The first crown: the crown for living a disciplined godly life

Pastor Joe Helm preached in sermonaudio.com about the rewards of the believer.

He preached that he found six crowns reward in the bible.

The first crown: the crown for living a disciplined godly life

1 Cor 9

25 And everyone who competes for the prize<j=">j</a>">is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. -nkjv

25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. -kjv

25 Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However, they do it to receive a crown that will fade away, but we a crown that will never fade away. -hcsb

25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. So they do it to obtain a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. -nasb

25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. -niv

Differences in the landscape of Israel in the first century and the present

Openline radio program on 19 Jun 2021

Michael Rydelnik:

To say that there was no wood in the land of Israel in the first century is certainly a mistake. Of course there were trees, part of the problem is people look at the land today as it is..., there's still trees there, there's no question about it. Here's the great secret that people don't know about the land of Israel, it looked entirely different in biblical days than it does now. Here's why. From 1500 to around 1900, 1517 I think until 1917, the Ottoman empire controlled the land of Israel. It was under Ottoman empire from Turkey. It was ruled from Istanbul. One of the things that the Ottomans did was they put up a tree tax and people were charged taxes based on the trees that they had on their property. So, guess what people did? What do you think they will do to avoid taxes? They cut down the trees ...and as a result of that, they cut down the trees and they lost the top soil and the land became very infertile. The land of milk and honey became the land of desert and swarm. Part of the birth of modern Israel was to reclaim the land and that's why the Jewish national fund has been planting trees all over Israel.

SPECS

Openline on December 7, 2019 on moody radio:

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

Last hour, someone was asking me about how I study the bible and it was near the end and we had to go to the break between hours and so I quickly went over putting on your SPECS when you read the scriptures, this is about how to apply it as we are reading it and I say trying to wear my SPECS, that means the first letter is S, a sin to avoid or P, a promise to claim or E, an example to follow or C, a command to obey or S, a statement of truth about the Lord, so, a sin to avoid, a promise to claim, an example to follow, a command to obey, a statement of truth. As we read it, we can apply it.