Faith Seeking Understanding Podcast

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In this sermon we look at why God tells us not to rely on other sources of knowledge apart from him. Read I Sam. 15 to better understand the text being preached, I Sam. 28. Follow me on my blog: luisjovel.net

YHWH is our ONLY God Intro We are the people of the one true God. But what does that involve? What does that require of us? In today’s society, one god can be as good as another. In Biblical times, they were a plurality of gods for every single need. Some were for crops as Baal and his wife Ashera, others were for traveling in the sea as Poseidon, and others were there to control the forces of nature, as your favourite Nordic god, Thor. But in Israel, YHWH was the God in control of all creation. In Job 42:2 we read “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.” It is the God of Israel that controls all. This is the same God the Church has. We share in the same promises and blessings that Israel received, cf. Ephe. 2:11-22. But we also share Israel’s responsibilities, and I would like to point out 3 of them as found them in what is known as the Ten Commandments. Exposition Exodus 20:1-11 deal with how humans are to relate to the God of Israel. We will see only verses 1-6. Notice, that they are not called “commandments” rather than “words”. God is just not telling us what to do, but it is a relation that is being spelled out. 20:1-3. Usually vs. 2 is taken as part of the first commandment. Why is it that we should not have no other gods? Because YHWH has delivered us from the gods of Egypt. It would be quite ridiculous that after witnessing the defeat of those gods, Israel should worship them, but that is what they are warned about in our next word. The Isralites were prone to follow other gods. After Moses and Joshua died, they turn to other gods, cf. Judges 2. Worship of Ashera was ripe, 2 Kings 21:7. King Josiah finally did away with such worship, 2 Kings 23:14. Before this Reform, there were worshipping other idols in God’s own temple, cf. Ezekiel 8. Sometimes, even objects that YHWH had given the people of Israel as a sign of his deliverance had become idols, as in the case of the bronze serpent, Num. 21:4-9, it had to be destroyed, 2 Kings 18:1-4. We could go on numbering the times that the Isralites were unfaithful to YHWH but let us come to our situation. As the Isralites, we were saved from slavery from Egypt through our baptism, Romans 6:1-7; I Cor. 10:1-20. We will talk about demons and other beings in the next sermon, but let us notice that we are called into considering how Israel carried out, and fail, in their calling to worship only YHWH. Which are our idols? Food, cars, work, children, internet, youtube, kpop, books, a church leader, church itself? We found out about how Ravi Zacharia kept a hidden life, and many have defended his abuse for being a man of God!! Jesus is the only sanctioned idol (icon in greek) that we may have, cf. Col. 1:15. Let’s not fall into the errors that Israel fell into. We are told that what happened to them is an example for us today so we may not fall. And if we have fallen and have idols in our hearts and mind, let us turn to Jesus, and ask for forgiveness, and trust in him, that we will receive it, 1 John. 2:1-2. Let me finish by reading the last words of this same epistle. 1 John. 5:21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. You can follow me on my blog: luisjovel.net

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Engraved Hebrew seals and how they can help us understand better the historical and cultural context of the Old Testament. We talk about it.

Fourth part of the interview.

3rd of my interview of Ben Stanhope, on the controversial topic of death before the fall.

Second of our interview of Ben Stanhope, in which we speak about the days of creation, their nature and if they are literal or symbolic.

Having a look at the mythical monsters found in Scripture and also in other Ancient Near Eastern cultures.

Final of the interview with Dr. Keener.

Part 2 of our interview.

Answering to the objections posed by David Hume and David Strauss.

Christians need to know what the Bible says about Angels, and not to follow other sources of knowledge about them.

Notas Teologicas is doing a series of interviews to Bible Scholars. We start with Paul Copan.

Just an introductory episode about God.

The Bible looks like an awful long book. This is the reason that usually stops people from reading it. Maybe you are one of those people who see the bible as a thick, very thick book that is not worthy even to open it and have a peek inside. But when you think of it, if you enjoy good literature, you will enjoy reading the Bible. It has poetry, mystery, murder, betrayal, heroic stories, love and sex, no good story can lack sex, taboo subjects, incest, military endeavours, and science fiction! That’s right, science fiction, and if you stick to this podcast, you will get to hear about it. The Bible has all of those subjects, and many more. Sure, some of them are boring like long, long, LONG, genealogies, but you can always skip them in your first read, but sooner or later, you will find out that you had to read those, in order to understand certain parts. Listen to the rest of the podcast. You may be amazed!!!

Welcome to our first The Faith Seeking Understanding Podcast. As I am a human being, I made a mistake. I said that Anselm was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1023, but the correct date is 1093. I hope you enjoy the pilot episode. Intro and Out music is done by: Peter Crowley's Fantasy Dream Buy his music here : Bandcamp : http://petercrowley.bandcamp.com/ iTunes : http://ecra.se/B1 CD Baby : http://url.exen.fr/cdbaby Amazon mp3 : http://ecra.se/B2