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New -
What does it mean to be a diakonos
(servant,
minister, deacon)
in the NT?
New -
Word Study on Greek Verb Kaleo = to
call - and its interesting nuances
New -
John Resources Updated - All of
Spurgeon's sermons on John by chapter and verse
(Also
new
- Charles Simeon's sermons on John >500 pp)
New -
John 19:30 Commentary - some
overlap with discussion "It is Finished" below
New -
"It
is finished" (Jn 19:30)
Click discussion
of the incredible picture of our Savior's cry of Victory
which secured our Victory over
the
world,
the
flesh
and
the
devil !
New -
Revised study on
Charis
=
Gk for Grace - Why is it so "amazing?"
New -
What is Sin? - A Short Study of the Greek Word Hamartia
New -
2 Corinthians 5:17
Commentary - A New Creature in Christ
New -
What
Does It Mean to Be "In Christ"?
New -
What Does the Bible say about the
"World" aka the "Kosmos"?
New -
Proverbs 29:18 Comments on a Commonly Misinterpreted Verse -
"Where there is no vision the people perish"
New -
Judges Commentaries - Updated with many additions
New -
Topical Discussion: The Deceitfulness of
Sin
New -
Sermons by Charles Simeon - Hebrews, 1Peter,
2 Peter,
Judges
(NOTE:
If you are not
familiar with the great saint Charles Simeon see Dr John
Piper's discussion of Simeon's life - you will want to read
Simeon's sermons
after meeting him! - click
Brothers We Must Not Mind a Little Suffering (Mp3
even better)
New
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The name of God is
Adonai - My Lord, My Master
New
- Isaiah 5 Commentary - "Parable" of
the Vineyard
New
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Integrity - A Few Thoughts
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- Daniel 1 Commentary
New
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Daniel 2 Commentary
-- Daniel 2:1-23
New -
Daniel 2 Commentary --
Daniel 2:24-49
New
- Daniel 3 Commentary
New
- Daniel 4 Commentary
New
- Daniel 5 Commentary
New
- Daniel 6 Commentary
New
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Daniel 7 Commentary
-- Daniel 7:1-6
New
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Daniel 7 Commentary
-- Daniel
7:7-14
New
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Daniel 7 Commentary
-- Daniel
7:15-28
Jesus Teaches on the Principle of Prophetic "Time Gaps"
The Judgment Seat of
Christ - How to live with a "Bema Seat" Mentality (Commentary
on 2Corinthians 5:10)
Goel - Our Kinsman
Redeemer - In Shadow (Type) & Substance
Blood
Avenger - Avenges Man's "Murder", Reclaims Title Deed of
Earth
Isaiah Devotionals - from
a friend of mine
John 3:30 Commentary "He
must increase, but I must decrease"
Memory Verses by Topic -
memorize so you can fight the good fight
(Mt 4:4, Job 23:12-note)
Mark Commentaries,
Sermons, Devotionals - completely revised 8/2/09
Beginning to see signs of
"spiritual burnout"? - Study the concept of "Rest" in the
Bible
Old Testament Passages in
the NT
#1 problem in churches in
America =
Unforgiveness, resentment,
bitterness - see
revisions of expositions on-Forgiveness
in Col 3:13,
Forgiveness in Mt 6:12;
Forgiveness" in Eph 4:32
Commentary on
Isaiah 4:1
Isaiah 4:2-6 The Branch of Jehovah
Commentary on
Galatians 6:14 In What Do You Boast?
Commentary on
1 Corinthians 6:18;
1 Corinthians 6:19;
1 Corinthians 6:20
Commentary on
1John 3:1
1John 3:2
1John 3:3
- April 9
Commentary on
1John 2:15
1John 2:16
1John 2:17
Kosmos
= Greek word for the World
- In Depth Word Study
Commentary on
James 4:4
and
Commentary on
James 4:5
- a difficult passage to interpret
Commentary on
James 4:6
4:7
4:8
4:9
4:10
- God gives grace to the humble
Commentary 2Corinthians 12:9,
12:10 His grace made perfect in our
weakness
Isaiah 40:31 - How to "Fly Like An Eagle" -
1/31/09
Isaiah Verse by Verse Commentary - Isaiah 1-3 are
completed
Jehovah Shammah - The LORD is There
- 12/08
A Brief Excursus on Idolatry and Immorality
Philippians 4:13 - completely revised - I
can do all things through Him...
