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11/26/2002 |
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11/30/2002 |
2 |
| -Did God show temporal kindness to the people of Sodom and
Gomorroah? (Gen.19:12-19) |
| -"Kindness:" a word referring directly to salvation
(Exodus 15:13; Ps. 23:6) |
| -Does God's "goodness" or "kindness" refer to the entirety of
His creation? (Psalm 33:5) |
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12/03/2002 |
3 |
| -Rahab and the spies: the "Kindness" covenant (Jos. 2, 6) |
| -Rahab and her father's whole house is SAVED by the "kindness"
of God |
| -What of the seemingly multitude blessings God showered upon
Israel in the wilderness?
(Psalm 78) |
| -God's perfect reason behind apparent, temporal blessings (Deut.
8)
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12/07/2002 |
4 |
| -Titus 3:4: love, mercy, justification, regeneration, etc,
are synonyms for God's kindness |
| -Lk. 18's Publican: His prayer for mercy is born of his having
become justified |
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Mt. 5:45: Does it teach that God's kindness is upon the
reprobate?
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-How do we find derivatives of Greek words only using the Strong's
concordance? |
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12/14/2002 |
5 |
| -"Kindness" is one of the attributes or fruits of the Spirit
(Gal. 5:22) |
| -God's kindness has to do with His eternal kindness in salvation
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| -A look at 2 Samuel 7:10-15 and its proper spiritual
interpretation |
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12/17/2002 |
6 |
| -God is sovereign over all things and answers to no one
(Ps. 33:11; Is. 46:10; Prov. 19:21) |
| -The study of the kindness of God is really the study of how God
views and deals with the human race (Rom. 9:22-24; Prov. 16:4)
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| -God treats the unsaved Elect differently than He treats the
unsaved reprobate
(Eph. 1:11; Rom. 8:28) |
| -Both the Elect and the reprobate will be to the praise of His
glory (Eph. 1:12; Rom. 14:11) |
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12/21/2002 |
7 |
| -A review of the Biblical definition of God's kindness
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| -Does God bestow a temporal kindness on the reprobate? ( Matt.
5:45; 2 Sam. 7:10-15) |
| -How God views the unsaved Elect
(Col. 1:21; 2:13-14) |
| -A look at some of the fallacies of the "common grace"
doctrine (2 Tim. 2:9,10; Matt. 12:36; Heb. 4:12,13; Rom.1:18-21)
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| -God looks at His Elect differently than, and apart from,
the corporate body (Ex. 33:12; Joshua 1; Deut. 8; Heb. 12:20-27;
Matt. 8:11-12; Gal. 4; Hos.8, 9) |
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12/24/2002 |
8 |
| -Passages in the Bible which seem to be a problem in
understanding the kindness of God (Matt. 5; 2 Sam. 7:10-15) |
| -How 2 Sam. 7:10-15 is related to God departing from the
corporate church (Hos. 9:11-12; Deut. 31:14-18; Jer. 9:2; Ez. 11:16; Jer.
51:9) |
| -When did the corporate church become "Mystery Babylon"?
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| -A discussion on the "third woe" of Revelation 11:14 |
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12/28/2002 |
9 |
| -What the N.T. teaches concerning the kindness of God (Eph.
4:32; Col. 3:12-14; Gal. 5:22) |
| -God is not kind in the temporal sense, only in the eternal
sense (Eph. 2:7; Titus 3:3-6; Jn.17) |
| -Kindness and longsuffering are two sides of the same coin (2
Peter 3:15) |
| -God's love is selective: "For many are called, but few are
chosen" (Matt. 22:14) |
| -Ephesians 4:14-32: a commentary on Matthew 5 and Luke 6
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| -"Kindness" is one of the attributes of one truly saved |
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01/07/2003 |
10 |
| -God having "appointed a day" of judgment (Acts 17:31) correctly
comments on the "long- suffering" of
God, recorded in 2 Peter 3:9 |
| -The reason behind the Gospel being "spoken" first to the Jews
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| -A look into the "disorderly" (2 Thess. 3:6,11) and "unruly" (1 Thess.
5:14) as those not
"ordained," those not "working |
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01/11/2003 |
11 |
| -Kindness of God: the forgiveness of sins
(Rom. 2:4) |
| -God's goodness, kindness or longsuffering leads to Repentance
(Rom. 2:4) |
| -God's longsuffering: a time period during which God waits unto His
appointed time |
| a) for the salvation of His elect
(Rom. 2:4; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Pet. 3:9,15) |
| b) for the display of His wrath on the "vessels of wrath fitted
to destruction" (Rom. 9:22) |
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01/18/2003 |
12 |
| -Main thrust of "kindness": the
forgiveness of sins |
| -Further study on "longsuffering", a word often linked with
"kindness" in the N. T. (Rom. 2:4) |
| -God's longsuffering is never in vain, never impotent (Rom. 2:4;
9:22; 2 Pet. 3:9) |
| -What the Bible says about the patience or longsuffering
of believers toward the world
(Eph. 4:2; Col..3:12;1Tim.1:16;) |
| -A study of the Greek word, rendered "bear long" in Luke 18:7 |
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01/21/2003 |
13 |
| -Review of O.T. definition of "kindness" - God's mercy, covering
of sin, and New Covenant |
| -Review of N.T. definition of "kindness" |
| -Longsuffering, forgiveness of sins |
| -A study of the word, "better," as used in the N.T. and O.T.
