Archive for March, 2005
“And they sang a new song: �You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, [...]
And they sang a new song: �You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation – Revelation 5:9-10
This statement is one of the most profoundly loving statements you will find [...]
“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm�neither hot nor cold�I am [...]
But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’ “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ “In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse-the whole nation of you-because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in [...]
“You place defiled food on my altar. “But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ “By saying that the LORD’s table is contemptible. When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased [...]
Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, [...]
Isaiah 50 makes it clear. God is the one who justifies us. God is the one who teaches us what is right and what is wrong. God is the one who teaches us to turn the other cheek. Essentially, God is the One. We cannot rely on our own devices no matter how much we [...]
“But Zion said, ‘The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.’Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever [...]
The people of Israel had returned to their ancestral land with the permission of the King of Persia. He had allowed them to return to rebuild their country as long as they remained loyal to him. The people spent many years building their homes, farms, businesses and other necessary things, but they did not rebuild [...]
Jude gives us a very important warning as Christ-followers. There are people among us who are not truly seeking to follow Christ. They might be there because the like the fellowship of “good” people. They might be there because they like the community aspect of the Church. Many of them are also there because they [...]
