Bible Lessons

CHRISTIAN VALUES

2019-10-29T16:31:00.001+03:00

For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.
~ Luke 11:10

The LORD is my shepherd; I have everything I need.
~ Psalms 23:1

Your heavenly Father already knows all your needs, and he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern. So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today's trouble is enough for today.
~ Matthew 6:32-34

But those who wait on the LORD will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.
~ Isaiah 40:31

Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
~ Matthew 7:7

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
~ 1 Peter 5:7

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.
~ Psalm 32:8

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present not the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
~ Romans 8:38, 39

Gifts of the Holy spirit

2019-10-29T16:31:00.000+03:00

Gifts of the Spirit are special abilities provided by the Holy Spirit to Christians for the purpose of building up the body of Christ. The list of spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10 includes wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, speaking in tongues, and interpretation of tongues. (NIV)

Similar lists appear in Ephesians 4:7-13 and Romans 12:3-8. The gifts of the Spirit are simply God enabling believers to do what He has called us to do.
2 Peter 1:3 says, "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." The gifts of the Holy Spirit are part of the "everything we need" to fulfill His purposes for our lives.

God’s ultimate aim for all of us is our sanctification in Him, and part of that sanctification process has to do with the Holy Spirit Himself transmitting 9 specific divine qualities and attributes into our personalities.
These gifts are:-

The Word of Wisdom

The Word of Knowledge

The Gift of Faith

The Gift of Healing

The Gift of Prophecy

The Working of Miracles

The Discerning of Spirits

Different Kind of Tongues

The Interpretation of Tongues

if the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit are the cake, then the 9 gifts of the Holy Spirit are the icing on the cake. Put these two together, and allow God to work with a believer with both sets of these 9 fruits and 9 gifts, and you will have one mighty, sanctified soldier of Jesus Christ, as the 9 gifts of the Holy Spirit will give you some serious heavy ammunition to have at your disposal as you walk with God’s anointing in your daily life.

2019-10-29T16:28:00.001+03:00

Prophecies Jesus Christ Fulfilled
	Prophecies About Jesus	Old Testament Scripture	New Testament Fulfillment
1	Messiah would be born of a woman.	Genesis 3:15	Matthew 1:20 Galatians 4:4
2	Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.	Micah 5:2	Matthew 2:1 Luke 2:4-6
3	Messiah would be born of a virgin.	Isaiah 7:14	Matthew 1:22-23 Luke 1:26-31
4	Messiah would come from the line of Abraham.	Genesis 12:3 Genesis 22:18	Matthew 1:1 Romans 9:5
5	Messiah would be a descendant of Isaac.	Genesis 17:19 Genesis 21:12	Luke 3:34
6	Messiah would be a descendant of Jacob.	Numbers 24:17	Matthew 1:2
7	Messiah would come from the tribe of Judah.	Genesis 49:10	Luke 3:33 Hebrews 7:14
8	Messiah would be heir to King David's throne.	2 Samuel 7:12-13 Isaiah 9:7	Luke 1:32-33 Romans 1:3
9	Messiah's throne will be anointed and eternal.	Psalm 45:6-7 Daniel 2:44	Luke 1:33 Hebrews 1:8-12
10	Messiah would be called Immanuel.	Isaiah 7:14	Matthew 1:23
11	Messiah would spend a season in Egypt.	Hosea 11:1	Matthew 2:14-15
12	A massacre of children would happen at Messiah's birthplace.	Jeremiah 31:15	Matthew 2:16-18
13	A messenger would prepare the way for Messiah	Isaiah 40:3-5	Luke 3:3-6
14	Messiah would be rejected by his own people.	Psalm 69:8 Isaiah 53:3	John 1:11 John 7:5
15	Messiah would be a prophet.	Deuteronomy 18:15	Acts 3:20-22
16	Messiah would be preceded by Elijah.	Malachi 4:5-6	Matthew 11:13-14
17	Messiah would be declared the Son of God.	Psalm 2:7	Matthew 3:16-17
18	Messiah would be called a Nazarene.	Isaiah 11:1	Matthew 2:23
19	Messiah would bring light to Galilee.	Isaiah 9:1-2	Matthew 4:13-16
20	Messiah would speak in parables.	Psalm 78:2-4 Isaiah 6:9-10	Matthew 13:10-15, 34-35
21	Messiah would be sent to heal the brokenhearted.	Isaiah 61:1-2	Luke 4:18-19
22	Messiah would be a priest after the order of Melchizedek.	Psalm 110:4	Hebrews 5:5-6
23	Messiah would be called King.	Psalm 2:6 Zechariah 9:9	Matthew 27:37 Mark 11:7-11
24	Messiah would be praised by little children.	Psalm 8:2	Matthew 21:16
25	Messiah would be betrayed.	Psalm 41:9 Zechariah 11:12-13	Luke 22:47-48 Matthew 26:14-16
26	Messiah's price money would be used to buy a potter's field.	Zechariah 11:12-13	Matthew 27:9-10
27	Messiah would be falsely accused.	Psalm 35:11	Mark 14:57-58
28	Messiah would be silent before his accusers.	Isaiah 53:7	Mark 15:4-5
29	Messiah would be spat upon and struck.	Isaiah 50:6	Matthew 26:67
30	Messiah would be hated without cause.	Psalm 35:19 Psalm 69:4	John 15:24-25
31	Messiah would be crucified with criminals.	Isaiah 53:12	Matthew 27:38 Mark 15:27-28
32	Messiah would be given vinegar to drink.	Psalm 69:21	Matthew 27:34 John 19:28-30
33	Messiah's hands and feet would be pierced.	Psalm 22:16 Zechariah 12:10	John 20:25-27
34	Messiah would be mocked and ridiculed.	Psalm 22:7-8	Luke 23:35
35	Soldiers would gamble for Messiah's garments.	Psalm 22:18	Luke 23:34 Matthew 27:35-36
36	Messiah's bones would not be broken.	Exodus 12:46 Psalm 34:20	John 19:33-36
37	Messiah would be forsaken by God.	Psalm 22:1	Matthew 27:46
38	Messiah would pray for his enemies.	Psalm 109:4	Luke 23:34
39	Soldiers would pierce Messiah's side.	Zechariah 12:10	John 19:34
40	Messiah would be buried with the rich.	Isaiah 53:9	Matthew 27:57-60
41	Messiah would resurrect from the dead.	Psalm 16:10 Psalm 49:15	Matthew 28:2-7 Acts 2:22-32
42	Messiah would ascend to heaven.	Psalm 24:7-10	Mark 16:19 Luke 24:51
43	Messiah would be seated at God's right hand.	Psalm 68:18 Psalm 110:1	Mark 16:19 Matthew 22:44
44	Messiah would be a sacrifice for sin.	Isaiah 53:5-12	Romans 5:6-8

BIBLE VERSES ABOUT FAITH

2017-03-22T16:18:00.000+03:00

69 Verses

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love.

Ephesians 3:16-17

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Mark 11:24

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

Hebrews 11:1

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:13

But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

James 1:6

For we live by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Hebrews 11:6

Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

1 Peter 1:8-9

Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

James 1:3

Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

John 11:40

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

John 11:25-26

Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.

Romans 14:1

But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.

1 Timothy 6:11

For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

1 John 5:4

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2

I have chosen the way of faithfulness;
I have set my heart on your laws.

Psalm 119:30

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”

John 6:35

“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.

Mark 10:52

For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

Romans 10:10

And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise.

Hebrews 11:11

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Galatians 3:26-27

For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Romans 1:17

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Mark 16:16

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 John 5:13

FALLING OF JERICHO

2015-05-22T15:45:00.000+03:00

Jericho Falls

Joshua 6:1-27

Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor. You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days. Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.” So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord.” And he said to the people, “Go forward. March around the city and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord.”

And just as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Lord went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the Lord following them. The armed men were walking before the priests who were blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard was walking after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually. But Joshua commanded the people, “You shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.” So he caused the ark of the Lord to circle the city, going about it once. And they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.

Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord walked on, and they blew the trumpets continually. And the armed men were walking before them, and the rear guard was walking after the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets blew continually. And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.

On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times. And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city. And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.” So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city. Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.

But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Go into the prostitute's house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her.” So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel. And they burned the city with fire, and everything in it. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. But Rahab the prostitute and her father's household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho.

“At the cost of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.”

So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.

Sodom and Gomorrah

2015-04-18T12:33:00.001+03:00

Sodom and Gomorrah

Genesis 18:16-19:29

Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way. The Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.” Then the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know.”

So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.” Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.” He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.” Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.” And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him, and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.” But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down. But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door. And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.

Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place. For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.” But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.” And Lot said to them, “Oh, no, my lords. Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die. Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!” He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.

BIBLE VERSES

2014-07-17T16:46:00.000+03:00

To Inspire, Encourage, Feed The Mind & Heal The Soul

These Bible verses are the most popular and most quoted verses.

