WORD STUDY – IF GOOD UNTO YOU נ I Chronicles 13:2: “ And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If [it seem] good unto you, and [that it be] of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren everywhere, [that are] left in all the land of Israel, and with
WORD STUDY – REVIVE US – תחינו Psalms 85:6: “Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?” It is believed by many Biblical scholars that this Psalm was written about five hundred years before Jesus was born. This would be post exilic, that is it was written during the return
WORD STUDY – BOLDLY – גליא (ARAMAIC) Deuteronomy 1:29-30: Thus I said unto you, “Dread not, neither be afraid of them. The Lord that goeth before you, he will fight for you according to all that he did for you in Egypt.” “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” Captain Oliver Hazard
WORD STUDY – PURITY לבנ Isaiah 9:10: “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down but we will change them into cedars.” In Isaiah 9, the Northern Kingdom of Israel had just suffered a shocking defeat. They felt they were well fortified, powerful and secure in their
WORD STUDY – FILTHY RAGS Isaiah 64:6: “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” When I take my car through the car wash the attendants at the end
WORD STUDY – A SIGN –אות Isaiah 7:11: “Ask of thee a sign of the Lord they God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above?” God spoke to Ahaz through His prophet saying: “Ask.” The Hebrew word is she’ol which means to consult, interrogate. This is followed with a methegh connecting
WORD STUDY – NO GREEN – ירקלא Isaiah 15:6: “For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate, for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.” Today was one of those downers for me. Going over my future plans, such as they are when you are 66, as well as
WORD STUDY: HIS CUP – (Aramaic) כסא Matthew 26:39: “And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.” For me, one of the great mysteries of this story
WORD STUDY – UNCONTROLLABLE IMPULSES – רוה Psalm 51:10: “Create in me a clean heart, O’God and renew a right spirit within me.” I recall visiting an orthodox Jewish rabbi who showed me a special room in his house. It was filled with books, all the books were about God. He had the complete Talmud,
WORD STUDY – SHAKING – רלז Psalms 4:4: “Stand in awe and sin not, commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.” Perhaps you are more familiar with the ESV translation of this verse which is “Be angry and sin not.” The NIV says: “Tremble and do not sin.” There is
