Category: New Testament
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When Words Get Added
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. Hebrews 8:7 (KJV) Covenant – Does the word “covenant” show up in your Bible for this verse? Is it italicized, or noted somehow? You should know it’s been added by the translators and doesn’t appear in any…
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Thanksgiving
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6 (NASB) Thanksgiving – How many times have we gone before God, kneeled down, and began asking for things? This happens to me all the time. Immediately I petition those around me to…
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The Spirit vs. The Flesh
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Matthew 26:41 (KJV) Spirit/flesh – Have you noticed that the battle is always between the spirit and the flesh? It’s never between the soul and the flesh. Stop and think about that a bit. We always…
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Other Scriptures
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:16 (KJV) Other scriptures – How often do you read Paul’s letters in…
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The Resurrection
The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, Matthew 22:23 (KJV) Resurrection – What does it mean, to resurrect? Think about this question before reading further. Most would agree that it is to bring back to life something that was dead. The Greek word for…
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Suffering
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 1 Peter 5:10 (KJV) Suffered – Peter writes to the “strangers scattered” (1 Peter 1:1) who are the “sheep gone astray” (1 Peter 2:25).…
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Yeshua’s Purpose
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Acts 3:26 (KJV) To bless – Why was Yeshua sent in the flesh? It’s such a basic question, and more often than not our immediate reaction is that He came…
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A Long Generation
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Matthew 24:34 (KJV) Generation – Boy does this cause some confusion. Is the text really saying that no one among that living generation will die until all those signs happen? If so, then Yeshua had to have returned already,…
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Just Do It
Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. Matthew 1:19 (KJV) Just – We can really open up a can of worms with this one. So let’s start with this: do you believe that it’s impossible to keep the…
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Kicking and Screaming
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. John 6:44 (KJV) Draw – Often times we’re like little miserable untrained children. If left to our own devices we’d surely choose to satiate our fleshly desires and our lives…