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Luke 17:20  
And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said,  The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:    
Luke 17:21  
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.  
Luke 9:27  
But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which...

Jehovah Himself descended and assumed a Human in order that He might effect redemption. The name Lord is used and not Jehovah, because the Jehovah (יְהֹוָה  Yᵉ hôvâh,  yeh-ho-vaw'  of the Old Testament is called the Lord (κύ ριος  kýrios,  koo'-ree-os) in the New, as is shown in the following passages.

Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah ; and...

Here are three very important MUSTS that are in the Bible.

The Greek dictionary/lexicon meanings: for the word MUST using Strongs numbers.
*NT: 1163
dei (die); third person singular active present of NT: 1210; also deon (deh-on'); neuter active participle of the same; both used impersonally; it is (was, etc.) necessary (as binding):

*KJV-behoved, be mee...

In the beginning when I first came to acknowledge the existence of a "God" the first scripture that came to my mind was John 1:1. Interesting that this particular scripture was one of the few I had memorized as an Atheist. If I wanted to know God it would have to be through His Word and what ever Jesus did I must do, since Jesus was the pattern son.

Has...

After my initial acknowledgment that there is a God, I entered into a interesting conundrum or enigma with people. Those Christians who then began to accept my newly found belief indicated that I had accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour. Frankly I had no real idea of just who He was, my acceptance was that there is a God. Others of whom I car pool...

I was raised going to Church on a intermittent basis attending various denominations throughout my early youth.  As an avid reader of anything at even a young age I read the Bible (KJV), all of the Seventh Day Adventist Bible stories and Uncle Arthur's bedtime stories,(Parents bought the whole set but did not attend), and the World Book Encyclopedia.  Ove...