OCTOBER 25
Theme: Knowbility
Topic: Be real Be rean: Glory of Kings
I’m excited to be sharing today!
Our theme this month is Knowbility.
Our Topic today is Be real Be rean: Glory of Kings
Theme. We’re spelling Knowbility with a K. Because God is about knowing us. Relationship is God’s plan. Relationship is God’s plan for eternity. AND HE is the nobility. He’s the King. And WE get to KNOW the nobility.
NOT ONLY THAT. But in KNOWING GOD, or as we say, KNOWING NOBILITY, HE makes US Royal. HE includes us as NOBILITY. SO WE ARE KINGS.
BE REAL. WHAT IS AUTHENTICITY?
Essentialism or Existentialism?
Plato & Aristotle - The Knife. Everything has an “Essence”
Existentialism - Jean-Paul “John Paul” Sartre. (A Marxist)
Existential Authenticity is to be “Authentic to your self” it means to accept that you have no purpose apart from what you define for yourself.
Essentialism Authenticity is simply objective. This line’s up with TRUTH.
Jesus is the TRUTH. Christianity is to follow the truth.
So, AUTHENTICITY IS TO BE OBEDIENT TO GOD.
ROMANS 1. Because of Creation (What we observe to be real) We are without excuse. God has made himself known.
That leads me to the Bereans.
BEREANS
Berean notes: Acts 17:11
Receive it with Joy
This is such an important key to being a Berean. There is an epidemic of skeptics allowing their Joy to be robbed.
Search it out
Searching out must be done with a humble heart yielded to the Spirit.
As above, with AUTHENTICITY. Fact-checking has become wild. Snopes, Facebook etc. I saw a meme. It had France 1940 “The Germans are coming!” And it was fact-checked by Facebook as half true because it wasn’t ALL the germans, just the military. Now, of course, that didn’t happen, but it resonates with us because it reflects what’s going on daily.
GLORY OF KINGS
Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
What I searched out for Be real was dope right? Isn’t it satisfying when you search out a matter and you get glory from it?
Here’s a BUNCH of nuggets of Glory I have received from my searching out.
- Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered in 1946.
Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest Hebrew-language manuscripts of the Bible were Masoretic texts dating to the 10th century CE, such as the Aleppo Codex.[506] Today, the oldest known extant manuscripts of the Masoretic Text date from approximately the 9th century. The biblical manuscripts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls push that date back a full thousand years, to the 2nd century BCE.[507] This was a significant discovery for Old Testament scholars who anticipated that the Dead Sea Scrolls would either affirm or repudiate the reliability of textual transmission from the original texts to the oldest Masoretic texts at hand. The discovery demonstrated the unusual accuracy of transmission over a thousand-year period, rendering it reasonable to believe that current Old Testament texts are reliable copies of the original works.
According to The Dead Sea Scrolls by Hebrew scholar Millar Burrows,
Of the 166 words in Isaiah 53, there are only seventeen letters in question. Ten of these letters are simply a matter of spelling, which does not affect the sense. Four more letters are minor stylistic changes, such as conjunctions. The remaining three letters comprise the word "light," which is added in verse 11, and does not affect the meaning greatly.[508]
- Mt Sinai Archeology
Amazing Evidence for the miracles in Exodus
Handy link
Double Slit Experiment
Some people point to the size of the universe to show that we humans are irrelevant, insignificant beings. The crazy thing is that the double slit experiment showed that when we, the supposed irrelevant, insignificant beings observe how particles behave, those particles actually change their behavior!! This is a huge mystery in science and I take encouragement from it. God made the universe for us, so it’s no surprise to me that the fabric of the universe changes its behavior when we actively observe it.
Handy Link
Dawkins admission - Fine Tuned Universe
In Dorkin’s Book “The God Delusion” he admits that the universe appears to be designed. Energy mass ratio 7.
Dawkins apparent huge “Gotcha”
In Dorkin’s Book “The God Delusion” he puts forward to be what he considers the ultimate argument against God. It basically boils down to “Who made God?” And he acts as if there isn’t an answer to that question. There is. No one made God. He’s eternal. God created time itself. He’s outside our finite limited minds. He is beyond our experience. He created out experience, He created time as we know it. Therefore he’s not limited by our restrictions to a “Beginning” and an “End”. Being outside of time, He has always been.
IS SCIENCE RELIABLE?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
The replication crisis (or replicability crisis) refers to a methodological crisis in science in which scientists have found that the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicateon subsequent investigation, either by independent researchers or by the original researchers themselves. While the crisis has long-standing roots, the phrase was coined in the early 2010s as part of a growing awareness of the problem.
