Month: January 2022
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Natural vs. Supernatural Life
We are studying the secrets of God—the so-called mysteries in the New Testament, which we’ve come to understand are not whodunits but new truths—truth revealed, truth not previously understood or even known. We’ve been talking most recently about good and evil: The mystery of godliness and the mystery of iniquity, two of the four great…
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The Mystery of Evil: Not What You Think
We’ve been looking at how God communicates with Wo/Man. The prophets reveal to us the secrets of God, which are called mysteries in the New Testament. We’ve looked at the first two mysteries: 1. The mystery of godliness, which speaks to the origin and the root of goodness, that God is the source of goodness…
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The Mystery of Evil: Separation from God
We are talking about how God communicates with man—directly and indirectly, through the prophets. The prophets, we are told, reveal to us the secrets of God: God reveals his secrets through the prophets. (Amos 3:7) In the New Testament, these secrets are called mysteries. They’re not whodunit mysteries; rather, they are mysteries of the…
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Of Prophets and Mysteries
Last week, we looked at six lessons about how God communicates directly with Wo/Mankind, derived from two stories in the Book of Jacob: The story of the stairway to heaven, and the story of Jacob’s wrestling with God at the brook Jabok. Today, we want to talk about prophets in the context of Jesus’s promise…
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Why Is There Communication With God?
We are looking at how to communicate with God, and how God communicates with Wo/Man, whether through direct or indirect communication, through life experiences, and through ordinary people as well as through teachers and prophets and sages. Last week, we studied communication by God from the stories of Jacob. We learned that Jacob found that…