They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of wickedness; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; they do not defend the rights of the poor. Jeremiah 5:27-28 Do Not Defend – Is Jeremiah speaking about us? Have we grown fat and sleek at…
For Elohim is the King of all the earth Psalm 47:8 (Hebrew text) King – While we don’t often think about it, the political landscape of the Bible is so radically different from our contemporary experience of government that we easily make assumptions about God’s government that really don’t fit Scripture at all. Reconsidering the…
remember that you were at one time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world, Ephesians 2:12 Commonwealth – Perhaps the NIV gives us a better understanding of this word, politeia, by translating it as “citizenship in.” But…
