When speaking of Jesus, Matthew quotes Isaiah. Isaiah spoke often about the coming Christ. Much of what we know about Jesus comes from the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, Luke 24:44. Indicating how the Jews divided the Scriptures into three parts: the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings, the TaNaK.   In other words, […]

The Son has life…1 John 5:12 He who has the Son has life; everlasting life, verse 11. Life is that simple. Those who believe in the name of the Son of God have life; those who don’t believe do not have life. People are either in or they are out. You are either in Christ […]

The flesh is weak…Mark 14:38 On the night Jesus was betrayed, He celebrated Passover with His twelve closest friends. Leaving the upper room, they sang hymns as they made their way to Gethsemane on Mount of Olives, verses 26 and 32. The closeness of their communion was about to be broken. Verse 33: And He took […]

Enoch walked with God…Genesis 5:4 Like Noah after him, Enoch chose to live by faith. According to history, Genesis 6:5, most people did not make this choice. They chose instead, to do their own thing. For them, their choices were wicked, evil, sinful. Among the many exceptions, like you, there existed people like Enoch, Noah, […]

Be silent all flesh…Zechariah 2:13 The last prophet of the Old Testament to speak of ‘the flesh’ is Zechariah. In 2:13 the word flesh refers to the whole person: be silent all flesh. In the other three references, verses 11:9, 11:16, and 14:12, flesh refers to the person’s skin and muscle. These images are not pleasant to imagine. Which brings […]

For all flesh had corrupted their way…Genesis 6:12 One can only imagine how man’s corruption affected their Creator. For God had created them in His image, Genesis 1:26-27 and Genesis 9:6: for in the image of God He made man. This is a strange paradox. Mankind was made in the image of God yet covered in […]

For he is indeed flesh…Genesis 6:3 The first eight verses of Genesis 6 describe the world in the days of Noah. Verse 5: Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. This is a serious indictment […]

Bore our sins…1 Peter 2:24 In both Hebrew and Greek, the word sin literally means to miss the mark; to fail.  God gave us a precise code of conduct: do this and do not do that. All of the Ten Commandments are ways we could honor or fail God. Five were what we could do […]

No one make take your crown…Revelation 3:11 Lest we point the finger at what others believe, we should examine what we hold to be true. Others believe they have some kind of physical reward awaiting them in the afterlife. Sometimes we scoff at their beliefs. But what do we believe?  Don’t we believe we will […]

The kingdom of God is within you…Luke 17:21 This was Jesus’ answer to the Pharisees’ question: when will the kingdom of God come? Strange. Did Jesus just say the kingdom of God was in the Pharisees? The very group of men who challenged Him on everything He did or said! Were they searching for the […]