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This Week’s Focus Passage: Romans 8:38-39 ‘For I am persuaded.’

This Week's Focus Passage: Romans 8:38-39 'For I am persuaded.' Paul, in that wonderfully glorious eighth chapter of his epistle to the church in Rome, climaxes with a glowing statement of anticipated faith, even unto the end; For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height,...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Romans 8:38-39 ‘For I am persuaded.’

This Week's Focus Passage: Romans 8:38-39 'For I am persuaded.' Paul, in that wonderfully glorious eighth chapter of his epistle to the church in Rome, climaxes with a glowing statement of anticipated faith, even unto the end; For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height,...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Matthew 23 ‘Woe unto you.’

This Week's Focus Passage: Matthew 23 'Woe unto you.' There is, at least, some irony of coincidence, that in this chapter of Matthew, and especially the very pericope involving Jesus' condemnatory remarks toward the Pharisees in His presence, where He has pronounced these several 'woes' unto them, with regard to their wicked behaviors in many instances. His audience is ...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Acts 28:20 ‘for because of the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chai

This Week's Focus Passage: Acts 28:20 'for because of the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.' Just what is the 'hope of Israel,' or, Who is the 'hope of Israel'? Of what, or Whom, does the apostle speak of, or write of, here is this final passage in the book of Acts? We, most likely, should be asking this question not with reference to the apostle, but rather w...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Exodus 31:18 ‘The two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written w

This Week's Focus Passage: Exodus 31:18 'The two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.' What is an anthropomorphism? It is the attributing of human characteristics to gods, objects, etc. There are multiple examples of anthropomorphisms in the Word of God; the Holy Spirit determined to employ many of these, in order to help the read...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Acts 20:26. ‘Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from t

This Week's Focus Passage: Acts 20:26. 'Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.' Surely, Paul has in mind that poignant and convicting passage from the prophecy of Ezekiel which has respect unto the watchman and his diligence (or lack thereof) in blowing the trumpet, and warning the people. Paul is most likely speaking in this ...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Psalm 27:4 ‘That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my l

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 27:4 'That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life.' This is David's very strong desire, even according to his words in the previous line, where he has stated it clearly, as theOne thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after. This twenty-seventh psalm has for its inspired superscription, yet another occasion...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Genesis 38:1ff. ‘And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down f

This Week's Focus Passage: Genesis 38:1ff. 'And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren.' This, the thirty-eighth chapter in the first book of our bibles, something of an enigma; namely a puzzle, or a riddle. We refer to the fact of its placement in that first book; that is to say, why is it found 'sandwiched' right in the midst of the 'stor...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Psalm 15:4 ‘In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honoreth them

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 15:4 'In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, but who honoreth them that fear Jehovah.' In order to better understand what David has here written, we offer the entire fifteenth psalm, for each one of us to read over, and ponder over some details: A Psalm of David Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Genesis 4:5 ‘But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.’

This Week's Focus Passage: Genesis 4:5 'But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.' What is the 'Regulative Principle'? Derek Thomas recently offered this definition. His claim is, that, "Put simply, the regulative principle of worship states that the corporate worship of God is to be founded upon specific directions of Scripture." He continues, asserting tha...

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