Water certainly gives so much, but it also has a very dangerous side. Like the earth must have water, your life as one of faith couldn’t even exist without God’s grace, but those same undeserved blessings are the opposite for the man who hates God. The leaks in a mighty Dam that holds back a […]
Faith as a mustard seed…Matthew 17:20 While Jesus and three of His disciples were on the mountain where He was transfigured before their eyes, the others were trying to heal a young man of epilepsy, Matthew 17: 1 thru 21. Their failure led Jesus to say, because of your unbelief (or little faith) for assuredly, I say to […]
But woe to you, scribes, and Pharisees…Matthew 23:13 Jesus issued a stern warning to the legalists of His day against hypocrisy. For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you all those who are entering to go in, Matthew 23:13. This Jesus said to the religious leaders […]
Tekel…Daniel 5:27 The rest of Daniel 5:27: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting. This was God’s word to Belshazzar, son of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon. A word written on the wall and interpreted by Daniel before the king. Actually, one of four words: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Words unknown to the king but […]
Made us alive…Ephesians 3:5 We were dead in our sins. By grace we have been saved, made alive, with Christ Jesus. As He was resurrected from the dead, we were raised to a new life, an everlasting life in Christ. As He is seated at the right hand of the Father, He made us sit […]
The LORD said to my Lord…Psalm 110:1 The LORD said to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool.’” The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies! Psalm 110, verses 1 and 2. Jesus brought these words upon Himself, “Hereafter […]
He has reconciled…Colossians 1:21 The separation of mankind from God which took place in the Garden has been corrected in Christ. For if when we were enemies were reconciled to God through the death of His son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Romans 5:10. This is the gospel. […]
Love is the fulfillment of the law…Romans 13:10 Legalism requires our constant recalculation of our salvation. Under the weight of legalism, we are never free. We just traded the bondage of sin for the chains of rules. Grace says, “It is finished”; “you are free.” For the commandments, ‘you shall not commit adultery’—‘you shall not […]
Propitiation for our sins…I John 2:2 and 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins, 1 John 4:10. Propitiation is an interesting word. It is used in the LXX to describe what the High Priest did on the Day […]
Raised because of our justification…Romans 4:25 When God declared His name to Moses He said, The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and […]