An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens October 31, 2024
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If we don’t listen to God, how will we ever hear Him.
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How Can I Trust the Bible? October 30, 2024
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Sometimes we try to define God’s words and actions too perfectly. In our arrogance we think we can adequately describe exactly what God always means in all situations. This easily can lead us into thinking our doctrines are God’s doctrines. We act as if God is sitting on the throne studying our catechisms and judging by our standards.
When we do this, we’re trying to put God in a box. The biggest problem with this is that when God decides to draw outside the lines, we run the risk of misidentifying a move of God as a heresy because it violates one of our rules.
It’s good to devote our efforts to grasping the meanings of God’s Word; however, we must always be aware that it’s possible to veer from seeking understanding to believing we have cornered the market on this valuable commodity. We just can’t reduce the immensity of God into formulas. In any equation we devise to represent God, His Word, or His actions the “X” of God is always undefined.
Eternity, infinity, and omnipresence are all terms we can define but we can never fully comprehend. The reality of God, the only self-existent One is as far removed from our understanding as the operation of a supercomputer is from an amoeba. Or as one of the prophets put it, “’For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.’”[1]
We must acknowledge that we can’t think our way to or through God’s truth. Our human minds are fundamentally incapable of encompassing such immensities. As the man who wrote most of the New Testament tells us, “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”[2]
Many unbelievers and sceptics try to cast aspersions on the Word of God by pointing out what they perceive as contradictions in the text. When we’re reading or meditating in the Word if we encounter anything we feel is a contradiction don’t let it weaken your faith instead stand on faith. Instead of wavering do as one of the New Testament authors suggests, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”[3]
And don’t despair, don’t think I just can’t understand this. Don’t think God has given us a puzzle instead of a revelation. Just because we can never fully understand all of it does not mean we can’t understand any of it. Just because we can’t use God’s Word to develop a spiritual unifying field theory for every person everywhere every time it doesn’t mean we can’t understand enough with God’s help to have a reliable guide for life. The Bible itself addresses the ability of the born-again believer to embrace the revelation of God, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.”[4]
[1][1] Isaiah 55:8-9
[2] 1 Corinthians 2:14
[3][3] James 1:5-8 NKJV
[4] 1 Corinthians 2:12 NKJV
Season Three Episode Thirty-five October 29, 2024
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In Episode Thirty-five / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share one of the world’s greatest gospel songs: Amazing Grace. Then we play two old revival songs: Jesus on the Mainline and I Know it Was the Blood. We also play one of our homegrown songs: The Nashville Gospel. For our Bible study this week we look at I Corinthians 2:12-14. In this passage we learn that the things of God cannot be discerned except by the Spirit of God. Robert reads another essay from his series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) reading Essay # 69from the book, Love: “How Can I Trust the Bible.”
The text of this essay will be posted the day after the release of this episode at www.itookarighturn.com and www.drrobertowens.com All of Robert’s thirty-six books are available in paper back and kindle through Amazon. We also invite everyone to visit our online art store, The Pair a Docs Shop where we offer our original paintings, prints and merchandise.
An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens October 28, 2024
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Never expect a fair ruling from a corrupt judge.
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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens October 27, 2024
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Evil people care nothing about justice.
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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens October 26, 2024
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If we praise God but never do what He tells us to do, we haven’t done anything.
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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens October 25, 2024
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God loves us when we’re at our best. God loves us when we’re at our worst. We should love others the same way generously and genuinely with an open heart.
This is an excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens. This and all his books are available from Amazon in paperback or kindle at
Dr. Owens’ Newest Book: New Old Sayings Volume Six October 24, 2024
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The idea that God speaks to us is in a deeply personal way is nonsensical to the worldly. The truth of the matter is: God speaks. And that says it all.
Dr. Owens offers here the sixth volume of New Old Sayings. He doesn’t end this book by saying, “Thus said the Lord.” He doesn’t claim literal inspiration for what is contained within these pages. However, he does believe and proclaim that God speaks to him. How does he say to God speaks to him? He maintains that God speaks to him primarily through His Bible. And he believes God will speak to anyone who will listen. He also says, “I’ve found God weaving His way through nature, people, books, songs, paintings, poetry, movies, and websites. Everywhere I look I see God. His voice flows through my reality touching everything. Even those who reject God, those who try with all their might to deny Him give context and substance to His words for He includes them in His revelation saying, ‘The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’”
New Old Sayings Volume Six
He is the Head We Are the Body October 23, 2024
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As the body of Christ, we are His hands, His feet, and we should strive to speak His words, see with His eyes, and love with His heart. We’ve been washed in His blood, and we are the redeemed.
And this is not merely a spiritual renewal though that is the foundation of all that flows from it. We are renewed when we reckon ourselves dead to this world and alive to God.[1] When we put off the old man born in sin in the line of Adam and are re-born in the likeness of our Savior, Jesus Christ, the second Adam.[2]
This action: cleansing the sinner of all guilt and making us able to stand in the throne room in the very presence of God with no shame or feelings of inadequacy may seem extravagant. Paul tells us that we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, and that all this is not some hap-hazard addendum.[3] No, it flows directly from all God’s wisdom and prudence.
