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“[God’s entire] word must be the standard by which we judge all things and the starting point of our thinking.” Greg Bahnsen, Always Ready INTRODUCTION: Starting points are important. This is what I teach my parishioners, my students, and my children, and it is what I emphasize to my friends and family. Where we start…
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“But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and a whoever has no sword is to sell his cloak and buy one…They said, ‘Lord, look, here are two swords.’ And He said to them, ‘It is enough.’” (Luke 22.36, 38; NASB).1 INTRODUCTION: So did Jesus tell His…
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“And [Jesus] said to them, ‘But now, whoever has a money belt is to take along, likewise a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his cloak and buy one’” (Luke 22.36; NASB).1 “Then Jesus said to him, ‘Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword…
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“And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning; from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image” (Gen…
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Thou shall not kill” (Exod 20:13; KJV). “In the letters the king granted the Jews who were in each and every city the right to assemble and to defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and eliminate the entire army of people or province which was going to attack them…” (Esther 8:11; NASB).1 INTRODUCTION: For…
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