Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; Genesis 24:67 Took – It’s symptomatic of our Greek cultural ethos that we immediately think of the Hebrew word laqah from the perspective of eros. When the text says that Isaac took Rebekah,…
to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share 1 Timothy 6:18 Good Works – Did you think that doing good (yesterday on agathoergeo) was good enough? Not quite. Paul adds another qualification with the phrase “good works.” The problem is that we don’t see the difference in…
to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share 1 Timothy 6:18 To Do Good – There are only two places where this word is used in the whole Bible (and in between). The only other occurrence of this word is in Acts 14:17* where Paul describes God’s…
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field Genesis 3:1 Crafty – Adam and his wife thought they would be like God. Instead, they just discovered they were naked. It was the greatest seduction the world has ever known. If we could just peer into the Hebrew in this verse, we…
Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension. 1 Timothy 2:8 Wrath and Dissension – We know that prayer is the operating power of God’s redemptive plan. We know that prayer is deeper, more powerful, more courageous and more demanding than any other spiritual discipline. …
All things are lawful to me, but not all things are profitable. 1 Corinthians 6:12 Lawful – How we long for the removal of all requirements over our lives! We want to be free! What we mean, of course, is that we want to do whatever we want to do whenever we feel like doing…
Then I urge you, be imitators of me 1 Corinthians 4:16 Then – Paul calls us to follow his example because he follows the example of Jesus. We know that this is the divine pattern of the Christian life – follow the leader. But what we often overlook is the description that Paul provides of…
Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar Genesis 22:9 Bound – There is a deep connection between the binding of Isaac and Yeshua. There is a deep connection between the sacrifice of father Abraham and the Father. There is a deep connection…
Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar Genesis 22:9 Bound – According to Jewish tradition, Isaac was a young man of marriageable age (approximately 36) when his father Abraham took him to be sacrificed. Erase the idea of Isaac as the innocent…
Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; Genesis 22:13 Behind – If you’re reading this verse in English, you may discover two curious things. The first is here in the NASB with the addition of the word “him.” The second curiosity is…
