by David Keesling | May 19, 2013 | 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 | May 18, 2013 | 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 | May 17, 2013 | 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 | May 16, 2013 | 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...
by David Keesling | May 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Mark 16:1 “When the Sabbath was over…” Observation: The sentence goes on to say that very early the morning after Sabbath’s end, three women who loved Jesus set out for His tomb to anoint His body. Christ had been crucified the day before Sabbath, His body...
