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Revelation 19:1-2 meaningMarch 19, 2022
The saints and angels in Heaven praise God now that Babylon (the fallen world system) has been defeated. They declare God the Righteous Judge who has rescued the corrupted earth from its evil rulers. He has avenged the believers who were put to death under the antichrist's reign.
Philippians 3:17-21 meaningMarch 9, 2022
Paul tells the Philippians to imitate him, not other believers who are living contrary to Christ by serving their own immediate desires. They live lives of destroyed opportunity and shameful waste, prioritizing earthly gain. Believers should look beyond the present and beyond the earth, toward Heaven where we truly belong, our true country, where Jesus will one day take us as He remakes our bodies to be sinless and totally in step with Him.
Philippians 3:12-16 meaningMarch 9, 2022
Living out the servant mindset of Jesus is an ongoing process. It is something believers should seek to do for the rest of their lives, daily pressing on toward God’s calling for us to have the attitude of Jesus, who lived out faithful obedience to God to the point of death, and was rewarded for it by God.
Philippians 3:8-11 meaningMarch 9, 2022
Paul considers religious practices and custom meaningless compared to the far better value of serving Jesus Christ through the obedience of faith. Following the Jewish Law does not make anyone right in God's eyes; only faith in Christ does that. But life is more than simply being born into God's family. There is a future reward for believers who give up worldly concerns, who live out the servant mindset of Christ, obeying Him even if it means giving up everything, even dying for Him, just as He died for the world. Paul makes clear that this reward is worth giving up everything to gain.
Philippians 3:2-7 meaningMarch 9, 2022
Paul warns about teachers who seek to lead the Philippians away from the truth of Christ's finished work on the cross. These were likely teachers who sought to add to Christ's gospel, telling Gentiles to rely on religious practice to become righteous. But Paul points out that he is the most Jewish of Jews and yet he does not count on religious practice gaining him benefit in the sight of God; only faith in Christ gains us justification in the sight of God, and only the obedience of faith in Jesus pleases God, and gains us rewards from Him.
Philippians 3:1 meaningMarch 9, 2022
With self-awareness, Paul repeats a logical application of his main point to the Philippians to choose the same mindset Jesus chose: rejoice in the Lord. If we have the mindset of Christ, we will believe that whatever God places in our lives is for our best interest. To choose to rejoice is to choose to view all circumstances as an opportunity to gain the great benefit of obedience to Christ.
1 Samuel 16:14-23 meaningMarch 8, 2022
God solidifies His rejection of Saul as king over Israel by removing His Spirit from him and sending a tormenting spirit upon the king.
1 Samuel 16:6-13 meaningMarch 8, 2022
After the sacrifice, Jesse makes each of his sons pass before Samuel. The first seven are not chosen, so lastly they call for David. David was the youngest son and the least likely to be the Lord's anointed in the eyes of Samuel and in the eyes of Jesse his father.
1 Samuel 16:1-5 meaningMarch 8, 2022
Samuel travels to Bethlehem to anoint a son of Jesse as king over Israel
Matthew 11:28-30 meaningMarch 2, 2022
Jesus offers His easy and light yoke to everyone who is tired from trying to bear the heavy burdens of the religious establishment.
Matthew 11:25-27 meaningMarch 2, 2022
Jesus prays to His Father in Heaven, revealing His relationship to God as His Son. And as the Son’s identity is revealed by the Father upon those whom He chooses, so is the Father known only by those the Son wills to reveal.
Matthew 11:20-24 meaningMarch 2, 2022
Jesus rebukes the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum for their lack of repentance in light of the many miracles that He performed among them. He says that even the pagan and wicked cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Sodom would have shown more repentance.
Matthew 11:16-19 meaningMarch 2, 2022
Jesus demonstrates how Judea has rejected John as Elijah and Himself as the Messiah with a short parable about children playing different kinds of music for others who refuse to accept it.
Matthew 11:10-15 meaningMarch 2, 2022
Jesus continues His affirmation of John the Baptizer and his role as the forerunner to the Messiah. By extension Jesus is also testifying that He is that Messiah.
Matthew 11:7-9 meaningMarch 2, 2022
With John the Baptizer’s disciples leaving the scene, Jesus uses this occasion to begin a conversation about John’s role and hopes that the crowds had for this man. But as Jesus does so, He powerfully reveals His own Messianic identity for those who have ears to hear.
Matthew 11:2-6 meaningMarch 2, 2022
John, who has now been imprisoned sends a cryptic question to Jesus inquiring if He is the Messiah or not. Jesus responds with a clear, but coded, answer.
Matthew 11:1 meaningMarch 2, 2022
Matthew has finished relaying Jesus’s instructions to His twelve disciples on their mission to preach to the towns and villages of Israel that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Luke 10:5-12 meaningMarch 2, 2022
Jesus instructs the seventy how to respond when a town receives them favorably and how to respond when a town receives them unfavorably.
Luke 9:4-5 meaningMarch 2, 2022
Jesus instructs His disciples how to respond when a town receives them favorably and how to respond when a town receives them unfavorably.
Mark 6:10-11 meaningMarch 2, 2022
Jesus tells His disciples how to respond when a town receives them favorably and how to respond when a town receives them unfavorably.
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