When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have ordained, what is man that You take thought of him and the son of man that You care for him? Psalm 8:3-4 NASB Take thought – David spent many nights under the stars. Without the disturbance of…
We will not conceal them from our children, but tell to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength and His wondrous works that He has done. Psalm 78:4 NASB Not conceal– What parent would even hide something vitally important and beneficial from a child? Actually, nearly all parents. You see, the culture of…
that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3:10-11 NASB Resurrection from the dead – About a week ago we looked at Paul’s expression concerning resurrection in Romans 1 (see August 12). We discovered that…
If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. 1 Corinthians 15:32 NASB Raised– You hope it happens. You hope that the dead are raised, that there is something after the grave, that what you do now will matter later. But you don’t know, do you? You don’t really know,…
Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment. 1 Corinthians 1:10 NASB Made complete– Perhaps the greatest sin of exegetical bias is the sin of interpreting the…
(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.) Numbers 12:3 NIV Very humble– How can a man be the most humble man on the face of the earth? Just knowing that he is would create some small twinge of pride, wouldn’t it? It would make him unique, set…
to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, Ephesians 3:6 NASB Fellow heirs and fellow members– Recently we’ve looked at some passages in Paul’s other letters that raise serious questions about the status of the Gentiles (namely, us) in the Kingdom. We’ve…
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16 NASB Loved– There’s hardly a more famous verse in the whole Bible than this one (if you’re Christian). And most believers who have given it even a cursory look realize that the…
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord,…
concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord, Romans 1:3-4 NASB The resurrection from– Magic often depends on sleight of hand. The magician makes you look at one thing while he does…
