Salvation a discussion

I am now led to do a bible study discussion on Salvation, our needs for it, its purposes, and benefits to us. God loves people that He wants to save us from our own bad and selfish ways, so that we might serve and glorify Him. Sin has separated us from a relationship with Him, and salvation restores that relationship. God is always after a relationship with man, His creation, for He wants that to be so.  This verse of scripture, in 2 Peter 3 says God does not want any to perish but for all to reach repentance.

(2 Peter 3:9)  The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

And these verses from 1 Timothy say that God wishes all to be saved in fact, through the Lord Jesus:

(1 Timothy 2:3)  This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,

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                                    Seven Blessings Testimony

            God has now placed on my heart to testify how He has blessed me with all the things I need and so very much more. I have listed seven areas in particular that I have been blessed with during my lifetime. I did not include mercy as one of the blessings, even though God has been so merciful to me during all my life. In fact, I did a separate testimony on how He has been so merciful to me during my life. Here is a link to it for you to read that particular testimony

https://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/jay-dougherty/seven-mercies-in-my-life-testimony/10200335690688461

This testimony deals with seven other areas and things in which...

                        Miraculous provision - a bible study

            I am led to do a bible study of various instances where the Lord made miraculous provision for His people in various situations, circumstances and in various ways, all to show how merciful and loving He can be to His people.

My first situation is the water situation- the lack of water to be precise, in Exodus 17 at Horeb where Moses struck the rock with his staff and water came out:

(Exo 17:1)  All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

(Exodus 17:2)  Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?"

(Exodus 17:3)  But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against...

Seven life application scriptures teaching from the bible

            I am feeling led to write a note with seven different scripture teachings from the bible designed to help you live a better and more productive, happier, life with less stress and temptation from everyone, as well as much more peace. Also, these tips should help relationships with others, including family. The Lord loves you and wants you to be happy

 be careful of what we say

            We need to be very carful of what we say and to bridle our tongue as this scripture says, because our tongue can both lift people up or tear them down.

(James 3:2)  For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

(James 3:3)  If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.

(James 3:4)  Look at the ships also: though they are so...

                                                Love bible study

            I am led to do a study on love, doing all in love, and especially loving one another.  First I will focus on commandments and such that we are to love our neighbors as ourselves. People today are becoming increasingly selfish and arrogant, and therefore unloving towards their neighbors, opposite of what God commands. Nobody is perfect not even ourselves, and we (myself included) find it needful to apologize and repent of careless (my case often also thoughtless and spontaneous) words and deeds

Here is the commandment in the book Leviticus

(Leviticus 19:18)  You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

Jesus Himself mentioned the two commandments included loving ones neighbor as ourselves as well as loving God with all our strength and our mind:

(Matthew 22:37)...

                                    Pride- a bible study

            I am led to do now a bible study on pride- first I will use five examples of pride from the bible. There also is much pride active today, and I have seen it where people act superior to all others in how they behave. It could include cutting into traffic, not letting others merge, cutting in line, going in an express lane with far too many items, an others. As I believe these are the last days this situation is getting worse and will not get better.

The first example in the bible is one of a communal group pride- where the people who at that time all spoke with the same language and all lived in the same area conspired to build a city and a tower up to haven to make a name for themselves, that is to make themselves famous. Even though they did it all in the wrong motivations their story is in the bible read from generation to generation as a warning against their pride.

(Genesis 11:1)  Now...

                        Purposes of Jesus bible study

Of course as the prophet Isaiah states so well prophesying his major purpose in chapter 53 of his book which is a prophecy of the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior:

(Isa 53:1)  Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

(Isa 53:2)  For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

(Isa 53:3)  He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

(Isa 53:4)  Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

(Isa 53:5)  But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our...

                                    Parables of Jesus bible study

This bible study covers the main parables of Jesus. Parables were such a big tool for Jesus to show a lot of us how to live. I believe they were perhaps Jesus’ biggest teaching tool. Jesus in Matthew 13 explains the reasons why He made such use of parables in His teachings in the following verses:

(Matthew 13:10)  Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

(Matthew 13:11)  And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

(Matthew 13:12)  For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

(Matthew 13:13)  This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.