The Problem with Restraint

Judges 4:2 “So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin, a king of Canaan” (NIV). Observation: Ehud delivered Israel from its Moabite enemy. He had personally killed the Moabite king and then led the Israelite army to victory over Moab, ushering in an eighty-year...

The Old Heave-Ho

I Corinthians 8:12 “When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ” (NIV). Observation: In this short chapter Paul warned of problems caused when we act from our knowledge base without first bathing our actions...

The Freedom of Choices

Deuteronomy 28:2, 15: “All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your God. . . . But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statues with which I charge you today, that...

The End of Exile

Jeremiah 50:20 “’In those days and at that time’, declares the Lord, ‘search will be made for the iniquity of Israel, but there will be none; and for the sins of Judah, but they will not be found; for I shall pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.’” Observation: What...

The Circumcision Fairy

Colossians 2:11-12 “And in Him you were circumcised by a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of flesh by the circumcision of Christ; having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working...