For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 Power – God gives me dunamis. And what does “power” mean to me? It means ability, capacity, vigor, strength and will. The basis of our words “dynamite” and “dynamic” come from this Greek root. Explosive…
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! Romans 6:1-2 Continue – “I’m saved. I’ll go to heaven when I die. Jesus’ death guarantees it. Why should I worry about all those Old Testament rules. I’m under grace. Rules don’t save me, God does.”…
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Romans 5:1 Justified By Faith – It’s extremely unfortunate that Cardinal Hugo and Joseph Athias divided the Bible up into chapters (introduced about 1240 AD) and Arabic numeral verses (introduced in 1661). While such conventions became necessary for technological…
O Israel, you are destroyed, but your help is in Me! Hosea 13:9 Help – One of the most important themes of Scripture is the sovereignty over the history of men. This is a significant part of the Exodus drama. The prophets consistently proclaim God’s total control of the affairs of all men, righteous or…
O Israel, you are destroyed, but your help is in Me! Hosea 13:9 Destroyed – How is Israel destroyed? Hosea cries out on God’s behalf. The word used is šāḥat. Maybe you have some battle scenes in mind. Maybe you think of collapsed buildings and sacked villages. But if you read this word in Hebrew, some…
“I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world.” John 8:26 I Heard From Him – Read the verse again. Then ask yourself, “How would I understand this verse if I were…
Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, who was the chief of the thirty, and he said, . . . 1 Chronicles 12:18 Came Upon – How would you describe the Spirit of God coming over you? Would you talk about being filled? Would you use words about a deep, inner experience? Would you describe the…
There and then the whole town came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they urged him to go away from their area. Matthew 8:34 Whole Town – I am sure you are familiar with the story of the demoniac and the pigs. Yeshua crosses Lake Kinneret and encounters a man (two men…
But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did, when he became hungry, he and his companions, how he entered the house of God, and they ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?” Matthew 12:3-4 Not Lawful…
The men were amazed, and said, “What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?” Matthew 8:27 Man – Do you remember a few days ago I said that Yeshua almost always acts as a man but there are exceptions? Well, this seems to be one of those exceptions. …
