Ecclesiastes 6:9: “Better is the sight of eyes than the wandering of the desire, this is also vanity and the vexation of the spirit.” One of the stories from Geoffrey Chaucer’ s “Canterbury Tales” is entitled “The Pardoner’s Tail” In this story he makes reference to an enigmatic old man who is unable to
Ecclesiastes 12:14: “Because God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.” It is interesting that the word for God has an article in front of it. Because “The God.” The word for God is haelohim which is referring to one who has authority over you.
Genesis 15:6: “And he (Abraham) believed the Lord and He counted it as righteousness.” John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works
Obadiah 1:10 For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. In my first year in Bible College the upper classmen put on a program for the new freshman. They had a sketch where a student played a reporter interviewing students impersonating the faculty. When
Deuteronomy 30:2-3: “And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return
Ecclesiastes 3:11: “He hath made everything beautiful in its time (season), also he has set the world (eternity) in their hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God made from beginning to end.” “Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.” Robert Browning “Once a story’s told,
Deuteronomy 32:15: “But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. Thou are waxen fat and thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness, then he forsook God which made him and lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.” I did not have any particular verse in mind this morning as I started my study, so
Deuteronomy 9:5: “Not for the righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations and that he may perform the word which the Lord confirmed unto thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” It doesn’t take a deep study into the Hebrew
Deuteronomy 8:6:“Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.” I John 4:18: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: Because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” I believe I should
Deuteronomy 8:4: “Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee. Neither did thy feet swell these forty years.” When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed When you are discouraged thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings named them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done. -Johnson Oatman Jr.
