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Children of God
[isbe] CHILDREN OF GOD - ||Introduction: Meaning of Terms I. OLD TESTAMENT TEACHING 1. Mythological Survivals 2. Created Sonship 3. Israel's Collective Covenant Sonship 4. Individual and Personal Relation 5. Universalizing the Idea...
[nave] CHILDREN OF GOD John 1:12; 11:52; Rom. 8:16, 17, 21; 9:8; Eph. 5:1; Phil. 2:15; 1 John 3:1, 2, 10; 5:2 See: Righteous.
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Calling, the Believer
[nave] CALLING, THE BELIEVER Gen. 3:9; 22:11; Ex. 3:4; 19:3; 24:16; 35:30; Lev. 1:1; 1 Sam. 3:4, 6, 8; Isa. 42:6; 49:1; 1 Cor. 7:15, 17, 22; 1 Thess. 2:12; 4:7; Heb. 5:4; 1 John 3:1
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Blindness
[nave] BLINDNESS Disqualified for priestly office, Lev. 21:18. Of animals, disqualified for a sacrifice, Lev. 22:22; Deut. 15:21; Mal. 1:8. Miraculously inflicted upon the Sodomites, Gen. 19:11; Syrians, 2 Kin. 6:18-23; Saul of T...
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Church
[nave] CHURCH, the collective body of believers. Miscellany of Minor Sub-Topics Called in the O.T., The Congregation, Ex. 12:3, 6, 19, 47; 16:1, 2, 9, 10, 22; Lev. 4:13, 15; 10:17; 24:14. Called in the N.T., Church, Matt. 16:18; ...
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Adoption
[nave] ADOPTION. Gen. 15:3. Of Children Instances of: Of Joseph's sons, Gen. 48:5, 14, 16, 22. Of Moses, Ex. 2:5-10; Acts 7:21; Heb. 11:24. Of Esther, Esth. 2:7. Spiritual Ex. 4:22, 23; Num. 6:27 Deut. 28:10; 2 Chr. 7:14; I...
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Image
[nave] IMAGE For idols. See: Idolatry. Figurative Mankind created in, of God, Gen. 1:26, 27; 5:1; 9:6; Jas. 3:9. Regenerated into, Psa. 17:15; Rom. 8:29; 2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10; 1 John 3:1-3. Christ, of God, Col. 1:1...
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Persecution
[nave] PERSECUTION See also Intolerance; Bigotry. Of Jesus Gen. 3:15; Psa. 2:1-5; Psa. 22:1, 2, 6-8, 11-21; Psa. 69:7-9, 20, 21, 26 vs. 1-21.; Psa. 109:25; Isa. 49:7; Isa. 50:6; Isa. 52:14; Isa. 53:2-5, 7-10; Mic. 5:1; Matt. 2:13...
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Jesus, The Christ
[nave] JESUS, THE CHRIST. Index of Sub-topics History of; Miscellaneous Facts Concerning; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Ascension of; Atonement by; Attributes of; Compassion of; Confessing; Creator; Death of; Design of His...
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SONS OF GOD (NEW TESTAMENT)
[isbe] SONS OF GOD (NEW TESTAMENT) - 1. New Testament Terms: Two Greek words are translated "son," teknon, huios, both words indicating sonship by parentage, the former indicating that the sonship has taken place by physical descen...
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God
[nave] GOD. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Access to; Compassion of; Creator; Creator of Mankind; Eternity of; Faithfulness of; Fatherhood of; Favor of; Foreknowledge of; Glory of; Goodness of...
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LOVE
[isbe] LOVE - luv ('ahebh, 'ahabhah, noun; phileo, agapao, verb; agape, noun): Love to both God and man is fundamental to true religion, whether as expressed in the Old Testament or the New Testament. Jesus Himself declared that al...
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GOD, 3
[isbe] GOD, 3 - III. The Idea of God in the New Testament. 1. Dependence on the Old Testament: The whole of the New Testament presupposes and rests upon the Old Testament. Jesus Christ and His disciples inherited the idea of God re...
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FATHER, GOD THE
[isbe] FATHER, GOD THE - In the Christian religion God is conceived of as "Father," "Our Father .... in heaven" (Mt 6:9,14,26, etc.), "the God and Father of the Lord Jesus" (2 Cor 11:31, etc.). The tenderness of relation and wealth...
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BESTOW
[isbe] BESTOW - be-sto': The seven Hebrew words rendered by this term variously mean "to put" or "place," "to give"; "do," "deposit," as e.g. to locate chariots and horsemen in cities (1 Ki 10:26); or give a blessing (Ex 32:29). Fo...
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JOHANNINE THEOLOGY, 1
[isbe] JOHANNINE THEOLOGY, 1 - jo-han'-in,-in: I. THE ANTECEDENTS 1. Personality of Writer 2. Earlier New Testament Writings 3. Christian Experience and Teaching of History 4. Widening Contact with Gentile World 5. The Odes of Solo...
