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[Stan] "And what do you do?" [youtube video]

Stan — 11/22/2025 10:06:23 PM

[Stan] Some favorite passages about God vs. the nations of the world: Behold, the nati...

Stan — 4/29/2025 1:12:44 PM

Some favorite passages about God vs. the nations of the world:

Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust on the scales. Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing. ... All nations before Him are as nothing, and they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless. To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness will you compare to Him? Isaiah 40:15-18

The Lord is exalted above the nations. His glory is above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God, who dwells on high, who humbles Himself to look down upon the things that are in the heavens and in the earth? Psalm 113:4-6

[Stan] The whole world needs Jesus as their ruler. That'll happen one day. "Thy kingdom...

Stan — 4/29/2025 8:40:50 AM

The whole world needs Jesus as their ruler. That'll happen one day. "Thy kingdom come!"

[da_cheif™] The United States needs dictator....as long as His name is Jesus

da_cheif™ — 4/28/2025 5:50:42 AM

[Stan] "And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and...

Stan — 4/18/2025 10:51:51 PM

"And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again." (Matthew 20:17-19)

Jesus predicts 7 things will happen to him. He will be betrayed, condemned, delivered, mocked, scourged, crucified, and raised.

The first 6 is what man will do, showing what man is capable of; the 7th is what God will do, showing what God is capable of. That’s the Gospel story that saves from sin all who put their faith in Jesus.

"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” (Romans 10:9-11)

[Investor2] More than 700 years before that, the prophet Isaiah prophesied (Isaiah 53): 3 ...

Investor2 — 4/18/2025 9:07:24 PM

More than 700 years before that, the prophet Isaiah prophesied (Isaiah 53):

3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

[Stan] Just outside of Jerusalem, while Jesus was being crucified on this day, and at t...

Stan — 4/18/2025 12:00:28 PM

Just outside of Jerusalem, while Jesus was being crucified on this day, and at this time @ 2000 years ago, this happened:

And it was about the sixth hour (noon), and there was a darkness over all the land until the ninth hour (3:00). And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. (Luke 23:44-45) (my parentheses)

[Rarebird] There is a wise saying: "Pray as if everything depends on G-d. Act as if everyth...

Rarebird — 4/9/2025 9:58:25 PM

There is a wise saying: "Pray as if everything depends on G-d. Act as if everything depends on you."

[Rarebird] Humans are the caretakers of G-d's creation.

Rarebird — 4/9/2025 9:55:19 PM

[Stan] Scientists seek to find the What and the How of the Universe but have no instrum...

Stan — 4/6/2025 2:23:36 PM

Scientists seek to find the What and the How of the Universe but have no instruments to find the Why of the Universe.

The answer to the Why is found in the Bible. It tells us that "All things were made by the Lord, and for the Lord." That includes mankind, we were made for the Lord more than anything else in the Universe.

[Stan] A family tree of Bible translations - [youtube video]

Stan — 3/15/2025 11:21:02 PM

[Stan] Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the...

Stan — 3/9/2025 10:21:41 AM

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

The reason why heaven is like it is is because everyone there always does God's will. The reason why the earth is the way it is is because people mostly don't do God's will.

[Stan] Thoughts about the death of Christ for man's sins Romans 5:7 For scarcely for a...

Stan — 2/7/2025 9:21:20 PM

Thoughts about the death of Christ for man's sins

Romans 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

People do die for others: examples are police, firefighters, or soldiers. They are driven by a sense of duty, not so much for any particular individual but for the community, or for an ideal like democracy or freedom.

Even an average citizen upon seeing someone in the way of an oncoming vehicle, may without thinking, dart out and push the unwary person out of the way. He himself may die in the attempt. Or, someone drowning in freezing water may be rescued by a passerby, who himself drowns.

In all these cases, it is the character of the one dying that is noted -- noble, loving, selfless. But the verse from Romans is not only about the rescuer's motivation but also with the character of the ones who are rescued.

What if the firefighter learns that the trapped person is a wanted drug-lord responsible for the deaths and ruination of scores of kids; that his daughter who succumbed to an addictive life was due to him? Which motive wins, duty or vengeance?

Paul says that one would hardly die for a righteous man. The word righteous in Greek means morally right, but not necessarily loving, or compassionate or beneficent. It simply one who is honest in business affairs and such, or is faithful to his wife and family and is a good citizen. Paul says that someone would hardly die for someone like this.

