The Jesus Code: 52 Scripture Questions Every Believer Should Answer (The Code Series) - Hardcover

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Hawkins, O. S.

 
9780529100825: The Jesus Code: 52 Scripture Questions Every Believer Should Answer (The Code Series)
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ISBN 10: 0529100827 ISBN 13: 9780529100825
Verlag: Thomas Nelson, 2014

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Jesus gets attention not with exclamation marks, but with question marks.

Jesus was always asking questions. Whether with a small group or large crowd, Jesus opened hearts and minds by asking questions that grasped attention and made one think. In The Jesus Code, author O. S. Hawkins poses fifty-two thought-provoking questions found throughout the Bible that believers should be able to answer as they grow in their faith and share their faith with others. Each question features a devotional thought to help readers find answers and promote further reflection.

Sample questions include:

 

  • What does the Lord require of you?
  • Where can I go from Your Spirit?
  • Who is my neighbor?
  • What is your life? A vapor that appears and vanishes away?
  • Why do you seek the living among the dead?
  • Will a man rob God?

 

As with The Joshua Code, all royalties will go to Mission:Dignity, whose mission supports retired pastors and their wives (or widows) living near poverty level.

Features & Benefits:

  • Includes 52 thought-provoking questions and answers
  • Handsome burnished leathersoft binding for a rich, classic look
  • This release follows peak of O.S. Hawkins’ book, The Joshua Code with sales of more than 150,000 units
  • All author royalties go toward Mission:Dignity, an organization that supports retired pastors and their spouses living near the poverty level

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

O. S. Hawkins, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, is a graduate of Texas Christian University (BBA) and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv, PhD). He is Chancellor and Senior Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Evangelism at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the former pastor of the historic First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, and is President Emeritus of GuideStone Financial Resources, the world's largest Christian-screened mutual fund serving 250,000 church workers and Christian university personnel with an asset base exceeding twenty billion dollars, where he served as President/CEO from 1997 to 2022.

Dr. Hawkins is the author of more than 50 books including the bestselling "Code Series" with over two million in print, including The Joshua Code: 52 Scripture Verses Every Believer Should Know, The Bible Code: Finding Jesus in Every Book in the Bible, The Christmas Code: Daily Devotionals Celebrating the Advent Season, and The Easter Code: A 40-Day Journey to the Cross.

He preaches in churches and conferences across the nation. He is married to Susie and has two daughters, two sons-in-law, and six grandchildren. Visit him at OSHawkins.com and follow him on X @OSHawkins.

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The Jesus Code

52 Scripture Questions Every Believer Should Answer

By O. S. Hawkins

Thomas Nelson

Copyright © 2014 O. S. Hawkins
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-529-10082-5

Contents

Introduction, 1, 
1 Has God Indeed Said ...? (Genesis 3:1), 3, 
2 Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do Right? (Genesis 18:25), 8, 
3 How Then Can I Do This great wickedness, and Sin Against god? (Genesis 39:9), 13, 
4 Who Am I? (Exodus 3:11), 18, 
5 Why Have You Brought Us Up Out of Egypt to Die in the Wilderness? (Numbers 21:5), 23, 
6 If the Lord is with Us, why Then Has All This Happened to Us? (Judges 6:13), 29, 
7 Is There Still Anyone ... That I May Show Him Kindness? (2 Samuel 9:1), 34, 
8 Why Have You Despised the Commandment of the Lord, to Do Evil in His Sight? (2 Samuel 12:9), 39, 
9 Ask! What Shall I Give You? (1 Kings 3:5), 44, 
10 How Long will You Falter Between Two Opinions? (1 Kings 18:21), 49, 
11 What Are You Doing Here? (1 Kings 19:9), 55, 
12 Where Did it Fall? (2 Kings 6:6), 61, 
13 Why Are We Sitting Here Until We Die? (2 Kings 7:3), 66, 
14 Should Such a Man as I Flee? (Nehemiah 6:11), 71, 
15 If a Man Dies, Shall He Live Again? (Job 14:14), 76, 
16 If the Foundations Are Destroyed, what Can the Righteous Do? (Psalm 11:3), 81, 
17 Who May Ascend into the Hill of the Lord? (Psalm 24:3), 87, 
18 How Can a Young Man Cleanse His Way? (Psalm 119:9), 92, 
19 Where Can I Go from Your Spirit? (Psalm 139:7), 98, 
20 Who Can Find a Virtuous wife? (Proverbs 31:10), 103, 
21 Whom Shall I Send, and who will Go for Us? (Isaiah 6:8), 108, 
22 Who Among You Fears the Lord? (Isaiah 50:10), 113, 
23 Is it True? (Daniel 3:14), 117, 
24 Is it Right for You to Be Angry? (Jonah 4:4), 122, 
25 What Does the Lord Require of You? (Micah 6:8), 127, 
26 O Lord, How Long Shall I Cry, and You will Not Hear? (Habakkuk 1:2), 132, 
27 Will a Man Rob God? (Malachi 3:8), 138, 
28 If Salt Loses its Flavor, How Shall [the Earth] Be Seasoned? (Matthew 5:13), 143, 
29 Which of You by Worrying Can Add One Cubit to His Stature? (Matthew 6:27), 148, 
30 Who Do Men Say That I, the Son of Man, Am? (Matthew 16:13), 154, 
31 Who Do You Say That I Am? (Matthew 16:15), 159, 
32 Who is This? (Matthew 21:10), 164, 
33 Which is the Great Commandment in the Law? (Matthew 22:36), 169, 
34 What will Be the Sign of Your Coming, and of the End of the Age? (Matthew 24:3), 174, 
35 Could You Not watch with Me One Hour? (Matthew 26:40), 180, 
36 My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me? (Matthew 27:46), 186, 
37 Who is My Neighbor? (Luke 10:29), 190, 
38 Where Are the Nine? (Luke 17:17), 195, 
39 Did Not Our Heart Burn within Us? (Luke 24:32), 200, 
40 How Can a Man Be Born when He is Old? (John 3:4), 205, 
41 There is a Lad Here who Has Five Barley Loaves and Two Small Fish, but what Are They Among So Many? (John 6:9), 210, 
42 Do You Believe This? (John 11:26), 214, 
43 Do You Love Me More Than These? (John 21:15), 219, 
44 What Shall we Do? (Acts 2:37), 226, 
45 Lord, What Do You Want Me to Do? (Acts 9:6), 231, 
46 What Must I Do to Be Saved? (Acts 16:30), 236, 
47 If God is for Us, who Can Be Against Us? (Romans 8:31), 241, 
48 Do You Not Know That Your Body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit Who is in You? (1 Corinthians 6:19), 246, 
49 How Shall we Escape if we Neglect So great a Salvation? (Hebrews 2:3), 251, 
50 What Does it Profit, My Brethren, if Someone Says He Has Faith but Does Not Have Works? Can Faith Save Him? (James 2:14), 256, 
51 What is Your Life? (James 4:14), 261, 
52 Is Anyone Among You Sick? (James 5:14), 266, 
Epilogue, 273,