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JOHANNINE THEOLOGY, 2
[isbe] JOHANNINE THEOLOGY, 2 - VI. Eternal Life. The development of the conception of eternal life must be set along with the doctrine of the moral nature of God and the doctrine of the incarnation as one of the greatest contributi...
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Son of God
[ebd] The plural, "sons of God," is used (Gen. 6:2, 4) to denote the pious descendants of Seth. In Job 1:6; 38:7 this name is applied to the angels. Hosea uses the phrase (1:10) to designate the gracious relation in which men stan...
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JUSTIFICATION
[isbe] JUSTIFICATION - jus-ti-fi-ka'-shun (tsedheq, verb tsadheq; Septuagint and New Testament dikaioma, dikaiosis, verb dikaioo, "justification" "to justify," in a legal sense, the declaring just or righteous. In Biblical literatu...
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JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF, PART 1-3
[isbe] JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF, PART 1-3 - || I. GENERAL CHARACTER 1. A True Letter 2. Subject-Matter 3. Characteristics of the Writer 4. Style and Diction II. POLEMICAL AIM 1. Gnosticism 2. Docetism 3. Antinomianism 4. Cerinthus III...
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PRAISE
[isbe] PRAISE - praz (tehillah, "psalm," "praise," todhah, "confession" "thanksgiving," shabhach, "to praise" "glorify," zamar, yadhah, "to stretch out the hand," "confess"; aineo, epaineo, (epainos): 1. Its Meaning: The word comes...
Arts
Hymns
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- Allah Bapa Melindungi [KJ.384] ( Children of the Heavenly Father )
- Dunia Kedinginan [KJ.121] ( In The Bleak Midwinter )
- Kini Sang Putra T'lah Menang [KJ.198]
- Tuhan, Betapa Banyaknya [KJ.393]
- [1Jo 3:1] Behold The Amazing Gift Of Love
- [1Jo 3:1] Behold, What Love!
- [1Jo 3:1] Behold What Wondrous Grace
- [1Jo 3:1] Behold, What Wondrous Love And Grace
- [1Jo 3:1] Blessed Are The Sons Of God
- [1Jo 3:1] Children Of The Heavenly Father
- [1Jo 3:1] Come, Let Us A Sing Of A Wonderful Love
- [1Jo 3:1] Father, Loving Father
- [1Jo 3:1] I Belong To The King
- [1Jo 3:1] It’s Just Like His Great Love
- [1Jo 3:1] O Father, We Would Thank Thee
- [1Jo 3:1] Our Father’s Love
- [1Jo 3:1] Wonderful Message
- [1Jo 3:1] Wonderful Story Of Love
Questions
- The only way out of any form of spiritual darkness is a firm faith in Christ. Spiritual darkness always means that in some way or other we are doubting him. We are often tempted to think that something else is necessary to be...
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Expository Notes on the Bible (Constable)
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Sometime later that day another group of leaders approached Jesus with another question but with the same purpose, to trap Him in a theological controversy that would destroy His reputation.22:23 The Pharisees believed in res...
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I. Introduction: the purpose of the epistle 1:1-4II. Living in the light 1:5-2:29A. God as light 1:5-7B. Conditions for living in the light 1:8-2:291. Renouncing sin 1:8-2:22. Obeying God 2:3-113. Rejecting worldliness 2:12-1...
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"The teaching of 1 John is concerned essentially with the conditions for true Christian discipleship. The two main divisions of the letter set out these conditions and exhort the readers to live in the light (1:5-2:29) as chi...
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"In the second division of this document (3:1-5:13) John concentrates on the developing spiritual life of his followers, rather than sustaining his attack on the heretics, some of whom have already seceded from his church (2:...
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This section introduces John's recapitulation and expansion of his exposition of what is necessary for people to have fellowship with God. He changed his figure from God as light to God as the Father of the believer."John beg...
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Having stated the theme of this section of the epistle in 3:1-3 (cf. 1:5-7) John proceeded to develop his assertion that believers are the children of God through Jesus Christ."In the preceding section John has been stressing...
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"The present vv, 3:4-9, form six strophes, each of which divides . . . roughly into half. The two halves of the strophes balance one another; for the second part of the v provides a development of the first part (vv 4, 5, 7),...
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3:10 The absence or presence of sin in the believer's life gives evidence of his or her relationship to God and Satan. It shows under whose authority we are living. John divided the world into two classes: those whose parenta...
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"The worldliness' in view here, as in 2:12-17, is primarily a wrong attitude: a determination to be anchored to a society which does not know God (cf. 3:1 . . .). But whereas in the earlier section John shows that worldly att...
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4:11 That demonstration of love by God is our model for showing love to others. As God manifested love in (among) us then by sending Jesus Christ, so He manifests His love among us now as we love one another (vv. 12-13).4:12 ...
Expositions Of Holy Scripture (Maclaren)
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Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God '--1 John 3:1.ONE or two points of an expository character will serve to introduce what else I have to say on these ...