1. 2 Timothy 1:12: ...I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
2. Psalms 23:4: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
3. Acts 2:38: ...Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
4. Isaiah 26:9: With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
5. John 13:34: A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
6. Job 12:9: Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
7. 2 Timothy 3:16: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
8. Genesis 8:22: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
9. John 1:3: All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
10. Proverbs 13:11: Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
11. Romans 12:2: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
12. Proverbs 3:5: Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
13. Revelation 21:4: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
14. Psalms 62:1: Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
15. 2 Corinthians 12:9: And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
16. Proverbs 22:6: Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
17. Matthew 28:18: And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
18. Ecclesiastes 3:1: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
19. Galatians 6:9: And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
20. Psalms 119:90: Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
21. 1 Corinthians 13:13: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
22. Psalms 16:11: Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
23. Matthew 18:3: And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24. Isaiah 26:3: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
25. Philippians 4:7: And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
26. Exodus 20:3: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
27. Ephesians 5:2: And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
28. Psalms 118:24: This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
29. Romans 8:28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
30. Joshua 1:8: This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
31. Colossians 3:23: And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
32. Psalms 12:6: The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
33. Matthew 7:7: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
34. Proverbs 18:10: The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
35. Philippians 4:6: Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
36. Psalms 23:1: The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
37. 1 Peter 5:8: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
38. Psalms 7:8: The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
39. Philippians 1:6: Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
40. Nahum 1:7: The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
41. Romans 12:14: Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
42. Habakkuk 3:19: The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places…
43. James 1:12: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
44. Psalms 19:1: The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
45. 1 Corinthians 2:9: But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
46. Psalms 83:18: That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
47. John 1:12: But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
48. Isaiah 53:4: Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
49. Romans 5:8: But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
50. Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
51. Matthew 5:44: But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
52. Matthew 6:20: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
53. Psalms 31:19: Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
54. Philippians 4:19: But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
55. Psalms 104:24: O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
56. Romans 7:6: But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
57. Isaiah 54:17: No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
58. 1 Peter 3:15: But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
59. Psalms 10:17: LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
60. Matthew 6:33: But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
61. Psalms 19:14: Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
62. 2 Peter 3:10: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
63. Lamentations 3:22: It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
64. Galatians 5:22: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
65. Genesis 1:1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
66. 2 Corinthians 3:18: But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
67. Proverbs 3:6: In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
68. Hebrews 11:6: But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
69. 2 Chronicles 7:14: If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
70. Acts 1:8: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
71. Psalms 89:1: I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
72. John 13:35: By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
73. Psalms 108:3: I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
74. 1 Peter 5:7: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
75. Psalms 16:8: I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
76. 1 Corinthians 13:4: Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
77. Galatians 3:13: Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
78. Micah 6:8: He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
79. Matthew 11:28: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
80. Joshua 1:9: Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
81. James 5:16: Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
82. Psalms 61:2: From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
83. Luke 12:27: Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
84. Isaiah 9:6: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
85. Luke 12:24: Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
86. Psalms 5:12: For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
87. Philippians 4:8: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
88. Psalms 125:3: For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
89. Romans 3:23: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
90. Psalms 11:7: For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
91. Ephesians 2:8: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
92. Psalms 12:5: For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
93. Colossians 1:16: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
94. Psalms 84:11: For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
95. 2 Timothy 1:7: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
96. Isaiah 55:8: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
97. Hebrews 6:10: For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
98. Isaiah 44:3: For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
99. John 3:17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
100. Job 19:25: For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latterday upon the earth:
101. John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
102. Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
103. 2 Corinthians 5:21: For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
104. Psalms 30:5: For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
105. Romans 8:38: For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
106. Psalms 91:11: For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
107. Psalms 84:10: For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
108. Romans 5:17: For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
109. Isaiah 41:10: Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
110. Matthew 11:30: For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
111. Psalms 37:4: Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
112. 1 Thessalonians 1:5: For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
113. Isaiah 40:31: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
114. Romans 1:20: For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
115. Isaiah 64:8: But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
116. 1 Timothy 6:10: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
117. Psalms 5:11: But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
118. Romans 6:23: For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
119. Psalms 13:5: But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
120. Hebrews 4:12: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
121. Isaiah 53:5: But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
122. Ephesians 2:10: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
123. Malachi 3:10: Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
124. Hebrews 3:14: For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
125. Psalms 1:1: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
126. Psalms 119:2: Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
127. 2 Corinthians 5:7: For we walk by faith, not by sight
128. Psalms 133:1: Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
129. Ephesians 6:12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
130. Deuteronomy 31:6: Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
131. Matthew 16:26: For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
132. Psalms 46:10: Be still, and know that I am God...
133. 1 John 5:4: For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
134. Isaiah 60:1: Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
135. Matthew 18:20: For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
136. Psalms 9:10: And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
137. Galatians 5:13: For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
138. Hebrews 2:14: Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
139. Exodus 33:22: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
140. Matthew 28:19: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
141. Joshua 24:15: And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
142. John 15:13: Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
143. Psalms 1:3: And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
144. John 9:25: He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
145. Genesis 1:26: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
146. 1 John 3:16: Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
147. Genesis 1:3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
148. 2 Timothy 1:13: Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
149. Matthew 19:19: Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
150. Isaiah 32:2: And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
151. 1 Peter 5:6: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
152. Isaiah 53:6: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
153. Ephesians 5:25: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
154. Proverbs 17:22: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
155. Galatians 2:20: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
156. Psalms 9:1: ...I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
157. Romans 12:1: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
158. Nehemiah 8:10: ...for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
159. Philippians 4:13: I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
160. 2 Timothy 4:7: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
161. Acts 20:35: I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
162. Philippians 1:3: I thank my God upon every remembrance of you…
163. 1 John 1:9: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
164. John 14:2: In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
165. John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
166. John 11:25: Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
167. Mark 9:23: Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
168. Matthew 22:37: Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
169. John 14:6: Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
170. James 1:3: Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
171. Colossians 3:16: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
172. Hebrews 4:16: Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
173. Hebrews 13:5: Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
174. Matthew 5:16: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
175. Hebrews 12:2: Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
176. James 1:2: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
177. Acts 4:12: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
178. 2 Timothy 2:19: Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
179. Matthew 6:24: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
180. 1 John 4:12: No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
181. Hebrews 10:25: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
182. Hebrews 11:1: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
183. 2 Corinthians 2:14: Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
184. Romans 15:13: Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
185. Ephesians 3:20: Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
186. Romans 11:33: O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
187. John 14:27: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
188. Ephesians 6:11: Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
189. Colossians 3:12: Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
190. John 15:20: Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
191. Romans 10:17: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
192. 2 Timothy 2:15: Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
193. James 4:7: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
194. Matthew 11:29: Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
195. Matthew 28:20: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
196. Romans 10:9: That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
197. John 10:10: The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
198. Acts 18:9: Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
199. 1 Corinthians 10:13: There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
200. 1 John 4:18: There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
201. Matthew 7:12: Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
202. Romans 5:1: Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
203. 2 Corinthians 5:17: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
204. John 16:33: These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
205. John 5:24: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
206. Mark 14:38: Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
207. 1 Corinthians 6:19: What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
208. 1 Corinthians 13:11: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
209. 2 Peter 1:4: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
210. 2 Thessalonians 1:11: Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
211. Hebrews 12:28: Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
212. 1 Peter 1:8: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
213. John 15:16: Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
214. Psalms 27:1: ...The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
215. Matthew 18:18: Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
216. Psalms 91:1: He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
217. Matthew 18:11: For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
218. 1 John 4:4: Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
219. Acts 17:28: For in him we live, and move, and have our being…
220. James 4:10: Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
221. Romans 8:39: Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
222. Ephesians 2:9: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
223. Matthew 17:20: ...If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
224. 1 John 5:12: He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
225. Psalms 55:22: Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
226. 1 Peter 1:3: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
227. Deuteronomy 6:7: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
228. Ephesians 5:20: Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
229. 1 Peter 2:24: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
230. Philippians 4:4: Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
231. Matthew 25:23: ...Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things…
232. 1 Corinthians 13:11: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
233. Proverbs 1:7: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
234. Psalms 100:4: Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
235. Matthew 7:1: Judge not, that ye be not judged.
236. Psalms 56:3: What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
237. Mark 10:27: ...With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
238. Genesis 28:15: And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
239. Romans 1:16: For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth…
240. 1 Thessalonians 5:17: Pray without ceasing.
241. Psalms 100:5: For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
242. 1 John 4:16: And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
243. Romans 10:13: For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
244. 1 Corinthians 1:18: For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
245. Isaiah 41:13: For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
246. Psalms 119:105: Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
247. 1 John 5:14: And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
248. Revelation 4:11: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
249. 1 John 4:7: Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
250. Proverbs 6:6: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
251. Isaiah 44:22: I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
252. Jeremiah 32:17: Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
253. Job 36:27: For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
254. Luke 2:11: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
255. Psalms 24:1: ...The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

HE IS RISEN!

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NOT AMONG THE DEAD!

TAKE OFF YOUR GRAVE CLOTHES AND LIVE!

When He had said this Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.” John 11:43-44

Lazarus was a fully dead man! It was a real miracle to bring him back to life, and this was too much for the Pharisees. What the Pharisees underestimated was that this power would continue to be exhibited in the life of Christians for thousands of years to come. If you are a child of God, you have been brought from death unto life.

Jesus had raised Lazarus from the grave. We should love the story because it shows the power of the Savior. We can know that if He can raise the dead to life, we can trust Him to help us make our house payment or whatever struggles our life may hold. We need to remember that today. Since Jesus has power over death, is there anything in your life that He can’t handle?

Jesus came to give us life! Jesus told Lazarus to take off His grave clothes, to quit “living” like he was dead. Shouldn’t we do the same thing? Have you received Christ as your Savior? Is your name recorded in Heaven as a child of God? Have the angels sung “Glory” over your salvation? Have you personally, without reservation, believed that Jesus died for your sins, and that the only way you will enter Heaven is through the grace of His shed blood on the cross?

Well, TAKE OFF YOUR GRAVE CLOTHES! Quit “living” among the dead. Look alive! Jesus saved you by grace, through faith, not unto death, but unto life! Shouldn’t that make a noticeable difference in your life today? SO LIVE! Don’t let this world steal your joy. Don’t let Satan rob you of your peace. Stop worrying over tomorrow. Start living!

PEACE IN THE STORMS OF OUR LIFE

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TO SURVIVE..WE MUST KNOW THAT JESUS IS ON BOARD (IN OUR SHIP)

Mark 4:35-4:41

It is fascinating to hear stories of people who have survived tragic events. Someone makes it out alive of a landslide. Someone survives a crash. Someone survives after days at sea. We are never promised to come out alive, but we can know survival in our hearts if we trust Jesus. There is spiritual survival for the believer. How can we survive in the storms of life?

The disciples were told to go over to the other side in Mark 4:35. Jesus was with them in the ship. They did not know, but their survival was due to the fact of the presence of Jesus in their vessel. How can we experience peace in the storms?
The answer is simple, we must have Jesus on board.

Many people are uncomfortable with Jesus in their ship. Many people want to run their own ship. They don’t want to answer to the Captain, they don’t want to take orders, they want to be at the helm and
chart their own course. SURVIVAL......HOW CAN WE SURVIVE in the year 2001? How can we endure
through the storms of this new year? How can we survive the temptations to quit our faith? How can we survive the pressures of everyday life? How can we survive in a stormy marriage? How can we survive criticism? How can we survive the bad news we will get this year? If YOU ARE hoping to go through life without pressure, without criticism, without
temptations, without bad news, without tragedy, then you are living on FANTASY ISLAND.

TO SURVIVE.....WE MUST KNOW THAT JESUS IS ON BOARD OUR SHIP.
I hope every person has ask Jesus to be the captain of their lives.
There are numerous ADVANTAGES OF HAVING JESUS ON BOARD!!!!

1) We are given a sense of direction and purpose to our lives.
“v.35 “let us go......other side”

Many people live day by day with no sense of purpose....Why am I here? Where am I going? Romans 8:28 “all things work together for good.....called according to his purpose.” Jesus gave the disciples directions. We can look in the Bible and we can see
that God has given us directions, a purpose for living. We have a purpose as a body of believers here in this community. We are to be a light for Jesus. We are to be an encouragement to one another. WE HAVE PURPOSE. In Jesus, I know why I’m here!

2) With Jesus on board, we are not only given a sense of direction, we are given the Assurance of Eternal Life.
No matter what was going to happen, Jesus’ message to the disciples were that they were going to the other side. In Jesus we have assurance that we are going to the other side. We are saved for all eternity. Not only is Jesus the Captain to give us a sense of direction, Jesus is also the anchor of our ship. He is the anchor that holds.

