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New Bible Study for February 2025

IV. Birthmark of Victory: The Born Again Man

Overcomes the world

14. “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world-our  .” 1 Jn 5:4

Is the Enemy of the World

15. “Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is

with God. Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” Js 4:4

Not conformed to the world 

16. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and   and perfect will of God.” Rom 12:2

Overcomes the world

17. “Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who   Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 Jn 5:5

Loves not the world

18. “Do not love the world or the   in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” 1 Jn 2:15

V. Birthmark of Love

19. “By this all will know that you are My  , if you have love for one another.”  Jn 13:35

20. “We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren…” 

1 Jn 3:14a

21. “ , let us love on another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.” 1 Jn 4:7

22. “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” 1 Jn 4:8

VI. Birthmark of the Spirit

23. “Do not   that I said to you, ‘you must be born again’. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Jn 3:7-8

24. “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God…” Rom 8:16

25. “And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, ‘Abba Father!’.” Gal 4:6

26. “Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He   in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.” 1 Jn 3:24

27. “He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the that God has given of 

His Son.” 1 Jn 5:10

There is no guesswork about the experience of the New Birth.

Jesus told Nicodemus “…unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.” Jn 3:5

It also should be noted that it was to this religious man that Jesus gave the words “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Jn 3:16

These gentle words were first spoken, not to a filthy sinner, but to a religious man who had no knowledge of the New Birth. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son…”

This is the basis for the new birth for all men everywhere!!!   

Answers:

14. Faith    15. Enmity    16. Acceptable    17. Believes    18. Things    19. Disciples    21. Beloved

23. Marvel    26. Abides    27. Testimony  

New Bible Study For January 2025

Nicodemus is an example of many church members today:

Religious but didn’t know the meaning of being Born Again. A Pharisee who fulfilled religious duties. He was a church official and a man with authority. All of this; yet not born again. 

Born Again means to be born from above or born anew. There are certain Characteristics or Fruits of this New Birth which we will label “Birthmarks”. 

I. Birthmark of Change

1. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have   new.” 2 Cor 5:17

Born again man: Has a new nature

2. “I will give you a new heart and put a new   within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezek 36:26

3. “…by which have been given to us   great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” 1 Pet 1:4

Serves God in newness of life

4. “Therefore we were buried with Him through   into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Rom 6:4

Is Transformed

5. “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the   of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Rom 12:2

Has put off the old man

6. “That you put off, concerning your   conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” Eph 4:22-23

Has put on the new man

7. “…and that you put on the new man which was   according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” Eph 4:24

II. Birthmark of Righteousness

8. “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the

of God in him.” 2 Cor 5:21

9. “If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is 

of Him.” 1 Jn 2:29

10. “All unrighteousness is sin…” 1 Jn 5:17a

III. Birthmark of Sinlessness

Does not commit nor practice sin

11. “Whoever is born of God does not sin…” 1 Jn 3:9a

12. “…for His seed (word) remains in him; and he cannot sin because he has been born of God,” 1 Jn 3:9b

Does not live under Power and Dominion of sin

13. “And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourself to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have   over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” Rom 6:13-14  

Answers:

1. Become    2. Spirit    3. Exceedingly    4. Baptism    5. Renewing    6. Former    7. Created

8. Righteousness    9. Born    13. Dominion

Bible Study for December 2024 

Our world is a shaking place. There seem to be no more absolutes, what feels good or seems right is good enough for the moment. We’ll deal with tomorrow or the aftermath of these decisions only when we must.    New Bible Study For December 2024 

IV. God is Steadfast in His Eternal Purpose.

Creation is His:

18. “You alone are the Lord; You have made heaven, The heaven of heavens, with all their host, The earth and everything on it, The seas and all that is in them, and You   them all. The host of heaven worships You.” Neh 9:6 (Job 26:7-14)In Redemption for Fallen Man:

19. “…knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the   blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” 1 Pet 1:18-19

20. “He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.” 1 Pet 1:20-21

21. “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 Jn 1:7

The Kind of God You Have is the Kind of Person You Will Be.

22. “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always   in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Cor 15:58

23. “Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Heb 13:7-8

24. “Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.” Heb 13:9

25. “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   anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” Js 1:5-8

God shall bring His Kingdom!

26. “How great are His signs, And how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation.” Dan 4:3

27. “And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.” Lk 1:33

God has conquered:

28. “He will not fail nor be discouraged, Till He has established justice in the earth; And the coastlands shall wait for His law.” Isaiah 42:4

29. “For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Rom 14:17

30. “And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys to Hades and of Death.” Rev 1:17-18

V. God is Steadfast in His Promises. 

Not one of His promises has ever failed:

31. “Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not   one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.” 1 Ki 8:56

32. “Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.” Ps 119:89

33. “The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.” Is 40:8

34. “For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.” 2 Cor 1:20

Unbelievers and Doubters are saying two things about 2 Peter 3:3-9

1. This promise hasn’t happened yet.

2. God will not upset His Universe.

But they fail to perceive the latent warnings in Vs 8, 9 and 10.

35. “But, beloved, do not   this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” 2 Pet 3:8

36. “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not   that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Pet 3:9 

37. “But the Day of the Lord Will Come…” 2Pet 3:10a

God will not be patient forever!