CHAPTER 1

Has God Indeed Said ...?

—GENESIS 3:1


We had a really good start. Life began in a perfect paradise. The climate was never too warm and never too cold. we had no aches or pains, heartache or worries. We lived in perfect peace and harmony in the midst of a perfect garden. And we had dominion over everything except the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," which God had forbidden us to eat (Genesis 2:17). We were doing wonderfully well ... until the devil slithered into our world and asked the first recorded question in Scripture. It was cleverly designed to cause us to doubt God, His word, and His heart: "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" (3:1). That simple seed of doubt took root in our hearts. From that time on, we have wondered, "Has God indeed said?"

Satan entered the scene of life just three chapters into the Bible, and the last time we encounter him is three chapters from the end. And the damage he has caused is seen on every page in between. This cunning creature was smart enough to know that doubt is deadly. He did not try to force us to eat the forbidden fruit. He simply tossed a seed of doubt our way, and we took it from there: "Has God indeed said?"

This cosmic conflict has not changed through the millennia. Satan is still very much at work causing us to doubt what God has said to us in His word. Satan's tactic is a clever three-pronged strategy designed to lead us—just as he led Adam and Eve—to personal defeat and separation from God.


SATAN'S DECEIT BRINGS A SELFISH DESIRE

The plan was simple. The devil made a brief appearance in the garden, and all he did was ask a question: "Do you think God really meant that? Come on. Do you think you would really die if you took a bite of that single little fruit? Be realistic. God knows that if you did, you would become a god yourself; you would know both good and evil." And that is the last we hear from our enemy. He is gone. That is all he did. And that is all he had to do (Genesis 3:1–5).

Our minds are like a hotel. The manager can't keep people from coming into the lobby, but he can keep them from getting a room. It is the same with our thoughts. It is not a sin when an impure thought goes through our minds. The sin comes when we give it a room and let it settle down there.

And Satan's deceit brings to the surface our sinful, selfish desires as well as a lack of trust. It was true then, and it is true now: once doubt gets a room in your mind, Satan's battle is half won.


A SELFISH DESIRE BRINGS A SINFUL DECISION

Once doubt had its foot in the door, three things happened in rapid succession. Eve "saw that the tree was good for food ... pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise" (Genesis 3:6). Next she took it ... and ate. Then she gave her husband a piece, and he ate. Bam! Did things ever change! Adam and Eve were booted out of the garden, and they ran in an attempt to hide from God.

Once the seed of doubt took root, a downward digression followed. First, eve saw: she "saw that the tree was good" (v. 6). Then she coveted: it was "desirable to make one wise" (v. 6). Then she took: "She took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband ... and he ate" (v. 6). And finally, they hid: "Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God" (v. 8). The pattern had been revealed.

King David walked that same path. He saw a woman on a rooftop bathing. He coveted and sent men to find out more about her. He took: he brought her to his palace and slept with her. He hid ... to the hideous extent of having her husband killed in battle in order to cover his actions. All of...

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Thomas Nelson
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2014
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