tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90575670487721138522024-03-14T07:45:50.268+14:00LEXICALIFEWe are so happy that you have stopped by to visit. LEXICALIFE is a blog under Semarang Independent Biblical Baptist Church. On these pages you will find answers to important questions and a detailed statement of our beliefs, based entirely on God’s Word. You will also find out many articles talk about christianity.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-40384520547026759612009-02-03T06:09:00.000+14:002009-02-03T06:12:23.559+14:00THE MYSTERY OF REGENERATIONFebruary 2"Jesus said unto him, Except a man be born from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus said: How can a man be born when he is old?"-- Joh_3:3-4.MARVEL NOT! said Jesus to Nicodemus--but notwithstanding, it is difficult not to marvel at the wonder and mystery of the New Birth.Birth, as in the case of the little chick, is emergence. His the emergence of a tiny creature from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-40847586782564778302009-01-30T03:41:00.001+14:002009-01-30T03:45:23.728+14:00LOVE'S REVELATIONS!"That disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter: It is the Lord."-- Joh_21:7.LOVE WILL see most quickly. James was there, full of practical commonsense; Thomas also, who doubted, but afterwards believed; Peter, who wanted to die with Him, but afterwards denied Him; and the rest of them; but it was John whom Jesus loved, and who afterwards became the Apostle of Love, that first recognised the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-50131929635724497152009-01-28T05:44:00.001+14:002009-01-28T05:46:43.999+14:00DAY-BREAK ON THE BEACH"When the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus."-- Joh_21:4.THE PREVIOUS evening had been full of interest and hope. Those seven fishermen had long been separated from their craft, and thinking probably that they were not to see their Master again, they betook themselves, with considerable zest, to the shore of the Lake. They entered the oldUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-3542232567623888752009-01-28T05:42:00.000+14:002009-01-28T05:43:48.685+14:00CHRIST PLEADING FOR ADMISSION"Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me."-- Rev_3:20.DO NOT forget the majesty and glory of Him who asks for admission!In the following verse, He declares that He is able to give the right of sitting with Himself on His Throne. He stands, that some day we may sit! O child of two worlds, shut Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-23955826147842115152009-01-25T11:59:00.002+14:002009-01-25T12:10:36.273+14:00KNOCKING AT THE DOOR!"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: Be zealous therefore and repent. Behold I stand at the door, and knock."-- Rev_3:19-20.CHRIST KNOCKS at the door when His Judgments are in the earth. That God has arisen to shake mightily the earth is hardly doubtful. This is a day of the Lord of Hosts, when judgments are abroad upon all that is proud and haughty, upon the cedars and the oaks, upon the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-46216763896203464052009-01-25T06:12:00.001+14:002009-01-25T06:17:08.208+14:00UTTERMOST SALVATION"He is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them."-- Heb_7:25.THE ATTRACTION of the Divine Nature. We draw near because we are drawn. As the sun is ever exerting a drawing power on each planet and each particle of stardust in the solar system, so God is ever attracting us to Himself. To all eternity we shall be everUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-5517068821916747102009-01-23T15:46:00.001+14:002009-01-23T15:49:37.399+14:00THE GARDEN OF THE CROSS"In the place where He was crucified, there was a Garden." -- Joh_19:41.IT WAS in a Garden that Paradise was lost, and in a Garden it was regained! The sweet flowers of spring waved their incense-cups around the Cross, on which their Creator, to whose thought they owed their beauty, was dying for man's redemption.Amid all the anguish of this human world, nature pursues her unbroken routine. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-17432048941967852322009-01-23T02:46:00.001+14:002009-01-23T02:50:12.128+14:00DISLOCATED LIMBSJanuary 22"Now the God of Peace, make you perfect in every good thing to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ."