#055 The Mystery Of Iniquity Part 1: The Great Counterfeiter

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#054 The King James Bible 400th Anniversary Tribute

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Links Mentioned:
Bro. Giardino’s bookstore - http://www.glbbc.org/bookstore
DVD – The Great Debate
Bro. Vance’s book “King James, His Bible and it’s Translators“
Bro. Faggart’s website - http://harvestbaptistnc.org
DVD – KJB:The Book That Changed the World: At Amazon.com
The Translators to the Reader – Preface to the King James Bible 1611 PDF File
The King James Bible Dedicatory – PDF file
Rules To Be Observed in the Translation of the Bible – PDF File

King James Bible 400th Anniversary Tribute

The King James Bible was originally published in 1611, thus this year marked the 400th anniversary of its publication.

With the glut of English versions available on the market today, it may be hard for the average Christian in 2011 to appreciate the fact that the Bible was not always available in English.

And although the King James Bible was not the first attempt at an English translation, it was the one that provided a purified English text and had the breath of God and the approval of the Holy Ghost.

If you’ve studied the 7 churches of the book of Revelation, you may be aware that in addition to being historical churches they were prophetical pictures of different chapters in the age of the New Testament Church.

One does not have to look very long or very hard at the churches or Christians of today to find in them the same characteristics of the church of Laodicea.

The church of the Laodiceans is the last of the churches that Jesus had John write to and it is characterized as being “lukewarm”. Not on fire with zeal, but not all cold and out of church and living in complete sin.

#053 Dreams

How much faith should you put in dreams? Should you trust your dreams? Does God use dreams to reveal his will to you? Find out what the Bible says about dreams!

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Dreams

-Sometimes dreams can be a blessing, while at other times they can be a nightmare.  Some dreams can make you smile while others can make you cry.  Dreams can even feel so real that once you wake up you really have to think hard about if it was an actual memory of real events in your life, or if it was just a dream.  Some people can control many aspects of their dreams, while others cannot and are just along for the ride.  So what exactly are dreams?  Where do they come from and on that note, do they mean something?

-The answer to these two questions depends on who you ask.  The occult such as fortune tellers, psychics, spiritualists and even some psychologists will tell you that your dreams have true meaning, and if properly interpreted can lead you in the right path for your life; that if you follow your dreams and their meanings you will find your purpose and your destiny in life.

-Sigmund Freud, who did not believe in God but had science and education as his god said; ” There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and…if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.  (The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900)

-So is Freud right? Can we use these dreams by having them interpreted and incorporated them into our daily lives to help us? Or are the psychics right when they say that dreams have meanings that need to be sought after and interpreted by them, to help us out?

-Well if you have been a listener of thatsinthebible for any length of time, you know exactly where we are going to find the answers to these questions.  We will

#052 It’s Still The Blood

Why such an emphasis on the Blood in both the old and new testaments of the Bible? Why are many working to remove all references to the blood of Jesus Christ in the new (mis)translations of the Bible? What is it about the blood of Jesus Christ that made him different from any man that had been born before him? Why did Jesus Christ have to shed his blood on the cross at Calvary?

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Today we are going to look at the role that Blood plays in the Bible culminating with the Blood that Christ shed on the cross. It’s a funny thing about blood, some people are very squeamish about it and will faint at the sight of blood. I know of a nurse who gets very faint at the sight of a lot of blood. Needless to say she has a job where she does not encounter a lot usually.

In early American history bloodletting was used as a treatment for a variety of illnesses often to the death of the patient. It has been said that a contributing cause for the death of George Washington was due to bloodletting, or draining out much of his blood in an attempt to make him well. As recently as 1942, Sir William Osler’s highly regarded medical textbook advocated bloodletting as a treatment for acute pneumonia.