This action on God’s part not only impacts the spiritual renewal of the believer. It also leads to a physical and mental renewal which the believer experiences here-and-now. This is the redemption of our bodies.
And just as Christ is redeemed now so is the believer who is in Christ Jesus. Our bodies will someday be glorified fully in the presence of God, but in the here and now we taste the first fruit of our redemption in the total renewing of our lives.[4] For as members of the body of Christ, as children of God, as joint heirs together with Jesus we are born of one baptism and filled with one Spirit.[5] We are the body and Christ is the head.[6]
However, since we are born of the flesh as descendants of the first Adam. Conceived, born, living in sin, and the members of a lost and degraded race, we must be redeemed and sanctified before we can enter the kingdom of God. Remember we were chosen in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world. Once we have accepted Christ as our Savior and believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead this inheritance is our possession
However, we must possess our possessions for them to do us any good. If we don’t accept the love of God in and through Christ Jesus, they are just so many gifts lying about unaccepted.
The life is in the blood.[7] And it is the shedding of His blood that is the first action in the unfolding of our redemption. This is the Good News and it’s the best news ever. Christ poured out His blood so that we might be freed from our burden of sin. There is no longer an unbridgeable gulf between God and humanity. The sin life, the sin nature that the first Adam assumed when he disobeyed God and then passed on to all his offspring has been washed away in the blood of Calvary.
Lord, let us see with your eyes, hear with your ears, love with your heart, and touch with your hands. As we strive to be about Your business send us somewhere to be a blessing to someone somehow.
He is the head we are the body
As the body of Christ, we are His hands, His feet, we should strive to speak His words, see with His eyes, and love with His heart. We’ve been washed in His blood, and we are the redeemed.
And this is not merely a spiritual renewal though that is the foundation of all that flows from it. We are renewed when we reckon ourselves dead to this world and alive to God.[8] When we put off the old man born in sin in the line of Adam and are re-born in the likeness of our Savior the second Adam.[9]
This action, cleansing the sinner of all guilt and making us able to stand in His presence with no shame or feelings of inadequacy may seem extravagant. However, in the verse we are currently examining Paul tells us that we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins and that all this is not some hap-hazard addendum. No, it flows directly from God’s all wisdom and prudence.
This action on God’s part not only impacts the spiritual renewal of the believer. It also leads to a physical and mental renewal which the believer experiences here-and-now. This is the redemption of our bodies.
And just as Christ is redeemed now so is the believer who is in Christ Jesus. Our bodies will someday be glorified fully in the presence of God but in the here and now we taste the first fruit of our redemption in the renewing of our lives in totality.[10] For as members of the body of Christ, as children of God, as joint heirs together with Jesus we are born of one baptism, filled with one Spirit, we are the body and Christ is the head.[11]
However, since we are born of the flesh as descendants of the first Adam conceived, born, living in sin, the members of a lost and degraded race we must be redeemed and sanctified before we can enter the kingdom of God. Remember we were chosen in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world. This inheritance is our possession once we have accepted Christ as our Savior and believe in our heart that God has raised Him from the dead.
However, we must possess our possessions for them to do us any good. If we don’t accept the love of God in and through Christ Jesus, they are just so many gifts lying about unaccepted.
The life is in the blood.[12] And it is the shedding of His blood that is the first action in the unfolding of our redemption. This is the Good News. Actually, it’s the best news ever. Christ poured out His blood so that we might be freed from our burden of sin. There is no longer an unbridgeable gulf between God and humanity. The sin life, the sin nature that the first Adam assumed when he sinned and then passed on to all his offspring has been washed away in the blood of Calvary.
Lord, let us see with your eyes, hear with your ears, love with your heart, and touch with your hands. As we strive to be about your business send us somewhere to be a blessing to someone somehow.
[1] Romans 9:11
[2][2] Romans 5:12-19
[3][3] Ephesians 1:7-8
[4][4] Romans 8:1-11
[5] Galatians 3:26-29
[6][6] Colossians 1:18
[7][7] Leviticus 17:11
[8] Romans 6:11
[9] Roams 5:12-19, I Corinthians 15: 20-22 & 45-49
[10] Romans 8:1-11
[11] Galatians 3:26-29
[12] Leviticus 17:11, Leviticus 17:14, Deuteronomy 12:23
Season Three Episode Thirty-four October 22, 2024
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In Episode Thirty-four / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We share one of America’s greatest gospel songs: The Battle Hymn of the Republic. We also sing two old praise songs: I Woke up the Morning and One More Mountain to Climb. Then we share one of our homegrown songs: He Will Save You Too. This week we dive into I Corinthians 15:45-49 and Galatians 3:26-29 which teaches us that Jesus Christ is the second Adam who birthed a new creation. Robert reads another essay from his series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) reading Essay # 6 from the book, Love: “He is the Head and We Are the Body.”
The text of this essay will be posted the day after the release of this episode at www.itookarighturn.com and www.drrobertowens.com All of Robert’s thirty-six books are available in paper back and kindle through Amazon. We also invite everyone to visit our online art store, The Pair a Docs Shop where we offer our original paintings, prints and merchandise.
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