When Abraham went to fight the kings who stole away the people and goods of Sodom, he did it for his nephew Lot. The bible says Lot was righteous in 2 Peter 2:7; but, it wasn't his primary motivation for hazarding his own life in a war to save him. It was because he was his flesh and blood. Even a mother may sacrifice herself for a son who is a criminal in the eyes of society.

Then Paul says later in Romans 5:7, that one might have the courage to die for a good man. This goodness means moral uprightness with kindness, generosity, love, and innocence. If such a man were in jeopardy, someone may volunteer to die for him.

The Tale of Two Cities uses this idea. Sydney Carton, the cynical lawyer, gives his life for another man named Charles Darnay, a noble aristocrat, who happens to be in love with the same woman that Sydney is in love with. His final line, as he is to die in the place of Darnay is one of the most famous lines in literature: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens idealized what Paul says here in Romans 5:7, that one may have courage to die for a good man. Carton calls it 'a far better thing that I do.' He means that all his life has been a waste except for this final act of selfless sacrifice.

The theme of sacrificial death moves on people. That is why Dickens' book is such a popular classic. All the more then is the true story of Christ's dying for the ungodly.

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The crucial difference is the character of the ones for whom Christ dies. In the sight of God we are more akin to the drug lord than to a good and innocent person. Only God would or could do such a thing. And Christ did not act impulsively as a passerby who might rescue another in danger, but He determined to do so from ages past.

The Father acted decisively to send His Son, for that's how much He loved the world. And the Son went in obedience to complete the mission.

By this divine act of love, God makes friends of his enemies. That's the motive behind the Gospel.

[Stan] This young scholar clears up misconceptions about Christmas' origins I hadn't co...

Stan — 12/25/2024 2:53:07 PM

This young scholar clears up misconceptions about Christmas' origins I hadn't come across before.

Merry Christmas!

[Stan] Good articles. Glad to see positive things about the Faith in public discourse b...

Stan — 10/7/2024 11:04:29 AM

Good articles. Glad to see positive things about the Faith in public discourse because it needs to be out there.

Also, a Franciscan Friar invented the double-entry bookkeeping system in the 1400-1500s used in modern accounting.

Luca Pacioli - Wikipedia

[didjuneau] Message 32672966 Message 13540065 Proverbs 16:11 Ephesians 6:11

didjuneau — 10/6/2024 1:30:05 PM

[Stan] Put your trust in the Lord, but don't lean on your shovel and pray for a hole.

Stan — 8/18/2024 10:37:04 PM

[Stan] A couple of Thanksgiving thoughts: It is impossible to be proud and thankful ...

Stan — 11/23/2023 9:32:42 AM

A couple of Thanksgiving thoughts:

It is impossible to be proud and thankful at the same time.

Whatever we show no gratitude for we believe we are entitled to.

[Stan] "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven." This req...

Stan — 11/17/2023 7:32:13 AM

"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven."

This request from the Our Father shows what it would take for life on earth to become the paradise everyone seeks.

Heaven is trouble-free because God's will is always done by its residents. Earth is filled with trouble and death because God's will is not being done by its residents.

The only way this world will change is when Christ returns and sets up the kingdom of God. Till then there will be "wars and rumors of wars and nation [Greek ethnos = ethnic group] rising against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in various places." (from Matthew 24)

When the kingdom is set up, then this will be fulfilled: "And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." (Isaiah 2:4)

And, from Isaiah 11:6-9 "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the nursing child shall play on the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."

This is how and when the prayer will be fulfilled. Till then the Our Father should be fervently prayed every day.

[Stan] Romans 5:8 But God clearly shows and proves His own love for us, by the fact tha...

Stan — 4/10/2023 2:24:12 PM

Romans 5:8
But God clearly shows and proves His own love for us, by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) — 4/10/2023 1:59:50 PM

[Stan] Easter is the most important day for Christians. When Jesus left his tomb alive ...

Stan — 4/9/2023 12:57:05 PM

Easter is the most important day for Christians. When Jesus left his tomb alive forevermore it meant there is a great, real hope for whosoever puts their trust in him - to come back to live forever in a corruption-free, eternally peaceful world. The request of the Our Father will finally be answered - Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven because Christ will reign here as King forever.

