Jesus had just heard that Herod had put John the Baptist to death. John had made it possible for Jesus to come. Jesus had to have known that He was going to be the next one. People who bravely tell the truth will not be tolerated for long. Jesus wanted to be by himself. From…
He Frequently Tells You Subtle Lies to Boost Your Self-Esteem. Completely Corrupt and Wicked.
The Hivites who controlled neighboring cities created a ruse to rescue themselves when Israel took Ai. They dispatched a party of guys who pretended to have traveled a great…
Before getting into the meat of today’s study I want to add something to what I shared last week about Jesus being the administrator of the Old Covenant. In John8:58 when Jesus told Israel “before Abraham was I am”. And also in John8:24 when Jesus told Israel “if ye…
Let Us Not Only Trust God for Salvation, but Also for the Strength to Live Each Day As a Testimony of His Redeeming Work, so That Others May Also Place Their Trust in Him…
The Holy Spirit revealed to Abraham that his offspring would be as numerous as the stars in the…
Once the Kerith Ravine had dried up, the Lord directed Elijah to the home of a Gentile woman. If you thought ravens were stingy, consider humans. But, a few verses earlier, the LORD stated that He had told her to feed Elijah. Elijah put her faith to the test when he asked…
NIV “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
Jesus already faced a similar rejection when Mary and His brothers, afraid He had gone mad (Mark 3:21), tried to take Him back to…
First I want to say something about a video I saw recently in which congressman Mike Lee, a Mormon, expressed his ire at the fact that the Pentagon has determined that Mormonism is not a Christian religion. This time the gov’t is right. And I’m going to show you exactly…
Solomon’s prayer at the temple’s dedication deserves to be studied. The end of the prayer is our Scripture for today. He requests that this prayer be brought before the LORD on a regular basis in order to uphold their cause. The reason he feels bold enough to…
Oh, you thought God punished Adam for his sin too? Well, you need to look at what Paul says about this in Rom.5:12-14. Because there you will find that Adam was not punished for his sin because there was no law. And “where there is no law there is no transgression.”…