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So Heavenly Minded You're No Earthly Good?

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"Don't be so heavenly minded that you're of no earthly good." Have you ever heard that expression before? It is a lie from the pit of hell. More accurately, don't be so earthly minded that you're of no heavenly good. Jesus said to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all the things you need will be added to you (Matthew 6:33). The writer of Hebrews said to desire a heavenly city. "For here [on earth] we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come" (13:14). Paul wrote to the Galatians to hold to the promise of the Jerusalem from above (4:26). And he told the Colossians, "If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above where Christ is. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth." (Colossians 3:1-4). When your hope is in Christ and His kingdom, nothing else will satisfy. Sin won't be as tempting. The world's attractions won't be as attra...

What Does the Bible Say About Social Justice?

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From Dr. Voddie Baucham out of a sermon on 2 Timothy 4:1-8: "If the social justice movement went by its actual name, young Christians would not have been lured into it. Because the social justice movement is actually Cultural Marxism. There's no such thing as 'social justice,' people. In fact, in the Bible, justice never has an adjective. There's justice and there's injustice, but there's not different kinds of justice." Social justice is an ambiguous term, but it's never social nor justice . People are put into different constituencies and everyone argues over who's privileged and who's not and who's to blame and who owes whom. Not considered are the millions of unborn children slaughtered by abortion. So social justice is less about loving people and more about pushing a particular narrative. The world will always be an unjust place because it's full of unjust people. Only God is just. "His work is perfect for all Hi...

What is a Faith Healer?

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What is a faith healer? A figment of imagination, that's what it is! Like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, a faith healer is a hoax. You might say, "Well wait a moment, doesn't the Bible say that some will be given gifts of healing?" Yes, but it doesn't say anyone will be a faith healer. "But what about Peter or Paul? They healed people!" Sure, they did. And sometimes they didn't. Paul couldn't heal himself when he got sick and had to stop in Galatia (Galatians 4:13), nor did he heal Timothy of his frequent stomach ailments (1 Timothy 5:23). So what was the purpose of these miracles, like speaking other languages, revealing prophecy, or healing the sick and even raising the dead? Hebrews 2:3-4 says that the message of salvation, the gospel, "was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distribu...

King James Onlyism?

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King James Onlyism is the belief that the 1611 King James Version of the Bible is the only divinely authorized English translation, while modern translations corrupt the Bible. As KJV Onlyist Robert Breaker has said, promoting Gail Riplinger's book on modern translations, "It's not just a deception. It's a Satanic conspiracy against the word of God." The most glaring flaw with King James Onlyism is not one verse in the Bible supports it. And that's pretty much it -- King James Onlyism is a false doctrine. Now if someone wants to use the King James Bible, that's fine -- if you can understand it. But to say it's the only translation God approved is a lie. King James onlyists argue the KJV is translated from the majority text, while modern versions are from corrupt Alexandrian texts. But the Byzantine texts used by King James translators were no older than the 11th century. We now have access to older and more reliable texts closer to the origin...

Would Jesus Bake a Cake for a Gay Wedding?

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If Jesus had been a baker instead of a carpenter, would Jesus bake a cake for a gay wedding? Of course not. In Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus said, "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let man not separate." If a man and another man have romantic feelings for one another, that's lust, and a perversion of God's design. If they decide to marry each other and stage a wedding, what they're doing is playing dress-up and pretending to have something only meant for a man and his wife. If you want to argue that Jesus would bake a wedding cake for them, you're saying Jesus would go along with this charade that a gay wedding can even be a thing, let alone a God-honoring thing, and Jesus would contradic...