Category: TalkofJESUS.com – OLD Testament
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Confidence in Troubled Times – Psalm 94
(from times Before Christ) You give them relief from troubled times until a pit is dug to capture the wicked. Psalm 94:3 New Living Translation Confidence in troubled times (even Before Christ) WE THE PEOPLE of every nation have heard it before. ‘NO CONFIDENCE’ Today’s Short Take on Scripture for ASH WEDNESDAY in the year…
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σκληροτράχηλος – a stiff-necked people
I must confess that one of my favorite phrases of conviction today comes from one of several sermons which was not well-received by its audience: Stiff-necked! “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. Acts 7:51 ESV – from Stephen preaching to…
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Understand today the discipline of the LORD your God
Do YOU, (children) claiming God as your Father and Jesus Christ as YOUR Lord know this one? 11:1 וְאָהַבְתָּ אֵת יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ וְשָׁמַרְתָּ מִשְׁמַרְתּוֹ וְחֻקֹּתָיו וּמִשְׁפָּטָיו וּמִצְוֺתָיו כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃ Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11 :: Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) Keep in mind that I am not talking now to your children, who have never experienced the discipline of…
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a Year of Disaster & Death for the earth
January 6, in the year of our Lord, 2022: Remembering a Year of Disaster Note: Realizing that this ‘quick take’ includes several statistics, a quick scan of these will get you to the point of these few Scriptures and their implication for our future at the mercy of our Lord. (I also project some political…
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for the earth is filled with violence
January 5, in the year of our Lord, 2022: Violence. What to do about violence Can WE prevent it? Who should judge it? The world of this 21st century A.D. remembers, in a moment of silence and more months of rage, those acts of violence WE THE PEOPLE have brought upon ourselves. I will return…