38. With a nation: 

“The wicked shall be turned into hell, And all the nations that forget God.” Ps 9:17

39. “Blessed is the   whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.” Ps 33:12

40. With the church:

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things says He who has the seven 

of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.” Rev 3:1

mpstanda41. (Ephesus) “Remember therefore from where you have; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your l from its place – unless you repent.” Rev 2:5

The Church will never die but a church can die!

42. “With an individual:

“The harvest is past, The summer is ended, And we are not saved.” Jer 8:20

43. “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ But he answered and said, ‘ , I say to you, I do not know you.” Matt 25:11-12

44. “For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place, though he sought it diligently with tears.” Heb 12:17

ANSWERS   Part TWO

18. Preserve    19. Precious    22. Abounding    25. Receive    31. Failed    35. Forget

36. Willing    39. Nation    40. Spirits    41. Fallen    43. Assuredly    44. Repentance

New Bible Study For November 2024

Our world is a shaking place. There seem to be no more absolutes, what feels good or seems right is good enough for the moment. We’ll deal with tomorrow or the aftermath of these decisions only when we must. Amidst all this:

1. “Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: ‘The Lord knows those who are His’, and ‘Let everyone who names the name Christ depart from iniquity’.” 2 Tim 2:19

Look at our lead texts and what we see in these following three verses:

2. A God of Patience. 

“Now may the God of Patience and comfort grant you to be   toward one another, according to Christ Jesus…” Rom 15:5

3. A God of Hope. 

“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may 

in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Rom 15:13 

4. A God of Peace.

“Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.” Rom 15:33

I. God is steadfast in His Love.

5. God is Love. 

“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” 1 Jn 4:8

6. God’s Love is Everlasting. 

“The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: ‘Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with   kindness I have drawn you.” Jer 31:3

7. “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew the His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the  .” Jn 13:1

8. “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you;   in My love.” Jn 15:9

9. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine or nakedness, or peril or sword?” Rom 8:35

10. “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other   thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Rom 8:38-39

II. God is Steadfast in His Wrath and Judgment.

God’s laws of sowing and reaping are steadfast and sure! 

(Flood of Noah’s day; Judgment of Sodom)

11. “The Lord is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. The wicked shall be turned into  , And all the nations that forget God.” Ps 9:16-17

12. “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters 

.” Matt 12:30

13. “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the   of God abides on him.” Jn 3:36 (Rom 1:32; 2:2-3; Rev 6:17)

III. God is Steadfast in His Power. 

He is creator and giver of Power.

14. “Both riches and honor come from You, And You reign over all. In Your hand is power and might; In Your hand it is to make   And to give strength to all.” 1 Chron 29:12

15. “God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God.” Ps 62:11

16. “Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and 

arm. There is nothing too hard for You.” Jer 32:17

17. “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all  . Is there anything too hard for Me? 

Jer 32:27 

Answers:

2. Likeminded  3. Abound  6. Loving  7. End   8. Abide 10. Created  11. Hell  12. Abroad

13. Wrath  14. Great  16. Outstretched  17. Flesh

New Bible study for October 2024  

 We will continue looking at the Word of God concerning Angels as ministering spirits, sent to help us and give direction.

V. They have a Ministry of Instruction

20. “About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him ‘Cornelius!’ And when he observed him, he was afraid, and said ‘What is it Lord?’ So he said to him ‘Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God. Now send men to  , and send for Simon, whose surname is Peter.” Acts 10:35 (Vs 22)

21. “Now when they had  , behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying ‘Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt’…” Matt 2:13a

22. “Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Phillip, saying ‘Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to  .’ This is desert” Acts 8:26

VI. They have a Ministry of Strengthening

23. “saying ‘Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours be done.’ Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. And being in agony, he prayed more  . Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” Lk 22:42-44

24. “Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and   to Him.” Matt 4:11

25. “And now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship. For there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve, saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and indeed God has     all those who sail with you’.” Acts 27:22-24

VII. They have a Ministry of Encouragement

26. “But the angel answered and said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was  ‘.” Matt 28:5

27. “And God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, ‘What ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad and hold him with your hand, for I will make him.“ Gen 21:17-18

28. “But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, ‘Abraham, Abraham!’ So he said, ‘Here I am’.” Gen 22:11

29. “And He said, ‘Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me’.” Gen 22:12

30. “Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, and said ‘By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son- blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies’.” Gen 22:15-27

VIII. They have a Ministry of Warning

31. “When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying ‘Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be   in the punishment of the city’.” Gen 19:15 (Matt 2:13)

IX. They have a Ministry of Deliverance

32. “But at night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life.” Acts 5:19-20

33. “Now behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the prison; and he struck Peter on the side and raised him up, saying ‘Arise quickly!’ And his chains fell of his hands. Then the angel said to him, ‘Gird yourself and tie on your sandals’; and so he did. And he said to him, ‘put on your garment and follow me’. So he went out and followed him, and did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.” Acts 12:7-9

34. “When they were past the first and the second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened to them of its own accord; and they went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.” Acts 12:10 

Note: At the end of our earthly lives there will be angels whether at death or at the coming of the Lord.

35. “So it was that the beggar (Lazarus) died, and was carried by the angels to .” Lk 16:22a

36. “And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His   from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” Matt 24:31

37. “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.” Matt 25:31 

Answers: Pt 2

20. Joppa    21. Departed    22. Gaza    23. Earnestly    24. Ministered   5. Granted you 

26. Crucified    27. Great Nation    31. Consumed    35. Abraham’s Bosom    36. Elect