A Case of Severe ‘yada

“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’”  Matthew 7:23  NASB Never knew you – Rosh Hashanah is gone.  Yom Kippur is over.  The Feasts will wait for another year.  We have studied many words, examined many concepts, learned some theological truths.  There is a…

The Look

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.  Psalm 101:3  NASB Worthless – Does David’s declaration match your vision?  David declares that no beliya’al will come before him.  If we’re going to follow David’s devotion, we must know what…

Redefining the Word

Every one who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.  1 John 3:4  NASB Lawlessness – The Greek word for “lawlessness” is anomos.  We have English derivatives from this Greek word like antinomian.  But it isn’t the Greek background of the word that matters most when we want to understand what John is…