Matthew 27:46: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying ‘Eli, Eli Lama Sabachthani?’ that is My God My God, why has thou forsaken me?” Yesterday I gave one possible rendering to this baffling phrase that Jesus was not calling out to God asking why He was abandoned,
Matthew 27:46: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying ‘Eli, Eli Lama Sabachthani?’ that is My God My God, why has thou forsaken me?” This being Easter Weekend, my study partner insisted I present a study for Easter. There is really not much about the death and resurrection
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.” We are now approaching the Easter holiday weekend and I am constrained to offer a study
Psalms 121:3: “Behold, he that keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.” Many years ago when I taught school in Arlington, Virginia , which bordered Washington D.C., I took a room in a house with three other borders. One was an engineer working on the new rapid transit system for Washington, D.C., the
Matthew 12:40 “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Here is a question I have asked among Christian teachers as I was going through Bible College and seminary and never
Exodus 32:14: “And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.” Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Psalms 138:8: “The Lord will perfect that which concerns me, thy mercy O Lord endures forever. Forsake not the works of thine own hands.” “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens “A Tale of Two Cities.” Charles Dickens started his novel, “A Tale of Two Cities”
Exodus 32:20: “And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt [it] in the fire, and ground [it] to powder, and strawed [it] upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink [of it].” Exodus 32:26: “Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who [is] on the
Proverbs 13:22: “A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.” Leviticus 14:34: “When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house
Exodus 38:21: “This is the sum of the tabernacle, [even] of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, [for] the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.” Numbers 1:50: “But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony,
