The Trinity: Pointing the Way

The Lord says to my Lord:
 “Sit at My right hand
 until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” Psalm 110:1 NASB Lord/Lord – Sometimes reading a verse in English translation does nothing but confuse the real meaning.  Such is the case here.  Furthermore, since Yeshua quotes this verse in Psalm 110 in…

Benefits Evangelism

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; Romans 10:9  NASB As – This is one of the crucial verses that we had to memorize when I was a child.  It is Paul’s statement about how to…

The Lamborghini

Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.  Psalm 38:10 Desire – “My desire,” says David.  The Hebrew is ta’awah – desire, delight, bounty, craving and greed.  Havvah used the same word when she described the aesthetic, cognitive and physical beauty of the fruit of that Tree.  It…

Distinctively Different

“Then if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘As the LORD lives,’ even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people.” Jeremiah 12:16 NASB As The LORD Lives – OK, you’ve read the verse in…

James in the Psalms

You have said to YHWH, “You are my Lord, I have no goodness except in You.”  Psalm 16:2     Said – The Hebrew verb amar is fairly common.  It is used in all kinds of situations where the next phrase is a quotation.  Since Hebrew has no punctuation, it’s a useful little verb, showing us…