Introduction: There must have been a pretty severe outcry against God for Him to institute a Court and call all of nature (the mountains and the hills) to be the jury! 1 Hear what the LORD says:Arise, plead your case before the mountains,and let the hills hear your voice.2 Hear, you mountains, the indictment ofContinue reading “Micah 6: 1-8….Sitting in the Court of Heaven!”
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Mark 8: 31-9: 1….Peter doesn’t like what Jesus is teaching!
And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning andContinue reading “Mark 8: 31-9: 1….Peter doesn’t like what Jesus is teaching!”
Psalm 50: 12-23….Why did God require sacrifices, if they weren’t accepted?
12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine. 13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? – Is this not sarcasm. It is a ridiculous suggestion!14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to theContinue reading “Psalm 50: 12-23….Why did God require sacrifices, if they weren’t accepted?”
Mark 5: 1-13….Were there a surfeit of demon possessed people in Israel?
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,Continue reading “Mark 5: 1-13….Were there a surfeit of demon possessed people in Israel?”
Revelation 2: 1-7….Church in Ephesus
“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstand“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselvesContinue reading “Revelation 2: 1-7….Church in Ephesus”
1 Corinthians 9: 9-16….Woe to me!
For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh inContinue reading “1 Corinthians 9: 9-16….Woe to me!”
John 15: 18-16: 4a….Hated because you are His!
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that IContinue reading “John 15: 18-16: 4a….Hated because you are His!”
John 13: 21-30….Judas Dismissed.
After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side, so Simon Peter motioned to himContinue reading “John 13: 21-30….Judas Dismissed.”
John 13: 1-10….A servant’s task.
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’sContinue reading “John 13: 1-10….A servant’s task.”
2 Samuel 1: 8-16….Swift ‘Justice’?
And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’ And he said to me, Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’ So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live afterContinue reading “2 Samuel 1: 8-16….Swift ‘Justice’?”
As I read it! 