But without the Resurrection there is no Christian faith, there is no forgiveness of sins by the Cross of Jesus. This is what Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 15:13-19

There would also be no Gospels without the Resurrection of Jesus. There'd have been no conversion of Saul of Tarsus. He would not have ever become Paul the Apostle who endured endless suffering to proclaim a faith he once vehemently tried to destroy. And especially no Jesus Christ returning to Earth to decide the eternal fate of the living and the dead.

But Jesus did rise from the dead. His Spirit did empower his disciples, especially the cowardly Peter who denied Jesus three times even with curses and oaths at his trial only two months before. He became the most forceful spokesman for Jesus to the people and their rulers. He did that to the point of death decades later in Rome, hanging upside-down on a cross.

Anyone who humbly turns to God and puts their faith in this resurrected Man who died for man's sins will find out personally whether the Christian faith is true or not.

May the divine blessing of Easter be yours today!

[Stan] I'm thankful for wires and pipes in our homes and facilities. Pipes bring in w...

Stan — 11/24/2022 9:22:59 AM

I'm thankful for wires and pipes in our homes and facilities.

Pipes bring in water and gas, and wires bring in electricity.

Think of our lives without these 24/7 blessings we take way too much for granted.

[Honey_Bee] Proverbs 16:11: The LORD demands accurate scales and balances; he sets the sta...

Honey_Bee — 9/8/2022 11:40:53 AM

Proverbs 16:11:
The LORD demands accurate scales and balances; he sets the standards for fairness.

[Stan] The purpose of the material creation was for the Incarnation of its Creator so t...

Stan — 8/5/2022 11:28:36 AM

The purpose of the material creation was for the Incarnation of its Creator so that he might live and reign among them as one of them.

[Stan] If it was not for the resurrection of Jesus, there would be no Christian faith, ...

Stan — 4/17/2022 9:41:55 AM

If it was not for the resurrection of Jesus, there would be no Christian faith, no Gospels, no Apostle Paul, in fact, no New Testament at all.

Without the resurrection, Jesus's death would not have been for our sins nor of any benefit to anyone. He'd be like everyone else who died, with his remains decaying in the ground.

That's what the disciples would have thought, that is until they started hearing strange things they didn't believe at first. Some of their own group were insisting that his tomb they saw him placed in and sealed with a big rock was open and empty, and that he appeared to some of them that Sunday morning after Passover.

Then Jesus Himself appeared to them in his resurrected human flesh, saying, It is I, see my hands and feet, handle me and see I'm not a spirit, then he ate some food they had. He appeared not once, or twice to them but quite a few times, one time to a group of 500 of them, over the next 40 days. Finally they watched him rise up from them on the Mount of Olives into the clouds with a promise He'd be coming back.

After that his Spirit came into them, they started telling everyone about this resurrected Man who died for the sins of the world. Slowly a church began forming around this message, spreading throughout the world.

That's where we are in history - between the two comings of the Son of God who has become a man. When He returns, He will become the ruler of a new age of mankind that will never end.

So, don't go looking around for the right politician, scientist, inventor, philosopher or economist to solve this world's mess, look up. The answer for earth was never here on the earth, but in Heaven where Christ is, still saving people who repent and believe his Gospel from their sins before He comes back to judge the living, and the dead, for how they lived the life God had given them.

[Stan] The living are sustained by the dead. Every meal is at the expense of a living ...

Stan — 12/17/2021 8:09:52 PM

The living are sustained by the dead.

Every meal is at the expense of a living thing whether plant or animal.

We create electricity, warm ourselves, or forge metals with dead things.

When Christ created the world, he made death the means of maintaining life to show that his own death would be the sole means to restore sinners to Paradise from where we, for just cause, were once banished.

This return to life is received by faith in the Gospel.

[Stan] My Thanksgiving Weekend thought: I've long been thankful to God for trash. Tra...

Stan — 11/27/2021 11:49:22 AM

My Thanksgiving Weekend thought:

I've long been thankful to God for trash.

Trash means we have products to buy and the money to buy them with.

No trash means our store shelves are empty.

Empty store shelves means our society descends into chaos.

Say a sincere prayer of thanks whenever you see a garbage truck, they're emblems of our prosperity and peace.

