The Weekend Bible Study - with Ronald L. Dart

Over the past few weeks, we’ve followed Ron Dart in taking a closer look at the Passover, the resurrection of Christ, and the beginning of the countdown to the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost. As we find commanded in Leviticus 23: From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain…a wave offering of firstfruits to the Lord. Leviticus 23:15–17 NIV This weekend concludes the second of those seven weeks, so tonight we’ll join Ron in examining this time of year and its accompanying harvest—both of grain and of men.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which you also have received, and wherein ye stand, by which ye also are saved if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you—unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He arose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve, and that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some have fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. And last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all—yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 1 Corinthians 15:1–10 Hello everyone and welcome to the Christian Educational Ministries Weekend Bible Study. We are glad to be with you and thank you for allowing us to make this weekly service possible. Tonight Ronald L. Dart follows up his in-depth series on the Passover with a special presentation titled, The Resurrection Story. Hello everyone and welcome to the Weekend Bible Study. It’s good that we can get together during these weekly sessions to study the precious Word of God. In John 6:35 Jesus declared: I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. In Matthew 5:6 He said: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. I’m Ronald Dart. Pour yourself a fresh cup of coffee and settle in as we turn the pages of The Resurrection Story. I’m sure you’ll find it interesting and spiritually filling.

And King Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and upon the isles of the sea. And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? For Mordecai the Jew was next unto King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and accepted by the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wellbeing of his people and speaking peace to all his seed. Esther 10:1–3 Hello everyone and welcome to the Christian Educational Ministries Weekend Bible Study. Tonight we are pleased to have Rich Glasgow hosting our Friday night Bible study. Join us now as Rich completes his detailed study on the Book of Esther.

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen let no man but myself come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared, and tomorrow am I invited unto her also with the king. Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate. Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak thou unto the king, that Mordecai may be hanged thereon. Then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman, and he caused the gallows to be made. Esther 5:11–14 Hello everyone and welcome to the Christian Educational Ministries Weekend Bible Study. Tonight we are pleased to have Rich Glasgow hosting our Friday night Bible study. Join us now as Rich continues his detailed study on the Book of Esther.

When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and cried with a loud and a bitter cry, and came even before the king’s gate; for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. And in every province whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting and weeping and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it to her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him; but he received it not. Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king’s chamberlains whom he had appointed to attend her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was and why it was. So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city which was before the king’s gate. Esther 4:1-6 Hello everyone and welcome to the Christian Educational Ministries Weekend Bible Study. Tonight we are pleased to have Rich Glasgow hosting our Friday night Bible study. Join us now as Rich continues his detailed study on the Book of Esther.

And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people, neither keep they the king’s laws. Therefore it is not to the king’s profit to suffer them. If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those who have charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries. And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy. And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee. Esther 3:8–10 Hello everyone and welcome to the Christian Educational Ministries Weekend Bible Study. Tonight we are pleased to have Rich Glasgow hosting our Friday night Bible study. Join us now as Rich continues his detailed study on the Book of Esther.

So Esther was taken unto King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts according to the state of the king. Esther 2:16–18 Hello everyone and welcome to the Christian Educational Ministries Weekend Bible Study. Tonight we are pleased to have Rich Glasgow hosting our Friday night Bible study. Join us now as Rich continues his detailed study on the Book of Esther.

Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus … in the third year of his reign he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants. The power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces being before him, he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a hundred and fourscore days. Esther 1:1–4 Hello everyone and welcome to the Christian Educational Ministries Weekend Bible Study. Tonight we are pleased to have Rich Glasgow hosting our Friday night Bible study. Join us now as Rich continues his detailed study on the Book of Esther.

Now in the palace at Shushan there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. And he brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful, whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter. Esther 2:5–7 Hello everyone and welcome to the Christian Educational Ministries Weekend Bible Study. Tonight we are pleased to welcome Rich Glasgow back to our Friday night Bible study. Join us now as Rich embarks upon a detailed study on the Book of Esther. (Also be sure to check out Rich’s other series, including ones on the exilic books of Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah.)

And He said unto them, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, He was received up into Heaven, and sat at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the Word with signs following. Amen. Mark 16:15–20 Hello everyone and welcome to the Christian Educational Ministries Weekend Bible Study. Tonight we are pleased to present another timeless study from the CEM Vault by Ronald L. Dart. As a follow-up to Mr. Dart’s series on Mark, tonight’s program is designed to give you a different perspective on the beginning of the gospels, the work of Jesus and the way in which that information finally made its way into our hands.