For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but the sorrow of the world produces death. 2 Corinthians 7:10 NASB Sorrow – If you don’t know the difference, you could die! Remember those warning posters about pills. The picture shows lots of little pills…
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Restore to me the joy of Your deliverance, and uphold me, Noble Spirit! Psalm (Tehillim) 51:12 ISR Joy – Is there any greater joy than the feeling of being rescued from certain disaster? Every basic survival instinct is flooded with relief as soon as you know you will continue to live. Yes, the joy of…
Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law. Romans 3:31 NASB Establish – In the 1800’s Duffield and Webb combined their talents to produce a hymn that became a standard battle cry of the Christian army of saints. I don’t know if Duffield and…
And when Jesus heard this, He marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude that was following Him, “I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith.” Luke 7:9 NASB Not even in – The centurion exhibited something Yeshua didn’t find among His own people. Even He was…
I’m not sure when it became clear, but suddenly I realized that joy was gone. I knew something was wrong. The spiritual destination was the same but somehow the days were taking on a sense of overwhelming burden. That verse from Hebrews haunted me. “Enter into rest”. Well, rest was about a far away as…
if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow-countrymen and save some of them. Romans 11:14 NASB Move – What have we done? That ought to be the paramount question for our time. I don’t mean what have we done to human dignity, social engineering, planetary capitalism, and the suicide of integrity. I mean what…
“and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” Matthew 6:12 NASB Have forgiven – Read this carefully. Most of us learned this verse, and the prayer, in some version of the King James. Unfortunately, the King James didn’t make the tense of the verb very clear. “As we forgive” (KJV) could…
“The whole law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:40 (R. T. France) Hang – How do all the Law and the Prophets hang on these two? What exactly is the relationship? If you were reading this in Greek, you would notice something odd. The verb here (kremannumi) is a lengthened form…
