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A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter.
They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier.
Because of hectic schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel schedules.
So, the husband left Minneapolis and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his wife flying down the following day.
The husband checked into the hotel.
There was wifi in his room, so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife.
However, he accidentally left out one letter in her e-mail address, and without realizing his error, sent the e-mail.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Houston, a widow just returned home from her husband's funeral.
He was a minister who was called home to glory following a heart attack.
The widow decided to check her e-mail since she was expecting messages from relatives and friends.
After reading the first message, she screamed and fainted.
The widow's son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the computer screen which read:
To: My Loving Wife
Subject: I've Arrived
Date: November 18, 2004
I know you're surprised to hear from me.
They internet here now and you are allowed to send e-mails to your loved ones.
I've just arrived and have been checked in.
I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
Looking forward to seeing you then!
Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine.
PS.
Sure is hot down here!
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Paul preached the gospel in Corinth in the early 50s AD during his second missionary journey (Acts 18:1–18).
When opposition grew fierce there, the Lord Jesus spoke to him in a vision assuring him that he had ‘many people’ in the city (Acts 18:10).
With this encouragement, Paul stayed on for eighteen months, ‘teaching them the word of God’ (Acts 18:11).
God used Paul’s ministry to bring about the birth and establishment of the church in Corinth.
Biblical Text -
-[Prayer]-
Life Principle - Without The Resurrection We Have No Hope & Jesus Has No Victory.
Thank God For The Resurrection!
Life Point- You Will Be Raised From The Dead
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the greek philosophers of the day and in that city would not believe the Gospel because they thought that a bodily resurrection of the dead was just plain silliness.
No one had ever seen, so to believe it the way it was preached didn’t make sense to them.
So what does one do?
Well they start to syncretize, which means to merge their beliefs with that of what they used to believe.
They decided to start spiritualizing the resurrection.
Started to say that Christ’s resurrection was one of the spirit not the body.
Folks, let me tell you a little something about this kind of thing.
We have people everywhere doing this syncretism.
Merging one’s beliefs with another set of ideals.
We have people merging Christianity with LGBT ideology.
We have people merging Christianity with the ways of the world.
Merging the Holy with the profane.
Let me tell you some things that we are doing in the churches that just shouldn’t be done.
1) Sex outside of marriage 2) Living with someone outside of marriage
This isn’t a popular stance in the church anymore, but it is scripture.
Also the Biblical definition of marriage is starting to not be held anymore by evangelicals across the nation.
Here are 11 Biblical truths about marriage:
Marriage is ordained and ordered by God.
Marriage is a contract and a covenant.
Marriage is both religious and civil.
Marriage is both private and public.
Marriage requires mutual consent.
Marriage is for all types of people.
Marriage is heterosexual and monogamous.
Marriage cannot be between close family relations.
Marriage is for life.
Marriage is a sexual union.
Marriage is sacred but not a sacrament.
People are now Syncretizing the belief of God creating the world with evolution.
Let me ask you something.
Is the Bible the inerrant, meaning it contains no error, Inspired, meaning it was God who used man to write it Word of the Most High God or is it not?
If you cannot believe that the Bible is inspired and inerrant then you cannot fully trust your own salvation experience.
If the Bible is wrong then who becomes the arbiter of truth?
Well you do, and to be the true arbiter of truth means you would have to have all knowledge to be 100% sure of what is God’s Word and what is not God’s Word.
If you have all knowledge then by definition you are not a man, but God.
So that doesn’t work.
People are saying that the creation was not 6 literal days.
Well that doesn’t work, because the Hebrew language here is for 6 literal days and on the Seventh God rested from all His work.
To say it is anything but that undermines the Gospel.
Because if you can’t trust that, then how can trust what the Bible says about Jesus?
If you are doing this, don’t feel too bad.
I was guilty for a time as well.
I would go to high school and listen to my teachers.
You see we pound it into the heads of our children that the teachers are smart and know what they are talking about and teach truth, you should listen to your teacher.
Then I would go to church on Sunday where God’s Word is being taught and the 2 didn’t line up.
One says millions of years, the other says 6 days.
Well who is right?
In my mind at the time, I didn’t know any better, and I said they both must be true.
But you see I quickly found out.
GOD IS THE ARBITER OF TRUTH.
Not man’s ideologies, not man’s wishes, and certainly not man’s vain imaginations!
This casting down arguments is both internal, that is in our mind and external.
Now when trying to show someone that their thinking is in error, please don’t be like “that is stupid and let me tell you why.”
Though you may want to do that, you just made yourself an enemy to them and you already lost the battle.
The best way is to ask questions that will get them thinking in the right direction and let them come to the point where you can lovingly give them the truth.
Now the Gospel has been preached with the premise that Christ was physically resurrected from the dead.
If there is no resurrection, then Christ was never resurrected.
Which would mean the preaching of the Gospel has no power and neither does our faith.
Let me lay some truth on you.
If you do not believe that Christ is resurrected bodily from the dead, then you are not a Christian.
It is an essential belief of the faith.
Do you know what your next step is?
Repent and come to Jesus and receive His grace & Truth and be saved by the true Gospel.
Life Point - Jesus Is Coming Back
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