“By your perseverance you will win your souls.” Luke 21:19 NASB (1963) Souls – How do you acquire salvation? It’s a fair question, especially since the evangelical world provides a clear answer. “You get saved by confessing Jesus as your Savior and Lord.” There’s just one small problem. The idea of “getting saved” really doesn’t…
And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. Luke 9:23 NASB Take up – Ah, an easy one to remember. The Greek verb is airo. Lift off! Literally, “to lift from the ground, to lift in…
Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3 NASB Born Again – ‘Born again’, in Greek anagennesas, is the expression that Dr. Skip Moen calls “The Evangelical Lynchpin” and says this is actually “a word that Peter…
And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. Luke 9:23 NASB Must deny – Just say, “No.” That’s what the Greek verb arneomai means. Just answer the question with “No” or refuse some offer or demand….
And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. Luke 9:23 NASB Wishes – How sincerely do you want to be His follower? What intensity do you put into your effort? How important is He to you?…
And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read. Luke 4:16 NASB Custom – In the twelfth century, Maimonides, the Jewish sage, dared to say, “They will not find in their Torah (the New Testament) anything…
Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. Acts 17:11 NASB Examining the Scriptures – Are you Berean? Ah, you say, “But of course. I make sure that what I believe is supported by the…
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45 NASB Ransom – Yesterday we looked at the verb tense issues with John’s declaration. Hebrew isn’t Greek. Things might be different. But we still need to explore the idea…
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45 NASB Ransom – The question before us is not, “Did Yeshua die as an atonement for us?” That fact is made as clear as it could be in Scripture. …
