EVIDENTIALLY REASONABLE

EVIDENTIALLY REASONABLE

Sunday, July 12, 2020

2Corinthians (MKJV) 5:1-10 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling-place out of Heaven; if indeed in being clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened; inasmuch as we do not wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that the mortal might be swallowed up by the life. And He who has worked in us for this same thing is God, who also is giving to us the earnest of the Spirit. Then being always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight; then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord. Therefore we are also laboring to be well-pleasing to Him, whether at home or away from home. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to that which he has done, whether good or bad.

  What is our material life? It is like a vapor that appears very briefly and then disappears. (2Cor.5:1; Jam.4:14; 2Pet.3:10-14)

  Using human scribes, not angels, God communicated language comprehendible and preserved the information for our benefit, the Bible; His message eternal, yet applicable in the present in all eras at any age in every environment. (Isa.40:6-8; 2Tim.2:15-16; 3:15-16)

  What better way to communicate than in writing? Momentary speech or sight can be seriously misconstrued . . . and we later wonder if we heard or saw correctly. (Have you ever played the Telephone or Witness game?) With writing we can reread as often as we need or want.

  One of the things that is especially helpful in reading and studying God’s Word is that it repeats and repeats using numerous penman of different background and personality and from diverse locales over a long period of time.

  God’s Word authenticates as it directs and guides us only in reasonable manners. Let us conform and thereby be evidentially reasonable living and dying factors. (Rom.12:1-3) 

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