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Amos 6:1-3 meaningOctober 5, 2022
Amos warns the preeminent leaders of Israel and Judah against their false confidence of security and urges them to learn from what happened to three nearby city-states—Calneh, Hamath the great, and Gath.
Acts 6:7-15 meaningOctober 5, 2022
Stephen debates with certain enemies of the gospel of Jesus. These enemies, the Freedmen, cannot stand against Stephen's wisdom, so they hire men to lie about Stephen. He is arrested for the charge of committing blasphemy, for supposedly saying that Jesus will destroy the Temple and change Moses's Law. Stephen is brought before the Council of religious leaders. They see his face is glowing like an angel's.
Acts 6:1-6 meaningOctober 5, 2022
To make sure all believers receive fair treatment and charity, the apostles arrange for the church to choose seven men of godly character to manage the food and funds. One of these men is named Stephen, well regarded as a man full of faith and the Spirit.
Revelation 2:4-7 meaningOctober 5, 2022
Jesus warns the Ephesians that they are not acting out of love. Their priority is no longer to love God first, and to act accordingly. They act rightly, and stand up for truth, but they do not do it from love. If they do not repent, Christ will take away their effectiveness as witnesses to the world. However, He commends them for opposing a heretical group, the Nicolaitans. He urges the Ephesians to follow the Spirit and to overcome the world, so that they will be rewarded greatly in His kingdom.
Revelation 2:2-3 meaningOctober 5, 2022
Jesus commends the Ephesians for standing up for the truth, for testing men who claim to be apostles and rejecting them for their false teachings.
Revelation 2:1 meaningOctober 5, 2022
Jesus, the authority over the seven churches and the angel of each church, greets the Ephesian church.
Ephesians 1:15-23 meaningSeptember 20, 2022
Paul prays that the hearts of the Ephesians would experience the hope of everything God calls us to, to live rightly before Him in the abundant power He gives us to choose to obey Him. A glimpse of the greatness of God's power is displayed in the resurrection of Jesus. God raised Him from the dead and put Him on the Throne in Heaven, giving Him rulership over all of creation and all people as the reward for His obedience to God.
Ephesians 1:7-14 meaningSeptember 20, 2022
Through Christ's sacrifice, we are forgiven of our sins and redeemed. Once we believe in Jesus, we are sealed by the Holy Spirit who comes to live within us and ensure that we belong to God forever and will inherit eternal life from Him.
Ephesians 1:3-6 meaningSeptember 20, 2022
Paul explains how the Trinity of God (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) are all at work in saving believers from sin. God the Father chose believers before creation itself, setting them apart for the purpose of walking blamelessly in His ways. Jesus Christ the Son made this adoption possible by dying on the cross. If we live lives of faithful witness, we can inherit great reward, just as Jesus did.
Ephesians 1:1-2 meaningSeptember 20, 2022
Paul begins this letter by greeting the faithful believers in Ephesus and asks God to give them favor and peace.
Jonah 4:9-11 meaningSeptember 19, 2022
God asks Jonah if it is proper to be angry over a plant. Jonah affirms he has every reason to be angry, even to death. God rebukes him for having more sympathy for a plant he neither planted nor cultivated than for the souls of the Ninevites.
Jonah 4:5-8 meaningSeptember 19, 2022
While Jonah sits under his shelter outside of Nineveh, God appoints a plant to provide extra shade for him, making him very happy. But when God assigns a worm to destroy the plant and a scorching east wind to cause the sun to beat down on Jonah's head, he grows faint and wishes to die.
Jonah 4:1-4 meaningSeptember 19, 2022
Jonah becomes angry because the LORD spares the Ninevites. He asks the LORD to take his life. The LORD responds to Jonah with a question to urge him to evaluate his anger.
Jonah 3:10 meaningSeptember 19, 2022
When God sees the people’s genuine response, He responds with compassion and spares them from the announced judgment.
Jonah 3:5-9 meaningSeptember 19, 2022
The king and the people of Nineveh respond positively to Jonah’s message. They abandon their evil behavior and turn to God.
Jonah 3:1-4 meaningSeptember 19, 2022
The LORD commissions Jonah again to go to Nineveh. This time Jonah obeys the LORD. He goes through the city and proclaims a message of judgment to the Ninevites, as the LORD has commanded him.
Jonah 2:10 meaningSeptember 19, 2022
The LORD commands the fish to bring Jonah to shore and deposit him safely there.
Jonah 2:6b-9 meaningSeptember 19, 2022
The LORD delivers Jonah from the sea when Jonah prayed to Him. Now Jonah gives a testimony of his deliverance and promises to pay the vows he made.
Jonah 2:2-6a meaningSeptember 19, 2022
The prophet Jonah describes his distressful experience in the waters. As he is on the verge of death, he cries out to the LORD for deliverance.
Jonah 2:1 meaningSeptember 19, 2022
Jonah prays to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish.
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