David and Goliath -revised/updated
Revised/updated
- Ecclesiastes Resources
New - Isaiah Commentary - Isaiah 1:1 - just beginning
(long project)
New - James 1:1-25 Commentary
New - 1Corinthians 10:13 No Temptation or Test Too
Great - Commentary
New - Commentary on Proverbs 5:1-14; 5:15-23;
6:20-35;
7:1-27
Proverbs 4:23 Commentary - Guard Your Heart
Daniel 9:24-27 Commentary on the Greatest
Messianic Prophecy
Timeline of Daniel's Seventieth Week Updated
1Corinthians 13:4-7 Commentary - Christian Love
2Corinthians 10:3-5 Commentary - Taking Every Thought
Captive
2Corinthians 7:1 Commentary Perfecting Holiness
James 2:14-26 Commentary - Faith and Works
Psalm 1 Commentary
Job 23:12 the "Secret" of his
perseverance
Table comparing the Rapture and the
Second Coming
Ezra 7:10 Principle - "secret" of Spirit empowered,
God Glorifying Preaching
Romans 6:11 The Believer's Emancipation Proclamation -
Updated
Suffering and trials 1Peter 1:6;
1:7
Commentary on
Proverbs 13:13
Galatians 5:16-26 - in depth commentary - What does it
means to Walk by the Spirit?
Do you know Him as your El Shaddai - God
Almighty? - new study 10/26/07
Jehovah - I Am
Study of
Types - Typology - Overview, Guidelines, Warnings
The Fruit of the
Spirit...Exposition of
Galatians 5:22
and
Galatians
5:23
Hundreds of
illustrations on Proverbs 1-31...
Proverbs Sermon Illustrations 1
(Proverbs 1-12)
Proverbs Sermon Illustrations 2
(Proverbs 13-19)
Proverbs Sermon Illustrations 3
(Proverbs 20-31)
Acts 16 Commentary
Acts 17 Commentary
Ephesians Commentary - Verse by Verse Notes, Ephesians
1-6
In Depth Commentary on
Covenant:
Covenant of Marriage;
Covenant: Abrahamic vs
Old vs New;
Covenant: Why the New is
Better;
Covenant: New Covenant in the Old
Testament;
Covenant: Abrahamic
versus Mosaic;
Covenant: Withholding
Nothing from God
1 Timothy 4:7-11
Commentary
Commentary on Ruth
(kinsman-redeemer) - updated & revised
Galatians 2:20 commentary
The Incredible Prophecy
of Isaiah 61:1-3
The Millennium 1-Why
did the Early Church drift from literal interpretation of
Rev 20?
The Millennium 2-What
is the context? What events lead up to the Millennium?
The Millennium 3-How
does the OT describe the 1000 year Messianic Age?
Messianic Prophecies
Jehovah Jireh - God our Provider
The Power of God's Word -
A Simple Inductive Study for your class
"Israel of God" - Is God
"Finished" with Israel in His prophetic plan?
Psalms - over 400 Devotionals from Our Daily Bread
Indexed by Scripture
Jehovah Nissi the LORD our Banner
(Exposition
of Exodus 17:8-16)
What is Christian Hope? = A Blessed Hope
How to Handle Fear
Spiritual Gifts Chart
Day of the LORD - What? When?
How Do I Respond?
Covenant of Marriage
Jehovah 'Ezer = the LORD my Help
Inductive Bible Study
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Observation
Interpretation
Application
How to Do Greek Word Study on the Web
revised
In Need of Help? Lift up your eyes. See
notes on Ps 121
Name of the LORD studies
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Why do I need
salvation?
Take a walk down the...
Romans Road
(in both the Old and the New Testament)
Would you go to heaven if you died tonight?
Do you want to go to heaven?
Do you want to know the way?
Read the 2 short pamphlets below by D L Moody
The Way to God & How to Find It
Heaven: Where It Is, Its Inhabitants & How To Get
There
Are you skeptical?
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Can
I Really Trust The Bible?
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February
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Morning |
February 9,
Evening |
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Now
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YOUR
sun will set no more, neither will your moon wane for you will have the LORD
for an everlasting light and the days of your mourning will be finished --
He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord GOD will wipe tears away
from all faces, and He will remove the reproach of His people from all the
earth -- These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation and they
have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. For
this reason, they are before the throne of God and they serve Him day and
night in His temple and He who sits on the throne shall spread His
tabernacle over them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
neither shall the sun beat down on them, nor any heat for the Lamb in the
center of the throne shall be their Shepherd, and shall guide them to
springs of the water of life and God shall wipe every tear from their eyes
--and there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any
mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away -- and there
shall no longer be any curse -- He who overcomes shall inherit these things,
and I will be his God and he will be My son.
