Text: 2 Samuel 24 The Bible is not like any other book in the world. At the end of 2 Samuel there is a record of a census that David took. It’s not in chronological order as the rest of the book is. This event set out of order raises the question, why? Why is […]

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Text: 1 Corinthians 8-10 Take a look at 1 Corinthians 8:9. Paul doesn’t use the term liberty to mean you’re free to do anything you want. That’s how lost people use the term liberty in Christ. This liberty in Christ is the knowledge of God. Paul uses the term liberty the same way Jesus Christ […]

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Text: Nahum 2-3 Nahum describes the fall of one of the most powerful empires this world has ever seen. This vast kingdom was reduced to dust twenty-six centuries ago. People dig through the dirt to find memories of a once-thriving metropolis with elaborate architecture and thriving commercial activity. Generations of people for which this once […]

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Text: Exodus 2:10-25 & Hebrews 11:24-26 Faith that refused to be identified with Pharaoh’s family (vs 24) refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter… Moses knew he could not participate in Egypt’s culture and serve the LORD. He knew the LORD had another place for the Hebrews to go and it was time […]

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Text: 2 Samuel 23:1-7 Last words (vss 1-2) David’s last words are more about David listening to the Holy Spirit of God speak and David bowing his head in failure, but looking to the future with hope. David started these final words saying, The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, so David is a […]

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Text: 1 Corinthians 7 Among carnal people, normal relationships get messed up. The gospel is all-encompassing in life. The gospel is not that you pray to Jesus so you can go to heaven. The gospel affects a person’s entire life because sin affects a person’s entire life. And Jesus Christ’s instructions covered the marriage relationship […]

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Nineveh is a burden to Jerusalem (vs 1) The burden Israel bears is the financial oppression and violence from Assyria’s capital, Nineveh. The burden describes what Nineveh is to Israel as a weight of reproach that the LORD will lift and remove. King Sennacherib takes several cities in Judah when Hezekiah was king in Jerusalem. […]

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Text: Matthew 19:16-26 His question (vss 16-22) Good master… good thing… me good?… none good, but God. First mention of eternal life in the Bible. Question that shows his concern for righteousness This is the first time the phrase eternal life shows up in the Bible. The question asked by this young man is a […]

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Capernaum means the city of Nahum. It is where the LORD Jesus spent most of this time. Nahum is the second part of Jonah because Nahum is aimed at Nineveh just like Jonah was. About 150 years after Jonah preached and the LORD repented of the evil he thought to do against Nineveh, her wickedness […]

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Text: Exodus 2:1-4 Fourth generation promise Genesis 15:14-16 Stephen preaches this history this way in Acts 7:15-21. He understands the time of the promise drew nigh. Levi had Kohath had Amram had Moses (1 Chronicles 23:6,12) Failure of the Pharaoh Moses’ parents, Amram and Jochebed, refused to sacrifice their son to this world. They refused […]

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