In heathen cultures it has been a practice to drink blood. The Mayan culture who recently seemed to have gained some notoriety with purported predictions based on the mayan calandar are said to have gone so far as to offer sacrifices which included the cutting out and the removal of a beating heart, while it is still beating and pumping blood. The drinking of blood isn’t confined to ancient pagen practices, the Roman Catholic church today would have you believe that in a ceremony called the Mass (not found in the Bible) the catholic priest has the power to change inert wine into the blood of Jesus Christ (a gross misinterpretation of the John Chapter 6) and then their followers are told they are drinking the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ (a blatent contradiction of scriptures for the Bible is clear that you are forbidden to drink blood before the law Gen 9:4), during the law (Lev 17:14), and after the law (Acts 15:29). This is not to say that the Blood of Jesus Christ is not important, it certainly is as we will see today, which is why It’s also worth noting that all new mistranslations of the Bible such as the ASV, NIV and any other bible other than the King James Bible attack the blood reference to Jesus Christ. Sound far fetched?  Consider Colossians 1:14: the KJV reads, “In whom we have redemption THROUGH HIS BLOOD, even the forgiveness of sins:” The NIV reads, “In whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” The NIV, NASV, RSV, NRSV and remove the words “THROUGH HIS BLOOD”.

Many of the new hymn books have followed suit in their “praise” emphasis and have also removed most if not all mention of the redeeming power of the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Not to offend? 

#051 Me?! Forgive him?!!

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#050 The Two Natures

One of the great keys to understanding both yourself & others, as well as key parts of the New Testament, is an understanding of the doctrine of The Two Natures.  Today we will take up a study on that very subject.

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The Two Natures

1. The Natural Man

The term “the natural man” is introduced in I Cor. 2:14, But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. This verse shows us that the natural man is an unsaved man.  He does not receive the things of the Spirit of God and they are foolishness to him. This is man in his natural condition.  By nature, man is a sinner.  His ways are contrary to God.  He is lost and has a sin nature.  He inherited this sin nature from his earthly father, who inherited it from his earthly father and so on back to Adam.  (See Rom. 5:12) Because of this, by nature, man is spiritually dead and not a child of God.  Ephesians 2:1-3  And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins: {2} Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: {3} Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.This spiritually dead nature is attracted to the dead and sinful pleasures of the world, the flesh and the devil, and it is repulsed by the spiritual things of God. All lost people have only a sinful nature.

#049 The Law

Do you have questions about the Ten Commandments found in the Bible? Can we get to Heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments? What if you only keep 9 or 8 of them, can you still get to Heaven? Find out what the Bible says about the Ten Commandments and how they affect you today.

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The Law

We typically think of the 10 commandments when we hear the phrase “The Law”, but there are plenty more commandments found in God’s Law, but for sake of time we will only focus on the Ten Commandments.  Now it seems people have many questions about the law, in terms of why the law was given, and can we get to Heaven by keeping the 10 commandments? First let us look at what the 10 commandments are:

God gave the Nation of Israel the 10 commandments through Moses on Mount Sinai.  These are found in the Book of Exodus in Chapter 20:

1.Thou shalt have none other gods before me (vs.3)

2.Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image (vs’s.4-6)

3.Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain (vs.7)

4.Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy (vs’s.8-11)

5.Honour thy father and thy mother (vs.12)

6.Thou shalt not kill (vs.13)

7.Thou shalt not commit adultery (vs.14)

8.Thou shalt not steal (vs.15)

9.Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neigbour (vs.16)

10.Thou shalt not covet (vs.17)

A) Now let’s look at some of the reasons why God gave us the 10 commandments:

1.To keep sin down {Galatians 3:19} “Wherefore then serveth the law?  It was added because of transgressions…” One of the reasons why God gave us the 10 commandments is to deter us from sinning. Just like when you see that there is a 55 mile an hour speed limit, you are less likely to go 80 miles an hour. Our laws in this nation are based upon the laws of God.  Atheists may tray and deny this, but it is a fact that our founding fathers used God’s commandments as the basis for law in our government, when God is feared and His laws are feared it makes for a great nation.  We as a nation have gone far away from God and His commandments these days.