ii. Slandered:“Used elsewhere of the ‘bad report’ about his brothers that Joseph brought to his father (Genesis 37:2), of slanderous stories of plots against the righteous (Proverbs 10:18; 25:10; Psalm 31:13; Jeremiah 20:10), and of unfavorable (and faithless) reports resulting from...
Paul responds by quoting, The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness (Psalm 24:1). The cow belonged to the Lord when it was on the hoof, and it belongs to the Lord now that it is on the barbecue! The food wasn’t the issue, the idol worshipping atmosphere was the issue. ...
One of the most common Christian epitaphs from the catacombs was IN PEACE, quoting Psalm 4:8: I will both lie down in peace and sleep; for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. We should look at death the same way those early Christians did. iii. Sadly, not all Christians ...
iii. Psalm 119:128 says: Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things I consider to be right. With great confidence, the Psalmist proclaimed the inerrancy of God’s Word. It was right, not wrong; and it was right concerning all things. · When the Bible gives us history, it is rig...
This was the cup –the cup of God’s righteous wrath – that He trembled at drinking (Luke 22:39-46, Psalm 75:8, Isaiah 51:17, Jeremiah 25:15). On the cross Jesus became, as it were, an enemy of God who was judged and forced to drink the cup of the Father’s fury so that...
d. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed: It is appointed that those who are disobedient to the word should stumble over Jesus. i. When Jesus spoke of Himself as the stone of Psalm 118, He spoke of what those who rejected Him are appointed to:...
· Since the ark of the covenant represented the presence of God among Israel, Yahweh was sometimes called Hewho dwells between the cherubim(1 Samuel 4:4,2 Samuel 6:2;1 Chronicles 13:6;Psalm 80:1,99:1;Isaiah 37:16). This was an earthly artistic expression of a heavenly reality (Hebre...
In many other passages, these angels are known as cherubim (Psalm 80:1; Isaiah 37:16; Ezekiel 10:3) or as the living creatures of Revelation 4:6-11. This is the only chapter in the Bible where these creatures are named seraphim. i. Some deny that cherubim and seraphim refer to the...
ii. “While God did not here employ the term covenant, what he revealed was one; and it is so designated subsequently (2 Samuel 23:5;Psalm 89:3,34;Psalm 132:11-12).” (Payne) b.He shall build Me a house: Though David would not build a temple for God, David’s descendant would...
It was obvious that the simple man’s presentation was more powerful than the actor’s, and afterwards the actor told him: “I know the Psalm, but you know the Shepherd.” ii. That was the difference between the preaching of Paul and the preaching of the most eminent apostles. Paul ...