“When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which He entered with His disciples. 2 And Judas also, which betrayed Him, knew the place, for Jesus often resorted there with His disciples. 3 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the...
Have you ever entered a room where people were finishing a movie you’ve never seen and found yourself unable to understand what’s going on in the film? Or have you ever opened a novel to the last 10 pages only to find yourself utterly lost? Due to your faulty starting point, you don’t know the characters, their motivations or...
The most holy day of the year for the Jew is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It occurs in the midst of a ten-day period of introspection and repentance. We find the description of its religious requirements in Leviticus 16. One aspect of this celebration is the role played by two goats.
Leviticus 16:5-10
5 “He shall take from the...
E. M. Bounds, a 19th century pastor in the Methodist Episcopal Church, wrote a number of definitive books dealing with prayer that are considered classics. Upon his retirement as pastor in 1894, he spent his final 17 years engaged in intercessory prayer, writing, and itinerant revival ministry. He would typically arise at 4:00 am to be alone with God...
Daniel 9:24: "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy."
I suppose every explanation of this verse I...
To most, the passage in John 9 deals with a blind man being healed by Jesus on the Sabbath, but it is much more about the healing from sin that Jesus accomplished at Calvary. The new covenant is the means by which every believer can find the victorious life and deliverance from the effects of sin which places believers...
