Leviticus 19:19 ‘You shall keep My statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sow your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you. God is giving the Edah or Community of Israel instructions to be separate from nations who did… Read More »
God’s Deep Love
John 11:3 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.” John 11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. In this Gospel, John is really emphasizing for us that Jesus loved these people; twice in the first 5 verses of this chapter we are told that… Read More »
Refuge
Psalm 91:2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” In verse 2 of Psalm 91, as if in response to himself, Moses says that given the wonderful knowledge of his safety in God, he will then make the Lord his refuge …… Read More »
Willingly Blind
John 12:37 But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him, As we read this statement in verse 37 we become aware of a question that perhaps we had taken for granted, but one that John here expresses and perhaps out of his own incredulousness over the disbelief… Read More »
A Greater Revelation
John 14:8-9 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” Jesus replied, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show him to you? Perhaps… Read More »
Proof Positive
Acts 2:32-35 “God raised Jesus from the dead, and we are all witnesses of this. Now he is exalted to the place of highest honor in heaven, at God’s right hand. And the Father, as he had promised, gave him the Holy Spirit to pour out upon us, just as you see and hear today.… Read More »
On Timing
Numbers 9:1-5 Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: “Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time. On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall… Read More »
Excuses
Acts 6:8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people. I think the order of the words, “faith and power” is important here. You see, the fact that faith was required means that the power was not Stephen’s, but that it was from God. It reminds us that… Read More »
Two Points of View
Numbers 13:17-20 Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many; whether the land they… Read More »
Works Snob
Acts 7:51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. It wasn’t that the counsel couldn’t hear Stephen but they refused to so much as even consider what he said. They were stiff necked, meaning they could not repent or turn and… Read More »
