THE ONE YEAR BIBLE CLUB

         Well,  JESUS may have answered the question for the Pharisees, but He left a question for us...."what belongs to God?"  "You mean part of my income belongs to God?"  And if part of my income belongs to God, how much of it belongs to God. I know I am required (and I don't like it either) to give to the Government but I have a hard time believing I also have to give to God. It is one thing throwing in a five or ten dollar bill in the plate as it comes by, but to feel I have to give? What if I want to go out to eat, what if there's something I want to buy, I shouldn't feel compelled to have to give, that's legalism! Jesus said to give "unto God what belongs to God", but the only reference to that is in the Old Testament, surely Jesus is not implying that we should still be Tithing? But what else "belongs to God, but The Tithe".  I was told Tithing was Old Testament and we weren't under The Law anymore and that I only had...

         SOMETHING that should catch your eye in today's reading is the complete contrast in Jesus' knowledge between the situation with the colt  vs . the situation with the fig tree. The fig tree represents everyday life, eating and drinking, the home we buy, the cars we drive, the places we work;   the colt  however, is part of God's grand scheme for Jesus, this is not just a hap circumstance experience, this is part of God's Sovereign will. What we eat, where we eat, whom we marry, what we buy typically falls under God's Permissive will for our lives.  The difference  therefore between these two situations was  God's Sovereign will vs. his permissive will . It had already been prophesied in  Zechariah 9:9  [ The Coming of Zion’s King ] "Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and  riding on a donkey, on a colt,  the foal...

         These men are a mess, and to think they are men that have been with Jesus for 3 years. They have the boldness to approach Jesus and say, "hey, we need you to do something for us".  Jesus must have thought, "how peculiar this is, I wonder what it is that they want me to do for them? Maybe pray for them that they be filled with my Spirit, maybe teach them a greater understanding of some parables I've spoke, maybe go pray for a sick family member, who knows? Okay, boys, watcha got?       And their reply, "we want to be seated to the right and to the left of you, in your glory".  Jesus has only one response, or two..."you don't know what you're asking" [that's for sure] and the next, "can you drink the cup I will drink of?"  Without hesitation they answer, "we can!"   Really?  You are willing to have your back ripped open, your beard pulled out, a crown of thorns crushed into your skull, beat to a pulp and c...

    Sadly enough, the Bumper Crop Testimony was not one the Israelites were able to boast of.  In all practicality it sounded great, sounded cool, but when the moment actually came to "believe" and "have faith", a man with a household to feed, debts to be paid and looking down the road, "if we don't plant now, it would be insane to think we will have provision next year when our harvest would normally be coming in..."  In the end, they failed, they did not give the land it's rest, and they were not able to give "the Bumper Crop Testimony" and on top of that; by not giving the land it's rest, as God had told them, they depleted the land of all its resources and nutrients and they had a crop failure and had to go without.  For all their intentions, as usual, they were worse off for not having trusted and believed God.  What was wrong with God's people back then?  Well, the same thing that's wrong with us today, we just can't...

    One of the infantile arguments the homosexual agenda spouts is "if God is so against homosexuality" why didn't he speak against it, after all, He spoke against other sins". This kind of logic and reasoning is for 6 year olds.  Jesus did not speak out against bestiality either, with this kind of logic are we to  assume He was also giving us the green light to be involved in that? Jesus did not speak out against rape or child molestation, are we to conclude that he was therefore sanctioning child molestation? Jesus was too mature to get involved in mindless arguments over which "he had already spoken".  He was not like us who allow our children to bait us into foolish arguments that we have already spoken on and get us all flustered. Another point is....Jesus HAD long ago, spoken about marriage. One of Jesus' classic lines was "have you not read!". He was either amazed at their ignorance to His word or He was amazed at their lack of regard f...

L   Wow! If only we could all have the liberty to speak in contradictions and nobody challenge us on them. "Do you love me babe?" "babe, you know how it is, I love you, but I don't". Who's going to hit the Altar, to get married with that kind of statement. I am a Christian, I have to believe, it's "supposed" to be part of my genetic make up. Do you believe!? "ughhhh....of course, c'mon, are you serious, how could you ask me that, especially in front of all these people!" Jesus asks if " He will find Faith" in the earth in the last days. I know lots of Christians that have Christian attributes and cliches that the live by, but I don't know to many that are "walking on water". They are believing God For a good year, they are believing God for Health and for steadied employment in rough times, but who is really believing God for "the impossible?" Jesus told his disciples that He was training in Faith...