The Adulterous Woman One of the most misused, mishandled, and misapplied passages in the Bible is the narrative of the woman caught in adultery, recorded in John 8:1-11.
A group of men and women who were not of the same “faith” but were moved by the testimony of the woman with multiple marriages (John 4) Someone with mental problems that had 7 demons (Luke 8:2) Someone caught in adultery (John 8) A hated tax collector (Matthew 9:9) Simple Fisher...
Strength. “The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him. The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed” (Psalm 28:7-8). We’re weak and powerless o...
“Go, and make disciples of all nations.” What Jesus is say by using the same emphatic, imperative here is that both the disciples and the woman caught in adultery are being sent.
The solitaire man, woman or child, that fears Him and trusts in His mercy.As I grow older in the Lord, I realize I have so little to offer Him, such an insignificant servant. One who had great dreams and aspired to much. Missionary work in far flung nations, self sacrifice for the ...
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with thetrumpet of God.And the dead in Christ will rise first.Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus...
[1 John 3:20]; when, lastly, ‘he who looketh on a woman so as to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart’ [Matt 5:28],–then both points are cleared fully up, that there is a directing faculty of the soul…” Tertullian, On the Soul, 15 (A....
The Hellenized writer of Hebrews tells us that the purpose of the tabernacle was to serve a “copy and shadow of the heavenly things,” but what does that mean? The deliberate choice of the phrase “copy and shadow” in this context refers to the famous allegory of “Plato’s ...
The Adulterous Woman One of the most misused, mishandled, and misapplied passages in the Bible is the narrative of the woman caught in adultery, recorded in John 8:1-11.
There are two types of people when Jesus comes: Those caught unaware and not watching and those aware and looking: To the unaware, the Lord comes like“a thief in the night.”They are not looking for Him and don’t expect Him. To them, everything continues day in and day out as it...