Today’s Word
Are You Afraid?
Remember therefore what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. If therefore you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you. Revelation 3:3 Like A Thief – There is hardly a more frightening verse in Revelation. Of…
Becoming a Zealot
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; be zealous, therefore, and repent. Revelation 3:19 Repent – Have you determined to be 100% sold-out for God? That’s great. He wants you to have a zealous heart like His. But how do you accomplish this? Do you just make another vow to keep every commandment? Do…
Passionate Commitment
Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; be zealous, therefore, and repent. Revelation 3:19 Zealous – Are you zealous for God? “I think so,” you might answer, “but I’m not sure what you mean.” Yes, it’s confusing. We don’t use the word zeal much in these days of tolerance and universal humanism. When we…
Sword Play
Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 Iron – Hebrew puns are not obvious in translation, but once you know them, a deeper meaning appears. Here the word “iron” has two meanings. The first instance is a reference to a sword or knife. The second is to a sharpening stone. In Hebrew,…
Hands and Feet of the Spirit
But encourage one another day after day, as long as it still called, “Today,” lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Hebrews 3:13 Encourage – If we only knew the Greek! What a difference it might make in the way we understand “encourage” and “exhort.” Here is the word parakaleite. …
It’s Not What You Think
But encourage one another day after day, as long as it still called, “Today,” lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Hebrews 3:13 Deceitfulness – Since the Greek word apate means anything that is deceptive or seducing, we should easily be able to identify these things, right? I mean, how…
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