Fathering

1 Corinthians 1:9; 2:14 “God is faithful. …But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God. Observation: Paul was spiritual father to the Corinthians, having been first to preach the Gospel there on an earlier trip. Corinth was a remarkably wicked...

Houston, We Have a Problem

Acts 3:26 “For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.” Observation: Peter had called his listeners to repent, that they might have their sins wiped away and experience times of refreshing. He...

Heart Surgery

Psalm 141:3-5 “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips. Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who do iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.  Let the righteous smite me in...

God’s Heartedness Scale

Jeremiah 29:11-13 “’For I know the plans that I have for You.’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.  Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek Me and find Me when...

Foreshadowing Jesus

Leviticus 20:2, 6 “Any man from the sons of Israel…who gives any of his offspring to Molech, shall surely be put to death…As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists…I will set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.”...

Fathering

1 Corinthians 1:9; 2:14 “God is faithful. …But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God.” Observation: Paul was spiritual father to the Corinthians, having been first to preach the Gospel there on an earlier trip. Corinth was a remarkably wicked...