Romans 8:17, “…provided we suffer with Him, in order that we may also be glorified with Him.” The Passage Considered Sometimes, when we think of suffering with Christ, we might imagine that Christ is the sufferer and that WE take on HIS sufferings. While there is a sense in which this is true, […]
John 19:5, “Behold the Man.” The word used for “man” here can also mean simply “human” (recall that, until recently, “Man” / “Mankind” could mean all of the human race…the same is true for the Greek word here translated “man”). When God Incarnate stands before the judgment seat in the tattered regality of His mock-robe
Exodus 2:24-25, “And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.” “…and God knew.” The Hebrew word for “know” here can mean simply “to know” or “to be aware of”, however it can also mean “to know by experience.”
2 Corinthians 1:5, “…just as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, so through Christ our comfort also abounds.” The phrase, “just as” at the beginning of this verse refers back to what Paul has been talking about in the preceding verses, namely, the afflictions which he and others believers suffer. This is important
Hosea 2:6-7, “Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths. She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to
Luke 15:5, “And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.” This is repentance; this is the foundational reason that the repentance of v.7, and 10, and the “coming to himself” of v.17 take place. If one who has been fleeing from the Lord stops and returns to Him—whatever the attendant
Isaiah 27:4-5”…I would burn them up together. Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me.” YHWH will consume the “thorns” that oppose Him in the fires of His wrath—yet even as He threatens this reality, He calls the thorns to enter into His
Matthew 1:21, “…and you shall call His name Jesus [which means, “YHWH Saves”], for He will save His people from their sins.”
Isaiah 53:3, “[The One on the throne of the universe is] A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” Only the One who drowned in, swallowed up, and rose from the sea of human sorrow can help those drowning in it today… Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy.
Zephaniah 3:14-15 “Rejoice…YHWH has taken away the judgments against you…The King of Israel, YHWH, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.” The Greek word in this image is the word translated “Rejoice!” in Zephaniah 3. It’s significant because this same word–as well as “king of Israel/Jews” –is used both in Zephaniah and
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Psalm 80:3, “Let your face shine, that we may be saved!” Isaiah 52:14, “His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human..” Hallowed be His name.
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Mark 4:19, “…desires for other things enter in and choke the word…” Most of U.S. culture runs on “desires for other things”
Ezekiel 28:24, “…there shall be no brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them…” Because the Lord will bear them.
Mark 4:18-19, “They are those who hear the word, but…desires for other things enter in and choke the word…”
Mark 3:10, “…all who had diseases pressed around Him…” God’s heart is such that sick and needy flock to Him
1 Peter 1:11 “The Spirit of Christ…predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.” His path is ours
Isaiah 57:15,”I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly heart…”
