An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 25, 2024
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Speak up for those who have no voice.
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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 24, 2024
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There’s no need to fear the grave once by His blood we’re saved.
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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 23, 2024
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Above all else guard your heart, for all else flows from it.
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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 22, 2024
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Always help others, you might be the only one who does.
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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 21, 2024
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When we draw our last breath only one thing will matter, is our name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
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The Paradox of Free Will November 20, 2024
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How can we possibly believe in free will since Christians believe in His Omniscience God knows everything we’ll do in advance, and we also believe He has a plan for our lives before we’re born? So where is the free will?
God has perfect foreknowledge. This means He knows the end from the beginning and thus He knows what everyone will do in the future and what any individual will do in any given situation. God has a complete plan for everyone’s life. He knew how He wanted the universe to end before He created it and so He had a plan for every action needed to reach that end before the foundation of the world.
If God wants a particular thing to happen, He knows who will choose to do it, when they will choose to do it, and under what circumstances they will choose to do it. However, just because God already knows what choices we will make this in no way removes our free will.
You see God is outside our space time continuum. He is ever always in the now of eternity. And in this bubble, we call reality we are the ones making the choices.
One example might be to think about our own foreknowledge of History. We know how World War One ended. If we could go back in time to July of 1914 the fact that we already know how the War will end would not force anyone to do anything. Our knowing that the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria would knock over the first domino ending only with the Treaty of Versailles wouldn’t stop Gavrilo Princip from shooting Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
God created us with free choice. That’s why He told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the trees in the center of the garden. He told them not to do it, but He wouldn’t have said “Don’t do it,” if they couldn’t do it if they chose to. Free choice means not only that we can choose to ignore God’s commands it also means we can freely choose to confess with our lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead and so be saved.
It all hinges on free choice. God is looking for children who choose to love and follow Him, not robots who have no choice.
God’s knowing what we will freely choose doesn’t mean that we are in any way forced to make that choice. You can choose to believe this or not.
Season Three Episode Thirty-eight November 19, 2024
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In Episode Thirty-eight / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We play one of the world’s greatest revival songs: God is God. Then we sing some old-time praise and worship songs: Hallelujah I Want to Sing All About It, I’m On My Way to Heaven, and I Have Decided to Follow Jesus. Then we play one of our homegrown songs: Eye on the Prize. For our Bible study this week we investigate the Old Testament Deuteronomy 30:19-20 and Joshua 24:15comparing the content of those verses with John8:36 in the New Testament. In these passages we look at freedom of choice and the responsibility it brings. Robert reads another essay from his series of books on Christian living, (Faith, Hope, and Love) reading Essay # 19 from the book, Love: “The Paradox of Free Will.”
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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 18, 2024
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Atheists say God should come and reveal Himself to them then they would believe. He did and they nailed Him to a cross.
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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 17, 2024
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We never fail God’s tests because we’ll keep taking them over and over until we pass.
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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 16, 2024
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When we live for the approval of others we are sailing towards a fall.
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