531 – The Mercy of God
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God 531 – The Mercy of God You can follow along with the Scriptures and my notes as I read them. Righteousness, grace, and mercy are the foundations of the renewed mind. This is the starting point for a renewed mind: knowing that you're righteous, knowing that it comes by grace, and remembering that God is merciful. Grace is divine favor. Something given to you that you didn't have to work for. It's a gift from God to you, a favor from God. Here you go, it is yours Mercy is withholding judgment of something that you have done. It is God who forgives you, and you have mercy. God's mercy...
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530 – Righteousness, Grace, and Mercy
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God 530 – Righteousness, Grace, and Mercy You can follow along with the Scriptures and my notes as I read them. Righteousness, Grace, and mercy are the foundations of the renewed mind. This is the starting point to the renewed mind, knowing that you're righteous, knowing that it comes by grace, and remembering that God is merciful. Romans 3:21 – 21 “But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no...
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529 – The Precious Word of God
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God 529 – The Precious Word of God You can follow along with the Scritures and my notes as I read them. 2 Peter 1:1 – 18 “Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us...
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528 – Be Strong and Thankful
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God 528 – Be Strong and Thankful You can follow along with the Scriptures and my notes as I read them. I was invited to teach at the international Zoom Fellowship that was run by the Ministries in Venezuela. I was very excited to teach at that Fellowship, but I was blown away by all the fellowships in South and Central America that zoomed in on the Fellowship, and I was very blessed to teach. Then, on Sunday at my local Fellowship, I taught the same teaching, and here it is as a podcast. Joshua 1:1 & 2 “Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the...
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527 – The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
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God 527 – The Resurrection of Jesus Christ You can follow along with my notes as I read the Scriptures below. A while ago, I taught a class on "The Last Supper, through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ." I designed a syllabus for the listeners to follow along as I read the Scriptures of each event from all four Gospels, in chronological order. I did this to make it easier to follow along as we rapidly move from one Gospel to another. If you would like to listen to the entire class, the Audio Class and Syllabus are available on my website, stevejaynes.com, under the Online Classes and...
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526 – The Last Supper
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God 526 – The Last Supper You can follow along with my notes as I read the Scriptures below. A while ago, I taught a class on "The Last Supper, through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ." I designed a syllabus for the listeners to follow along as I read the Scriptures of each event from all four Gospels, in chronological order. I did this to make it easier to follow along as we rapidly move from one Gospel to another. If you would like to listen to the entire class, the Audio Class and Syllabus are available on my website, stevejaynes.com, under the Online Classes and Teachings page. There's...
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525 – Knowing Your Election of God
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God 525 – Knowing Your Election of God You can follow along with my notes as I read the Scriptures below. Do you know the dignity that you have? That's what we're gonna look at today. God has made you his son. It's Christ in you. You can do the works of Jesus Christ in Greater. And many other precious promises are available to you. We're gonna to start in investigating this today. 1 Thessalonians 1:2 – 4 “We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; 3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord...
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524 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings, pt 5, Steve Reads Colossians
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God 524 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings pt 5 Steve Reads Colossians While Paul was in prison, he wrote three Epistles: Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. All around 62 A.D. You can follow along as I read the Scriptures below. Colossians 1:1 – 29 “ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, 2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4 Since we heard of your...
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523 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings pt 4 Steve Reads Philippiens
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God 523 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings pt 4 Steve Reads Philippians While Paul was in prison, he wrote three Epistles: Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. All around 62 A.D. As I was putting together the teaching, I was looking for spiritual connections as I had before in the review of Paul's writings. The only thing I thought of doing was to read the whole chapter and point out a few things. You can follow along as I read the Scriptures below. Philippians 1:1 – 30 “Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the...
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522 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings pt 3 Steve Reads Ephesians
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God 522 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings pt 3 Steve Reads Ephesians While Paul was in prison, he wrote three Epistles: Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. All around 62 A.D. As I was putting together the teaching, I was looking for spiritual connections as I did before in the review of Paul's writings. The only thing I thought of doing was to read the whole chapter, pointing out a few things. Ephesians 1:1 – 23 “ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our...
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509 – How We Got The Bible
2 Timothy 3:16 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”
All scripture is for profit; This must be something of immense value. We want to profit from the “all scripture.”
“given by inspiration of God” is one word in Greek: Theopneustos – Theo, meaning God, and Pneustos, meaning breathed, or God Breathed—a figure of speech.
John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
God is Spirit.
2 Peter 1:21 “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
Not of man
Galatians 1:11 & 12 “But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
Not of man
Numbers 11:17 “And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.”
God is Spirit. God could reveal Himself through the spirit that was upon Moses. Then Moses, having a mind, could use his vocabulary and write the Word of God. That is how we got the word of God. Men of God wrote the Bible and did the writing, but what they wrote was what God gave them to write. He gave it to them by revelation. Many writers, but only one author, and that was God.
John 5:39 “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”
The Scriptures tell us the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ, about God. This is the doctrine, and it is right to believe.
John 17:8 “For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.”
Jesus gave them the words that God gave to Him, the Scriptures, the Bible, the Word of God. Without the Bible, which is right believing, you and I could never walk with God in the greatness of the power of God.
John 17:17 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”
The Word is truth. This is what the Word says about itself.
God is perfect. His Son is perfect. His Word must also be perfect.
2 Timothy 3:17 “That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
The man of God (the one who speaks for God) may be perfect.
2 Timothy 3:16 & 17 “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
Tell us what the function and purpose of the Bible are.
Hosea 4:6a “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:”
Destroyed for a lack of Knowledge.
Jeremiah 2:13 “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”
Forsaken me, hewed them out broken cisterns. Cisterns do not supply water, they hold water, but these were broken cisterns. To hew out takes work. You can work very hard and never get your needs met. However, you can turn to God and His Word, believe in them, and God will supply your needs.
God reveals Himself in His Word.
God’s Word is very valuable and very profitable.
Psalm 12:6 “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.”
Pure Words, purified seven times
Psalm 119:105 “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
A lamp and light.
Psalm 119:72 “The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.”
Better than thousands of gold and silver
Psalm 119:162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Thy word is a great spoil.
Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
Shall he not make it good?
Matthew 4:4 “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
Not by bread alone but by every Word of God.
May God Bless you Abundantly
Steve
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