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SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) — 7/18/2021 9:11:47 PM

[Stan] No wonder the Good Samaritan is known around the world because when he was trav...

Stan — 7/13/2021 4:15:52 PM

No wonder the Good Samaritan is known around the world because when he was traveling through the territory of his bitter enemies, he happened upon one of them lying along the highway who had been robbed by bandits and left there to die by his own people, his only thought was to "love his neighbor as himself."

[Stan] Why are Bible translations different from each other? [youtube video] youtube....

Stan — 6/17/2021 6:37:45 PM

Why are Bible translations different from each other?

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[Stan] The Christians were called atheists back then. That was due to their denial of a...

Stan — 5/27/2021 9:07:17 AM

The Christians were called atheists back then. That was due to their denial of all the other gods of the religions tolerated by the Roman Empire. They also refused to affirm Caesar was a deity. That fulfilled what Jesus taught in Matthew 24:9b "and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake."

[SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)] bethinking.org Let's begin our inquiry with a passage that historian Edwin Yama...

SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) — 5/26/2021 11:20:02 PM

bethinking.org

Let's begin our inquiry with a passage that historian Edwin Yamauchi calls "probably the most important reference to Jesus outside the New Testament." [4] Reporting on Emperor Nero's decision to blame the Christians for the fire that had destroyed Rome in A.D. 64, the Roman historian Tacitus wrote:

Nero fastened the guilt ... on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of ... Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome.... [5]

[Stan] The consequence for this world of having had the God-Man personally present, and...

Stan — 4/4/2021 10:02:54 PM

The consequence for this world of having had the God-Man personally present, and what they finally did to him, is that he is returning to judge the world that unjustly executed him. It will be his first official act as the Ruler of the eternal kingdom that will spread over the world.
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He will establish the long-sought Utopia that has persistently eluded mankind till then.

His regime will bring to an end all political powers the world has had to endure since man first subjugated his fellow man. In His Kingdom, "they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." (Isaiah 2:4)

Currently the Gospel is in force, a call on everyone to make peace with Him before that time comes.

[Stan] Today, the Western Churches celebrate the resurrection of the crucified Lord Jes...

Stan — 4/4/2021 12:53:40 PM

Today, the Western Churches celebrate the resurrection of the crucified Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus is "The God-Man" because he emerged from a womb mortal, and from a tomb immortal.

[Stan] Good Friday is this week. Here is a portion in the Old Testament that predicted ...

Stan — 3/30/2021 10:50:58 PM

Good Friday is this week. Here is a portion in the Old Testament that predicted the Lord's sufferings and death and return to life,

Isaiah 53 (New Living Translation)

1 Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.
3 He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.

4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.

7 He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
8 Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream. But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people.
9 He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave.

10 But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.
11 When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.
12 I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

biblegateway.com

[Stan] The first recorded words of Jesus, spoken at the age of 12, were, "... Did you n...

Stan — 3/28/2021 10:56:37 PM

The first recorded words of Jesus, spoken at the age of 12, were, "... Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” (Luke 2:49b)

These are the last words of his earthly life recorded in the Gospels: “It is finished!” (John 19:30a)

What was finished? His Father's business.

What was the Father's business Jesus was about? To reconcile wayward man to God.

(See 2 Corinthians 5:18-19)

[SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)] Been listening to this for the last 3 hours, what a great compilation of works ...

SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) — 2/24/2021 1:53:13 PM

Been listening to this for the last 3 hours, what a great compilation of works

[Stan] God has the right to be self-determined in all things, and to be answerable to n...

Stan — 2/19/2021 2:05:18 PM

God has the right to be self-determined in all things, and to be answerable to no one because He alone is self-existent, self-sustaining, and thoroughly good.

We want to be self-willed in all things like God, answerable to no one like God, but we are not self-existent, nor self-sustaining, nor good like God.

The shape the world's in proves we need God to guide us.

He sent His Son, Jesus into the world that we might put our faith in Him. He is the Good Shepherd who alone can lead us to Paradise.

[Stan] This is God's world we live in, but we don't live by his ways, so how is it we w...

Stan — 2/19/2021 10:47:22 AM

This is God's world we live in, but we don't live by his ways, so how is it we wonder why the world's in the state it's always in?

