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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ January 4

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible...and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

We are still to follow the law of Moses and its examples in the Old Testament (sometimes just called “the law” or “law” when referred to in the New Testament).

Matthew 5:18  –  John 19:28-30  –  Book of Leviticus – Galatians 5:3  –  Colossians 2:14 – Hebrews chap. 8-9 – Hebrews 14:16   –  James  2:10 

Fact of the Day

No!  There were 600 commandments in the Law of Moses, not just the famous 10.

This old covenant required stoning people to death for adultery,  donating 1/3 of their income to God, having a separate priesthood, keeping the 7th day of the week holy, offering blood sacrifices, etc., etc.  Try plowing through the tedious book of Leviticus (Levi-ticus) – third book of the Bible.

Paul explained that, if we keep one part of the law, we are obligated to keep it all.  James said that, if we break just one of the laws, we are guilty of breaking them all.

Jesus nailed them to the cross. Jesus said not one dot of the Law of Moses would end until all was fulfilled, all finished.  Jesus fulfilled them all. How? He actually kept the Law of Moses perfectly and never sinned. No one in the history of the world had ever accomplished that.  And he fulfilled every prophecy about him in the Old Testament.

Jesus said not one jot or tittle of the old Law of Moses would pass away until all had been fulfilled, all finished.  On the cross, seeing everything had been fulfilled, he asked for a drink, said, “It is fulfilled/finished” and died.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ January 3

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible...and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

Demon possession has always existed and is as common today as it was during Bible times.

Matthew 4:24  –  Matthew 9:32  –  Matthew 10:1  –  Matthew 12:22  –  Matthew 17:18  –  Mark 5:1-20  –  Luke 4:33-36  –  Luke 10:17  –  Acts 6:16-18

Fact of the Day

No!  Examine the Bible. God allowed demons to reveal themselves only during the lifetime of Jesus and his apostles. Demons having access to our world ceased when Jesus finished proving to the world his power over them.

Notice, he did not do exorcisms and beg them to come out. They were afraid of him. He ordered them. He commanded them. He never begged them.

There is no mention of demon possession in the Christian writers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries – “Apostolic Fathers” or “Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History.”

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ January 2

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Everyone has to walk through the valley of the shadow of death upon their death.

Psalm 23:4  –  Matthew 4:16

Fact of the Day

No!  For the Christian, light has come to the shadow of death!  It is neither shadow nor death.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ December 28 (the rest of it)

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Oops of the Day

During Jesus early days preaching,  he was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee and saw Peter and Andrew, who he had only met briefly where John the Baptist preached.  But. when he told them to follow him, it was amazing that they dropped everything and did.

Matthew 4:13 and 18-20  –  John 1:44  – Luke 5:10

Fact of the Day

No!  Peter and Andrew lived in Bethsaida, just two miles from Capernaum..  By then, Jesus had moved from Nazareth to Capernaum.  James and John (who were related to Jesus) were Peter’s and Andrew’s fishing  partners.  Jesus  had probably already known Peter and Andrew for years.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ December 27

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John the Baptist just announced one day that he was a prophet and, since he was a pretty good preacher, everyone believed him.

Matthew 3:1-6  –  Malachi 4:5-6  –  II Kings 1:8

Fact of the Day

No!  It was much more than that.  First, he dressed in the common dress of prophets at that time – fur and leather.  Second, that kind of dress originated with Elijah, and Malachi (around 400 BC) had predicted “Elijah” would introduce the Messiah to the world.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 22

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Oops of the Day

Saul of Israel was always a bad king.

I Samuel 13:1  –  I Samuel 14:47-52

Fact of the Day 

No!  For over 40 years, King Saul fought all of Israel’s enemies valiantly.  Look it up.  Check it out. At the end, it was jealousy – of his imagined enemy – that destroyed him.

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ September 21

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Only men from the tribe of Levi and direct descendants of Aaron (Moses’ brother) were allowed to be priests and high priests. 

Numbers 18:1-24  – I Samuel 1:1-2  –   I Samuel 1:11  –  I Samuel 1:25-28  –  I Samuel 2:12 & 17  –  I Samuel 2: 22-26 & 35  –  I Samuel 3:10-11  –  I Samuel 3:19-21  –  I Samuel 7:9  –  I Samuel 13:8 – 13a  –  I Chronicles 6:1, 25-38

Fact of the Day 

Yes and No!  God made this law, he can change it, and  he did – once.  God made one exception to his Only-Levite and Only-Descendant-of-Aaron rule.  Once again, that exception was a little boy.   

When High Priest Eli, a descendant of Aaron, could not control his thieving and adulterous priestly sons, God decided to destroy Eli’s entire family and make Samuel the next High Priest.  But, how could that be?  Samuel’s father was from the tribe of Ephriam, not the tribe of Levi.  And he certainly was not a descendant of Aaron.