Lk 16.25. Is 60.20.--Is 25.8
Rev 7.14, 15, 16, 17.--Rev 21.4, 22:3, 21:7
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Night is coming, when no man can work |
BLESSED
are the dead who die in the Lord... they may rest from their labors, for
their deeds follow with them -- There the wicked cease from raging, And
there the weary are at rest -- Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed
me by bringing me up?
Whatever your hand finds to do, verily, do it
with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or
wisdom in Sheol where you are going-- The dead do not praise the LORD, nor
do any who go down into silence.
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering,
and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have
finished the course, I have kept the faith in the future there is laid up
for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will
award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved
His appearing.
There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the
people of God. For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested
from his works, as God did from His.
Jn 9.4. Re 14.13.--Job
3.17.--1Sa. 28.15.
Eccl 9.10.--Ps 115.17. 2Ti. 4.6, 7, 8. He 4.9,10.
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OUR
DAILY WALK
by F. B. Meyer |
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February 9
CHANGING OUR STRENGTH
"They that wait upon the Lord shall
renew their strength."--
Isa 40:31.
IT IS more than probable that these
lines will be read by some who have lost heart. They are fainting beneath
the long and arduous strain of life, and ready to give up in despair. It
seems as though God had forgotten to be gracious, and in anger had shut up
His tender mercies. To all such, Isaiah says: God is not tired: you think He
is because you are. Wait upon the Lord, and change your strength (see
margin).
The question is not as to altering
your environment, but altering your courage, your power of endurance, your
assurance of victory; then, notwithstanding every hindrance and difficulty,
you will mount up on wings like eagles, you will run without being weary,
you will walk without being faint.
The inevitable order. Mounting
up--running--walking! We should have supposed that it should have been
walking in the beginnings of religious experience; then the walk breaking
into the run; and finally the runner leaping on wings into the azure, like
the eagle a black speck against the blue! But experience confirms the
prophetic order. Isaiah is right! We mount, we run, we walk!
Let us claim the promise--"They that
wait on the Lord shall change their strength." Too often in the past we have
depended on the stimulus of services, sermons, conventions which have made
the embers glow again on the heart's altar. We have gone back to our homes,
to our daily calling, with a new zeal and impulse that has lasted for weeks
or months. Then we have found ourselves flagging again; we have run and got
weary; we have walked and become faint.
To all such comes the word; if you
would once more mount up and run and walk, you must change your strength.
Time tells on us! Moods influence us! Circumstances impede us! Satan blows
cold blasts on our heart-fires and cools them! Sins pile up their debris
between us and God! From all these let us turn once more to Jesus and wait
on Him. "My soul, wait thou only upon the Lord, for my expectation is from
Him." Look not back, but forward! Not down, but up! Not in, but out! Never
to your own heart, but keep looking to Jesus, made near and living by the
grace of the Holy Spirit. So shall you change your strength, as you wait
upon the Lord.
PRAYER
Thou knowest, Lord, how often I am
sorely let and hindered in running the race which is set before me. May Thy
bountiful grace and mercy come to my help, that I may finish my course with
joy, and receive the crown of life. AMEN. |
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FAITH'S CHECKBOOK
by C H Spurgeon
(Read C H Spurgeon's testimony - It is
miraculous as
is EVERY testimony of the new birth) |
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Feb 9
The Dross Purged
"And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as
silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on
My Name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall
say, The LORD is my God" (Zechariah 13:9).
Grace transmutes us into precious metal, and then the fire and the furnace
follows as a necessary consequence. Do we start at this? Would we sooner
be accounted worthless, that we might enjoy repose, like the stones of the
field! This would be to choose the viler part -- like Esau, to take the
pottage and give up the covenant portion. No, LORD; we will gladly be cast
into the furnace rather than be cast out from Thy presence! The fire only
refines; it does not destroy. We are to be brought through the fire, not
left in it. The LORD values His people as silver, and therefore He is at
pains to purge away their dross. If we are wise, we shall rather welcome
the refining process than decline it. Our prayer will be that our alloy
may be taken from us rather than that we should be withdrawn from the
crucible. O LORD, Thou triest us indeed! We are ready to melt under the
fierceness of the flame. Still, this is Thy way, and Thy way is the best.
Sustain us under the trial and complete the process of our purifying, and
we will be Thine forever and ever.
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John H
Jowett
Daily Devotional
FEBRUARY 9
THE ROCK AND THE BOWING WALL
Psalm 62:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
THERE are two symbols by which the psalmist describes the confidence of
the righteous. “He only is my rock.” Only yesterday I had the shelter of a
great rock on a storm-swept mountain side. The wind tore along the
heights, driving the rain like hail, but in the opening of the rock our
shelter was complete.
