] unbelieving [apistos], and [kai] the abominable [bdelusso], and [kai] murderers [phoneus], and [kai] whoremongers [pornos], and [kai] sorcerers [pharmakeus], and [kai] idolaters [eidololatres], and [kai] all [pas] liars [pseudes], shall have their [autos] part [meros] in [en] the lake [limne] which [ho] burneth [kaio] with fire [pur] and [kai] brimstone [theion]: which is [ho esti] the second [deuteros] death [thanatos].      KJV-Interlinear



8 ‘But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.’    NASB


You cannot change or alter the weather, just as you cannot change or alter human history.  The elements that affect both are too complex and too many, and simply beyond the human ability.


You can, however, alter your own future, such that you can secure a phenomenal future for yourself.


When you were born physically into this world, you had no say as to the details of your life.  You did not choose your genetics, or IQ, you did not choose your parents, or home, social status, or environment into which you would be born.  You did not have any say in what you could do or even what you would look like.  You did not have any say in your natural abilities, physical or mental gifts.  You had no say in anything, into which you would be born.  Yet here you are.


Now, through faith in Christ, you have a second birth and the choices of having much more to say about your new life in heaven.  And even some say in your present life in this world.


Even though God has a specific plan for your life, you will not live it, nor experience it, unless you follow Gods guidelines explicitly.


For those who pursue their spiritual life, their future is being defined as absolute and certain and phenomenal successes.


For those who reject God, and Christ, and doctrine, there is absolute and certain and phenomenal disaster.


Here in our passage is probably one of the best descriptions of the unbeliever.  Though, there are many passages that describe unbelievers using many terms, John pretty much sums up exactly what an unbeliever really is.


These are not sins that people commit, and they are not patterns of life that people pursue, but they are the results of the patterns of life, which people choose to follow, in their rejection of Jesus Christ.


The first is cowardly.  This is a person who will be easily frightened.  They lack endurance.  They lack the stamina required to defeat all obstacles in life, namely sin and death.  They live on the edge in uncertainty and paranoia.  And in the end, their life will be utter terror.  Cowardice comes from uncertainty, and the unbelieving person has no certainty whatsoever in their life.


The second is unbelieving.  The unbeliever refuses to recognize truth.  They live in a world of fantasy, defining their own truths for life.  They limit their scope of life to their five senses, and will even reverse their own rules of observation, in order to arrive at a conclusion with which they are comfortable.  What they see and feel is more real to them than what they cannot see or feel.  They will seek answers through their own interpretation, based on their own biased logic, rather than on common sense applications of logic.  It makes more sense to them, that man came from goo, than for man to have been created instantly by God.


The third pattern result is abominable.  The unbeliever is repulsive, vile, and detestable.  Their life is dressed in evil, lies, and wickedness.  Evil is the policy of Satan, lies are his teachings, and wickedness is the result or production of its actions.  Nothing good comes from anything that an unbeliever thinks or does.


The fourth is murder.  Murder is the taking of someone else’s life from them.  Anyone who promotes lies, in effect tries to direct the attentions of others away from truth. Anyone distracted from truth runs dangerously close to losing their own life for both now and in eternity.  Although everyone has the opportunity to reject lies and pursue truth, those who reject truth, go one step further and try to prevent others from seeing the truth of life.  They become murderers, or attempted murderers by destroying someone else's future.


The fifth is immorality.  Morals distinguish between right and wrong and how one should live their life and how one should behave in life.  Sound principles and standards of life, guide the morality of ones life.  Truth provides sound principles and standards of life.   Lies do not.  Even though an unbeliever may live a ‘moral’ life, those morals are rejected by God as detestable, because they are based on the unsound core beliefs of the unbeliever. 

All good morals come from God, and to us through doctrine.  Unbelievers see morals as relative and ever changing based on their own perception of life. At any point in time in history, any behavior potentially can become acceptable to them.  Gods standards never change.  The unbelievers standards will change with popularity, politics, or the weather.


The sixth is sorcery.  Sorcery refers to magical or mystical powers.  The word ‘pharmakeus’ gives us words like pharmacy, and refers more specifically to the mind altering drugs.  People who escape truth, usually escape by means of various drugs or alcohol and so forth.  Now, not all unbelievers are drug users, but that is not the meaning here.  It is the escape from truth, which is the meaning.  Evil is the worst possible drug.  Satan’s policy and methods have so saturated society, that it is extremely difficult to identify them.  And when a person lacks any foundation of truth in their soul, then that makes it doubly difficult.  And when a person refuses to allow any semblance of truth into their soul, then discernment is nearly impossible.


