Is, Was and Will Be – The Unknown Character of Christ and His Word

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  • Example #3 - Jacob and Esau Isaac was Abraham's second son, the child of promise, born after both Abraham and Sarah were past the age of being able to bear children. Abraham's first son was begotten in a natural manner. Abraham had married Sarah's handmaid Hagar, and Ishmael was born of this union. ... [read more]
  • Example #2 - The Trials [ Temptations] of Job Most of us are aware that Job was a man of great patience. In one day Job lost all his oxen, asses, camels, sheep and all but one of the servants that cared for each group, and finally all his sons and daughters died in the home of the eldest with only o... [read more]
  • Example #1 - The Tempting of Mankind (Adam and Eve) The first example is the pattern for all of God's sovereign actions concerning the tempting of man. God's sovereignty had Christ slain for Adam's transgression before Adam was ever created: "Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling, not... [read more]
  • You might answer 'right here in this passage Paul says this is for our admonition.' Then you would probably ask, why are we given admonitions if we don't have freedom of choice? Does not James teach us "Let no man say…I am tempted of God…but every man is tempted when he is drawn away o... [read more]
  • "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that ANY should perish but that ALL should come to repentance" (2Pe 3:9). Indeed we must all choose day by day to pick the good and reject the evil. But it seems that the God of th... [read more]
  • When we ask 'why', what we are really asking is "does man have a 'free will'". "Does man make 'free choices'?" No one denies that we make choices every day; "Will I take this job or that job?"; "What time will I get up?"; "Will I take time for breakfast?"; "Which food will I choose?"; "Which route w... [read more]
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  • Mat 21:45 and Luk 14:1 tell us Jesus was talking to the "chief priests and Pharisees" in Mat 22. In Luk 14, the excuses given for not coming to the supper were "I have bought a piece of ground", "I have bought five yoke of oxen" and "I have married a wife". In response to these excuses, the "Lord" t... [read more]
  • Audio Links Download Part 1 [audio:http://iswasandwillbe.com/audio/Indianapolis/Teach_Us_To_Number_Our_Days_Part_1.mp3] Video Links Download Part 1 [jwplayer config="Out-of-the-Box" file="http://iswasandwillbe.com/video/Flash/Indianapolis/misc/Teach_Us_To_Number_Our_Days_Part_1.fl... [read more]