Today’s Word

Idioms of Nothingness

In labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. Proverbs 14:23 Mere Talk – In Hebrew, nothing is real.  Okay, that’s a bit confusing.  What I mean is that the concept of “nothing” also has a certain reality.  Nothing isn’t no-thing.  It’s not the kind of empty, non-existent thing that we associate…
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Hebrew Time

And God said, “Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night.  And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years.  And let them be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth.  And it…
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Flying Colors

But He said this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do. John 6:6 Test – Let’s see.  I’m not to test God.  That’s an insult to His sovereignty.  But God can test me.  He did so with Abraham.  Here Yeshua tests Philip.  The Greek is peirazo, a verb that means…
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Pseudo-gramma

“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me.  But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My word?” John 5:46-47 His Writings – What is the plain sense of Yeshua’s statement?  If you believe what Moses wrote, you would believe what I am saying, but…
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Reassessment

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…
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Shooting Blanks (2)

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.”…
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