And Know The Certainty of Those Things

Luke felt pressed to write a record of the Son of God coming to earth.  Everyone who would read his gospel account would know of a certainty that the things are true. Luke 1:  1Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed...

To This End Was I Born

Pilate asked Jesus a question.  He answered him truthfully.  It revealed something about Jesus to Pilate.  The Lord came for Pilate as well as he did everyone else.  He let Pilate know to this end was I born. John 18: 35Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered...

The Head Of The Body

In the past couple of weeks I’ve talked about our relationship with the Lord and with each other.  Now I want us to look at how the Lord looks at us.  He sees us as a body of which he is the head.  As Christians you and I are part of his body. I Corinthians 12:  12For as the body is one, and hath...

Judah, Thou Art He

Here we’ll learn about the Messiah and the plan of salvation as the Lord reveals things through the blessing Jacob gave to his sons.  These Old Testament writings are how the scribes should have known when Jesus would be born.  This talks about the tribes of Israel, 12 of them, which would come through...

Praise Before The gods

Praise before the gods.  That doesn’t sound quite right, but that’s what David said.  Man hasn’t changed that much.  We’re living in a modern, advanced day as far as knowledge and technology, but man is still prone to follow after his own gods.  It’s an insatiable pursuit of something to...

None But One

Luke 17:  11And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.  12And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: 13And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. 14And...

The Whole Family

Paul reminds us in this prayer for the Ephesian church of who we are and how things are in God’s eyes.  He uses the phrase the whole family.  At the crux of salvation is family.  Jesus came to raise the family of Adam out its hopeless condition. Ephesians 3: 14For this cause I bow my knees unto...

From His Family To Yours

Find yourself in this passage.  You are here! Matthew 12: 46While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. 47Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. 48But he answered...

“Touched With The Feeling”

The devil wants us to forget this passage.  These three verses hold truths that make whatever life throws at us survivable.  They turn battles to victory.  It all adds up to one fact stated simply:  what a friend we have in Jesus.  We are friends with each other because of Christ.  However, he’s...

Love’s Determination

Determination is the thought here.  It’s a perfect picture illustrated by the Shunammite woman. She was engaged to King Solomon.  She awoke to look for him, but she couldn’t find him.  She sought for him until she did, and then she wouldn’t let him go.  She took him to her mother’s house. ...