The seventh pattern result is idolatry.  Worship is giving recognition to something you adore, something you pursue, something to which you love or devote your life.  When truth is rejected, then reality is rejected.  That leaves only the false things of life to love.  Idols are false and dead end pursuits.  Idols come in many forms.  Over the centuries people have fallen at the feet of idols of stone, of animals, of ancestors, of bodies in the night sky.  But love is not limited to just objects of deity.  People worship their lifestyle, their work, their political philosophies, their hobbies, their lusts.  And all of these are false pursuits when God is excluded from the life.


And finally, this then leads to the eighth pattern result, which is the lie.  When truth is squeezed out of ones life, then only lies remain.  Building ones life on a foundation of lies means certain failure.  Failure is in ones foundation, failure is in ones structure, and failure is in the results of ones life.  There is no success whatsoever, in an unbelievers life.


Because unbelievers lack something so simple as the saving faith in Jesus Christ, and are therefore unbelieving, their disloyalty to that simple single element of truth excludes them from heaven, and destines them to the eternal Lake of Fire.


So here is the greatest warning possible in everyone's life. The new universe and heaven will so phenomenal that missing out will be the greatest failure possible.

So, believe in Christ and succeed.  Reject Christ and failure is the least of your problems.

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Revelation 21:7

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Revelation 21:7

7 He that overcometh [nikao] shall inherit [kleronomeo] all things [pas]; and [kai] I will be [esomai] his [autos] God [theos], and [kai] he [autos] shall be [esomai] my [moi] son [huios].      KJV-Interlinear


7 ‘He who overcomes shall inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.    NASB


Who is the person who overcomes?



4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world —  our faith    NASB



5 And who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?   NASB


The second universe belongs to the believer in Jesus Christ.  But too, remember that the throne of God is in heaven, and yet it will descend down out of heaven to reside among humanity, which is to say, that the second universe will itself be heaven.


At the present time, our earth is separated from our universe by the vastness of outer space.   Our universe is likewise separated from Heaven, where Gods throne is located, by a similar vastness.  We call that vastness, sin and death, not to mention space and time for lack of some better description.


But there will come a time when all of these things will be overcome, and God will then make our earth and our universe, and Heaven, all one and the same.  We will no longer be restricted in our comings and goings.  The new universe, will be so vast, it will most probably take us an eternity to see it all, and then I would bet, that we will never ever be able to accomplish even that.


As far as eternity is concerned, there are only two categories of people.  Those who believe in Jesus Christ and those who do not.  Only those who believe in Christ will see the second universe.  Those who reject Him, will spend their eternal time in the Lake of Fire, in total misery, rage, fear, and terror.


There is no honorable religion in this world.  There is no honorable philosophy in this world.  There is no honorable faith in this world, except for faith in Jesus Christ.  Everything else is deceitful and a lie.


Only faith in Christ will secure an eternal existence in heaven, with God.   All other beliefs are nothing more than applications of empty human arrogance.  Arrogance is the foundation of all sin.  Arrogance is the boasting of something that does not exist in reality.


How simple is it to get into heaven?  All one has to do is believe in Jesus Christ.  Believing is a mere thought.


‘Father, I believe in Jesus Christ.’  Those six little words are all that stand between any person, and eternal life in heaven.  Why would anyone stubbornly refuse to say them, or even think them?  What is the cost?  What is the loss?  What is the downside in thinking them, or even acknowledging Christ as Lord and savior?


Not only do we get to live in the new universe, but we will become as sons to God.



23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.    NASB


Our adoption as children into Gods family will become complete in the second universe.  In fact, all of Gods promises, which He has made to us throughout history, will become fulfilled, complete and permanent, when the second universe comes into existence.


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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Daily Bible Study Links – Wed. 4-27-2011

Daily Bible Study Links – Wed. 4-27-2011
Today’s Daily Bible Study:  


Two Year Bible Reading Plan:  http://www.dailybiblestudy.org/biblestudy/two_year 
Original text, ad free, of each daily study is provided via e-mail with a paid subscription:


Wednesday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:6 –  What is the most important thing in life 

Prior studies of the past week:
Tuesday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:5 –  What is true  
Monday – Daily Bible Study – Isaiah 1:11 –  What is not efficacious worship 
Sunday – Daily Bible Study – Greatest Story Ever Told – Jesus Christ and Salvation – How is one saved  
Saturday – Daily Bible Study – Greatest Story Ever Told – In the Beginning  - What is the outline 
Friday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:4 –  What will cease to exist  
Thursday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:3 –  Where is the ultimate, final dwelling place of God

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Revelation 21:6

Copyright Ó 2011 J. Neely
Revelation 21:6

6 And [kai] he said [epo] unto me, [moi] It is done. [ginomai] I [ego] am [eimi] Alpha [a] and [kai] Omega, [omega] the beginning [arche] and [kai] the end. [telos] I [ego] will give [didomi] unto him that is athirst [dipsao] of [ek] the fountain [pege] of the water [hudor] of life [zoe] freely. [dorean] KJV-Interlinear

6 And He said to me, ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.   NASB


Most people in life, look around at their environment, and that is all that they see.  They see nature, and society, they see the politics of the day, and crusades for this cause or that.  They see the good and the bad of life, but most of their existence is affected by the opinions that swirl around them.


