1 John 3:17, “…if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?” This verse follows directly on the heels of John’s first real definition of love in this epistle, namely: “By this we know love, that He […]
John 13:8, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” What does Jesus mean by this? What is it about receiving His service of foot washing that proves one either to be “in” or “out” of Christ? The Lord’s words here point us to a deeper meaning bound up
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John 16:20, “You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.” The Context Of Jesus’s Words First, it’s important to determine how broad of an application these words have. Now, it is true that in this verse Jesus is talking most specifically about His impending betrayal and crucifixion, however, just as the
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Daniel 2:44, “The God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever…” I hadn’t considered before the implications for temporal perspective found
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John 4:24, “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.” (See also John 3:6; 14:6,9; 16:14-15). In Spirit, I believe, means that one must be “born of the Spirit,” or to use a systematic theological category: “regenerated.” A person cannot worship the Father until they have been
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“but [the world] hates me because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.” – John 7:7 Very clear, very straightforward, very telling. The world hates the true Christ (and God in Him) why? Jesus says it comes down to the fact that He testifies to the world that its works are evil. This
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An Overview In Isaiah 6:1, Isaiah sees the Lord God “high and lifted up” in glory on His throne. Throughout Isaiah, the repeated theme is that YHWH alone is to be exalted, He alone is Savior–there is no other, and He shares His glory with none. But then, in Isaiah 52:13, that same phrase–“high and
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“[Christ] offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins…” – Hebrews 10:12 A few months ago, I shared a message at my local church on the topic of “seeing Jesus in the Old Testament.” The strategy I used in an attempt to help people “see Jesus” in the first 2/3 of scripture was drawn from
Psalm 8:3-4, “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” God has made the universe essentially infinite in order to mercifully dwarf
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“As For you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good…” – Genesis 50:20 The most implication-laden element of this sentence is that word, “meant.” It’s used twice in verse 20. God Meant… First we see Joseph say that his brothers meant what they did to him as evil…that’s not surprising, we
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“…that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings…” – Philippians 3:10 A few months ago a statement made by my pastor struck me and helped to spur on the musings below. He said something along the lines of, “there is an almost mystical communion that the believer
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This animation is an attempt to bring the all-satisfying beauty of the crucified and risen Christ to bear against the soul-ailment of addiction. My prayer is that it might be used to stir holy love for the Triune God and so decisively shatter strongholds of lesser joys, and that those who are weary of falling
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“The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” – Matthew 6:22 In Matthew’s account, this
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“God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM.’ And He said, ‘Say to the people of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” – Exodus 3:14″So Jesus said to them, ‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am…’” – John 8:28 English translations of John 8:28 will
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“And we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purposes.” – Romans 8:28 All Things For Good? Paul says we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good. Do we know that? Do we know
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The Passage Explained Psalm 42/43 is a poem of lamentation and hope comprised of 3 stanzas. The first stanza establishes that the Psalmist is in spiritual agony because he is far from the presence of the Lord and surrounded by those who oppose YHWH (42:1-6a). In the second stanza, the author affirms that YHWH Himself
Genesis 2:3, “So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all His work that He had done in creation.” So too after the great work that would achieve New Creation, God the Son rested from His labors on the Sabbath.
Philippians 3:12-14, “…I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me His own…forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” I’m not reading in Philippians right now,
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Matthew 26:39, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me…” Mark 14:36, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me…” Luke 22:42, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me…” John 18:11, “Shall I not drink the cup that the Father has
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Isaiah 49:9-10, “They shall feed along the ways; on bare heights shall be their pasture; they shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.” I was in Isaiah 47-49 this
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