“Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?” Romans 6:3 Dear Ones: In this great chapter of the letter written to the believers in Rome, Paul asks the question: “Do you not know?” Know what? He then goes on to refer to the great,…
“Listen to Me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the Lord.” Isaiah 51:1 Dear Ones: Signposts are a great tool for directing traffic. And so are certain people mentioned in Scripture. In a world where there is so much “knowledge,” and strange, twisted concepts of what is “true,” God has given us what…
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4 Dear Ones: The attitude and perspective that we have towards the Word of God, the Bible, is representative of what our attitude is towards Him. One of the basic tenets of the blessing of…
“And, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand.” Joshua 5:13 Dear Ones: Israel had crossed the Red Sea, and the Jordan River. In the examination of these miraculous events, there is not doubt that they would not be possible without the intervention of God. And now, after…
“Now, therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.” Joshua 1:2 Dear Ones: There came a day, a moment, when the command came. It would be the vital and critical moment in Israel’s history, when their Creator…
“And the Lord appeared unto him (Abraham) in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.” Genesis 18:1 Dear Ones: The Lord “visits” us when He deems so at the appropriate moment, and usually in a manner that we are not expecting. After the resurrection, when…
“And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.” Isaiah 40:5 Dear Ones: If ever there was a revealed difference between sinful man, and the Eternal God, it is in His dealings with Israel. Who among men is capable…
“According as it is written, ‘He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.’” 1 Corinthians 1:31 Dear Ones: Our view of God, His nature, and that which is right in His eyes, has become skewed, and reduced to the “man-made” level of mediocrity, because of the infringement of humanism, the worship of man. Paul…
“For He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.” Psalm 107:9 Dear Ones: When Isaiah writes that Christ was “…despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief,” (Is. 53:3) we are immediately transported to the mirror that reveals things as they are. Earlier in the book…
“And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.” 1 John 5:4 Dear Ones; The elderly Apostle John, who had in essence, “climbed the steep ascent of heaven, through peril, toil, and pain,” commands our attention in one of his last letters, with the fact that faith is KEY to knowing the…