Berean Wife

Instaverse and Windows 7

Berean Wife — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:00:47 +0000

Several months ago I mentioned how much I was enjoying using Instaverse. It allows me to hover over a verse in an email or a word document and the complete verse pops up. Also when writing emails and word type documents the Instaverse has an auto completion feature.

My only problem was that because my computer was using Windows 7, I did not have the ability to use Instaverse on websites. That wasn’t a problem when websites used the RefTaggerBible verse program but many older web documents did not use that add on. I typically had used Internet Explorer, but occasionally I used Chrome. But for some reason I opened Firefox and surprise, surprise Instaverse works well in Firefox for web sites.

It will be nice if they ever upgrade the Instaverse so that it works on newer computers, but who can complain about such a great program that is totally free?

Instaverse and Windows 7 is a post from: Berean Wife

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Acts 17:11 "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." NIV

Quotes From Spurgeon on The Law

Berean Wife — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:00:31 +0000

So is the Old Testament Law worthless? By no means!

The law serves a most necessary purpose.

They [unbelievers] will never accept grace

until they tremble before a just and holy Law.

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I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel

who does not preach the law.

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Charles Spurgeon

The purpose of the Law is to reveal to us our sin.

Romans 7:7-13 (ESV)
7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.

Romans 3:20 (ESV) For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:7 (ESV) What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 3:9-10 (ESV)
9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,
10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

Galatians 2:19 (ESV) For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.

Quotes From Spurgeon on The Law is a post from: Berean Wife

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Can We Trust the Disciples Word?

Berean Wife — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:37 +0000

This follows along with the post about Paul.

Can we trust the word from the other disciples?

Or could they have been deceived by Paul?

This might seem strange to most believers to question the disciples but that is what Satan wants us to do. “Hath God Said?” So Satan comes along and encourages others to question the disciples and the books in the NT written by them and Paul. Satan doesn’t mind convincing you that you are doing just fine because you are willing to follow the Words of God, it is just the disciples or Paul that you question. But that is very dangerous territory.

See who wrote the Words of God for us?

Moses

The Prophets

David

Solomon

The Disciples

Paul

Did God write down the Words of God?

Two instances that I know are recorded that the Lord physically wrote.

Exodus 31:18 And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God. ESV

John 8:8 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. ESV

Beyond that every word of God was written by a man through the Holy Spirit. So if we start throwing out, nullifying or belittling the writings of the disciples, we are tampering with Scripture ourselves.

How can we then know what God has said if we cannot trust the words written by Paul, the disciples or the prophets?

Can We Trust the Disciples Word? is a post from: Berean Wife

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