See Hebrews 6:19-20 Jesus is “an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, an which enters into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus”

“In New Testament times, they say the harbors of some cities would have a sand bar just outside the harbor. If a boat got there when the tide was out, it couldn’t get into the harbor. They would just take the anchor and throw it over into the harbor. It really didn’t
matter if the winds came and beat against the boat, because they understood that when the tide came in, the ship would follow the anchor right on into the harbor.
Jesus is our anchor. Jesus is in heaven, and if you are saved, you are going to heaven one of these days because Jesus is there. The anchor is the guarantee that one of these days the ship is going on into the harbor.”
2Timothy 1:12 “I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him”....We are kept by the power of God.
When we think of a storm, we must think about Noah. What a storm he had to deal with. Noah did not have to worry about falling out of the Boat. The Bible says “God shut them in.” I’m sure with all the waves, Noah must have fell down many times in the Ark.
Although he fell down, he never fell out. He was safe and secure in the Ark. We may get bumps, bruises, scrapes along the way, but our salvation is eternally secured. Jesus is our anchor.

With Jesus on board, we are given a sense of direction.
With Jesus on board, we are given the assurance of eternal life.

3. With Jesus on board, we are given stability in the unexpectant crisis of life.
Notice v.37 the storm came up suddenly. On the Sea of Galilee, cold air would come down from the hills which surround this huge body of water. The hot air rising would collide and immediately a storm would develop. Our storms can be a financial storm, a
business storm, a relationship storm, a storm of illness. News of a sudden death can come in one phone call. One phone call, and a loved one has unexpectantly died. The bad news from a doctor of a terminal illness. Suddenly, your whole life is turned upside down.
Notice, just because Jesus is in the ship, doesn’t mean no STORM will come. Many Christians wrongly think storms are only for unbelievers. That’s not true.
You can be in the very center of the will of God, and be going through a cyclone, or a hurricane of all kind of troubles. Disobedience can bring on a storm. Just look at Jonah. But so often storms are a way for God to make us stronger.

Jesus rises up and calms the wind....the storm ceases. The main storm Jesus was concerned about was the storm of fear in the hearts of his disciples. That’s the storm we are really talking about. We don’t have to look at the circumstances, we can just look to
the Lord Jesus. Fear is looking at the storm. Faith is looking at the Saviour.
Fear is looking at the circumstances, but Faith is looking at God.

Note....v.39 “and he arose.....” Jesus did not sink...He arose above the storm. When Jesus is recognized as Saviour and Lord in our ship, we can be sure of one thing... We are not going under, we are going above...We will rise above the circumstances of
life and experience peace.

4. When Jesus is on board, we are given a greater appreciation of Who this Jesus Is.
see v.41 “What manner of man is this,....”

We come to appreciate something of the magnitude and the awesome power of our Lord God!
Psalm 107:24 tells us that in the deep waters we see God’s power at work.
Only God knows what we will face this coming year. You and I can be assured of His peace.
Philippians 4:6-7 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

We can experience peace in the storm because with Jesus in our ship we are given
1) a sense of purpose and direction
2) an assurance of eternal life
3) stability in the unexpectant crisis that come
4) a deeper appreciation of Who our God Really is

YOUR BROTHER WILL RISE AGAIN

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LAZARUS SICKNESS AND DEATH

John 11:17-17:27
Why was Lazarus sick? Why did Jesus wait two days after hearing Lazarus was sick? Why did Lazarus have to die? The questions are endless.

And so are the questions we often have as we go through our own type of difficulty and dillema. The "whys" of life can drive you crazy.

Before us today is a look at "Personal Crisis." By that I mean personal trouble. We watch the news, and we’re troubled. We read the newspaper, and we’re troubled. But when the trouble comes to our own house, we are not only troubled, but often we’re terrified!

This is a Personal Crisis. But we’re also looking at "Personal Christianity." It’s about your personal commitment to and trust in Christ. What we are in Christ will be revealed in the midst of a personal crisis. A PERSONAL CRISIS WILL TEST YOUR PERSONAL CHRISTIANITY.

Understand that Jesus loved Lazarus. The Bible is very clear on that. Jesus loved him, but Lazarus was sick! You can be a saint and still be sick! That’s pretty clear in the scriptures. The love of God does not exempt one from sickness, nor sorrow.

Sickness, in the context we’ll use it, could be a number of things. Physical, emotional, mental, family problems, and so on. Sickness can be termed as "that which causes any area to be infected with imperfection." (The human nature is infected with sin. We are SIN-SICK.)

Yet knowing that God loves us, should serve as a sustaining force that gives us hope! Yet, hope is hard to have when "your brother is dead." When Jesus showed up, Lazarus had been dead and in the grave for 4 days. There may be an area in your life, which you were hoping would recover, that has "died." It seems hopeless.

The word of the Lord to you today is: YOUR BROTHER WILL RISE AGAIN! You have not seen the last of your brother. Sometimes God will wait and bring deliverance on the far side of disappointment. Sometimes, you have to have faith after the funeral. After you’ve written it off. After you inwardly feel that it will not get better. you have to have an "after-the-funeral-faith."

And the hope for your situation does not depend on the "Jews" who are standing around your situation. It is dependent upon Jesus Christ alone! And there are sevral things that I want to share that can serve to give you hope in Christ.

1. THE CONTROL OF CHRIST - V. 4 says that Christ knew what was going to happen, and He knew why. The same is true in your life: Jesus is in CONTROL.

2. THE CHARACTER OF CHRIST - V. 27 says that you must believe in Who Christ is. A personal crisis requires a personal faith, and that faith is founded on the character of Christ.

3. THE CONCERN OF CHRIST - V. 33-34 - Jesus sees every tear, and He doesn’t turn a deaf ear to your cry. He is concerned about you and your situation. Christ will, however, take you back to the place where you gave up hope - "Show me where you laid him down."

4. THE COMPASSION OF CHRIST - V. 35-36 - Some people may be uncomfortable with a God who cries, but it serves to draw you closer to Him, knowing that He is "touched with the feeling of your infirmity." The picture is of "THE CRYING CHRIST." He weeps. He weeps for you, and for the situation you’ve had to lay in the ground.

(Just a note on v. 37 - Disregard those who want to criticize Christ.)

5. THE COMMAND OF CHRIST - V. 39 - Many times we try to distance ourselves from the problem, refusing to deal with it, and deny its reality. We can become hard, stone-cold, and callused to the problem. We can get bitter toward the situation, toward life, and even toward God. Jesus says, "Take away the stone." He really says, "Let me into the situation, and let me handle it the way I want to." (And don’t let the "stink" stop you!)

6. THE CALL OF CHRIST - V. 43-44 - When they opened up the situation to Christ, the deliverance they had hoped for began to flow. When the cry came forth, it was Christ speaking DIRECTLY to Lazarus. God is about to speak DIRECTLY to some things that have had His people bound in grief!

You have to believe that YOUR BROTHER WILL RISE AGAIN!

And when God raises those dead areas back up, look what it does, or what it should do.....

7. THE COMMUNION WITH CHRIST - In John 12:1-2, we see Jesus having restored fellowship with Lazarus and his family. When God brings deliverance, it’s for the purpose of renewing our communion with Him. Our communion with Christ should deepen after He brings deliverance.

Draw close to Him even now. Believe Him. Trust Him. And I believe His words will prove to be true.

YOUR BROTHER WILL RISE AGAIN!

HOPE AND WAITING FOR GOD TO ACT

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HOPE

John 11:1- 45

"Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill." But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness is not unto death; it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it." Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that he was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go into Judea again." The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?" Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if any one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him." Thus he spoke, and then he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awake him out of sleep." The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead; and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary sat in the house. Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. And even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you." Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who is coming into the world." When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying quietly, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled; and he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus wept. So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb; it was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. I knew that thou hearest me always, but I have said this on account of the people standing by, that they may believe that thou didst send me." When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out." The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go." Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him;" John 11:1-45.

PROPHECIES THAT JESUS FULLFILLED

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Prophecies Jesus Christ Fulfilled

Prophecy Fulfilled

The crucifixion was prophesied in Scripture 1,000 years before Jesus Christ was born.

The books of the Old Testament contain many passages about the Messiah—all prophecies Jesus Christ fulfilled. For instance, the crucifixion of Jesus was foretold in Psalm 22:16-18 approximately 1,000 years before Christ was born, long before this method of execution was even practiced. Some Bible scholars suggest there are more than 300 prophetic Scriptures completed in the life of Jesus.
Although this list is not exhaustive, you'll find 44 messianic predictions clearly fulfilled in Jesus Christ, along with supporting references from the Old and New Testament.

44 Prophecies That Jesus Fulfilled


	Prophecies About Jesus	Old Testament Scripture	New Testament Fulfillment
1	Messiah would be born of a woman.	Genesis 3:15	Matthew 1:20 Galatians 4:4
2	Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.	Micah 5:2	Matthew 2:1 Luke 2:4-6
3	Messiah would be born of a virgin.	Isaiah 7:14	Matthew 1:22-23 Luke 1:26-31
4	Messiah would come from the line of Abraham.	Genesis 12:3 Genesis 22:18	Matthew 1:1 Romans 9:5
5	Messiah would be a descendant of Isaac.	Genesis 17:19 Genesis 21:12	Luke 3:34
6	Messiah would be a descendant of Jacob.	Numbers 24:17	Matthew 1:2
7	Messiah would come from the tribe of Judah.	Genesis 49:10	Luke 3:33 Hebrews 7:14
8	Messiah would be heir to King David's throne.	2 Samuel 7:12-13 Isaiah 9:7	Luke 1:32-33 Romans 1:3
9	Messiah's throne will be anointed and eternal.	Psalm 45:6-7 Daniel 2:44	Luke 1:33 Hebrews 1:8-12
10	Messiah would be called Immanuel.	Isaiah 7:14	Matthew 1:23
11	Messiah would spend a season in Egypt.	Hosea 11:1	Matthew 2:14-15
12	A massacre of children would happen at Messiah's birthplace.	Jeremiah 31:15	Matthew 2:16-18
13	A messenger would prepare the way for Messiah	Isaiah 40:3-5	Luke 3:3-6
14	Messiah would be rejected by his own people.	Psalm 69:8 Isaiah 53:3	John 1:11 John 7:5
15	Messiah would be a prophet.	Deuteronomy 18:15	Acts 3:20-22
16	Messiah would be preceded by Elijah.	Malachi 4:5-6	Matthew 11:13-14
17	Messiah would be declared the Son of God.	Psalm 2:7	Matthew 3:16-17
18	Messiah would be called a Nazarene.	Isaiah 11:1	Matthew 2:23
19	Messiah would bring light to Galilee.	Isaiah 9:1-2	Matthew 4:13-16
20	Messiah would speak in parables.	Psalm 78:2-4 Isaiah 6:9-10	Matthew 13:10-15, 34-35
21	Messiah would be sent to heal the brokenhearted.	Isaiah 61:1-2	Luke 4:18-19
22	Messiah would be a priest after the order of Melchizedek.	Psalm 110:4	Hebrews 5:5-6
23	Messiah would be called King.	Psalm 2:6 Zechariah 9:9	Matthew 27:37 Mark 11:7-11
24	Messiah would be praised by little children.	Psalm 8:2	Matthew 21:16
25	Messiah would be betrayed.	Psalm 41:9 Zechariah 11:12-13	Luke 22:47-48 Matthew 26:14-16
26	Messiah's price money would be used to buy a potter's field.	Zechariah 11:12-13	Matthew 27:9-10
27	Messiah would be falsely accused.	Psalm 35:11	Mark 14:57-58
28	Messiah would be silent before his accusers.	Isaiah 53:7	Mark 15:4-5
29	Messiah would be spat upon and struck.	Isaiah 50:6	Matthew 26:67
30	Messiah would be hated without cause.	Psalm 35:19 Psalm 69:4	John 15:24-25
31	Messiah would be crucified with criminals.	Isaiah 53:12	Matthew 27:38 Mark 15:27-28
32	Messiah would be given vinegar to drink.	Psalm 69:21	Matthew 27:34 John 19:28-30
33	Messiah's hands and feet would be pierced.	Psalm 22:16 Zechariah 12:10	John 20:25-27
34	Messiah would be mocked and ridiculed.	Psalm 22:7-8	Luke 23:35
35	Soldiers would gamble for Messiah's garments.	Psalm 22:18	Luke 23:34 Matthew 27:35-36
36	Messiah's bones would not be broken.	Exodus 12:46 Psalm 34:20	John 19:33-36
37	Messiah would be forsaken by God.	Psalm 22:1	Matthew 27:46
38	Messiah would pray for his enemies.	Psalm 109:4	Luke 23:34
39	Soldiers would pierce Messiah's side.	Zechariah 12:10	John 19:34
40	Messiah would be buried with the rich.	Isaiah 53:9	Matthew 27:57-60
41	Messiah would resurrect from the dead.	Psalm 16:10 Psalm 49:15	Matthew 28:2-7 Acts 2:22-32
42	Messiah would ascend to heaven.	Psalm 24:7-10	Mark 16:19 Luke 24:51
43	Messiah would be seated at God's right hand.	Psalm 68:18 Psalm 110:1	Mark 16:19 Matthew 22:44
44	Messiah would be a sacrifice for sin.	Isaiah 53:5-12	Romans 5:6-8

