“If you consent and obey, you will eat the best of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Isaiah 1:19 NASB Consent and obey – We love Isaiah 1:18, especially when we think it endorses rational debate. But I doubt many of us realize that this next…
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.” Isaiah 1:18 NASB Reason – Certainly you’ve heard this verse more than a few times. Does it mean that God wants…
But Jesus answered and said to them, “I will ask you one thing too, which if you tell Me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.” Matthew 21:24 NASB Answered – Have you noticed how many times Yeshua doesn’t answer the question? Have you noticed how often His reply is…
How blessed is the man who fears always, but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity. Proverbs 28:14 NASB Fear always – We are apt to recite the fact that Scripture exhorts us some 366 times not to fear. This could lead us to imagine that fear has no place in the life…
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil. Ecclesiastes 12:14 Jay Green Judgment – “The strength of the yetzer ha’ra is precisely in convincing us that we do not need these words of instruction because we are above believing in such…
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil. Ecclesiastes 12:14 Jay Green Every work – Scrupulous! Rigorous! Meticulous! Do those adjectives describe your life before the Lord – or are you one of the many who seem to think that God’s…
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Genesis 2:7 NASB Living Being – Will we ever get past Genesis? Probably not. The depth of this account of creation can hardly be plumbed. Once more we return…
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ; Philippians 1:10 NASB In order to be – Read it slowly. Paul has just proclaimed that God and God alone will complete the good work in us (v. 6). God won’t stop the…
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 NIV The day of Christ Jesus – How long will it take for God to finish the exclamation of your life? Paul gives us the answer. “Until the…
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 NIV To completion – Would you like to put an exclamation point behind your life? Look no further than this word, epiteleo. Actually, the root word is what…