And the second symbol is this: “He is my high place.” The high place is
the home of the chamois, out of reach of the arrow. “Flee as a bird to
your mountain!” Get beyond the hunter’s range! Our security is found in
loftiness. It is our unutterable privilege to live in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. Such is the confidence of the righteous.
In this psalm there is also another pair of symbols describing the
futility of the wicked. The wicked is “as a bowing wall.” The wall is out
of perpendicular, out of conformity with the truth of the plumb-line, and
it will assuredly topple into ruin. So is it with the wicked: he is
building awry, and he will fall into moral disaster. He is also “as a
tottering fence.” The wind and the rain dislodge the fence, it rots at its
foundations, and one day it lies prone upon the ground.
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See these
other
Daily Devotionals...
Store up
(present
imperative
= command to make this privilege our practice!) for
yourselves treasure in heaven (cp Mt 6:20-note,
1Th 2:19, 20-note,
Lk 10:2, Col 4:2,3-note,
2Th 3:1, Rev 7:9-note)
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Pray for the unreached people groups.
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GLOBAL PRAYER
DIGEST - Feb 9 Gangam People of Togo....
Manu felt both nervous and excited. This was his first
time to take the morning drink to his father. His name
means "second born son." His brother Danso ("reliable")
had always done this before. But last night men took
Danso and all the older boys in the village. They will
go to a secret place in the forest for a three-month
initiation into adulthood. All the boys-turned-men will
identify with each other as they form a special bond
during their initiation. When Danso returns, he will no
longer perform the boy's job of taking food to his
father. Manu will get his turn in two more years. He
feels both nervous and excited about that event as well.
Their father lives in a large rectangular hut in the
middle of their family compound. The rest of the family
lives in a few huts surrounding the father's home.
Manu and Danso are part of the Gangam people group of
Togo. They follow traditional ethnic beliefs and
practices. Part of their belief pictures a supreme god
and creator who judges and punishes or rewards human
behavior. They also worship ancestors and seek to
placate evil spirits.
Pray that believers in West Africa will serve as
God's instruments to reveal the true Supreme God to the
Gangam people.-GC
Matthew 18:3 I assure you that unless you change
and become like children, you will never enter the
Kingdom of heaven.
Children, like the Gangam kids we read about today, are
naturally teachable and eager to please. These are
characteristics that make one able and willing to grow
in Christ. Could you imagine what good disciples God
would have if only the children had a chance to learn of
His ways? Such work could transform any culture as the
children grow into adults.
Pray for God to raise up more disciplers to reach
out to the children of West Africa.
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OUR DAILY BREAD
(click to go)
- One of the best daily devotionals but use it to prompt not
replace your time in the Word (Mt 4:4, Dt 8:3, Je 15:16) |
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Periodic Quotes...
God addressed
Israel in the following famous passage but the timeless principle
is apropos to believers in America ...
If I shut up the heavens so
that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the
land, or if I send pestilence among My people,
and My people who are called by My name humble themselves
and pray, and seek My face and turn from
their wicked ways,
then I will hear
from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal
their land. (2Chr 7:13, 14)
J. Barton Payne in the
Wycliffe Bible Commentary writes that...
This great verse, the best
known in all Chronicles, expresses as does no other in Scripture
God’s requirement for national blessing, whether in Solomon’s
land, in Ezra’s, or in our own. Those who believe must forsake
their sins, turn from the life that is centered in self, and yield
to God’s word and will. Then, and only then, will heaven send
revival.
A Prayer
For Our Nation
May
the Spirit of holiness prompt all who read it to join in solemn,
earnest intercession on behalf of America (cp Joel 1:14, 2:15)...
Heavenly Father, we
come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your
direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who
call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have
lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have
exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded
laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and
called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it
justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and
called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called
it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called
it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and
pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have
ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it
enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today;
cleanse us from every sin and set us free (in Christ Jesus our
Lord). Amen!
Note:
Some have attributed
this prayer to Billy Graham, but others attribute it (or a similar
prayer) to Joe Wright and still others to a prayer by Bob Russell
before the Kansas House of Representatives in 1996 - God knows who
prayed it, so that is not the real issue...Our Father desires to
hear all of His children crying out with similar contrition and
brokenness over our sins against His holy Name...
First of all, then, I urge
that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made
on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, in
order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness
and dignity. (1Ti 2:1,2, cp Daniel's great prayer in Da
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