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The Outstretched Hands of God

March 17, 2025
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What god among the nations holds out his hands to his people? What god among the religions reaches his arms toward the rebellious, longing for them to repent? Only the true God! But he will not wait forever. Respond now, before the compassionate hands of God become the hands of judgment. 

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The Jordan had been crossed and the people consecrated. The conquest of Jericho and the Promised Land lay ahead, but before that, Joshua, the leader of God’s people has a divine encounter with an armed commander of another army. Join Dr. James Boice next time on The Bible Study Hour as he explains the significance of that angelic encounter.
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Sometimes knowing in advance that we will fail is actually quite encouraging. That’s the case in Romans where Paul acknowledges that not everyone he has shared the gospel with has followed Christ. How is this encouraging for us as we witness to those around us? 
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Nations rise and fall, all at the hand of the Almighty God. But why would God cause the death of a nation? How can a nation have a spiritual life, and what does this look like? As we celebrate the 4th of July, let’s remember that we are still dependent on God and His mercy.
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Beautiful people: we all know who they are. Perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect job. The rest of us spend a great part of our lives trying to be like them. But God calls us to be beautiful people, too. He calls “beautiful” those who take the good news of salvation to those who don’t know it.
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The final incidents involved with the crossing of the Jordan are the two acts of consecration that followed it. Those two acts--circumcision and the Passover observance--had great significance as the Israelites were again to practice these rituals mostly forgotten during their wandering in the wilderness. Join Dr. James Boice next time on The Bible Study Hour as he explains the significance of the sacraments and their parallels to the sacraments of the Christian church today..
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Salvation comes only from God. But He uses his followers to bring others to salvation. Paul argues that in order for people to believe in Christ, they have to hear him. In order to hear Him, there has to be preaching. In order for there to be preaching, those preachers have to be sent. So what is our role in this process?
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Shame is a concept that has all but dropped out of our cultural vocabulary. It hasn’t, however, dropped out of the vocabulary of the Bible. While it’s often used in reference to the consequence of our sin, it doesn’t always have to mean guilt. Shame is used in quite a different way when talking about the gospel.  
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The Bible Study Hour offers careful, in-depth Bible study, preparing you to think and act biblically. Dr. James Boice's expository style opens the scriptures and shows how all of God's Word points to Christ. Dr. Boice brings the Bible's truth to bear on all of life. The program helps listeners understand the truth of God's Word in life-changing, mind-renewing ways.The Bible Study Hour is a ministry of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

The Alliance exists to call the twenty-first century church to a modern reformation that recovers clarity and conviction about the great evangelical truths of the Gospel and that then seeks to proclaim these truths powerfully in our contemporary context.

About Dr. James Boice

James Montgomery Boice's Bible teaching continues on The Bible Study Hour radio and internet program, preparing you to think and act biblically. Dr. Boice was regarded as a leading evangelical statesman in the United States and around the world, as he served as senior pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and as president of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals until his death in 2000. His fifty-plus books include an award-winning, four-volume series on Romans, Foundations of the Christian Faith, commentaries on Genesis, Matthew, and several other Old and New Testament books. The Bible Study Hour is always available at TheBibleStudyHour.org.

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