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SPIRITULITY - STAR

SPIRITUALITY. [See Holy, Righteousness, STAGGER. Hesitate; falter (Ro. 4:20).
Sanctification, Upright.] STANCH. To stop; to cease to flow (Lk. 8:44).
SPIRITUALIST. [See Witchcraft.] STAND TO. To agree to; abide by (De. 25:8; 2 Ki.
SPIRITUALIZE. An allegorical method of Bible 23:3; 2 Ch. 34:32).
interpretation. [See Allegorical, Prophecy.] STANDING. A person’s position before God. Prior to
SPITEFULLY. Shamefully; disgracefully (Mt. 22:6; salvation, all men stand in a position of condemnation
Lk. 18:32). (Ro. 3:9-18). When a person trusts Jesus Christ, his
SPITTED ON. To be spit upon (Lk. 18:32). standing changes. In Christ he has a new standing of
SPOIL. (1) Plunder taken in war (Ge. 49:27; Nu. eternal blessing (Ro. 5:1-2; 1 Co. 15:1). [See
31:9; De. 2:35; Jos. 8:2; 11:14). (2) To ruin; to lead Justification, Sanctification.]
astray (Col. 2:8). STAR. (1) Heavenly bodies. Any of the various types
SPOKEN FOR. Asked in marriage (Song 8:8). of hot, gaseous, self-luminous celestial bodies, as the
SPORT. To make merry; play; also used in the sense sun or Polaris, whose energy is derived from nuclear-
fusion reactions; any celestial body, except the moon,
of mocking and jesting (Jud. 16:25; Pr. 10:23; 26:19; Is. that appears as a fixed point of light in the night sky
57:4). (Random House Webster’s College Dictionary). God
SPORTING. To play; to laugh; to have pleasure (Ge. made the stars on the fourth day of creation (Ge.
26:7). In 2 Pe. 2:13, the term describes false teachers. 1:14-19) for the purpose of giving light, and for “signs,
The root Greek word, truphao, is translated “lived in and for seasons, and for days, and years.” God also
pleasure” in Ja. 5:5 and “riot” in 2 Pe. 2:13. It speaks of made the stars to declare His glory (Ps. 19:1). Man is
the following: (1) the casual attitude of certain false not controlled by the stars, but he gauges the passing of
teachers regarding the Word of God and eternal truth; time by them. He is forbidden to use the stars
(2) the mocking attitude of certain false teachers astrologically (Is. 47:13). The stars are not to be
regarding those who stand in the old paths, the “faith worshiped (De. 4:19). God promised to multiply
once delivered to the saints”; (3) the worldly attitude of Abraham’s seed as the stars of heaven (Ge. 15:5; 22:17;
certain false teachers in rejecting biblical soberness and 26:4; Ex. 32:13; De. 1:10; 10:22; 28:26; 1 Ch. 27:23;
holiness and loving carnal pleasures (2 Pe. 2:14). [See Ne. 9:23; He. 11:12. A star guided the wise men to the
False Teaching.] infant Jesus (Mt. 2:2,9-10).
SPOUSE. A marriage partner (Hos. 4:13-14). [See Everything the Bible says about the stars has proven
Home.] to be scientifically accurate. Of the references to stars in
SPRING. (1) To come forth; to break forth; to arise the book of Job, Henry Morris, head of the Institute for
out of; to proceed from; to leap (Nu. 21:17; De. 8:7; Job Creation Research, testifies, “... of even greater
5:6; Mk. 4:27). (2) The dawn (Jud. 19:25; 1 Sa. 9:26). significance is the fact that in a 4,000-year-old book
(3) Fountain; an issue of water (2 Ki. 2:21). filled with numerous references to natural phenomena,
SPRINKLING. (1) The blood was sprinkled in the there are no scientific mistakes or fallacies.” Some of the
O.T. economy to typify the atonement of Jesus Christ facts about stars mentioned in Scripture and confirmed
(Ex. 24:6, 8; 29:16, 20; Le. 1:5, 11; 3:2, 8, 13; 7:2, 14; by modern science—(a) The stars are innumerable (Ge.
8:19; 9:12, 18; 17:6; Nu. 18:17; 2 Ki. 16:13, 15; He. 15:5). Long before the development of the telescope
9:19, 21; 12:24; 1 Pe. 1:2). (2) Water was sprinkled in God’s Word said the stars are as innumerable as the
the O.T. economy to typify purification (Nu. 8:6-7; sand of the shore (compare Ge. 13:16 and 15:5). The
19:19-21). (3) God uses the sprinkling of water to naked eye can count only about 3,000 stars, but modern
symbolize His New Covenant with Israel (Eze. science confirms that “the stars and the sand are of
36:24-25). (4) Some denominations use sprinkling as a about the same order of magnitude in number [and] it
mode of baptism, also called affusion. The candidate is constitutes one of the many remarkable examples of
sprinkled with a small amount of water. Such a practice modern scientific truth found in the pages of the Bible
is not taught in the N.T. and is contrary to the apostolic long before scientists could have learned them by the
method of baptism [See Baptism - Immersion, Baptism scientific method” (The Genesis Record). (b) The stars
Infant, Covenant.] have courses (Ju. 5:20). (c) The stars are VERY high
SPUE. To vomit; to spit (Le. 18:28; Re. 3:16). (Job 22:12). One of the distant stars which has been
STABLISH. Establish; make firm or stable (2 Sa. identified by scientists, Abel 2029, is one billion light
7:13; 1 Ch. 17:12; Ro. 16:25; 1 Th. 3:13). years away. (One light year is 5.9 trillion miles!) (d) The
stars are governed by set ordinances (Je. 31:35). The
STACHYS (ear of corn). Ro. 16:9. movement of the heavenly bodies is so precise that man
STACTE. An aromatic gum (Ex. 30:34). can navigate by them, and is able to determine exactly

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