WORD STUDY – LIVING WATERS John 4:10: “Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink;’ you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water.” Genesis 26:19: “And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley
WORD STUDY – AN IRRITANT (ARAMAIC) Luke 14:26: “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” I got into a conversation with one of my passengers on my disability bus today.
WORD STUDY – WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? I Kings 19:9-10: “The Word of the Lord (came) to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?” And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown thine
WORD STUDY – ALTOGETHER VAIN “Job 27:12: “Behold, all of you yourselves have seen (it), why then are you altogether vain?” I was reading something interesting in the Talmud this morning in Baba Bathra 15a Although the Talmud did not exist during the time of Jesus it did exist in oral tradition and the Tradition
WORD STUDY – STAYED ON HIM Isaiah 26:3: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trust in you.” The other day I had Old Ben on my disability bus. Old Ben is well into his 80’s and when he got on I had my IPOD queued to
WORD STUDY – TO TAKE CHARGE צקאא(Aramaic) Mark 4:39: :And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” I grew up in a very fundamentalist Baptist church where the KJV was king. So I grew up on the KJV
פ WORD STUDY – GOD SPEAKING IN SILENCE lmvx Cheth Shin Mem Lamed Ezekiel: 1:4: “I looked, and lo, a stormy wind came sweeping out of the north, a hugh cloud and flashing fire, surrounded by radiance; and in the center of it, in the center of the fire, a gleam of amber. The
WORD STUDY – IMPIETY – תפל Psalms 65:2: “O you who hear prayer, to you all me will come.” We have many possible renderings for the word shama which is rendered here as to hear. Some modern translations render shama in the verse as answer, “you who answer prayer.” Most stay with the English word
WORD STUDY – MANESSEH – מנשׁה II Chronicles 33:12: “And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord His God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his Fathers.” If you go II Chronicles 33 and II Kings 19-21 you find a very interesting story about the king who had the longest
WORD STUDY – ABUSIVE HUSBAND John 4:18: “For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.” We have all heard the story of the woman at the well who had five husbands and the one she was living with was not her