THE MIRACLES OF JESUS

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The Miracles of Jesus
#	Miracle	Matthew	Mark	Luke	John
1	Jesus Turns Water into Wine				2:1-11
2	Jesus Heals an Official's Son				4:43-54
3	Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit		1:21-27	4:31-36
4	Jesus Heals Peter's Mother-in-Law	8:14-15	1:29-31	4:38-39
5	Jesus Heals Many Sick at Evening	8:16-17	1:32-34	4:40-41
6	First Miraculous Catch of Fish			5:1-11
7	Jesus Cleanses a Man With Leprosy	8:1-4	1:40-45	5:12-14
8	Jesus Heals a Centurion's Servant	8:5-13		7:1-10
9	Jesus Heals a Paralytic	9:1-8	2:1-12	5:17-12
10	Jesus Heals a Man's Withered Hand	12:9-14	3:1-6	6:6-11
11	Jesus Raises a Widow's Son in Nain			7:11-17
12	Jesus Calms a Storm	8:23-27	4:35-41	8:22-25
13	Jesus Casts Demons into a Herd of Pigs	8:28-33	5:1-20	8:26-39
14	Jesus Heals a Woman in the Crowd	9:20-22	5:25-34	8:42-48
15	Jesus Raises Jairus' Daughter to Life	9:18, 23-26	5:21-24, 35-43	8:40-42, 49-56
16	Jesus Heals Two Blind Men	9:27-31
17	Jesus Heals a Man Unable to Speak	9:32-34
18	Jesus Heals an Invalid at Bethesda				5:1-15
19	Jesus Feeds 5,000	14:13-21	6:30-44	9:10-17	6:1-15
20	Jesus Walks on Water	14:22-33	6:45-52		6:16-21
21	Jesus Heals Many Sick in Gennesaret	14:34-36	6:53-56
22	Jesus Heals a Gentile Woman's Demon-Possessed Daughter	5:21-28	7:24-30
23	Jesus Heals a Deaf and Dumb Man		7:31-37
24	Jesus Feeds 4,000	15:32-39	8:1-13
25	Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida		8:22-26
26	Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind				9:1-12
27	Jesus Heals a Boy with a Demon	17:14-20	9:14-29	9:37-43
28	Miraculous Temple Tax in a Fish's Mouth	17:24-27
29	Jesus Heals a Blind, Mute Demoniac	12:22-23		11:14-23
30	Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman			13:10-17
31	Jesus Heals a Man With Dropsy on the Sabbath			14:1-6
32	Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers			17:11-19
33	Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead				11:1-45
34	Jesus Restores Sight to Bartimaeus	20:29-34	10:46-52	18:35-43
35	Jesus Withers the Fig Tree	21:18:22	11:12-14
36	Jesus Heals a Servant's Severed Ear			22:50-51
37	Second Miraculous Catch of Fish				21:4-11

SERMON ON MIRACLES OF JESUS

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Jesus' miracles reveal his identity

First, Jesus' miracles reveal his identity.

This is the big theme controlling Luke's organization of the material. In the disciples' words of verse 25, Who is this?

Ironically, the demons were in no doubt. In verse 28, they call him, Jesus, Son of the Most High God

And the Gentile former demoniac seemed pretty clear. Look at the lovely parallel in verse 39. Jesus tells him, Return home and tell how much God has done for you. So the man went away and told all over the town how much Jesus had done for him.

In short, Jesus does things that only God can do.

Psalm 89 says, O Lord God Almighty, who is like you? You are mighty, O Lord, and your faithfulness surrounds you. You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them.

King Canute, the 11th century king, got this. In the famous story, Canute set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes; but the tide failed to stop. Canute leaped backwards and said "Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws." He then hung his gold crown on a crucifix, and never wore it again. God created those eternal laws; only he can subvert them to perform miracles.

Similarly, who else in the entire history of the world has been able to order demons around, able to heal at a touch, or able to restore life with a word?

Only God can do these things. The miracles of Jesus reveal his deity. He is God in human form.

Jesus' miracles reveal God's kingdom

Second, Jesus' miracles reveal God's kingdom.

To demonstrate his mastery over all of creation, Jesus could have done it by destroying: how spectacular it would have been if he'd commanded a volcano to erupt, or an asteroid to smash into the temple. How spectacular if he'd sent the Roman army mad with demons. How spectacular to inflict boils on all the Pharisees. How spectacular to strike Pontius Pilate down with a word.

But Jesus' miracles have no whiff of the destructive about them. In every case he chooses to bring order instead of chaos, he chooses to heal instead of harm.

In this way he shows us what God's kingdom is like.

You see, the creation we live in is like a wonderful, bright painting that has been obscured by a think layer of dirt and grime. We can just about make out the underlying picture, but it is faint, and our world is full, not of brightness, but darkness and evil.

What Jesus does in these miracles is punch a few holes through the grime so that we can see a speck of the glorious picture underneath. In Jesus' miracles, we catch a glimpse of creation ordered, so that never again will 200,000 people perish in an earthquake. We catch a glimpse of evil banished forever. We catch a glimpse of a world where there is no more death or mourning or crying or pain.

For now, it is only a glimpse. The miracles are down-payment and guarantee of Jesus' promise to return and bring the kingdom in full; to wipe away all the grime and restore the picture in all its glory. He can do it; he will do it.

Those who receive the miracles

The third observation I want to make is about those who receive the miracles.

In each of the cases we've seen, the recipients were desperate. There was no human means by which they could be helped. They had reached the end of the road: Jesus was the only hope they had left.

This applies equally to the disciples about to drown, the helpless man possessed by a legion of demons, the bleeding woman whom no-one could heal, the grieving father whose daughter was dying. All were desperate, they had nowhere else to turn.

So we learn that Jesus helps the desperate.

But it's not enough simply to be desperate. The other thing they have in common is that all of them came to Jesus. The disciples may not have had much faith, but they had enough to make them wake their Master. Even the demon-possessed man came to Jesus: apparently enough sanity prevailed that he came out of the tombs to meet Jesus on the shore. The woman forced her way through the crowd just to touch him. Jairus fell at Jesus' feet and pleaded with him to come.

These miracles were done for desperate people who cast themselves on Jesus as their only hope.

It's worth noticing that these seem to be the only important qualifications. In other respects, the recipients are a thoroughly mixed bunch: from Jesus' close friends, to a Gentile man, to a poor unclean woman, to a prominent leader of the synagogue. Jesus doesn't discriminate according to who you are: anyone can be desperate; anyone can come to him.

SERMON ON MIRACLES OF JESUS

2013-03-21T13:26:00.000+03:00

Power over Sickness

Luke 8:40–56

First there is Jairus, who falls at Jesus' feet, begging him to come and heal his twelve-year-old daughter, who is on the verge of death.

But Jairus will have to wait! This scene belongs to a poor sick woman who has her own reason for desperation. She has been bleeding for 12 years: according to the law, this makes her ceremonially unclean; effectively excluded from all religious life. She is helpless and powerless, no-one can cure her.

Only, she's heard about this man who heals. She dares to fight her way through the crushing crowd and merely touch his cloak. She's not bold enough to demand his attention. She believes, and desperately hopes that a touch will be enough.

But Jesus notices. He feels the healing power flow from him: despite the crush of people, and the urgency of his journey, he knows that a desperate soul has made contact with him.

So he stops: he makes sure that everyone knows this woman is healed; she is no longer unclean. And he makes sure that they know that it is his power that has done it.

Jesus has power over sickness.

Power over Death

In scene four, we're back with Jairus. While Jesus delayed, his daughter has died. Jesus may have power over sickness, but no-one has power over death. For this little girl it's too late.

I think Jesus' delay was deliberate, just as in John's gospel, when he hears that his friend Lazarus is sick and close to death, he deliberately stays away for two more days so that Lazarus dies.

In this little sequence of power-plays, there is no value in showing once again that he has power over sickness. Jesus is going for the big one. He has power over death itself.

So, to everyone's incredulity, Jesus presses on. And with a mere two words of Aramaic, he brings this little girl back to life.

Nothing and no-one on Earth has power over death, yet for Jesus it is effortless.

So there we have four scenes of desperation, and four demonstrations of power. If I were the kind of man to use alliteration, I would say that Jesus demonstrated power over destruction, demons, disease and death. In these scenes we see Jesus exercising power in every sphere of fallen creation.

SERMON ON MIRACLES OF JESUS

2013-03-21T13:23:00.000+03:00

Power over Demons

Luke 4:31-37

Jesus and his disciples make it to a Gentile region on the other side of the lake, where a demon-possessed man comes to meet him.

But this is not any demon-possessed man: this man has many, many demons. A Roman legion had 6000 soldiers: that may be an exaggeration, but Luke says that many demons had gone into him

As a result, this man was powerfully deranged. He was out of control: naked, living in the tombs, fleeing to solitary places having broken his chains and overpowered his guard. We're faced with a different sort of chaos.

