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The Bible Marathon has two goals: - To walk through the Bible - To distribute 100,000 Bibles At times, people run a marathon in order to create awareness and raise support for a worthy cause. The Bible Marathon is “run” in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to our persecuted brothers and sisters. In order to do so, we need 300,000 Christians who are willing to sponsor The Bible Marathon by purchasing THE ENTIRE BOOKSTORE for only $4.00 (over 500 classic Christian ebooks and more). If you've ...
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Imagine walking through Hyde Park, London, on a sunny afternoon, enjoying the blue-filled sky with some distinct white clouds, while seeing some "babbler" on a small wooden crate with a huge sign next to him. The sign reads: If you're a Christian, will you help distribute Bibles to your persecuted brothers and sisters? www.HelpThePersecutedChurch.com As you stop and listen, enjoying a few moments on the nearby bench, you hear his thoughts about everything and nothing. As you go to the link, ...
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"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1). Unless we begin with God, we will inevitably go astray. Genesis 1:1 is a foundational verse in the Bible, stressing the fact that God is the creator, who created out of nothing. For all the info about The Bible Marathon, please go to https://TheBibleMarathon.com -----------------…
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The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” t…
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He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life (Gen. 3:24). What was lost in the Fall, Jesus would amply restore in the gospel. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecuted church. If you've been …
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By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return (Gen. 3:19). As a result of the Fall, we live in a fallen world that has been subjected to futility. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecuted church. If…
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And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field (Gen. 3:17-1…
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To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you" (Gen. 3:16). God's judgment of Eve is, to an extent, in proportion to her rebellion. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the pers…
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To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you" (Gen. 3:16). We live in the reality of the Fall and God's judgment. Thankfully, though, God had already declared His gospel. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order …
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To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you" (Gen. 3:16). As a result of her disobedience, Eve hears the consequences of what she has done. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles t…
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"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel" (Gen. 3:15). Everyone's salvation is fully related to this verse. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecuted church. If you've been blessed by this podcast, I …
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"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel" (Gen. 3:15). This is the first gospel promise of how God will deliver man from "the domain of darkness" and transfers him to "the kingdom of his beloved son" (Col. 1:13). The Bible Marathon is "run" i…
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"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel" (Gen. 3:15). Everyone's salvation is grounded in God's declaration of what He will do. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecuted church. If you've been blesse…
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"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel" (Gen. 3:15). Here we have the first gospel declaration, providing salvation for Adam and Eve. This statement was made to the serpent. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles …
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"The man said, 'The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.' Then the Lord God said to the woman, 'What is this that you have done?' The woman said, 'The serpent deceived me, and I ate.' The Lord God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the …
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"And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, 'Where are you?' And he said, 'I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was na…
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"Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths" (Gen. 3:7). What happened when Adam and Eve sinned? In Romans 5:12-21, Paul gives us an overview of the Fall and that Adam was "a type of the one who was to come." The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distrib…
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"Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths" (Gen. 3:7). The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecuted church. If you've been blessed by this podcast, I want to ask for your sponsorship, which consists of either a $4.0…
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"So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves toget…
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"So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate" (Gen. 3:6). While Adam and Eve desired wisdom, they fell for the greatest folly. While "Jesus Christ a…
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For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen. 3:5). Satan portrays God as purposely withhold good from us. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecuted church. If you've been blessed by this podcast, I want to ask for your sponsorship, wh…
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"And the woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, "You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die."' But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will not surely die.'" With both statements, Eve didn't include the word "surely," …
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But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Who do you believe? God or Satan? The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecuted church. If you've been blessed by this podcast, I want to…
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"Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God actually say, "You shall not eat of any tree in the garden"?'" The Bible describes Satan as crafty, cunning, and deceiving. He wants to portray God in the worst possible light. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distrib…
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"Then the Lord God said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.' Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man g…
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"Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.' Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed" (Gen. 2:23-25). Paul refers to ver…
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"The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die" (Gen. 2:15-17). "The tree of the knowledge of g…
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"And a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature" (Gen. 2:6-7). Man is God's creature, consisting of body (from the dust) and spirit (from God). This is both humbling an…
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"And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Gen. 2:8-9). As our Creator, God is s…
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"A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed…
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"So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet s…
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"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done" (Gen. 2:1-2). All of creation is about "his work that he had done." The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the pers…
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"And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green pl…
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"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth'" (Gen. 1:26). The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecut…
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"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth'" (Gen. 1:…
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"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth'" (Gen. 1:26). The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecut…
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"And God said, 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.' So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And…
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"And God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.' And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. …
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"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth'" (Gen. 1:26). What does it mean for man to have been made in God's image and after His likeness…
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"And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.' And it was so. And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser…
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"And God said, 'Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. And God said, 'Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit…
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"And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day" (Gen. 1:7-8). What God wills, He works. Only God can bring about His word. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to …
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"And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. And God said, 'Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters'" (Gen. 1:4-6). What God did in…
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"The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light" (Gen. 1:2-3). "Without form," "void," and "darkness," were but the means for God to reveal Himself. Paul referred to "Let there be light" in relati…
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"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1). As we consider God and creation, we have to ask the question: why did God create? The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecuted church. If you've been blessed by this podcast, I want to ask for your sponsorship, which consists of either a $4.…
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"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1). Unless we begin with God, we will inevitably go astray. Genesis 1:1 is a foundational verse in the Bible, stressing the fact that God is the creator, who created out of nothing. The Bible Marathon is "run" in order to distribute 100,000 Bibles to the persecuted church. If you've …
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