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Matthew 5:48 – “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Surely Jesus doesn’t mean “don’t ever make a mistake or sin” does he? How could this be? Doesn’t he know “nobody’s perfect?” What is Jesus saying here? Is this an impossible verse?

The second part of the Bible is commonly known as the New Testament.  This is a phrase that means the same thing as “New Covenant” in reference to the New Covenant that Jesus introduced and ratified with his blood.  His disciples, who were Jewish, were surprised and awed at the idea that Gentiles would be able to partake of God’s promises to Abraham.  But there were some Jewish Christians who insisted that Gentiles needed to keep the Law of Moses to be saved.  Paul expounded in great detail about this in his epistles, declaring that the New Covenant which Jesus made has superseded the Old Covenant of the Mosaic Law which had been only a temporary measure.

Here’s the second part of the four part booklet (technically the second half of Part I – with the two halves of Part II to come) – The Two Adams, by Homer D. Baxter.

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“And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed” (Gen. 2:8).

This garden eastward in Eden signifies the first usages of the word Eden referred to the earth. The garden was but a small portion of Eden, into which God placed Adam to begin his duties and responsibilities, which consisted mostly of “to dress and keep” it.

In doing some Biblical research I ran across the following chapter from a short 136 page book titled “God’s Got a Problem on His Hands”.  Now I don’t know much about the “Simple Truth Ministries” & its minister Earl Clampett Jr. (other than this bio) and I might have a quibble or two in certain details, but all-in-all this web-published chapter hammers home a very vital Biblical truth.  One that everyone should pay heed to.

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Before we build anything, it’s normal to set into motion a process, called a plan. God did the same when He created man, the earth, the angels, the heavens, etc.

The subject of pacifism and whether it is Biblically supported has been a recent topic of discussion here on kingdomready and it is something that many of us have differing opinions about. I have been giving it a great deal of thought recently since many of my compatriots here on the site see pacifism in the positive and I have always viewed it in the negative (being the true view of Scripture that is). But since I respect their opinions and only wish to know and rightly follow the real truth (whether that be how it see it or how my colleagues do makes no difference – truth is truth), I have been researching the subject with an intense focus over the last couple of weeks.

Saw this advertisement for the job search site, Monster.com

This ad made me think about our lives for the LORD. Are we living up to our potential? He created us to glorify Him. His son died to offer forgiveness for our sins against Him. He sent His spirit to those who turned to Him to empower them to live the life that we’d been planned to live from the beginning….

Hebrews 3:12 & 13 (NASB)
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

I’m not one that is usually surprised by what I find out about the world today.  I know that sadly the lines of morality are getting more blurred and that the black & white of what is right and wrong is often getting repainted with drab coats of grey.  But two things that I encountered in the last few weeks have made me downright troubled about the lack of any kind of a moral compass in today’s society. 

Next week a number of us will be attending the Family Camp held at Silver Bay YMCA on Lake George, NY. The focus for the week will be the book of 1 John. In preparation for this I have been reading the book through repeatedly in order to acquaint myself with it. There is much to be said about the major themes of abiding, love, fellowship, truth, light, antichrist, and righteousness vs. sin. However, one section in particular has been very striking to me. Each time I read through it I get fascinated by its bold and convicting content.