This wild-man comes out to meet Jesus, and it's immediately clear who is in control. The demons had complete power over the man, but at Jesus' word they are helpless. Three times, we're told, they beg him: they know where the power resides.

Just as Jesus brought calm to the storm in the lake, so he now brings calm and order into the life of this man. We find him afterwards sitting at Jesus' feet, dressed and in his right mind.

Why did Jesus allow the demons to destroy the pigs? Well, it is the pigs that show us that this episode was a genuine encounter with the forces of evil. If it weren't for the pigs we might be able to say that this was only a miracle of psychology: that Jesus somehow simply changed the mental state of the man, restoring a deranged man to sanity. But the destruction of the pigs shows us that the demons were real. Jesus had confronted the powers of evil and won.

What a scene it must have been as the maddened herd of pigs raced down the bank into the lake! No wonder the people were overcome with fear and asked him to leave.

The Miracles of Jesus

2013-03-21T13:19:00.000+03:00

Introduction

What do you make of miracles?

Do you spend more effort praying for miracles to happen, or coming up with reasons why they won't happen? I mean, do you think we should expect miracles today, or are you resigned to the idea that God doesn't do miracles any more?

Well, our theme is the miracles of Jesus.

And there's no shortage of miracles in Luke's gospel that we could look at.

Luke has chosen to do this quite deliberately. He's inviting us to put them together, building on one another, miracle on miracle, and come to a conclusion.

So, let's look at the four scenes from Jesus' ministry that Luke puts before us.

The power of Jesus

Power over Nature

Luke 8:22-56

Now, due to the geography, localised violent storms are not unusual on the Sea of Galilee. So, the waves are crashing against the side of the boat; the wind is shredding the sails; the planks of the boat are creaking and groaning; the boat is listing and tossing and filling with water. Even the experienced, professional sailors are scared: Master, Master, we're going to drown

And Jesus has slept through it all: they had to wake him up. Unconcerned, he simply gets to his feet and says a word. He rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm.

The disciples seem more terrified by this than the storm. In fear and amazement they asked one another, "Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him."

Jesus has power over nature: power over the storm.

SERMONS ON MIRACLES OF JESUS

2013-02-04T16:58:00.000+03:00

A Blind Man Meets a Healer

Mark 10:46-52, Luke 18:35-43.

As Jesus heads into Jericho, He meets a blind man named Bartimaeus we know that’s his name from Mark’s account of the story.
As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”
He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came near, Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?”
“Lord, I want to see,” he replied.
Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they also praised God.

1. His Blindness
We see this in verse 35: “As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.”

Blindness was a very common problem in Palestine. Generally, one who was blind was never healed. In the city of Lydda, the saying was that everyone was either blind or had only one eye. In Jaffa, there were 500 blind people out of a population of 5,000.

While Leviticus 19:14 establishes that God’s people were to care for those who are blind, there was also a cultural and religious stigma against blindness. We see this especially in the account of another man who was healed of his blindness in John 9. There, as Jesus and the disciples are out walking, the disciples ask Jesus a question in John 9:2: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
Because this man was blind, he was relegated to a life of begging. In the Gospel of Mark we learn that this man was wearing an old garment, which was a sign that he was a beggar. He’s just sitting there, waiting for something to happen because there was nothing he could do to improve his condition.

Just as Jesus gives sight to those who are physically blind, so too He grants spiritual insight to those who are in moral darkness. This man knew he was blind, and so did everyone else. Are some of you trying to act like you’re not spiritually blind this morning? The first thing you need to do is to admit that you are just as blind in a spiritual sense as this man was in a physical sense.

Now, take a look at verse 36: “When he heard the crowd going by, He asked what was happening.” This man was smart. He knew that there would be a mass of people in Jericho that day preparing to make the final journey to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. That’s why he was sitting by the side of the road with his hand out. He couldn’t see what was happening, but he could hear the commotion and excitement. And so he’s curious. He wants to know what was happening. Perhaps he heard some unusual comments about a Healer who was headed to Jerusalem.

Verse 37 gives us the answer to his question, “…Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” Bart’s heart begins to race. Could it be, that the person He had heard of before was right here in front of him? It was almost too good to be true.

2 His Belief
The first stage is Bartimaeus’ blindness. The second thing we notice is his belief. Notice how Bart addresses Jesus in verse 38: “…Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me!” The crowd referred to the earthly heritage of Jesus He was from Nazareth. That just lets us know where He grew up. That’s like someone saying that I’m from Wisconsin. That tells you a lot -- I like brats, cheddar cheese and the Wisconsin Badgers -- but it doesn’t tell you everything about me.

Instead of calling on Jesus as the guy from Nazareth, Bart expresses His messianic heritage. He is the Son of David, the one who the Old Testament has been pointing to as the Savior of the World. This blind man can see that Jesus is more than just a man from a small town in the north; He’s the God-man, sent from Heaven to be the Savior of the world.

Related to this, I wonder if Bart was aware of what the Son of David had accomplished in the lives of other people? Maybe he had heard of Jesus giving sight to other blind people. Perhaps he heard what Jesus said in Luke 4:18, when He stood up in the temple and read from the book of Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind…”

When Bart called out for the Son of David to have mercy on him, he was expressing his belief that Jesus was the Messiah, and that He could heal his blindness. He knew who Jesus was and He also knew what Jesus could do for him. Do you know what Jesus can do for you? If He can restore sight to the blind, He can grant you the deepest longing of your heart. We need to cry out for mercy just like Bart did.

Bart was aware of his blindness, and his belief in Jesus was right on. But, he did more than just believe He acted on what He knew to be true by his boldness.

3 His Boldness
Bart knew that he needed mercy because there was nothing he could do on his own. And so, he called out to Jesus, the Son of David, for mercy in verse 38. In the first part of verse 39 we see that the crowd of people is bothered by the blind and believing Bart: “Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet…”

Hebrews 4:16, in the King James Version, tells us to “…come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in our time of need.” Friend, don’t hold back or be afraid to give yourself to Jesus. Come to Him boldly and with confidence. Let Him know what you need. That’s what He’s waiting for and He’ll reward you with mercy and grace to help in your time of need.

As a result of Bart’s boldness, verse 40 says that, “Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him…” Mark 10:50 tells us that Bart threw his cloak aside and jumped to his feet. Can you imagine how the crowd must have felt, especially those who had rebuked Bart? I picture everything getting real quiet. People are looking at Bart and then at Jesus.
The question Jesus then asks Bart is very interesting. Look at verse 41: “What do you want me to do for you?” Isn’t it obvious what Bart needed? Jesus knew what Bart wanted but He asked the question for Bart’s sake and for the crowd of people who had gathered around. He wanted Bart to verbalize what it was that He wanted. I love Bart’s answer: “Lord, I want to see.”

4 His Blessing
In verse 42, we read, “Jesus said to him, ‘Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.’” Here’s a spiritual principle that you should never forget: Jesus always responds to faith. Because Bart believed and put his faith in Jesus, he received his sight back. Jesus is looking for more Barts today people who will exhibit some faith, no matter how small it is, and cry out for mercy. Jesus loves to answer prayers like that by healing us from the inside out, granting us spiritual insight as he moves us out of darkness.

Verse 43 tells us that, “Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they also praised God.”

When Bart got his sight back, he couldn’t help but break out into praise. He was thrilled! Bart the blind man became Bart the believer. He recognized his blindness, exhibited his belief by crying out with boldness and then received a blessing, which spilled over into others’ lives.

Bart experienced four things:

A change of focus: from darkness to the light that’s conversion
A change of direction: from sitting to following that’s discipleship
A change of purpose: from begging to praising that’s worship
A change of scope: was blessed in order to bless others that’s evangelism

SERMONS ON MIRACLES OF JESUS

2012-11-28T11:22:00.000+03:00

HEALING OF A LEPER

INTRODUCTION
Luke 17:11-19

Have you ever had a totally lousy day? I read about a man who was sitting in a bar, looking at his drink. He stayed like that for half-an-hour. Then, a big trouble-making truck driver stepped up next to him, grabbed the drink from him, and gulped it down in one swallow. At that, the man burst into tears. The truck driver said, “Come on man, I was just joking. Here, I’ll buy you another drink. I just can’t stand to see a grown man crying.” “No, it’s not that.” The guy said, “Today day is the worst of my life. First, I overslept and was late to an important meeting. My boss was outrageous and he fired me. When I left the office, I discovered my car had been stolen, and the police said there was nothing they could do. I took a cab home, and as he drove off I realized I left my wallet in the back seat of the taxi. I thought it couldn’t get any worse, but when I walked into my house I found my wife in the arms of another man–and she told me to leave. So I stopped by a chemical store, and then came here. I’ve been sitting here thinking about taking my life…when you come in and drink all my poison!”

That’s a bad day–for both of them! The Bible never promises our lives will be free from pain and difficulties, instead the Bible promises we will have many trials and tribulations in this life. The secret to a successful life is knowing where to turn for help when you have a problem. That’s the lesson we are going to learn today from a man who had leprosy. Let’s read about it beginning in Luke 17:11:

Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!” When he saw them, he said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.
One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God is a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him - and he was a Samaritan. Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Rise and go, your faith has made you well.”

As you study the New Testament you find Jesus performed many miracles and He shared many parables. Always take time to pause and look below the surface of the scripture because there is a miracle hidden in every parable, and there is a parable to be found in every miracle. On the surface, Jesus heals ten men of leprosy and only one returned to thank Him. In addition to this miraculous healing, there are some valuable spiritual principles to be found. I want us to look below the surface because I think there are at least seven important lessons we can learn about ourselves.

1. YOU HAVE A DEADLY PROBLEM THAT ONLY JESUS CAN FIX

As a boy in church, I can remember hearing about lepers in the Bible. For a long time I thought the preacher was saying “leopards.” So I pictured Jesus working with big jungle cats. I recall hearing one old country preacher pronounce it “leapers.” So I pictured men who went around jumping all the time. It’s funny the way a child’s mind works! But there is nothing funny about leprosy.

In biblical times, leprosy was a terrible problem. The wordwas often used to describe a variety of skin diseases, but doctors believe most of the people suffered with what we now call Hansen’s Disease. It starts with a white patch of skin that becomes numb, so much so that the victims cannot even feel a needle piercing the spot. The patch begins to spread all over the body and often manifests itself on the face, so the disease is impossible to hide. It then begins to form spongy tumors on the face and, at the same time, attacks the internal organs as well. The nerve endings become numb so the victim cannot tell when something is hurting him, like fire burning his hand. The leprosy itself was not fatal, but more lepers died from other diseases they contracted because of their weakened condition.

Lepers were called “the walking dead,” and were kicked out of their homes and villages and forced to live in colonies with other lepers. They couldn’t work or worship at the temple.

