Text: Hebrews 11:11-12 Sarah is a great woman of the Bible who you could say is the quintessential mother.  Everything the Holy Spirit records about Sarah’s life is in relationship to her son.  Sarah’s faith is very much like a believer’s faith for salvation. Sarah’s failures (Genesis 11:30) You’re introduced to Sarai in Genesis 11 […]

Text: Esther 2:12-14 These are the conditions the king is looking for to choose a bride.  The king of Persia has already dealt with a contentious wife, so he is much more careful to select who he’s going to marry and make the queen of Persia.  These ladies are already gathered at the palace and […]

Text: 1 Corinthians 16:13 When God gives instruction it is to move against the course of this world.  So when Paul says stand fast in the faith, you can be sure that the most popular things to do are going to be to make fun of the faith. Enemy will do anything to make you […]

Text: Ephesians 1:1 The letter to the Ephesian church, and all faithful saints, is Paul explaining God's plan for the Gentiles from ages past as it was revealed to him.  The reason for the writing is to more thoroughly explain something he’d written briefly about earlier, but now in prison could spend a more time […]

Text: John 20:30-31 Sufficiency of the presentation His presentation proves the point that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.  He doesn't need to include anything else.  The information is sufficient. But so you know, there is a lot more that could be written, John 21:25. Secrecy of the Lord’s work in the presence […]

Text: 1 Timothy 2:8 Your hands are a great picture of prayer.  “Praying hands” are almost universal sign without words. Access of prayer Pray everywhere Offering of prayer Lifting up Moses hands lifted up (Exodus 17:8-13) His job He had help Battle won. Prayer in itself is a battle won. Nothing in his hand No […]

Sovereignty To a Calvinist, this means God’s CONTROL over all things.  It is brought up as a contradiction to free will.  In fact, many books have been written by Calvinists to try to figure out and explain how God can be sovereign and man still make choices. The word sovereignty never shows up in the […]

Text: John 20:24-29 John writes to convince readers to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (John 20:31).  And that is the purpose of every chapter in this gospel.  John is making a case for Jesus Christ through his own eyewitness testimony, through testimony of others, through the miracles and events that accompanied Jesus’ ministry until […]

Text: Ephesians 1:13-23 Sealed with the holy Spirit (vs 13) Process by which the gospel works to save is found in verse 1:13: 1) heard the word of truth → 2) trusted → 3) sealed with the Holy Spirit Something sealed is airtight, closed, but also assured and guaranteed 2 Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also […]

Text: 1 Corinthians 16:10-11 The labor is what got God involved in your life first. 1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are labourers together with God…  The work of the Lord is the Lord’s priority.  It is, by definition, what He’s doing. It is what the Lord thinks about, what occupies his mind, what guides his […]