said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth [I openly and joyfully acknowledge Your great wisdom], that You have hidden these things [these spiritual truths] from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants [to new believers, to those seeking God’s will and purpose]...
The world tries to tell us to place our focus on getting the “right” job, being successful, and making tons of money, but from this passage of Scripture, we are challenged to put our eternal purpose in focus. The jobs, achievements, and money we make in this world will not matter...
Luke 11:16 tn Grk“testing”; the participle is taken as indicating the purpose of the demand. Luke 11:16 tn The pronoun “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context. Luke 11:16 tn Grk“seeking from him...
The word ‘rend’, by the way, can be translated ‘break down the door and come and rescue us.’ Do you ever wish that God would appear on earth, just show up, break down the door, so to speak, and make things right? There are many rending of the heavens in the Old Testament l...
For our purpose, we’ll imagine living for a time when we’re not able to speak. For some of us that would be quite different, and we can say difficult. Those of us whose gift is somewhere in the realm of speaking would no longer be able to share in that way. Teachers or anyone...
This transformative reality is the purpose of seeing Jesus pictured, or as Paul said in Galatians 3:1,“publicly portrayed as crucified…”seen and beheld as already crucified in an ongoing way from the before-writings of the Old Testament. What I just wrote expresses the actual Greek action...
This verse tells us that all people have sinned. We have fallen short of God's intended purpose for us. God made us to know Him... to receive His love and to love him in return. For love to be love... for God to be God... and for humans to be humans... God gave us a ...
It was their ignorance of the spirituality of the Law that was the real source of Pharisaism, for its leaders claimed to fulfill the Law in the outward letter. It was, therefore, our Lord’s good purpose to awaken their consciences by enforcing the Law’s true inner import and ...
In the quest to understand the nature of our existence and the universe, two dominant worldviews often come to the forefront: philosophical naturalism and theism. These perspectives provide contrasting explanations for the origins, meaning, and purpose of life. As a Christian, I approach this discus...
own and to confirm those who have come to saving faith. May Your Word pass from the ear to the heart, from the heart to the lip, and from the lip to the life that, as You have promised, Your Word may achieve the purpose for which You send it; through Jesus Christ, my Lord. ...