“When your days are fulfilled, and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. . . . I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. . . And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever. ” 2 Samuel 7:12, 13, 16 Do you know what doulos means? It is a greek word. It means bondservant or slave. A bondservant trusts the promises of the Lord. God is the only promise keeper. When He makes a promise, He keeps it; it follows through. …
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Fulfilled Prophecy
I am the way, the truth, and the life. John 14:6 What have we learned about Jesus in His “I AM” statements? We have learned that He is the Bread of Life, the Light of the world, He is the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus can and does make bold statements in the “I AM” statements. He can make these statements because they are true. In the Old Testament, the Messiah is fulfilled and proven true through Jesus. The “I AM” statements of the resurrection and life, gives us hope of eternal life. Since Jesus tells us He is the only way, it is important for us to…
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The Last Passover
I am the resurrection and the Life. John 11:25 Read John chapters 12-13. Here is a summary of each chapter. John 12: Six days before the Passover, Jesus goes to Bethany for a dinner party in His honor At the dinner party, Mary anoints Jesus’ feet with an expensive perfume Judas feels like this is this is wasteful. Jesus rebukes Judas Jesus rides into Jerusalem for the Passover celebration, on a donkey, with palm branches at His feet. Jesus predicts His own death Jesus reminds the crowd that He is the Light of the World John 13: Jesus’ last supper with the disciples Jesus washes the disciples’ feet, including the…
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God is God
But it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keeps his commandments, to a thousand generations, Deuteronomy 7:8-9 As we know the Israelites are God’s chosen people. He was motivated by love for them. God keeps his promises to those chosen people – from generation after generation. God…
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Things to Hope For
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Faith is trusting God in all things. It does not base its hope on the visible circumstances but on confidence in spiritual realities. The same things that are the object of our hope are the object of our faith. We can put our hope in God even when we don’t physically see him. We have hope in God’s promises. We can lean on God. Since we have hope, we have the confidence in faith. The unseen things of hope become rare and real. Our hope in God is the faith we have that…
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Overlapping Truths
. If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. Romans 10:9-10 Have you ever looked at something and couldn’t identify what it was because it wasn’t the whole picture? Then when you were able to step back and refocus you could see what you were looking at better? This is what Paul is doing here in Romans chapters 9 through 11. Today though read Chapter 9: 1-33. He…
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I Will Be With You
And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land fo which I shall tell you, sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all the lands. And in your offspring, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.…
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God Will Not Leave You
For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them. Deuteronomy 4:31 Have you thought of God as merciful? Did you ever think that God would leave you, destroy , or forget you and His promises? Have you considered who God is and how we act? Have you forsaken or forgotten God? Are you faithful to God? Do you do you duty to God? I find this interesting that we think that God will leave us, destroy us, or forget. However, He doesn’t. If anyone leaves, forgets, or destroys one another,…