John 8:21-24 So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” 22 So the Jews said, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” 23 He said to them, “You are … More Seeking in vain?
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger sheds some light on Job 5: The problem is not so much with Eliphaz’s theology, but his ineptness as a counselor. A sufferer not need to be told to take his suffering like a man, any more than someone who has lost an unbelieving relative needs to hear a lecture on reprobation. … More Impeccable logic, inept counsel
Ezekiel 16:59-63 “For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, 60 yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. 61 Then you will remember your ways … More Spurgeon: Pardon from God for great sin is a silencer to all our pride.
Click here for “Doctrine From False Teachers Part 2”, a sermon from Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church, based in 2 Peter 2:10-16
John MacAthur comments on John 8:12 But you say, “Why does Jesus particularly choose this metaphor? Why would He just walk in the temple treasury, why wouldn’t He say…I am better than wealth…or…I am the true priceless one? Or why wouldn’t He use something that would apply to the temple treasury?” He did. When … More I am the Light of the World- Part 2
John MacArthur: You know what Jesus was saying when He said I’m the light of the world? He was saying, in effect, I am Israel’s…what?…Messiah. They would have known that. The rabbis even said the name of Messiah is light, you can read that right in the rabbinic writings. They knew that God was going … More I am the Light of the World- Part 1
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger preached a sermon series in Job, and here is an excerpt from Job 4-14, “Though He Slay Me” There is a reason why we use the phrase “Job’s Counselors” when we speak of people whose well-intended words only add insult to injury. Having spent a week in mourning with their friend Job, and … More Job’s Counselors
Ezekiel 15:1 And the word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest? 3 Is wood taken from it to make anything? Do people take a peg from it to hang any vessel on it? 4 Behold, it is given to … More Mightily mistaken?
John Piper, in an introduction to a sermon on 2 Peter 1, “Destruction is not Sleeping” And now comes chapter 2, and a very significant change in Peter’s approach. I say a change in his approach, not his goal. His goal is still to make us firm and stable and unshakable in our faith. But … More Piper: 2 Peter 2 is a warning, a crack of the whip over our heads
John 8:4-9 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5 Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” 6 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with … More What did Jesus write on the ground in John 8?
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