Below you'll find a list of all posts from January, 2019
Acts 23.11: The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.” (ESV) The Apostle Paul had been warned prophetically by Agabus in Acts 21.11 not to go to Jerusalem. The prophecy said that Paul would in effect be …
Mark 4.39-41: And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. (40) He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?” (41) And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that …
Luke 8.35:Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. (ESV) The man in the verse above is one of my favorite people in the New Testament. The second …
Luke 3.7: He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” (ESV) John the Baptist was a prophet and as such he spoke with prophetic authority. Like the prophets in the Old Testament he could perceive by divine inspiration the very …
Luke 3.5: “Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways,” (ESV) The coming of Jesus was the coming of the King. And as was a tradition in ancient times, whenever a king would plan to come into some district of …
Luke 3.4: as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Make ready the way of the LORD, make his paths straight.’” (NASB) The Gospel of Luke quotes Isaiah 40.3-5 more completely than the other gospels. In Isaiah 40 the name “LORD” is the same name God …
Psalm 40.1-2: I WAITED patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me, and heard my cry. (2) He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay; And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. (NASB) This song is based upon Psalm 40. I composed this in 1976. And after …
Luke 1.17: “And it is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, TO TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS BACK TO THE CHILDREN, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous; so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” (NASB) All four gospels communicate that John the …
Luke 3.2-3: during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. (3) And he went into all the region around the Jordon, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. (ESV) The expression, “the word of God came” is used frequently in the Bible to …
Luke 2.51-52: And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart. (52) And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man. (ESV) When Jesus had finished his time in the Temple with the scholars he returned home …
