There are two readings for today. SCRIPTURE: Psalm 12 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is…
passionate love and hatred?
There are two readings for today. SCRIPTURE: Psalm 11 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my…
I’m greater than Moses?
SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 34 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. [Matthew 11:11]. Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,…
everlasting arms
SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 33 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. [John 10:28-29] Do you think of God as over you, around you,…
willing?
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I will not be afraid!
SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 31 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then Jesus told them, This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ [Matthew 26:31] Both Jesus and Moses are looking ahead to when their followers will fall away. This must have…
the way back to life
SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 30 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’ [John 14:6]. God’s forgiveness comes at a price, a price that He pays. He absorbs our sin and our guilt for us. In this way, the link between us, broken by us,…
simple live, despite questions
SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 29 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. [Matthew 11:25-26] The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things…
stand firm!!!
SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 28 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. [Matthew 24:12-13] At the ‘middle’ of Deuteronomy 28, between the lengthy list of blessings and the even longer list of curses, is this appeal to not turn aside, to the…
spitting in the wind
SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 27 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. [Matthew 23:27] God has Moses set up white-washed (or plastered) stones with His Law written clearly on it….