-- Heb_13:20-21.THE GREEK word here rendered perfect really means "to put in joint, to complete." In his original creation man's will was intended to register the Will of God, to say Yes to it, and to pass the divine impulses and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-52904117401938473422009-01-22T05:49:00.000+14:002009-01-22T05:51:29.183+14:00REIGNING IN LIFEJanuary 21"For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ."-- Rom_5:17.IT WOULD take a lifetime--nay, it will demand eternity--to explore the treasures of this paragraph from which our text is taken. Let us not, however, stand gazing into heaven, but avail ourselves of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-87240130587200050102009-01-21T06:23:00.000+14:002009-01-21T06:27:51.879+14:00JEMAAT (GEREJA) PAULICIAN DAN BOGOMIL (BAB 4)Disesalkan bahwa kebanyakan informasi yang berhubungan dengan Paulician berasal dari musuh-musuh mereka. Sumbernya ada dua. Sumber pertama berasal dari para penulis Yunani, Photius (Adv. Recentiores Manichaeans, Hamburg, 1772) dan Petros Sikeliotes (Historia Manichaeorum qui Pauliciani, Ingolstadt, 1604), yang telah lama dikenal dan digunakan oleh Gibbon sebagai persiapan bab ke-54 karya Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-23562195054141435442009-01-21T04:37:00.002+14:002009-01-21T04:51:49.436+14:00TEN REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SEND YOUR CHILD TO A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL The Christian school movement is the fastest growing educational movement in America today. The U.S.NEWS AND WORLD REPORT and CHRISTIAN LIFE magazines have referred to the rapid proliferation of Christian elementary and secondary schools as the "Boom in Protestant Schools" and "The Christian School Explosion." Christian schools are currently being established across the United States at the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-42754922849859927502009-01-07T04:54:00.000+14:002009-01-07T04:59:37.563+14:00Anak Perempuan Kristen Yang Cacat Mengampuni Para PenyerangBerikut ini disadur dari WorldNetDaily, 16 Des. 2008: “Para ekstrimis Hindu bisa saja telah membakar wajah seorang anak perempuan Kristen berumur 10 tahun, dan telah melukai dia dengan pecahan bom pada 40 persen tubuhnya, dan memaksa keluarganya bersembunyi di hutan dan lari ke camp pengungsian di Orissa, India, tetapi kesusahannya tidaklah mengguncang iman dan rasa syukurnya kepada Tuhan musim Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-37258709410421655392009-01-06T07:07:00.003+14:002009-01-21T06:13:40.333+14:00Bab 11Pandangan Medis Atas Kesembuhan Mujizat Oleh Profesor Verna Wright MD FRCP Sebagai seorang dokter, bidang utama saya adalah rheumatology, yang berhubungan dengan suatu penyakit kronis yang banyak penderitanya, dan saya memiliki banyak pasien yang telah saya rawat selama bertahun-tahun. Saya juga seorang Kristen yang percaya keabsolutan Alkitab dan percaya kepada pribadi dan pekerjaan Roh Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-18337132219832337402008-12-29T07:09:00.001+14:002009-01-06T06:20:59.990+14:00Bab 10Hukum Akal-Sehat yang Tertib Perjanjian Baru Menekankan Kewaspadaan, Akal-Sehat Yang Rasional Dalam bab ini, kita merujuk kepada hukum iman Kristen yang fundamental, yaitu bahwa akal-sehat rasional kita harus selalu mengendalikan pikiran dan perbuatan kita, dan bahwa akal-sehat harus sepenuhnya tunduk kepada Firman Tuhan sebagai sumber eksklusif pengajaran yang otoritatif dari Tuhan. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-18259079510564005252008-12-29T07:07:00.001+14:002009-01-06T06:20:59.991+14:00Bab 9Imajinasi Gelombang Baru Kesembuhan Pikiran dan Ingatan Di dalam buku-buku kesembuhan baru yang membanjir, berbagai penulis kharismatik telah terlanda untuk mengikuti kepopuleran 'Yonggi Cho' yang memvisualisasikan doa menjadi kenyataan. Salah seorang penulis, David A. Seamands, misalnya, menulis di dalam bukunya "Healing of Memories" (Memulihkan Ingatan), 'Iman telah dipanggil Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-50738028788307799202008-12-26T17:54:00.002+14:002008-12-26T18:03:32.724+14:00Bab 8Menerapkan Yakobus 5Petunjuk-petunjuk Kesembuhan Illahi Yang Diabaikan Kaum Kharismatik Para penulis kharismatik seharusnya sangat malu dengan pengajaran Yakobus, karena prosedur yang diletakkannya (sebagai dasar) untuk doa kesembuhan sebenarnya menghapuskan dan menggugurkan metode kesembuhan yang diciptakan orang-orang tersebut. Masalah ini sangat signifikan, jika kita mengerti bahwa Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-59783753979144590912008-12-26T05:09:00.003+14:002008-12-26T17:56:50.052+14:00Bab7Membuktikan