Even though none of us have leprosy, that’s a good description of us. We are all born with a deadly disease the Bible calls terminal sin; it causes us to be spiritual outcasts. It’s part of our genetic code. I got it from my parents who got it from their parents, and it goes all the way back to a couple named Adam and Eve. The Bible says, “Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the Lord; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him. From the soul of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness–only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with oil.” (Isaiah 1:4, 6)

Those words were written 2,700 years ago, but God could say exactly the same thing about our rotten culture today. The Old Testament prophets teach us God holds both individuals and nations accountable for sin and immorality. Studying prophecy is not so much about figuring out obscure symbols and signs as it is hearing God calling us to repent of our sin. Some prophecy buffs are holed up in their rooms trying to figure out the meaning of 666 while God is saying, “You live in a world that is sick, sick, sick!” because of the deadly disease of sin.

You may feel healthy today, but if you don’t have a personal relationship with Jesus, there is a terrible, invisible, insidious cancer growing inside your soul. No MRI, CAT scan or other diagnostic tool can find it, but God’s Word says it’s there. What are you going to do about it? You should do the same thing these ten men did.

2. YOU MUST ADMIT YOUR NEED AND CRY OUT TO JESUS

These ten men banded together and decided they wouldn’t just give up and die, so they got up and headed toward Jesus. When they found Jesus they didn’t talk about the weather, Jewish politics or chariot races; they cried out as one voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”

It would have been easy for these ten lepers to look at each other and think, “We’re not so bad, we’re all in the same condition.” One of them could have said, “My leprosy is not as bad as his, so I’m doing okay.” Instead, they said, “We’ve got a big problem! We’re going to die! We need to get some help!”

Too many people today are living in denial. They don’t want to admit their need because they look around and they can usually find someone worse than themselves. Because we live in a spiritual leper colony called America,there are plenty of chances to think, “I’m not so bad. I’ve never robbed a bank, I’ve never murdered anyone. I’m not a drug pusher or a child molester. In fact, I’m better than many of those hypocrites who go to Green Acres Baptist Church!”

Before Jesus can help you, friend, you must quit fooling yourself and admit you have a problem, but that’s not enough, you must cry out to Jesus. All the twelve-step programs agree the first step for recovery is to admit “I am an alcoholic. I am addicted to pornography. I am addicted to cocaine.” But that’s not enough, you must seek help. Before you can have a relationship with Jesus you must say, “I am a rotten sinner! Jesus, have mercy on me! Help me Jesus!”

I read about a woman who was in the hospital when she got a bad report. She was so mad at God she went into the hospital chapel to tell God off. She was angry because she thought God had been fooling people by telling them He was a God of love. As she approached the front of the chapel she tripped and fell on her face. When she looked up she read what was engraved on the bottom step of the altar. It said, “God, be merciful to me a sinner.” At that moment, God broke her heart and she realized she had no business blaming God, instead she should be asking for His mercy, so she did. And God healed her.

Have you done that? Have you been making demands of God? Or have you come to a place of total surrender where you’ve said, “God, be merciful to me a sinner?”

3. GOD’S POWER IS NOT RELEASED UNTIL YOU STEP OUT IN FAITH

Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem to die on the cross to redeem mankind, yet He still had time to stop and help these ten men. God is busy holding the universe together, but He still has time to hear your cry for help. Instead of laying hands on them, He simply said, “go show yourself to the priest.” Leviticus 13 has some very detailed regulations about how a Jewish priest could declare a person to be clean or unclean. These ten men knew they were unclean, they had already been declared to be lepers. Jesus brought them to a crisis of faith. They could have said, “No, Jesus, can’t you touch us or something, or say some words?” Or they could have looked at their infected limbs and said, “What? We aren’t healed yet! Just look! Besides, I got checked last month, and I’m no better off now than I was then!”

Instead all ten of them headed off to see the priest. And as they were going, they were healed. There is a powerful lesson about faith here. It wasn’t until they stepped out in faith and obeyed Jesus, that they experienced His healing power. Jesus gave them the Word–they stepped out in faith and–BOOM! That’s when it happened. They didn’t stand there and say, “Well, after you heal me Jesus, then I’ll go show myself to the priest.”

That’s the way faith works. Faith is trusting and obeying God even if you don’t have any visible, physical evidence supporting your decision. I love the story in Matthew 14 about the disciples of Jesus out in the boat in the middle of a stormy night, and Jesus came walking on the water to them. They were terrified and thought He was some kind of a ghost. But Jesus told them, “Don’t be afraid.” Simon Peter who was always shooting off his mouth blurted out, “Lord, IF it’s really you, tell me to walk on the water with you.” Jesus said, “Come on!” Now here is a picture of faith: Peter threw his leg over the side of the boat and he started walking toward Jesus. Now you may think Peter was walking on water, but really he was walking on the Word of God. Jesus told him to step out and walk, and He did. If Jesus hadn’t told him to step out on the water, Peter would have sunk like a rock. And when Peter took his eyes off Jesus and started looking at the wind and the waves, he probably began to think, “This is impossible! There no way I can be walking on this water.” When he took his eyes off Jesus and began to doubt, then he began to sink. Jesus grabbed him and said, “Oh you of little faith, why did you begin to doubt me?”

Faith is walking on the Word of God. Faith doesn’t need any evidence, it simply obeys. This book is full of God’s directions on how we are to live, but with every single directive, He also provides the power to accomplish it. Our job is to step out in faith and simply obey Him. Years ago, heard a quote about faith I’ve never been able to forget: “Faith is coming to the edge of all you can see and feel and taking one more step into the darkness–trusting that God will either catch you or teach you how to fly!”

What is it today God is telling you to do in His Word? What are you waiting for? Step out in faith and obey Him, and only then will you experience His mighty power.

4. IT IS GOOD TO SPEND TIME AT THE FEET OF JESUS

On the way to the priest, one of the guys looked at the other and said, “Hey Reuben, your skin is clean!” Then he looked at his own hand, and the color and life returned. They began to look at each other and suddenly they realized they were healed. Can’t you see them jumping up and down hugging one another? These lepers became “leapers” indeed!

At this point, we don’t know what happened to 90% of the group. Perhaps they journeyed on to show themselves to the priest, or maybe they ran back to their families–we don’t know. One of them could have said, “I want to see if this really lasts.” Or, “I was getting better anyway, I knew it was just a matter of good exercise and diet.” But we know from Jesus’ response only one of them did the right thing. He wasn’t content just to go to church and see the priest, he turned and ran back to Jesus and fell at His feet to give Him thanks. He wanted a relationship, not a religion!

Falling at someone’s feet is a picture of submission and worship. Mary spent time at the feet of Jesus when He came to have supper at her house. The woman at Simon’s house spent time at the feet of Jesus washing His feet with her tears. In the book of Revelation, the 24 elders, who represent all the redeemed of all the ages will bow before the Lamb who is on the throne. It is good to spend time at Jesus’ feet.

Here’s the key lesson:
Ten men were exposed to God’s power, but only one sought a personal relationship with Him.

Nine of the men were content to receive the blessing of God, but only one of them cared enough to return to the source of the blessing to worship God. That’s so true today as well. God’s blessings are poured out on all people, not just His children. Jesus said God makes it rain on the just and unjust alike. But only a relatively few people are interested in having a personal relationship with God.

Have you found you only come to God when you have a shopping list? Or maybe you use God like a heavenly 911 call? “Help, God I have an emergency, bail me out!” God loves you and wants you to spend time with Him. He desires for you to worship and fellowship with Him.

5. FEELING THANKFUL IS DIFFERENT THAN GIVING THANKS

The man threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked Him. The most amazing thing about this miracle is that out ten people who were healed, only one came back to say, “Thank you.” Jesus even took note of this in verse 17. He asked, “Were there not ten who were cleansed? Where are the other nine?” Note his next words carefully because He is identifying Himself as God. He asked, “Was no found to give praise to God except this foreigner?” When the man came and fell at the feet of Jesus to say, “thank you” Jesus said it was giving praise to God.

I believe God is still saddened by how few people actually express thanksgiving to Him. Many Americans are too busy to stop and acknowledge God and simply say, “Thank you, God.” Or they have convinced themselves they deserve everything they have, so why thank God?

I’ve never seen an episode of the television show “The Simpsons” but I read in one episode the family was sitting down for a meal and the dad asked Bart to give thanks before the meal and Bart said, “Dear God, we paid for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing.” Some people may laugh at that line, but I think it reveals a real problem many people have. They live their lives enjoying the blessings of God but never once stopping to say “Thanks.” They are just like the old pig that roots around among the acorns on the ground and never once looked up to acknowledge the tree that produced the acorns.

The Bible says, “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (I Thessalonians 5:18) People ask me all the time, “How can I find God’s Will for my life?” You can start by reading His Word, and this verse says clearly and plainly God’s Will for your life is that you give thanks in all circumstances. If you aren’t obeying that portion of His Will for your life, what makes you think He’s going to reveal any more than that?

They key is to give thanks, not merely to feel thankful. Now, I’m certain the other nine lepers were thankful about being cleansed. How could anyone not feel thankful after being healed of a deadly disease? But only one of the ten did the right thing by coming to Jesus and expressing thanksgiving. There is a tremendous difference between simply feeling gratitude and expressing gratitude.

Let’s say someone does something nice for me, and I look at that person and think, “My, I’m so thankful for what (name) has done for me.” But if that’s all I do, I miss a chance to be a blessing to that person. But if I write them a thank you note, or speak to them and say, “(Name), I really appreciate what you did for me” then they are blessed, too.

With God, don’t just feel thankful: Give thanks! The Bible says in Hebrews 13:15, “Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise–the fruit of LIPS that confess his name.” It says “the fruit of lips” not “a warm, fuzzy feeling in your heart.” Don’t just feel it, tell God how thankful you are.

But you aren’t just to thank God for the good things in life. I Thessalonians 5:18 says we are to give thanks in all circumstances. Whatever happens, you can always find something for which you can give God thanksgiving.

Matthew Henry was an early American preacher and most pastors have a copy of his commentary on the Bible. Once, while traveling to preach, Matthew Henry was robbed. Now most people wouldn’t think that would be a circumstance in which you could give thanks, but he did. He wrote: “I am thankful that during these years I have never been robbed before. Also, even though they took my money, they did not take my life. Although they took all I had, it was not much. Finally, I am grateful that it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed.”

You ought to try that. If you are going through a time of pain and difficulty, why don’t you try to find at least five things about your situation for which you can thank God? I’ve often wondered as I read about this healing of the ten lepers if Jesus was trying to tell us about 90% of us don’t thank God enough. Don’t be like the unthankful crowd. Determine that you are going to be like the one man who returned and gave thanks to Jesus.

