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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (38)

Victor M. Eskew

 

INTRODUCTION

 

A.    In the book, 25 Questions God Asked, Mary Selzer, the author, said she read the Bible and listed all of the questions she found therein.

1.      She found 3,241 questions.

2.      She also found that 200 people asked the questions.

3.      14% of the questions were asked by God.

 

B.      The paragraph, he writes:

 

journey toward

becoming a transformed kind of person, who finds life with God natural

and (p. 9).

 

C.     Each first Sunday night of the month is our Q&A night.

1.      You are able to ask questions that have come to you in your quest for God.

2.      We hope that our answers help you in your spiritual quest.

 

I.                  

 

A.    as an ingredient in food?

 

B.      Answer:

1.      could eat a pound of rum cake and never get drunk.

2.      Drinking an alcoholic drink is a different matter.

a.      Two verses:

1)      Proverbs 23:31

 

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

 

2)      Ephesians 5:18

 

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.

 

b.      Important considerations:

1)      The Bible teaches the Christian to be sober, right-minded (Tit. 2:2-6)

2)      minute a substance enters into the body, it has an impact on the body for either good or bad.

3)      individual gets enslaved to it.

4)      cancer.

5)      Just a little alcohol has caused individuals to be involved in

a)      Accidents, some of them deadly

b)      Sinful behaviors (cursing, fighting, sexual relationships)

c)      yelling and screaming)

 

II.               

 

A.   

 

B.      Answer:

1.      What does it mean to be translated?

a.      It means that one does not experience death.

b.      It means that one is moved from earth to heaven.

c.       It means that one is changed from being mortal to immortal.

2.      not see death.

a.      One of them was Enoch (Gen. 5:24; Heb. 11:5).

 

And Enoch

 

b.      The other was Elijah (II Kings 2:11).

 

And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

 

3.      it.

4.     

a.      Death is supposed to be the end of all men.

1)      Hebrews 9:27

 

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.

 

2)     

b.     

1)     

2)      There is no indication that God will ever do this again.

 

III.            

 

A.   

 

B.      Answer:

1.      Genesis 6:3

 

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with men, for that he also is

 

 

2.      There are two views on the 120 years.

a.      One view is that God set a limit to the number of years man would live.

1)     

2)      past 120 years of age (See Gen. 11).

a)      past the age of 120 years.

b)     

c)      If God limited the age, when was it supposed to begin?

3)      to 80 years old (Ps. 90:10).

 

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is there strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

 

b.      A second view is that God would destroy the earth in 120 years.

1)      years.

a)      In Genesis 5:32, Noah was 500 years old when he begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

b)     

c)      This is only a period of 100 years instead of 120 years.

2)      Answer:

a)      sons were born.

b)      Genesis 6 begins the story of the flood.

-          God sets the time limit of 120 years to strive with man.

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-          God, therefore, determined the time that the earth would remain before

 

CONCLUSION

 

A.    We have seen three things in the course of this lesson.

1.      We have looked specifically at one sin, the sin of drinking alcoholic

2.      and iniquity and God sent a flood to destroy mankind.

3.      We have also seen that God rewards righteous behavior.

a.      Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord (Gen. 6:8).

b.      Men like Enoch and Elijah were translated (See Heb. 11:5).

 

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because he pleased God.

 

B.      The choices of the past are the same choices that we must make today.

1.      We can choose sin and be punished by God.

2.      We can please God and be rewarded by Him.

 

C.     Which choice are you making as you live your life?

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