by David Keesling | Mar 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
Gen. 3:16(b) “Your desire will be for your husband and he shall rule over you.” Observation: Eve comes now before her Creator to receive sentence for her sin. He has already told her that pain in childbearing would be greatly increased; now He addresses...
by David Keesling | Mar 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
Genesis 3:3(b) “…you must not touch it, or you will die.” Observation: The setting is Eden’s garden, the place God had made for intimate fellowship between Him and His highest creation. The words are Eve’s, her first recorded in Scripture. Satan has just...
by David Keesling | Mar 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Acts 11:9 “…Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” Observation: Peter found himself called on the carpet in Jerusalem defending his recent visit in a gentile home: “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.”...
by David Keesling | Mar 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Psalm 17:15(b) “…when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing Your likeness.” Observation: The whole of Psalm 17 has the immediate context of a soliloquy David presents to the Lord. Saul is in hard pursuit, yet David affirms his trust in God at every...
by David Keesling | Mar 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Luke 24:53 “And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God.” Observation: This last verse of Luke’s Gospel depicts men who have been profoundly changed from their former condition. Following Jesus’ crucifixion they had been abjectly saddened. Then...
