Today’s Word
Mental Gymnastics
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Exodus 20:17 NASB Covet – We have often pointed out that this commandment is unique in the ancient world. It is only…
The Priesthood of the Believer
“Do you hear the secret counsel of God, and limit wisdom to yourself?” Job 15:8 NASB Limit– What do I know? That God is good, man is born to turmoil and I am a sinner in need of deliverance. The cosmos is His creation, I am blessed to be alive and righteousness will fill the earth. …
Gardening (Rewind)
“For your guilt teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.” Job 15:5 NASB Crafty– “Naked I came into the world” is another way to say that when I arrived I didn’t have a hidden agenda. That’s what we learn from the phonetically similar Hebrew word ʿārôm in Genesis 2:25. Adam and Havvah were…
Speaking Your Mind
Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Genesis 2:7 NASB A living being– In the Hebrew text, these significant words are nepeš ḥayyâ (for us, sounds like nefesh hayyah). The words themselves are fertile ground for all kinds of translation assumptions. …
Are We Really Sick? (2)
“The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9 NASB Desperately sick– It’s the adjective that is bothersome. ʾānaš is the word in the Hebrew text. It means, quite simply, “sick.” It’s used once in Job, five times in Jeremiah, once in Isaiah, and once in Micah. You can see…
Are We Really Sick? (1)
“The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9 NASB More deceitful– Just how sick are you? Pretty sick, if you read this verse from Jeremiah as it is typically understood in Christian theology. Many theologians teach that there’s a fatal flaw in human beings. We all have a bad heart,…
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