The Father’s Model

Ephesians 3:14-15 “For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.” Observation: Paul had been expanding the concept of the body of Christ, enlarging it to include not only Jews who believe, but...

The Best Stuff

Romans 16:3-13 “Greet (fill in the blank)… fellow workers in Christ [who] risked their lives for me… who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia… my relatives who have been in prison with me… whom I love in the Lord… tested and approved in Christ…...

The Backpack

Ezekiel 12:3-6 “Prepare for yourself baggage for exile and go into exile by day in their sight; …Perhaps they will understand though they are a rebellious house. Bring your baggage out by day in their sight, as baggage for exile. Then you will go out at evening in...

The Approaching Iceberg

1 Samuel 18:10 “An evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul.” Observation: Saul’s mental deterioration had already begun, as God had earlier lifted His anointing due to Saul’s rebellion and sin. Now, Saul’s destruction is set and certain. Application: How little I...

Stinking Pride

Job 41:11 “Who has given to Me that I should repay him?” Observation: The great conclusion to the book of Job comes as God focuses on just one of His created things, Leviathan, and points out how absolutely futile would be Job’s attempts to catch it, tame it, even...

Splendid Isolation

Ezekiel 3:22-23 “The hand of the Lord was on me there, and He said to me, ‘Get up, go out to the plain and there I will speak to you.’ So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the glory of the Lord was standing there, …and I fell on my face.” Observation:...