Bahwa Karunia-karunia Tersebut Telah Berakhir Pernyataan Alkitab Mengenai Karunia-karunia Mengadakan Tanda dan Bernubuat Salah satu aspek yang paling ganjil di dalam perdebatan kharismatik masa kini adalah fakta bahwa banyak orang non-kharismatik tidak mau menyatakan dengan tegas bahwa karunia-karunia tertentu telah berakhir. Memang ada yang menyatakan bahwa tidak ada dasar Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-34699306920705982452008-12-26T05:02:00.002+14:002008-12-26T05:03:51.048+14:00Bab 6Roh Jahat Tidak Bisa Merasuki SekehendaknyaEnam Alasan Alkitabiah Kaum injili masa lalu memberikan argumentasi alkitabiah yang sangat kuat atas pandangan bahwa kerasukan roh jahat yang tersebar luas itu telah berakhir seiring dengan selesainya pelayanan Kristus di bumi. Sejak saat itu, para pendahulu kita mempertahankan, bahwa kerasukan roh jahat hanya dapat terjadi jika manusia dengan Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-12149851531042668122008-12-24T21:38:00.001+14:002008-12-24T21:38:44.431+14:00Bab 5 Roh Jahat, Roh Jahat Dimana-mana Kesalahan 'Demonologi' Baru Para penyembuh kharismatik tentu saja berusaha membuktikan pernyataan - bahwa roh-roh jahat ada di depan mata. Mereka berpendapat bahwa banyak sekali orang, baik orang tidak percaya maupun Kristen, secara berat atau ringan dirasuki oleh roh-roh jahat tanpa Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-47835162141585084782008-12-24T21:36:00.000+14:002008-12-24T21:37:11.239+14:00Bab 4 Alkitab Berkata Tidak! Menjawab Argumentasi Pendukung Kesembuhan Banyak argumentasi yang dikembangkan kharismatik baru untuk mendukung metode kesembuhan mereka yang dengan mudah meyakinkan orang Kristen muda dan yang tidak waspada, karena semuanya kelihatan alkitabiah. Padahal kenyataannya tak satupun ayat yang dikutip itu mendukung metode Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-80526384450529564492008-12-24T04:44:00.000+14:002008-12-24T04:45:03.316+14:00Lidah Burung Pematuk yang Luar BiasaLIDAH BURUNG PEMATUKYANG LUAR BIASABerikut ini disadur dari Creation Moments, http://www.creation moments.com/ radio/transcript .php?t=2205: "Ciptaan yang indah di dalam mana kita hidup, bukan hanya dipenuhi oleh berbagai kesaksian akan hikmat Allah, juga diisi dengan desain-desain spesial, yang menyangkali kemungkinan semuanya berasal dari evolusi buta. Perhatikan burung pematuk. Lidahnya dapat Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-80373163526642917872008-12-23T03:52:00.000+14:002008-12-23T03:53:02.790+14:00Kerabat Penebus KERABAT PENEBUS Pada waktu tengah malam dengan terkejut terjagalah orang itu, lalu meraba-raba ke sekelilingnya, dan ternyata ada seorang perempuan berbaring di sebelah kakinya. Bertanyalah ia: "Siapakah engkau ini?" Jawabnya: "Aku Rut, hambamu: kembangkanlah kiranya sayapmu melindungi hambamu ini, sebab engkaulah seorang kaum yang wajib menebus Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-37474978793142229022008-12-17T16:41:00.003+14:002008-12-17T16:41:45.720+14:00ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND EVIDENCE THAT DECEMBER 25 CHRISTMAS TIED TO PAGANISM(Friday Church News Notes, December 28, 2007, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from an Associated Press article "First December 25 Xmas Tied to Pagan Shrine," dated Dec. 22, 2007: "The church where the tradition of celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 may have begun was built near a pagan shrine as part of an effort to spread Christianity, a leading Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-17739092315138453842008-12-17T16:41:00.001+14:002008-12-17T16:41:36.854+14:00HEAD OF ANGLICAN CHURCH SAYS VIRGIN BIRTH NOT NECESSARY TO CHRISTIAN FAITH(Friday Church News Notes, December 28, 2007, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Speaking on BBC Radio Five, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, said that although he "believes" in the virgin birth of Christ he advised that new Christians need not fear that they had to leap over the "hurdle" of belief in the Virgin Birth before they could be "signed up" ("It's All a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057567048772113852.post-49641761166034795002008-12-17T16:31:00.001+14:002008-12-25T06:46:32.528+14:00HAVE A BLESSED CHRISTMASUpdated December 8, 2003 (first published December 22, 2001) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article) -I want to take this occasion to bid each of our subscribers a blessed Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0