[Stan] Jonathan Antoine sings How Great Thou Art. youtube.com [youtube video]

Stan — 2/4/2021 10:25:47 PM

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Stan — 1/7/2021 6:47:08 PM

[SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)] Prayers do work, sometimes you have to wait and wait and wait, not going to tell...

SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) — 12/29/2020 12:47:03 AM

Prayers do work, sometimes you have to wait and wait and wait, not going to tell you what happened today, but it was earth shattering.

One person here knows, hes my friend, his name is Stan. I have lots of friends on SI, but Stan is my bother in Christ.

[Stan] I always thought the idea in the first line of the famous carol was "God rest ye...

Stan — 12/25/2020 2:59:34 PM

I always thought the idea in the first line of the famous carol was "God rest ye, merry gentlemen" which sounded to me like they didn't seem to need much in the way of rest if they were merry or even that they should stop all the excessive partying.

When I finally noticed where the comma went in the lyrics, it changed everything. It's "God rest ye merry, gentlemen." It's the best thing by way of a good wish for someone - a rest of lighthearted happiness.

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Stan] A member of the church, who previously had been attending services regularly, st...

Stan — 12/17/2020 9:31:57 PM

A member of the church, who previously had been attending services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the pastor decided to visit him.

It was a chilly evening. The pastor found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his pastor's visit, the man welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair near the fireplace and waited.

The pastor made himself at home but said nothing. In the grave silence, he contemplated the dance of the flames around the burning logs. After some minutes, the pastor took the fire tongs, carefully picked up a brightly burning ember and placed it to one side of the hearth all alone then he sat back in his chair, still silent.

The host watched all this in quiet contemplation. As the one lone ember's flame flickered and diminished, there was a momentary glow and then its fire was no more. Soon it was cold and dead.

Not a word had been spoken since the initial greeting. The pastor glanced at his watch and realized it was time to leave. He slowly stood up, picked up the cold, dead ember and placed it back in the middle of the fire. Immediately it began to glow, once more with the light and warmth of the burning coals around it.

As the pastor reached the door to leave, his host said with a tear running down his cheek, 'Thank you so much for your visit and especially for the fiery sermon. I will be back in church next Sunday.'

We live in a world today, which tries to say too much with too little. Consequently, few listen. Sometimes the best sermons are the ones left unspoken.

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[Stan] It is Well with My Soul - youtube.com [youtube video] Sweet Hour of Prayer - y...

Stan — 12/11/2020 11:22:31 PM

It is Well with My Soul - youtube.com

Sweet Hour of Prayer - youtube.com

[SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)] Fellow believers, need prayer for a friend of mine from church. We spoke yeste...

SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) — 11/15/2020 6:46:09 AM

Fellow believers, need prayer for a friend of mine from church. We spoke yesterday and she has terminal lung cancer that has spread to her brain, ( I knew she was sick but not this sick) she is a Christian and has excepted the fact she is going to die. She can't drive or walk that good, so I will do my best to help her. First time I seen her I was impressed with the way she talked, I thought she was a public speaker. It turns out she only lives about a mile from my house.

Her name is Marylin.

[Stan] "... even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." (Psalm 90:2b) The pass...

Stan — 11/6/2020 9:26:34 PM

"... even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." (Psalm 90:2b) The passage means God is eternal, without beginning or ending.

The Hebrew word Moses used which was translated as "everlasting" is the word "olam."

Olam means "the vanishing point." So, in English we might also say, "even from the vanishing point (in the past) to the vanishing point (of the future), thou art God."

This means that no matter how far back you go, even if possible, a trillion years, and looked back even farther in time, God extends beyond that vanishing point. Keep going back and the vanishing point keeps going back.

If you were to go a trillion years into the future and looked ahead in time, God exists beyond the future vanishing point. Keep going ahead and the vanishing point keeps going ahead.

[SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)] And I thought I had problems: [graphic]

SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) — 10/27/2020 7:36:06 AM

And I thought I had problems:

[Stan] The Old Testament and the New Testament are essentially the same Faith, that is,...

Stan — 8/30/2020 1:15:42 PM

The Old Testament and the New Testament are essentially the same Faith, that is, a Messianic one. The Old predicted his coming, the New bears witness of his arrival.

Jesus spoke of this reality in John 5:39 in response to the attack of the Pharisees, "You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me."