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Walking in Wisdom, Edition 72 is now available. Look for it on my Walk in Wisdom Periodical page. If you'd like to receive it by email, please use the Response page.

Edition 72 - Is the Bible Historically Accurate, released September 4, 2025, contains:

• QA: How Does Scripture Align to Contemporary History? - John T Polk II
• Should Christians Capitulate? - Free bonus material from John T Polk II
• Youth Group Work? - a McPherson cartoon
• Atonement - anonymous
• If I Were the Devil - Paul Harvey
• Salted Speech - quotes and images from Paul, John, and others about love, self sacrifice, church assembly, exhortation, God’s word, Bible, soul food, failure, and smoking.

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Words of Wisdom Articles are mini articles that have been printed in the Oneida, TN, Independent Herald newspaper since September 2019. “Words of Wisdom” is published online weekly and available on: www.ihoneida.com/words-of-wisdom/ . This week's contribution is Tampering With Evidence for September 12, 2023. 

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Words of Wisdom Articles are mini articles that have been printed in the Oneida, TN, Independent Herald newspaper since September 2019. “Words of Wisdom” is published online weekly and available on: www.ihoneida.com/words-of-wisdom/ . This week's contribution is Jesus & Division for July 4, 2023. 

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My Proverbs commentary continues with segment #174: Proverbs 25:17, Twitter This, which is now available in Studies in the Book of Proverbs.

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Jesus defined His mission when He said: "For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost” (Matthew 18:11).  Define “lost.” It is from a Greek word meaning “wasted, ruined, lost,” and Satan is called “Apollyon,” meaning “him who lays waste” (Revelation 9:11).  Is your life being wasted through alcohol and drugs, sex and babies outside of marriage, hatred and racism, violence and murder, or cheating and stealing? Then Satan rules your life! To break Satan’s power, Jesus became “flesh and blood,” “that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage” (Hebrews 2:14-15).  “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Ephesians 1:7). Baptism is into His death (Romans 6:3).   - January 3, 2022

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In the Garden of Eden, God commanded Adam not to partake of forbidden fruit, because “in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). It was “the serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan” (Revelation 12:9) who contradicted God when he said, “You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4). On the Pentecost after Jesus’ resurrection, God’s Apostles commanded: "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38). Those who believed that command was “God’s plan of Salvation” were the Holy Spirit, the Apostles, and those who obeyed it. Only the Devil would say: “Believing that Acts 2:38 is God’s Plan of Salvation will take you straight to Hell!” - November 15, 2021

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To continue our highlights on the existence of God - and Satan, my sermon slides on Satan's Advantage, taken from 2 Corinthians 2:11-15, is now available in Sermon PowerPoints.

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The Devil, as a serpent (Genesis 3:1; Revelation 12:9), tempted Eve in three steps: 

1) Doubt - “Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" (Genesis 3:1); 

2) Denial - "You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4); 

3) Distrust -"For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:5).

The Devil tempts today in the same way. 

1) Bible commentaries, sermons, and so-called “translations” fogs truth, Solomon wrote, “That I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth, That you may answer words of truth” (Proverbs 22:20-21). 

2) Jesus’ truth is denied: "He who believes and is NOT baptized will be saved” (Mark 16:16). 

3) “God is faithful” (2 Corinthians 1:18).

Are you tempted? - January 4, 2021

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The Devil Is the:

• "God of this age" influencing us to sin (2 Corinthians 4:3-4)
• "Power of Death" questioning our faith (Hebrews 2:14-15)
• "Roaring Lion" devouring the faithless (1 Peter 5:8-9)

A Christian may be battered, tattered, scattered, or splattered, but whose faith has mattered! (1 John 5:4)

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