This is a special Christmas Eve edition of the show. I had planned to run this on Christmas Day, but I’ve made an executive decision to take Christmas off. There will be no episode on Christmas Day. It’s become a Christmas tradition here at Lifespring! Media to run a special reading of the Christmas story…
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What did you think about the scene with the Canaanite woman who asked Jesus to heal her daughter that was oppressed by a demon? Did it strike you as cold and out of character for Jesus to treat the woman as He did? Well, let’s listen to what commentator G. Campbell Morgan wrote about this….
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This woman, Athaliah, was the mother of Ahaziah and the daughter of Jezebel. You’ll remember that Ahaziah was the evil king killed by Jehu. We talked about that in episode 419. And of course, we talked about that accused woman Jezebel on episode 417. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree. As evil as…
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In this chapter, and many other places, Jesus refers to the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven. Did you ever stop to ask what He means by these phrases? I did a bit of digging on the subject and found that this has been a topic of a lot of discussion and commentary…
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Jehu was quite a guy, wasn’t he? In the last chapter, we read how the prophet Elisha had sent one of his students, or sort of a junior prophet, to find Jehu in Ramoth-Gilead and say, “This is what the lord says: I anoint you to be the king over Israel.” At this time, Jehu…
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In verse 38, some teachers of religious law and Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, we want you to show us a miraculous sign to prove your authority.” You know, on the face of it, this might not seem like a terribly unreasonable request. Jesus has made some pretty bold statements, right? I mean,…
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So who is this Jezebel woman, and what earned her such an end? Here’s what Today’s Dictionary of the Bible has to say about her: “Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Sidonians, (Side note: Ethbaal means “with Baal”). She was the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel. This was the…
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Some people have the idea that when Jesus was here, he was a milquetoast kind of guy. Always soft in word and deed. Weak even. These are people who have never read these chapters. Jesus is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. He is the Beginning and the End. Remember His night…
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Timing is everything. When circumstances line up, we often think “Wow! Wasn’t that lucky?” But of course, for those who’s life is in God’s hand, there is no such thing as luck. “Lucky” timing is really God’s timing. The woman who’s son was raised back to life by Elisha came back to Israel and into…
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I don’t know how many times I have either read or heard this chapter. Hundreds of times, I’m sure. And you know how you can hear something, and understand the words just fine, but not really understand? Well as I looked again at this chapter, specifically verses 14-17, all of a sudden I said to…
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