In chapter 20 we read about the cities of refuge. These were places that those who had accidentally killed someone could flee and be protected from those who would take revenge on them before a trial had taken place. As the commentator Matthew Henry put it, these were people who were guilty by hand, but…
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The Hebrew language had several different words that are often translated into English as “law”. I’m not going to give you all those different Hebrew words here today, but I’m going to read a partial list some of their meanings, and I’d like to see if you can pick out which of these words are…
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Romans 8 begins with the words, “Now, because of this,”. So you have to ask “Because of what?” The apostle Paul is continuing his thoughts from the previous chapter, where he spoke of the conflict we have with our new nature that has been made possible because of God’s grace and the fallen nature of…
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Joshua was an exceptional example of a leader. Here at the end of chapter 19 is another reason why. After all the tribes have received their various parts of the Promised Land, then the people of Israel gave of their land a portion to Joshua. As a great leader should, he served them and took…
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Psalms chapter 117 is the shortest chapter in the Bible, and it’s smack dab in the center. You know what is really amazing about it? The writer wrote something that could not have been accepted by the Jews! Why? Because it says, “Praise the Lord, all nations! Praise Him, all people!” You see, unless you…
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Ok, so there was a lot of talk of sin in today’s reading. Before I give my thoughts on the reading, maybe we should define the term. What is sin? Sin is a word we don’t hear much in our culture today, much less in our churches. I think part of the reason is that…
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In the beginning of the chapter we see all the children of Israel assembling in Shiloh to set up the tabernacle. There were good reasons for going to Shiloh. One was that Shiloh was in the middle of the area designated as the Promised Land. The tabernacle had been kept in the middle of the…
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What we have in the first verse of Psalm 110 is an example of how the English language is not as clear as the original language. Verse one begins with the words, “The LORD said to my Lord”. Not all that clear, right? Let’s see what the original language reveals. We’ll start with the first:…
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Oh my goodness. I love Romans, but the richness…the depth…the detailed thoughts penned for us by Paul with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, makes it difficult to…no impossible to synopsize easily on a podcast like this. So can we agree that what I’ll do as we read through Romans is to just perhaps whet your…
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I would like to apologize for missing yesterday’s episode. This past Saturday morning I had to have our 13 year old shih tzu, Sparky, put to sleep, and we just really had an emotionally draining weekend. I would have normally recorded yesterday’s episode on Sunday night, but I have to admit that I just wasn’t…
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