Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
29 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel 30 who will not receive in this age a hundred times as muc…
The passage starts off with drawing a distinction between the law
“For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2 ESV
And it appears the law, through Christ, if…
What is the difference, biblically and theologically, between agape and phileo. I have read that secular Greek texts/philosophers thought phileo a higher form of love as it refers to intimacy and a desire to love, whereas agape is more a d…
The background verse here is this:
[Psa 118:26 NKJV] (26) Blessed [is] he who comes in the name of the LORD! We have blessed you from the house of the LORD.
The fulfillment appears here:
[Mat 21:1-11 NKJV] (1) Now when they drew near Je…
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things
that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to
the son of David!” they were indignant, and they said to him, “Do you
hear what these are sayi…
In Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21 the commandments are listed in a more or less similar way.Was thinking whether there are listed this way so as to potray a cascading pattern from the greatest in the beginning to the least at the en…
(Jude 1:24 in the Greek)
This is somewhat of a Greek interpretation question, though I assume someone might be able to find a reference to answer my question outside of the Greek language. I cannot find an answer to this anywhere, though I…
Revelation 19:1 YLT
And after these things I heard a great voice of a great multitude in the heaven, saying, ‘Alleluia! the salvation, and the glory, and the honour, and the power, is to the Lord our God;
Matthew 6:16 YLT
And mayest Thou n…
But I said: "I have toiled for nothing. I used up my strength for an unreality, in vain. But surely my judgment is with Jehovah, And my wages with my God."
Jesus Christ was perfect. He came to earth knowing what he must do and …
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a
flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in
them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the
house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoke…
We can read in
John 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the
world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
and in Hebrews
Hebrews 3:1: Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly
calling…
The Book of Judges contains a disturbing story known as the Levite’s Concubine, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the story of Lot’s daughters in Sodom.
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city,
ba…