6. A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS MAKES YOU A FOREIGNER IN THIS WORLD

Jesus pointed out that the one man who returned was a Samaritan–a foreigner. He acted differently than 90% of the other lepers. I believe there is a powerful lesson there for us as well. Those of us who have entered into a relationship with Jesus don’t act or think like other people. We are always in the minority about the way we act and think. We never quite feel at home in this world, and we shouldn’t. The Bible says, “But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 3:20) It doesn’t matter where you came from; it’s your destination that is most important. Although we are citizens of Tyler, Texas, and America, our main citizenship is in heaven. That’s why we often feel like foreigners in this place. Whenever I’m away from my wife and family on a mission trip, I always feel the “tug” of my home. I realize I’m only in the foreign land for a short time, but soon I’ll be returning home. I feel the same way about heaven. This world is NOT my permanent home, and I often get homesick for heaven. Peter writes: “I urge you as strangers and aliens in this world to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.” (I Peter 2:11)

Just as this one man, a foreigner, acted differently from the crowd, so should we. A marching band was performing in a parade. All the band members were walking in perfect rhythm except one guy who was totally out of step. Upon closer examination, you could see wires running to his ears. He was plugged into his walkman and it was playing a different tune than everyone else was hearing. That’s a picture of us: we are marching to a different beat than this world because we are listening to different music.

7. LET JESUS FINISH WHAT HE STARTED IN YOU

Look again at Jesus’ final words to this man in verse 19. He said, “Rise and go, your faith has made you WELL.” Concentrate on that last word; it’s the word sozo which means “saved.” It’s the same word the Philippian jailer used in Acts 16 when he said, “What must I do to be saved?” The word means to “be made complete or whole.” Jesus didn’t come to earth to heal people of diseases; otherwise He would have established a hospital. He came to this world to seek and to save the lost. He came to make people whole.

Here’s the result of this miracle: Ten men were cleansed, but only one man became “whole.” Ninety percent of them only received a small portion of what could have been theirs, and only one received full salvation.

My friend, Jesus wants to do more than just clean you up; He wants to make you whole and complete. One of my favorite promises is found in Philippians 1:6, “He who began a good work in your will carry it on until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:6) It’s a process. Have you simply approached Jesus because you want eternal fire insurance, or are you continuing at His feet daily so He can make you whole? I don’t know why you came to church today, but I know why Jesus showed up here today, He wants to make you whole!

CONCLUSION

Cindy and I don’t get to watch a lot of television, but sometimes we enjoy watching an old movie. A few weeks ago, we watched “Ben Hur.” It was the 1926 black and white version, not the 1959 version starring Kirk Douglas. It wasn’t even a “talkie” it was a silent movie with music in the background and words that came up on the screen to read. Ben Hur’s mother and sister had been isolated to some dark caves outside the city because they had leprosy; they pictured them as having bleached white skin and dark, sunken eyes. Ben Hur rescues them and takes them to Jesus who is carrying His Cross. This was before special effects were perfected, so they had to convey the message with the expressions on their faces. You can see the hopelessness and despair in the eyes of these two women. They look almost dead. Then you see a hand reach out toward them. It is blood spattered and bruised. You never see the face of Jesus, but you see the faces of these women as wonder and hope flood their expressions. Then as the hand touches them, they are totally transformed–their lives change instantly–with no special effects. I sat on the couch and cried like a baby. But I wasn’t crying for Ben Hur or his mother or sister. I was moved to tears as I thought again how that’s exactly what has happened to me. I was as good as dead, and Jesus touched me and He gave me hope. He not only cleansed me of my sin, but He is making me whole. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be like those nine men, I want to be the one who says, “Thank you, thank, thank you, Jesus, for what you have done for me!”

“Thank you Lord, for saving my soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to me, thy great salvation so rich and free!”

TEACHINGS OF JESUS

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THE MAN BY THE POOL OF BETHESDA
JOHN 5:2-9
1) “Now there is in Jerusalem near the sheep Gate a pool which in Aramaic is called Bethesda (house of olives or house of mercy).. in these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed…” Verse2

THE SICK BY THE POOL OF MERCY!
-Jerusalem is a place of peace but there are multitudes who are not peaceful!
-Jerusalem is a place of blessing but there are people who are not blessed;
-Jerusalem is a place of healing and deliverance but there people lying around in bondage
- The name of the pool ‘Bethesda’ translates to ‘House of Mercy’ yet people are there who have not received mercy but rather are sick, blind, and lame.
This is the situation of many of us who have proclaimed our belief in Jesus:
- We have been called to be kings but we insist on sitting by our inheritance and starve to death without making any move to possess our possession.
- We are in the place of mercy and deliverance but we still feel bound by our circumstances and environment.
- Though the bible assured us that those who have been set free by Jesus are free indeed, many of us are still living blind, lame and paralyzed lives- We have been lame in terms of being stuck in one place for a long time and paralyzed from doing anything about our pitiful condition

2) “in these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.” Verse 3

THEY WERE WAITING FOR THE MOVING OF THE WATER!
-The condition of many of us today is that we are waiting for something
-There are many who go to church WAITING for some great emotion to engulf them so that they can be sure they are in the presence of God.
-There are those who have not given their lives to Christ and are just waiting for some great emotional movement in their lives that will show that God is calling them.
-There are those who are WAITING who have their eyes on business and are WAITING for something to happen so that they can get rich quick.
-There are those who are WAITING for something that has happened to an individual they know to happen to them also.
Too many of us are not making any progress in life because we are waiting! Waiting! And waiting! When all we need to do is move out in faith and trust on the one who has called us.

Question is: What are you waiting for? Who are you waiting for? Remember waiting around will not solve the problem: The man has been waiting for 38 years!

3) “Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity 38 years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition for a long time, he asked him, ‘do you want to get well?’
- At first glance, Jesus’ question sounds funny: Why is he asking a lame man whether he wants to be well? He could see his pitiful condition; he could see he had camped by the water that could heal him..
- I believe that Jesus asked the question because he was surprised to see the man there;
- Jesus knew the man had no business waiting for any movement of water because he had the potential to do whatever he wants;
- Jesus was surprised that the man could be lying there waiting for something magical to happen when he could make the move himself.
- Jesus was surprised that the man could be waiting around and expect something to happen to him.

Jesus is asking you the same question today:
Do you really want to get out of poverty?
Do you really want to get a better Job?
Do you really want to control your environment?
-Jesus is asking today because he knows that many of us have not really considered the question in the light of our potential;
-Jesus is wondering why we are still waiting for him to solve our problems when he had already solved it 2,000 years ago: He has already proclaimed freedom for the prisoners, recovery of sight for the blind, freedom for the oppressed and also proclaimed the year of the Lord’s favor.”(Luke 4:18) and he is wondering what we are waiting for
-Jesus mission was to deliver us and empower us to dominate our environment and earthly situations and he has accomplished this on the cross, so he does not understand why we are still waiting around

Jesus is telling us today that we need not sit by the pool of despair when we had all the potential to overcome in us all the time.
DO YOU WANT TO GET WELL? This is the question Jesus is asking you and I today!

4) NOTE THAT JESUS SINGLED OUT ONE MAN AMONG THE MULTITUDE FOR CONVERSATION
-Jesus did not address the whole congregation and he did not heal the whole group;
-Jesus always addresses one person at a time; He rarely talks to a crowd
-It is a personal question for you from Jesus today
-Too many people are hiding in a group saying ‘after all I am not the only one in this situation.’ Or ‘I am better off than most other people’
But Jesus is asking you directly ‘do you want to be made whole?’
-I believe Jesus is speaking to you personally today- ‘Do you want to be made whole?
What is it going to be?

5) “The sick man answered him, ‘Sir I have no man to help me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”
- This is the major problem among people today: Many of us are living below our potential because we are still waiting for people to bail us out
- Many are still waiting for our friend or brother who is connected to give us a hand-out
- Many are still waiting for other men to hold our hand and lead us forward when we could very well do ourselves the favor.

He said ‘while I am coming, another steps down before me’
-He is ready to blame other people for his inability to get in the water
-He is ready to blame other people’s activities for his own mediocrity
-He is ready to divert attention from his own laziness by focusing on the aggression of other people.

Too many of us are not doing as well as we can because we are just too ready to blame other people for our lack of progress:
-It is just too easy and convenient to blame other people for our problems
-We blame people who did not work with us;
-we blame people who did not call us and come to pick us up for prayers or job appointments;
-We blame people who did not borrow us money…. We blame everybody but our own laziness and lack of discipline!

Who are you blaming today?
What is your excuse to Jesus this morning when he asked you whether you really want to be well?
What is the reason you give yourself for your lack of progress with God or with life?
Do you blame your family? Do you blame your boss? Do you blame the city that you are in?
Do you blame your pastor? Do you blame the govt?
Who are you blaming today?

6) “Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.”
-In the context, Jesus’ response was anti-climatic:
He did not pray for him;
He did not help him to get into the water;
He did not speak in tongues;
He did not give him any principles for daily living;
He did not give him money or handouts.

Rather Jesus spoke to the potential in him: Pick up your mat and walk!
Jesus spoke to the power that has been lying dormant in the man
Jesus spoke to the ability in the man that he did not know he possessed
Jesus made him aware of the awesome ability he possessed
Jesus simply asked him to pick up his mat by himself:
Jesus did not call for people around to help him;
Jesus did not pick the mat up for him;
He simply told him what he must do to be well

AND THE MAN PICKED UP HIS MAT AND WALKED!
-The miracle was not really performed by Jesus but by the man himself!
(It is amazing the feats man can achieve if we applied the great minds and resources God has blessed us with.)
-Jesus has already done all the miracles he is going to do and is just waiting for us to do our part :
“Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare improper and unlawful on earth must be what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in heaven…” Matthew 16:18 (Amplified Version).
Mark 16:17-18 says “These signs shall follow them that believe, in my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people and they will get well.”

I believe God is waiting for each and everyone of us to demonstrate his miracle power in our lives by picking up our mat and walking!

7) JESUS ASKED HIM TO PICK UP HIS MAT, BUT WHAT IS THE MAT?
-The mat is whatever has been your comfort zone;
-The mat is whatever is making your present bad situation comfortable
-The mat is whatever you have been using as an excuse for not walking in victory
- The mat is whatever has kept you chained down in mediocrity
- The mat is whatever symbolizes your handicap or shame

Jesus is speaking to someone here this morning that the time has come to pick up your mat and walk;
The time has come for you to stop wallowing in self pity but rather to get up and do something special about your life;
Jesus is saying to someone here that you have more in you than you realize;
Jesus is saying that the time has come to manifest the greatness of God in you;
Jesus is saying you can be all that you want if only you will go in the strength that you have;
Jesus is reminding you that nothing shall be impossible to those that believe and if you believe the time has come to tackle that mountain

The time has come to start exercising the power of the kingdom of God inside of you because the Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power

Moreover, the whole creation waits in eager expectation of the manifestation of the children of God!