According to a 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists reported in the journal Nature, 70% of them had failed to reproduce at least one other scientist's experiment (50% had failed to reproduce one of their own experiments). These numbers differ among disciplines:
• ¥ chemistry: 90% (60%),
• ¥ biology: 80% (60%),
• ¥ physics and engineering: 70% (50%),
• ¥ medicine: 70% (60%),
• ¥ Earth and environment science: 60% (40%).
In 2009, 2% of scientists admitted to falsifying studies at least once and 14% admitted to personally knowing someone who did. Misconducts were reported more frequently by medical researchers than others.
Humans are flawed. Trusting science as if it’s the be all and end all of truth is nonsense.
Signature in the cell
Intelligent design. The science AND the impact on the psychological (I have purpose vs I have no purpose) - Reject existentialism!!
Dr Stephen Meyer makes the compelling case that Intelligent Design is THE best scientific explanation for Biogenesis
COMMON ANCESTOR? OR COMMON DESIGNER!
Something not commonly spoken about with the faith vs evolution debacle is how do we as people of faith actually explain the evidence evolutionists point to. Beyond “That was the devil” there hasn’t be a whole lot of public discourse. Personally, one of the lines I like to share is to challenge the notion of a “common ancestor” with the idea of a common designer. Famous painters can be identified by their brushstrokes. Scientists point to the common building blocks found in all life and use that to say we all evolved from lesser beings. I suggest however that what is being observed as the building blocks of life are the brushstrokes of God. He has his methods. We have never created life, not a universe for that matter.
Omniscience. We Know a little, HE knows the LOT.
What are the chances?
Evolution relies on our DNA changing over time. DNA is merely digital code in biological form. So, Seeing as we can’t observe code changing in a positive way over millions of years as evolutionists suggest, is there something else we can look to for the same effect?
Computer code!
1,966,514,816 Computers connected to the internet
Windows XP 40,000,000 lines of code.
Run for one year.
This is the equivalent of a line of code being processed for 786605992640000000 YEARS
7.8 Quintillion. 7 Billion, Billion years.
Not one example of information being added without external influence. Only examples we have is that when the code changes, we lose information. Entropy.
Please read “Signature in the cell” for much more along this path.
- Stoner - Science Speaks - Prophecies
Handy Link
Ridiculous basis of doubts over the text.
Why do people attack Luke’s authorship? I dug really hard into this and it’s almost funny enough to be a joke. Luke, the gentile physician as described in Colossians 4:14, has the supposed issue of being mentioned in Colossians. Apparently Colossians is a forgery because Paul used 34 words he’d never used in one of his previous letters, and the Jewish & Gentile relations weren’t described hostile enough to be written by Paul. This is almost Monty Python witch hunt level reasoning.
PERSONAL REVELATIONS
Megamorphic
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
The promises to the churches Revelation 1-3
Revelation Promises.
1. Revelation 2:7 To the one who is victorious,I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
2. Revelation 2:11 The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.
3. Revelation 2:17 To the one who is victorious,I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
4. Revelation 2:26 To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations—27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’[b]—just as I have received authority from my Father. 28 I will also give that one the morning star.
5. Revelation 3:5 The one who is victorious will be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.
6. Revelation 3:12 The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.
7. Revelation 3:21 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Summary:
• Citizenship of paradise
• Immortal
• Forgiveness
• Authority over nations
• Irrevocable inclusion
• We will be established and given security clearance
• We are given the right to sit on the throne of the UNIVERSE
The 1 Corinthians 3/Revelation 21 connection
I used to think “Building the kingdom go God” was an allegoric saying. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t think his kingdom was allegoric. I know it’s very real. But leading people to Jesus, I figured increasing the number of those who are saved was what but the kingdom. Then God showed me this
1 Corinthians 3 :9-15
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
Gold, Silver, Precious stones. The things that do not burn up in fire. The things that become MORE PURE in fire.
Jesus himself said to store up treasure in heaven. Matthew 6:19–20
But what if those works of Gold, Silver and Precious stones really were real? God promoted me after reading this passage in my personal reading one day to go to Revelation 21.
Revelation 21:9-10 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God
First, we see that the angel shows John the bride The lamb’s wife. We know that the bride of Christ is the church. So the angel is going to show John the church.
Then, we see that In showing John the church, he shows John the New Jerusalem, I.e. Heaven.
This is amazing. The church is heaven?! What’s going on here?!
Let’s jump to v18-21
18 The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. 19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
It’s made of Gold, Silver & precious stones. I used to see “building the kingdom of heaven” as an allegorical phrase. But not any more. It would seem from these verses we’re literally building the kingdom of God.
Chuck Missler’s Question
Chuck Missler has asked many times “why must Jesus go for the Holy Spirit to come”? He said he never got an answer, and as far as I know didn’t get it on this side of eternity. One time I was praying and God told me, “The answer to Chuck’s question, My spirit always dwells in Christ’s body, The church is His body"
BID
Commit To being a Berean. CHASE GLORY!