Tag: jesus
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Through the Banner — Hebrews 6:20
Hebrews 6:20 (a) Whither the forerunner is for us entered… That word forerunner is full of life. It is not the picture of someone entering a place alone just to admire it. It is the picture of someone going ahead so others can come in behind him. Like the first player charging through the paper banner before…
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The Prayer That Changed the Heart — Hebrews 5:5–8
Hebrews 5:5–8 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.Who in the days of his flesh, when he…
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Still Wearing the Hospital Gown — Hebrews 5:2–4
Hebrews 5:2–4 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is…
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No More Middlemen – Ephesians 3:12
Ephesians 3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. At Sinai, the mountain shook and burned. The people stood back. “Moses, you go,” they said. “You speak with God, then tell us what He said.” Distance felt safer. A representative felt less dangerous. But Calvary changed the posture…
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Watched From the Unseen – Ephesians 3:10–11
Ephesians 3:10–11 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: We tend to think the church exists so that the world might see something. But Paul lifts…
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The Contract You Cannot Survive (Galatians 5:3-4)
If you place yourself under the law, you become obligated to all of it. Not most of it. Not the parts you prefer. All of it. The law is not a spiritual suggestion box. It is an indivisible standard. Break one command and you stand guilty.
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The Insult of Improvement (Galatians 5:1)
A yoke distributes weight across shoulders so an animal can pull a burden. Religion does the same thing to the conscience. It shifts the weight back onto the believer and says Christ started the work, but you must carry it forward. Grace declares that Christ carried it all the way to the end.
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The Bondwoman Must Go (Galatians 4:30-31)
When legalism begins to mock grace, the solution is not to debate it endlessly. The solution is to put it out of the house. The law has a purpose, but it is not your inheritance.
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The Mirror and the Parachute (Galatians 3:22)
The law was never given to make us righteous. It was given to reveal that we are not. Romans 3:10–11 says plainly, “There is none righteous, no, not one… there is none that seeketh after God.” That dismantles human pride. No one climbs their way to heaven by sincerity. No one stumbles upon God by…
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God Walked the Blood Path Alone (Galatians 3:18)
When God first told Abraham that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars (Genesis 15:5), Abraham had no child. No heir. No evidence. His body was aging. Sarah’s womb was barren. Everything visible argued against the promise. Yet Genesis 15:6 tells us that Abraham believed the Lord, and God counted it to him…
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Because He Is Faithful (Galatians 3:5)
Paul asks a question that cuts straight through religious pride. When the Spirit moves and when miracles occur, is it because someone achieved a higher level of spirituality? Or is it simply because someone believed?
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Not for an Hour (Galatians 2:4–5)
“False brethren… came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage. To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.”
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Do Not Drift Back – Part 2 (Galatians 1:8)
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed… If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” (Galatians 1:8–9)
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Do Not Drift Back – Part 1 (Galatians 1:6–7)
“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another…” (Galatians 1:6–7a). You can almost hear the disbelief in Paul’s voice.
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Delivered From This Present Evil World (Galatians 1:3–4)
But when Adam chose rebellion in the Garden, something catastrophic happened. Authority that had been entrusted to man (Genesis 1:26) was effectively surrendered to the one he obeyed. That is why Satan could show Jesus the kingdoms of the world and offer them to Him
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Praying Them Forward
Paul had every reason to be frustrated with the Corinthians. They questioned him. Criticized him. Undermined him. If anyone could have said, “Lord, deal with them,” it was Paul…. But he didn’t.
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Double Peace
Isaiah gives us a song for a future day: “In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in…
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When God Doesn’t Remove It
If I’m honest, that’s not the answer I usually want. I want relief. I want clarity. I want the door opened, the pain stopped, the problem fixed. But sometimes God answers prayer by giving Himself instead of giving solutions.
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The Light That Isn’t
If a message removes the necessity of repentance, the reality of sin, or the sufficiency of Christ’s blood, no matter how luminous it appears, it is not from the Father of Lights
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The Debt Transferred
Tucked into the New Testament is a short letter that feels almost private. Yet the Spirit preserved it for us. It is the letter to Philemon. A runaway slave named Onesimus meets Paul. A believing master named Philemon waits at home. And between them stands the gospel.
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Our Inheritance Is a Person
Scripture says, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard… the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). There will be beauty, joy, and experiences beyond imagination. But those blessings are not the center. Jesus is. He is our inheritance.
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Change Your Course
There is a dangerous confidence that can quietly settle into the human heart. It is the assumption that we know better, that our course is wiser, that our timing is superior.
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Bought Out of the Market
Ephesians 1 is a mountain range of truth, and verse 7 is one of its highest peaks. Paul brings us to the word redemption—a word that is not soft or sentimental, but sharp and costly.
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Written in the Book
God is never shown predestining anyone to hell. Not once. Every time predestination is mentioned, it is unto adoption, unto sonship, unto conformity to Christ.
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My Dungeon, His Prayer
What do I do in my dungeon? Mine may not have iron bars. Mine might look like a season I did not plan. A door that never opened. A responsibility that feels smaller than the dreams I once carried. Maybe I thought the Lord would use me somewhere else, in some greater way. But instead,…
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When the Bible Feels Dry
Have you ever opened your Bible, hit a chapter full of names, measurements, or mildew laws… and thought, Lord, what am I supposed to do with this?
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From the Field to the Feast
Tucked inside the Book of Ruth is more than a love story. It is a prophetic portrait. A Gentile bride. A kinsman redeemer. A public transaction. And a wedding that leads to a kingdom.
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The Measure of the Seed
“But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”
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When God Speaks in the Night
“For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.…
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Drawn Before We Knew
Salvation does not begin with man climbing toward God. It begins with God stepping toward man.
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The Only One Who Could Sit on That Throne
Only two of the Gospels record genealogies, and that is not accidental. Matthew writes to present Jesus as King. Luke, however, presents Jesus as the Son of Man.
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Three Groups, One King
In Matthew 13, Jesus gives three parables in close succession—the hidden treasure, the pearl of great price, and the dragnet. These are often taught as separate lessons, but together they form a single prophetic picture of how God will bring this age to its conclusion.
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When Sweat Became Blood
Luke was not guessing. He was a physician. And when he wrote that Jesus’ sweat became “as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44), he chose a word that demands attention.