"Reaching forward to those things which are ahead" (Phil. 3:13 NKJ). Craning the neck, scanning the horizon, and shading the eyes with the hand in order to see at a distance: these are all expressed by the phrase reaching forward. Paul is telling the Philippians to...
Matthew 13:57 (NLT) And they were deeply offended and refused to believe in him. Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family.” When Jesus returned to His hometown of Nazareth and started teaching to the...
"To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus" (Rom. 3:26 KJV). Paul, in writing to the church at Rome makes a point in Romans 3:26. He says, "at this time" God's righteousness is...
"Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession confession" (Heb. 4:14). The Greek word translated "profession" here is translated confession elsewhere in the King James Version....
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son" (John 3:16). For God so loved the world that He gave...and He gave...and He gave. That is the message the Bible brings us from beginning to end. It sounds simple enough. Yet few of us really...
When Israel reestablished their covenant of circumcision with the Lord, they returned to God with total abandonment. They didn’t want anything to stand in their way. They had witnessed the weakness of their fathers in the wilderness and now they only wanted God’s...
But covet earnestly the best gifts …. 1 Corinthians 12:31 KJV Do you know what my heart is calling for these days? My heart is calling for more manifestations of the Holy Spirit ... more of the gifts of tongues and interpretations, prophecy, discerning of spirits,...
"[Jesus] was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification" (Rom. 4:25). Millions of people around the world believe that Jesus died on the cross. But not everyone believes He was raised from the dead. And very few people, even Christians,...
"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing" (James 1:2-4). Usually, when you're in the...
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Heb. 9:14). Born-again people make mistakes. I mean, we sometimes flat-out miss God. That...
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. (Phil. 3:9 KJV) We are found in Christ Jesus because of the new birth. We have...
Let me show you how the blood of the lamb protected the Hebrews before Jesus came to earth. It is found in Exodus 12:21: Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill...
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