“So shall My heavenly Father also do to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.” Matthew 18:35 NASB Not forgive – Does God forgive everything? Before you say, “Of course!” you may wish to read this parable one more time. It is the parable of the slave who owed…
When David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, 2 Samuel 24:11 NASB Seer – Do you have eyes to see and ears to hear? Not everyone is so equipped. To hear what God is saying requires more than processing audio signals. Our equipment must…
Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:4 NASB Humbles – The Kingdom is for children. We are quick to acknowledge that we need the humility and attitude of a child in order to enter into the Kingdom. But too often we fail to read…
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the times of old; Psalm 44:2 (Hebrew World Translation) You performed – Where is God when we need Him? That seems to be the theme of this psalm. If you read a bit further,…
and there was not a man to till the ground Genesis 2:5 (Hebrew World translation) To till – There is no difference between sacred and secular. Better read that again since nearly everything about our culture is based on separating sacred and secular. We have church and state, spiritual and carnal, righteous and wicked and…
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. Philippians 2:12-13 NASB Work…
The One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these. Isaiah 45:7 NASB Calamity – If God is sovereign, then why is there evil? How can a good God allow evil in the world? If you’ve never struggled with these questions, perhaps you haven’t read…
Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. Genesis 2:19 NASB Name – Adam must have worked overtime. Can…
And these are the generations of Terah: Genesis 11:27 (translation J. Green) These are the generations – We are familiar with the Hebrew term toledoth, in this verse, e’le toldoth. We investigated the problem with the spelling of this word. We’ve noted that the toledoth pattern is the structural framework of Genesis and the deliberate…
For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one, and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace. Ephesians 2:14-15 (almost)…