Apparently, when Samuel’s mother, Hannah, took little Samuel around age two to four to the tabernacle for Eli to raise, Eli adopted Samuel.  And the night that God spoke directly to boy Samuel from the angel-wings cover of the Ark of the Covenant, that was Samuel’s initiation directly by God.  

Samuel’s later descendants are listed in Chronicles as Levites.  God himself qualified Samuel to be high priest.  Oh, and that’s how Samuel’s grandson became that famous Levitical singer in the temple decades later we talked about a few days ago.

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Scripture for Monday, September 18 (9/18)

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The scripture for today, September 18, is Leviticus 9:18ff as found in the Old Testament of the Bible:

changes-in-worship-cover-medium“He slaughtered the ox and the ram as the fellowship offering for the people. His sons handed him the blood, and he sprinkled it against the altar on all sides. But the fat portions of the ox and the ram ~ the fat tail, the layer of fat, the kidneys and the covering of the liver ~ these they laid on the breasts, and then Aaron burned the fat on the altar. Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh before the Lord as a wave offering, as Moses commanded.”

The Law of Moses did not have just Ten Commandments. It did not just have tithing and meeting on the Sabbath. It had over 600! They were intricate commands that had to be kept exactly. The above is just a small portion of what they were supposed to do for a particular sacrifice.

James 2:10 says, if someone keeps all 600 but breaks one, he is guilty of breaking the whole Law. We have to stone people for adultery and kill animals when we sin. Yet some religious leaders continue to dip back into the Old Law to copy showy types of worship ~ priestly clothing, candles, choirs, trumpets, tithing,  incense, etc. ~ all commanded. But if they do that, they must keep all of the Law of Moses. They can’t just pick and choose which ones they like.

Jesus said it would pass away when all was fulfilled, and he fulfilled it by being the only one to ever keep it perfectly, and fulfilling all the prophecies about him. Hebrews 7-8 say the Old Law passed away and Jesus introduced a New Law.

Old Testament worship was showy and elaborate. New Testament worship is just the opposite.

Mark 14:26 says that after Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper/Communion, “When they had sung a [single] hymn, they went out…”

Acts 2:41-42 says, “Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”

Acts 20:7 says, “On the first day of the week, we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people…”

I Timothy 4:13 says, “Devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.”

Nothing complicated about it. Just simple worship. Worship the way Jesus and his apostles worshiped. The way  God showed us to worship him. Are we worshipping God or ourselves?

Scripture for Wednesday, January 25 (1/25)

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The scripture for today, January 25, is James 1:25 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

worship-the-first-century-way-cover-kindle“But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it ~ he will be blessed in what he does.”

A lot of people do not understand that there was the Law of Moses with over 600 commands in the Old Testament, and the Law of Jesus with very few commands in the New Testament. Colossians 2:14 says Jesus nailed the old Law to the cross. Jesus’ new law is one of freedom from all the requirements of the old law.

Do we really believe this? Some people dip back into the Old Law of Moses to bring back those old forms of worship (musical instruments, separate priesthood, etc.), or to bind people to regulations that are no longer binding (tithing, burning candles, etc.).  That has all been nailed to the cross. But how are we supposed to know unless we read the Old Testament ~ not just the stories, but also the commands? Like the commands to stone for adultery, etc.

Then we can understand.

Let us truly let loose of the Old Law of Moses and cling to the “perfect Law that gives freedom” in Christ.

Then let us bow to Him in gratitude for doing this for us, and say “Thank you.”

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Scripture for Wednesday, December 28 (12/28)

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The scripture for today, December 28, is Hebrews 12:28 as found in the New Testament of the Bible:

CHANGES IN WORSHIP-COVER-KINDLE“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.”

Notice this is in present tense. The kingdom is not something in the future, but is now.

Jesus said in Luke 9:27 that some listening to him would still be alive when the kingdom came. Colossians 1:13 says God HAS (not will) rescued us from the dominion of darkness and BROUGHT (not will) us into the kingdom.

In fact, at the end, Jesus will not come back to earth to set up a kingdom. Instead, he will at that time hand the already-existing kingdom over to the Father (I Corinthians 15:24).

So what does this mean to us? Revelation 1:5-6 says that all who have been freed from our sins by the blood of Jesus have become a kingdom of priests. And as such, we daily offer our bodies as living sacrifices in the service to our king (Romans 12:1).

Christians have dual citizenship. Christians are citizens of the earthly nation they live in, and citizens of the kingdom of heaven. What glory God has already bestowed upon us.

So let us be thankful, and worship Him with reverence and awe.

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