4Some people once had God’s light. They experienced the heavenly gift and shared in the Holy Spirit.5They experienced the goodness of God’s word and the powers of the world to come.6Yet, they have deserted ⸤Christ⸥. They are crucifying the Son of God again and publicly disgracing...
8. They are blessed who trust in God11. He exhorts to the fear of God15. The privileges of the righteousBerean Study BibleTaste and seeThe phrase "Taste and see" invites a personal and experiential understanding of God's goodness. The Hebrew word for "taste" is "טָעַם" ...
12God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:13I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.14When I bring clouds over the...
It is a glorious, amazing, overwhelming thing to be called a child of God. You are an adopted child of the King of Kings, the Maker of the universe, the Ruler of all things. God loves you so much that he chose to adopt you as his own. I’ve had numerous friends who have adopted...
We want to get into good society, not that we may have it, but that we may be seen in it; and our notion of its goodness depends primarily on its conspicuousness. 这便是“提高人生品质”的主导思想。在这种想法因地位而异对所有人产生的影响下,这种提高附带产生了一种我们称之为力求“融入...
The worshipful life is sustained when we, like David, turn our focus spotlight back to the goodness of God, and the blessings he has showered on us. Take a moment and read Psalm 144. You’ll see that David does just this. First, he acknowledges how undeserving he is, and how ...
"That the goodness of God assured him he would not forsake him utterly, and that he would give him strength to bear whatever evil he permitted to happen to him; and, therefore, that he feared nothing, and had no occasion to consult with anybody about his state. That, when he had attem...
The very first verse in Psalm 19 takes our attention. “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands” (Psalm 19:1). This verse is profound, indeed, but what exactly does it mean? King David wrote the powerful words fou
Imagine your OTHER hand is God the Father. Now place your other hand over the first one as you listen to this verse from John 10:29:"My Father, which gave them to me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." You're in Jesus' hand and...
By the time this verse was written, Moses had died and passed the leadership of the Israelites to Joshua. With the Lord's help, Joshua successfully led the Israelites into the promised land and assigned and distributed the land God promised to each tribe. ...