Living Room Study

10 Commandments (9 & 10)
 
Today, we finish the 10 Commandments!!!!!  (Cue the Pointer Sisters: “Celebrate Good Times”…balloons & confetti.)  Good times, indeed.  From now on, we’re going to begin each Living Room Study by reciting the 10 Commandments.  This practice is intended to be an encouragement to one another, and a positive testimony to any [...]

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10 Commandments (6&8)
 
Today, we are focusing on Commandments 6 & 8.  If you remember, we already learned Commandment #7 when we learned #3…because they both deal with infidelity.  (#3 deals with Spiritual adultery, while  #7 deals with the Personal.)
 
6 & 8 are my kids’ favorites.  Let dig-in.
 
6th COMMANDMENT:  Hold up a “High-Five” in one hand, [...]

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10 Commandments (4&5)
 
Today, we are focusing on commandments 4 & 5.  They aren’t as intimately related as the 1&2, and 3&7…so let’s consider them individually.
 
4th COMMANDMENT:  Hold up 4 fingers, look at them and say, “Commandment #4: Remember the Sabbath day and set it apart for God…’cause that’s what it’s there FOUR!  (For)”
 
“Remember the Sabbath [...]

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10 Commandments (3 & 7)
 
I know what you’re thinking: Shouldn’t we be learning 3&4?  Well, I was educated in Arkansas and that’s how we count!!
 
Actually, I teach 3 & 7 because they are closely alike.  They both deal with infidelity, or “adultery”.  Also, because 3 & 7 are Biblical numbers associated with God.
 
3 reminds us [...]

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10 Commandments  (1 & 2)
 
“When He had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.”  Exodus 31:18
 
Awhile back, I was asked to speak at a men’s conference in the Northeast.  There were about 400 men in attendance.  The topic [...]

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Revelation 21
 
“Then I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea existed no longer.”  Revelation 21:1
 
The Bible depicts Creation as warring against itself.  For instance, Light conquers darkness:
 
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the [...]

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Revelation 20
 
“Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it.  Earth and Heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.  I also saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened.  Another book was opened, which is the book of [...]

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The Revelation 19
 
“Let us be glad, rejoice, and give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself.  She was permitted to wear fine linen, bright and pure.  The fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints.”  Revelation 19:7-8
 
Jesus, as the Church’s “Bridegroom”, is found in many [...]

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The Revelation 18
 
“All this will happen because your merchants were the nobility of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery of power and beauty, and the blood of the prophets and saints, and all those slaughtered on earth, was found in her.”  Revelation 18:23b-24
 
The idea that the “Great Prostitute” would seduce [...]

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The Revelation 17
 
“The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss and go to destruction.  Those who live on the earth, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will be astounded when they see the beast that [...]

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