Today’s Word

The Game Plan

And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good?  There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”  Matthew 19:17  NASB To enter into life – So what do you want out of life?  What are the things that really, really…
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Who Will Judge?

“Far be it from You!  Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?”  Genesis 18:25  NASB Deal justly – What does it mean to “do justice”?  How does it make you feel to be accused of judging someone, even if you know that you stand on biblical principles?  How do you feel when…
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Who Said That?

and when He again brings the firstborn into the world, He says, “And let all the angels of God worship Him.”  Hebrews 1:6  NASB He says – If you had any doubt about the authority of the Tanakh for the writers of the New Testament, the author of Hebrews should set aside your concern.  Notice…
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Paul’s Shema (2)

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.  Romans 10:17  NASB Christ – Is it the Son’s words or the Father’s words?  If you look at this verse in the King James Version, it reads, “by the word of God.”  That’s because the KJV is based on the Greek Textus Receptus,…
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Paul’s Shema (1)

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.  Romans 10:17  NASB Hearing – If you were Paul, the Jewish rabbi Sha’ul, what Hebrew word would you have in mind when you wrote the Greek verb akoe (to hear)?  There can only be one obvious answer – shama.  But as soon as…
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Idolatry by Osmosis

but they mingled with the nations and learned their practices, Psalm 106:35  NASB Learned – David described Israel in the 10th Century BC.  He might as well have penned this line 3000 years later.  Haven’t we mingled with the nations and learned their practices?  Aren’t we in the same place as Israel before Babylon? What…
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