Have 
The LIFE 
God Offers?!

What Does It Mean To Have LIFE?

This world offers many different choices.  
The LIFE the Bible offers is different from all the others. 

There is a GOD who rescues humanity from their well deserved present and eternal death spiral. This GOD rescues people by taking their death penalty upon Himself, not because they earn or deserve it, but because He loves them profoundly. This GOD, though executed and buried, took back His own LIFE, conquering death. He gives His new and Abundant LIFE to anyone who truly believes in Who He is and in what He has done for them. This New Abundant LIFE begins at the moment of belief and extends forever into Heaven. Who is the GOD Who “has blessed us in Himself with every spiritual blessing?” This GOD is Jesus Christ! He said that He “came that we may have LIFE and have it abundantly.” 
Do you have HIS LIFE?
By reading the Bible anyone can learn all about Who Jesus Christ Is and what He has done and will do. 

Reading and pondering the Bible itself is FAR MORE IMPORTANT 
than reading what I or anyone may write or say about it! 
If what I write does not prompt you to ponder the Bible text itself, 
I have missed my goal.

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SPOTLIGHTED  PAGE:
 Questioning the Bible?

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This Week Bible Reading 

Following Jesus thru the Old Testament: Pray / Read / Ponder

Before, during and after READING a Bible passage:
PRAY, LORD GOD, please teach me about Yourself, myself, and the world around me.
PONDER, ask and answer questions that the Bible reading prompts.
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October 25-31
Jeremiah 31-52 & Lamentations
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Jeremiah 31-52
Watch a Bible Project video about Jeremiah  
31: The LORD will turn mourning to Joy … The New Covenant
32: Jeremiah buys a field during the siege … Jeremiah prays for understanding … They shall be My People; I will be their God
33: The LORD promises peace … The LORD’s eternal covenant with David
34: Zedekiah to die in Babylon 
35: The Obedience of the Rechabites
36: Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s scroll
37: Jeremiah warns Zedekiah … Jeremiah imprisoned
38: Jeremiah cast into the cistern … Jeremiah rescued from the cistern…Jeremiah warns Zedekiah again
39: The fall of Jerusalem…the LORD delivers Jeremiah
40: Jeremiah remains in Judah
41: Gedaliah Murdered
42: Warning against going to Egypt
43: Jeremiah taken to Egypt
44: Judgment for idolatry
45: Message to Baruch
46: Judgment on Egypt
47: Judgment on the Philistines
48: Judgment on Moab 
49: Judgment on Ammon…judgment on Edom…Judgment on Damascus…Judgment on Kedar and Hazor…Judgment on Elam
50: Judgment on Babylon
51: Utter destruction of Babylon
52: The Fall of Jerusalem recounted…the Temple burned…The people exiled to Babylon…Jehoiachin released from prison

Ponder: 
? With so many nations, including Judah, being judged by God, to whom does God’s promises of “turning mourning to joy, a new covenant, they shall be My people, I will be their God” apply? On what basis could these promises apply to people today?
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Lamentations 1-5
Watch a Bible Project video about Lamentations 
1: How lonely sits the city
2: The Lord has destroyed without pity
3: Great is Your Faithfulness
4: The Holy Stones lie scattered
5: Restore us to Yourself O LORD

Ponder: 
? What is the difference between lamenting the experiences of suffering judgment and lamenting our rejection of God and His faithfulness?
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Jeremiah 35 is a fascinating chapter. Judah was surrounded and facing destruction from the Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Syrians. God told Jeremiah to call a family, called the Rechabites, to a Jerusalem meeting where he tested their obedience to God in an unusual way. Read it, only 19 verses. This test was an example to the rest of the Jews whose disobedience was resulting in terror and ultimate exile because they were “refusing to receive instruction and listen to God’s words.” If we want to “never lack our families to stand before God,” we should take most seriously “receiving instruction and listening to God’s words.”

God Asks Us: Jeremiah 35:13 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words? declares the Lord.

Ponder: 
? In what ways did the Rechabites stand out in their Jewish culture?
? How did their specific test demonstrate their overall response to God?
? Did God give the identical test to all the Jewish families? why or why not?
? Does God give us all the same instructions and tests?
? What “words to receive and listen to” is God giving us today?
? How is “receive and listen” related to “ponder?”

Read Past Weekly Texts

Have a BLESSED LIFE?

Psalm 1

"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is lika a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous, for the LORD knows the way of the righteous but the way of the wicked will perish."

John 10:10

Jesus said: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

“have life:” other times

John 20:31  "but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name."
1John 5:12  "Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life."
John 5:40  "yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life."

LIFE vs life?

LIFE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Life in the kingdom of the world

Psalm 1: "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers :2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD and on his law he meditates day and night."

John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, I came that they may have life and have it abundantly."

Judges 21:25 "In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes."

Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Isaiah 53:6 "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned —every one—to his own way; …"

It is easy to think of the Christian LIFE as just a part of life. But in reality when God rescues a person He makes them a "new creation" with "LIFE abundant." And this LIFE affects everything in and around the True Saint. The Bible applies to every area of our lives. It is appropriate and valuable to ask how every Bible passage describes GOD, myself, and others. 

Read:  Am I "Living Dead or Living Alive?"

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