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| -Most often points to the New or eternal Covenant, i.e., the
superior, more glorious relationship between Christ and His Elect
Bride (Ruth 4:15; Esther 1:19; Ps. 63:3; 2 Cor. 3:8,9) |
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01/25/2003 |
14 |
| -Study of the Hebrew word rendered,
"good" and "better", Strong's # 2896 |
| -How the Bible defines "little" (Mark 4:31; John 12:24) |
| -A look at the elect "seed" and the "better" Covenant (Gal.
4:27) |
| -External riches of those who claim to have the law of God
(Luke12:15;Jer.8:8) |
| -Study of the relationship between the Hebrew word rendered, "lovingkindness",
Strong's # 2617 and the Hebrew word,
rendered "good" and "better", Strong's # 2896 (1 Chron.
16:34; Psalm 23:6) |
| -God's lovingkindness: an aspect of His forgiveness and
mercy...it is good
(Ps.69:16; 86:5) |
| -How the Bible defines "righteousness"
(Rom. 4:5-8; Luke 15:7; 5:31-32) |
| -What the Bible says about the patience of God (Luke 18:1-9)
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01/28/2003 |
15 |
| -A look at how "righteousness" is a synonym for the Hebrew word
rendered "good" or "goodness" (Genesis 1; Romans 4:6-8) |
| -The Bible's definition of "goodness" - "sinless-ness" not
eternal life (Rom. 8:20) |
| -God's longsuffering is an exact period of time, focusing on the
"vessels of mercy"
(Rom. 9:22-23) |
| -A look at the parable of the two debtors (Matt.
18:21-35), learning that God defines His patience as the time period
He waits until unleashing His wrath |
| -God's children are to display His kindness, not rendering evil
for evil (Matt. 5:45; 18:35)
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02/01/2003 |
16 |
| -The Greek word, rendered "patience" - the time period that
precedes God's judgment when He is "bearing long" (Luke 18:1-8;
James 5:7,8) |
| -God's longsuffering is manifest in the action of God's waiting
(John 5:5; James 5:7) |
| -Christ did the ultimate "waiting" during the Atonement (Luke
18: the Psalms) |
| -God's longsuffering or waiting seems to indicate time markers
that divide the time periods in which salvation or judgment is being
applied of God |
| -God is "waiting" until the Day of Judgment
(1 Corinthians 15:24-28; Hebrews 10:8-13) |
| -The temporary branches of John 15 and Romans 11 |
| -The "waiting" until the day of the redemption of the believers'
bodies, coinciding with Judgment Day (Romans 8:18-25) |
| -"waiting" - focus seems to be on the period of going through
suffering until the fullness of the glory of salvation is revealed
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| -"longsuffering" - focus seems to be on the activity of
salvation during a time era |
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02/04/2003 |
17 |
| -Review on the "longsuffering" of God |
| -A picture of God's judgment as seen by the flooding of water:
invasion of heathen nations (Isaiah
8:7,8) |
| -The other meaning of the phrases, "even to the neck" and "ends
of the world"
(Is. 8:8; Heb. 1:1,2) |
| -What does the phrase, "a way to escape" really mean?
(1 Corinthians 10:13; Romans 11) |
| -How the Corporate Church becomes a trap, and that only the true
believers are given the way of escape (Revelation 18:2; Psalm 124)
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| -Another example of God using water to utterly destroy (Ps.106;
Acts 7:34; Neh.9:9-11) |
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02/11/2003 |
18 |
| -3 words that describe the kindness of God: "goodness,"
"longsuffering," and "forbearance" |
| -A more in-depth look at the "forbearance" of God |
| -Like the other 2 words above, "forbearance" is a time
period showing God's heart attitude as He waits until the appointed
time for the salvation of His children (Rom. 2:4) |
| -What did Christ mean when He said, "O faithless and perverse
generation, how long shall I be with you?" (Matt. 17:17; Mark 9:19;
Luke 9:41) |
| -God's forbearance, like the other words for His kindness, has
to do with forgiveness of sins for the Elect (Eph. 4:2; Col. 3:13)
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| -Those in the Corporate Church have forbearance for false
teachers, but not for God's true children (2 Tim. 4:3; 2 Cor. 11:3,4) |
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