On those opinions, they base their beliefs, which will either make or break their entire life.



6 ‘Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel And his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: 'I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me.    NASB


The only opinion that matters, is Gods.  Your opinions don’t mean squat!
  The worlds opinions do not mean squat.

God started history, and God will end it.  We can either learn what history is all about, and conform our life to it, or we can reject the truth of history, and try to define life on our own, or follow someone else's definition.


Which, source do you suppose will prove true?


There is only one faith, Christianity, or the belief in Jesus Christ, or the belief in the one and only Son of God.  This has been true since eternity past, true since the time of Adam, it is true even now, and will always be the truth forever.


All other beliefs, reject Christ either altogether or in some form.  So it is very easy to sort out the religions, beliefs, the theories, and philosophies of the world to see which are true and which are not, because they are all false.

John is fast approaching the end of his book of Revelation.  This is the last of the books written for our Bible.


The one sitting on the throne, Jesus Christ, makes a clear statement, ‘It is done.’


When He completed His work on the Cross, Christ said, ‘It is finished.’  That was with respect to the historical work, which He had just completed for salvation.  That work of salvation was promised in the past, in eternity past, and is now accomplished.


Here John writes a little different description of a completed action.  ‘It is done,’ for now refers to the writing and disclosure of the divine plan for all to read and know.


The plan was written in the divine decrees in eternity past, and history is fast approaching the day when all evil, all enemies of God, and finally the last of the enemies, death, are disposed of, permanently.


Though there are people out in the world who are trying to make their own history, from politicians, to tyrants, to the everyday Joe and Jane, none of their own plans will succeed. All of the would-be world leaders of the past are dead.  Their plans failed.  All of the would-be philosophers of the past are dead.  Their plans failed.  All of the generations from millennia and centuries past are dead.  All of their self-defined or self-designed plans have failed.


Only the plans, which God has laid out since eternity past, are still in force and they are the only plans, which will succeed.


God, Christ, doctrine, and ones spiritual life are an inseparable package of truths. You cannot pick and choose the truths of life, which you like.


Ignoring God, ignoring Christ, ignoring doctrine, ignoring your spiritual life, ignoring anyone or more of these, means that you will in fact, live a dysfunctional life.  A dysfunctional life will result in major losses to you.  Losses and misery in many forms.  You will lose out in this life, and you will lose out in eternity.


Embracing and pursuing with a genuine desire, all of God, Christ, doctrine, and therefore your spiritual life, without trying to integrate compromises or modifications, or weird ideas or behaviors, will accomplish for you, great success both in this life, and especially in the next.


And what will all of this cost?


Nothing, but your positive attitude and genuine desire to learn.


With learning comes knowledge.  With knowledge comes behavior.  With behavior comes understanding.  With understanding comes wisdom.  With wisdom comes blessing.  With blessing comes responsibility. With responsibility comes accountability.  And, with accountability will come your evaluation at the Judgment Seat of Christ, when one day, you will stand before Him to receive nothing, little, or great eternal rewards.


Your overall goal and objective in life is the acquisition of wisdom through learning, then comes ability which leads to success, which leads to prosperity, which leads to wealth.  And the greatest wealth exists only within the spiritual life and in eternity.

Look to your own life for evaluation, and do not look to the lives of others.  God will deal with them as He sees fit, just as He will, you.  You were brought into life, therefore you will receive an evaluation.


You cannot control human history, but you can control your own destiny, or you can throw it away.  Your spiritual life or lack of it, will determine just how smart or dumb you really are.


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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Daily Bible Study Links – Thurs. 4-28-2011

Daily Bible Study Links – Thurs. 4-28-2011
Today’s Daily Bible Study:  


Two Year Bible Reading Plan:  http://www.dailybiblestudy.org/biblestudy/two_year 
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Thursday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:7 –  Who is the heir and what is the inheritance

Prior studies of the past week:
Wednesday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:6 –  What is the most important thing in life 
Tuesday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:5 –  What is true  
Monday – Daily Bible Study – Isaiah 1:11 –  What is not efficacious worship 
Sunday – Daily Bible Study – Greatest Story Ever Told – Jesus Christ and Salvation – How is one saved  
Saturday – Daily Bible Study – Greatest Story Ever Told – In the Beginning  - What is the outline 
Friday – Daily Bible Study – Revelation 21:4 –  What will cease to exist  

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