What does it mean that God sends rain on the just and the unjust alike in Matthew 5?
Jesus spoke these words in connection with His commandment to His followers in Matthew 5:43-44 (immediately prior to the verse cited in the question) to love...
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What is the book of the covenant referred to in Exodus 24:7?
Since this verse appears in Exodus 24:7, I would say that the portion of Scripture being referred to in the verse is the book in which the words or...
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What does it mean that God sends rain on the just and the unjust alike in Matthew 5?
Does God bless the unjust as well as the just?
Matthew 5:45
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John Moyo
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What does it mean when it says in 1 Corinthians 13 that tongues may cease?
I think that here Paul is trying to emphasize that love overreaches all else. The virtue of love transcends all and will never fail where and when other...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Why were Adam and Even driven out of the Garden of Eden?
Why were Adam and Eve sent from the Garden of Eden? There is a Hebrew pun (a pun is a form of wordplay that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of...
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Is there physical proof of the existence of Jesus Christ?
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Where is hell? What is the location of hell?
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Why were Adam and Even driven out of the Garden of Eden?
Only Adam was driven from the Garden. Genesis 3:23: "The Lord banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken." Not Eve, as...
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Why is 'taming the tongue' so difficult?
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Why did Jesus say, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
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How much of a priority should worship be in the church?
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What is the river of life?
I love these 2 Bible translations of Revelation 22:1 -- NABRE "Then the angel showed me the river of life-giving water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Who was Potiphera and is he the same man as Potiphar?
By my reading of relevant texts and commentaries, these two individuals were not the same, despite the similarity in their names. According to Genesis 39:1,...
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Clara Brown
Who was Potiphera and is he the same man as Potiphar?
Genesis 41:45
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What does it mean that our righteousness needs to "exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharisees"?
The pharisees and scribes were considered to be the most righteous people during the times of Jesus. Jesus rebuked them sharply and exposed that they were...
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How can I know if I am hearing God, hearing Satan, or hearing my own thoughts?
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What does it mean to be a born again Christian?
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How can I know if I am one of the elect?
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Who are the "other sheep"?
The “fold” is Judaism (John 10:1), but there is another fold, the Gentiles who are outside the covenants of Israel (Ephesians 2:11-13 KJV). This is what...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What was the meaning of Jesus walking on water?
I think it was to teach us that: 1) Sometimes we feel battered by the storms. Mt 14:24 2) Sometimes we feel the darkness has won. Mt 14:25 3) Sometimes we...
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What does it mean that our righteousness needs to "exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharisees"?
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Why does God allow evil men like Hitler and Saddam to come into power?
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What did Jesus mean in Luke 22:36 about buying a sword?
I understand the pacifist's stand in this life. We don't have to look any further back in man's history than WWII and France to see how that principle worked...
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Does the Bible prophesy a one-world government and a one-world currency in the end times?
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Does the Bible say anything about making a second marriage a success?
Yes. Jeremiah 3:8 NASBS says: And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her...
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Jeffrey Smith
What should a person do if he or she has found an item not belonging to him/her?
I once went to a Salvation Army second hand store in Perth (Australia) and bought an as-new pair of shorts for $5. At home though I discovered $5 in one of...
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What do I need to do to hear, 'Well done, good and faithful servant' when I arrive in heaven?
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Why did God accept Abel's offering but reject Cain's offering? Why did Cain then kill Abel?
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How can we avoid the "wages of sin" and escape the spiritual death Romans 6:23 mentions?
In a word, by faith. Temporal death and eternal separation from God -- who is holy (without sin) -- were imposed upon all humans as the just penalty for the...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
How can we avoid the "wages of sin" and escape the spiritual death Romans 6:23 mentions?
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our LORD." (New International Version )
Romans 6:23
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Tim Maas
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How did sprinkling an unclean person with the ashes of an "heifer" provide sanctifying and purifying of the flesh?
The ritual being referred to in the passage from Hebrews cited in the question was commanded by God in Numbers 19:1-10. As I see it, all such rituals in the...
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John Moyo
, Christian youth teacher
Is it possible to go to heaven now and come back to tell the experience?
The simple answer to the question is "Yes," there are several accounts of people who were declared clinically dead by doctors, resuscitated back to life, and...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
How did sprinkling an unclean person with the ashes of an "heifer" provide sanctifying and purifying of the flesh?
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: (KJV)
Hebrews 9:13
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Did God literally create the Earth in six 24-hour days?
The universal self evidence of Divine design in Creation (Romans 1:20; Psalm 19:1-4a) is a powerful evidential 'fulcrum' upon which to leverage a...
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How can God’s grace be in vain? (2 Corinthians 6:1)
Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace ye are saved, through Faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the GIFT of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. You can...
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Tim Maas
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Why is John chapter 3 verse 16 popular?
I would say that John 3:16 is so frequently cited because of the concise manner in which it summarizes in one verse the gospel message. It affirms that there...
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Jack Gutknecht
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Why is John chapter 3 verse 16 popular?
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." New Inter...
John 3:16
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Jack Gutknecht
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What should we learn from the life of Jeremiah?
1. Jeremiah shows us the fullness of God's character. We live in a world that has an impoverished view of God. Jeremiah challenges us by putting on display...
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How can God’s grace be in vain? (2 Corinthians 6:1)
This verse is in reference to Isaiah 49 where he speaks for God saying that God's chosen people will be brought back from exile, that even though they were...
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How can God’s grace be in vain? (2 Corinthians 6:1)
As sinners we deserve death - God offers life. We are sinners, separated from God - He offers reconciliation. Those who believe in Jesus are saved, and those...
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Jack Gutknecht
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Who is Elijah in the Bible?
I would like to focus on just the best known event of Elijah's life, his contest on Carmel with the false prophets of Baal. The one verse I memorized in my...
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Jay Saunders
What kinds of fruit (besides those mentioned in Galatians 5) does the Holy Spirit produce in the life of the Christian, if any?
You know it is really an endless process of change when you come to Christ Jesus our Lord. The fruit of the spirit developing in us takes time but change is...
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Kathe Ballentine
How do I respond to the problem of a mother-in-law who is overbearing, controlling, and meddling?
A mother is challenged to raise up her children to become independent. When they take on a spouse she is to not feel threatened that she is being replaced....
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How would the Son be like "the snake in the wilderness"? John 3:14
Jesus chose a snake as a figure of Himself for a reason. The children of Israel while wandering in the wilderness sin against God and they were bitten by...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
How would the Son be like "the snake in the wilderness"? John 3:14
When the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness after their exodus from Egypt, the people continually grumbled and rebelled against Moses (and, by...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What were these "hidden treasures"? (Isaiah 45:3)
In the passage cited in the question, God is speaking to Cyrus, the king of Persia. Although he was not an Israelite, Cyrus was the ruler whom God chose as...