THE NAMES OF GOD

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OLD TESTAMENT NAMES FOR GOD



ELOHIM......Genesis 1:1, Psalm 19:1: meaning "God", a reference to God's power and might.
ADONAI......Malachi 1:6: meaning "Lord", a reference to the Lordship of God.
JEHOVAH--YAHWEH.....Genesis 2:4: a reference to God's divine salvation.
JEHOVAH-MACCADDESHEM.......Exodus 31:13: meaning "The Lord thy sanctifier"
JEHOVAH-ROHI......Psalm 23:1: meaning "The Lord my shepherd"
JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH.......Ezekiel 48:35: meaning "The Lord who is present"
JEHOVAH-RAPHA.........Exodus 15:26: meaning "The Lord our healer"
JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU......Jeremiah 23:6: meaning "The Lord our righteousness"
JEHOVAH-JIREH.........Genesis 22:13-14: meaning "The Lord will provide"
JEHOVAH-NISSI.........Exodus 17:15: meaning "The Lord our banner"
JEHOVAH-SHALOM........Judges 6:24: meaning "The Lord is peace"
JEHOVAH-SABBAOTH......Isaiah 6:1-3: meaning "The Lord of Hosts"
JEHOVAH-GMOLAH........Jeremiah 51:6: meaning "The God of Recompense"
EL-ELYON..............Genesis 14:17-20,Isaiah 14:13-14: meaning "The most high God
EL-ROI................Genesis 16:13: meaning "The strong one who sees"
EL-SHADDAI............Genesis 17:1,Psalm 91:1: meaning "The God of the mountains or God Almighty"
EL-OLAM...............Isaiah 40:28-31: meaning "The everlasting God"

MORE NAMES OF GOD

ABBA.............................Romans 8:15
ADVOCATE.........................I John 2:1 (kjv)
ALMIGHTY.........................Genesis 17:1
ALPHA............................Revelation 22:13
AMEN.............................Revelation 3:14
ANCIENT OF DAYS..................Daniel 7:9
ANOINTED ONE.....................Psalm 2:2
APOSTLE..........................Hebrews 3:1
ARM OF THE LORD..................Isaiah 53:1
AUTHOR OF LIFE...................Acts 3:15
AUTHOR OF OUR FAITH..............Hebrews 12:2

BEGINNING.........................Revelation 21:6
BLESSED & HOLY RULER..............1 Timothy 6:15
BRANCH............................Jeremiah 33:15
BREAD OF GOD......................John 6:33
BREAD OF LIFE.....................John 6:35
BRIDEGROOM........................Isaiah 62:56
BRIGHT MORNING STAR...............Revelation 22:16

CHIEF SHEPHERD.....................1 Peter 5:4
CHOSEN ONE.........................Isaiah 42:1
CHRIST.............................Matthew 22:42
CHRIST OF GOD......................Luke 9:20
CHRIST THE LORD....................Luke 2:11
CHRIST, SON OF LIVING GOD..........Matthew 16:16
COMFORTER..........................John 14:26(kjv)
COMMANDER..........................Isaiah 55:4
CONSOLATION OF ISRAEL...............Luke 2:25
CONSUMING FIRE......................Deut. 4:24, Heb. 12:29
CORNERSTONE.........................Isaiah 28:16
COUNSELOR...........................Isaiah 9:6
CREATOR.............................1 Peter 4:19

DELIVERER..............................Romans 11:26
DESIRED OF ALL NATIONS.................Haggai 2:7
DOOR...................................John 10:7(kjv)

END....................................Revelation 21:6
ETERNAL GOD............................Deut. 33:27
EVERLASTING FATHER.....................Isaiah 9:6

FAITHFUL & TRUE........................Revelation 19:11
FAITHFUL WITNESS.......................Revelation 1:5
FATHER.................................Matthew 6:9
FIRSTBORN (3)........................................Rom.8:29,Rev.1:5,Col.1:15
FIRSTFRUITS............................1 Cor.15:20-23
FOUNDATION.............................1 Cor. 3:11
FRIEND OF TAX COLLECTORS & SINNERS.....Matthew 11:19

GENTLE WHISPER.........................1 Kings 19:12
GIFT OF GOD............................John 4:10
GLORY OF THE LORD......................Isaiah 40:5
GOD....................................Genesis 1:1
GOD ALMIGHTY...........................Genesis 17:1
GOD OVER ALL...........................Romans 9:5
GOD WHO SEES ME........................Genesis 16:13
GOOD SHEPHERD..........................John 10:11
GREAT HIGH PRIEST......................Hebrews 4:14
GREAT SHEPHERD.........................Hebrews 13:20
GUIDE..................................Psalm 48:14

HEAD OF THE BODY.......................Colossians 1:18
HEAD OF THE CHURCH.....................Ephesians 5:23
HEIR OF ALL THINGS.....................Hebrews 1:2
HIGH PRIEST............................Hebrews 3:1
HIGH PRIEST FOREVER....................Hebrews 6:20
HOLY ONE...............................Acts 2:27
HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.....................Isaiah 49:7
HOLY SPIRIT............................John 15:26
HOPE...................................Titus 2:13
HORN OF SALVATION......................Luke 1:69

I AM....................................Exodus 3:14, John 8:58
IMAGE OF GOD............................2 Cor. 4:4
IMAGE OF HIS PERSON.....................Hebrews 1:3 (kjv)
IMMANUEL................................Isaiah 7:14

JEALOUS..............................Exodus 34:14 (kjv)
JEHOVAH..............................Psalm 83:18 (kjv)
JESUS................................Matthew 1:21
JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD................Romans 6:23
JUDGE................................Isaiah 33:22, Acts 10:42

KING.................................Zechariah 9:9
KING ETERNAL.........................1 Timothy 1:17
KING OF KINGS........................1 Timothy 6:15
KING OF THE AGES.....................Revelation 15:3

LAMB OF GOD...........................John 1:29
LAST ADAM.............................1 Cor. 15:45
LAWGIVER..............................Isaiah 33:22
LEADER................................Isaiah 55:4
LIFE..................................John 14:6
LIGHT OF THE WORLD....................John 8:12
LIKE AN EAGLE.........................Deut. 32:11
LILY OF THE VALLEYS...................Song 2:1
LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH............Revelation 5:5
LIVING STONE..........................1 Peter 2:4
LIVING WATER..........................John 4:10
LORD..................................John 13:13
LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.....................Revelation 15:3
LORD JESUS CHRIST.....................1 Cor. 15:57
LORD OF ALL...........................Acts 10:36
LORD OF GLORY ........................1 Cor. 2:8
LORD OF HOSTS.........................Haggai 1:5
LORD OF LORDS.........................1 Tim. 6:15
LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS..............Jeremiah 23:6
LOVE.................................1 John 4:8

MAN OF SORROWS.........................Isaiah 53:3
MASTER..................................Luke 5:5
MEDIATOR................................1 Timothy 2:5
MERCIFUL GOD............................Jeremiah 3:12
MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT................Malachi 3:1
MESSIAH................................. John 4:25
MIGHTY GOD...............................Isaiah 9:6
MIGHTY ONE...............................Isaiah 60:16

NAZARENE.................................Matthew 2:23

OFFSPRING OF DAVID.......................Revelation 22:16
OMEGA....................................Revelation 22:13
ONLY BEGOTTEN SON........................John 1:18(kjv)
OUR PASSOVER LAMB........................1 Cor. 5:7
OUR PEACE................................Ephesians 2:14

POTTER...................................Isaiah 64:8
POWER OF GOD.............................1 Cor. 1:24
PRINCE OF PEACE..........................Isaiah 9:6
PROPHET..................................Acts 3:22
PURIFIER.................................Malachi 3:3

RABBONI (TEACHER)........................John 20:16
RADIANCE OF GOD'S GLORY..................Heb.1:3
REDEEMER.................................Job 19:25
REFINER'S FIRE...........................Malachi 3:2
RESURRECTION.............................John 11:25
RIGHTEOUS ONE............................1 John 2:1
ROCK.....................................1 Cor.10:4
ROOT OF DAVID............................Rev. 22:16
ROSE OF SHARON...........................Song 2:1
RULER OF GOD'S CREATION..................Rev. 3:14
RULER OVER KINGS OF EARTH................Rev 1:5
RULER OVER ISRAEL........................Micah 5:2

SAVIOR...................................Luke 2:11
SCEPTER OUT OF ISRAEL....................Numbers 24:17
SEED.....................................Genesis 3:15
SERVANT..................................Isaiah 42:1
SHEPHERD OF OUR SOULS....................1Peter 2:25
SHIELD...................................Genesis 15:1
SON OF DAVID.............................Matthew 1:1
SON OF GOD...............................Matthew 27:54
SON OF MAN...............................Matthew 8:20
SON OF THE MOST HIGH.....................Luke 1:32
SOURCE...................................Hebrews 5:9
SPIRIT OF GOD............................Genesis 1:2
STAR OUT OF JACOB........................Numbers 24:17
STONE....................................1 Peter 2:8
SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.....................Malachi 4:2

TEACHER...................................John 13:13
TRUE LIGHT................................John 1:9
TRUE WITNESS..............................Revelation 3:14
TRUTH.....................................John 14:6

VINE......................................John 15:5

WAY........................................John 14:6
WISDOM OF GOD..............................1 Cor. 1:24
WITNESS....................................Isaiah 55:4
WONDERFUL..................................Isaiah 9:6
WORD.......................................John 1:1
WORD OF GOD................................Revelation 19:13

NAMES TO DESCRIBE JESUS

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100 NAMES TO DESCRIBE JESUS.
Perfect.
Holy.
Righteous.
Loving.
Kind.
Friendly.
Helpful.
Protective.
Caring.
Sharing.
Powerful.
Mighty.
Compassionate.
Forgiving.
Empowering.
Discerning.
Overwhelming.
Consuming.
Cleansing.
Healing.
Delivering.
Restoring.
Moving.
Creating.
Destroying.
Smiting.
Fulfilling.
Distinctive.
Comforting.
Providing.
Teaching.
Training.
Purifying.
Freeing.
Liberating.
Preserving.
Consigning.
Reproving.
Addressing.
Confiding.
Courageous.
Victorious.
Credited.
Historical.
Proven.
Incorruptible.
Unfailable.
Infallible.
Trustworthy.
Protected.
Immune.
Responsive.
Privileged.
Honorable.
Honored.
Legitimate.
Reliable.
Good.
Reputable.
Celebrated.
Praised.
Glorified.
Famous.
Renowned.
Loved.
Served.
Worshipped.
Sought.
Needed.
Required.
Requested.
Beautiful.
Living.
Breathing.
Alive.
Active.
Amazing.
Inspiring.
Productive.
Producing.
Creative.
Abundant.
Rich.
Adequate.
Decent.
Modest.
Pure.
Real.
Moral.
Wholesome.
Safe.
Beneficial.
Excellent!
Eminent.
Prominent.
Remarkable.
Extraordinary.
Supernatural.
Miraculous.
Astounding.
Jesus the Christ is the only one who could SAVE anyone from having to pay the punishment(s) for their own sins. Thus, as he has said: "I AM the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father [GOD], but by me." (John 14:6). "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5). "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:10-12).

Thank you Jesus for all the souls you have saved throughout the generations! Please continue to open the hearts and eyes of men and women to your Holy truth, and save a few last souls in these end times. Amen.

YOU HAVE MORE NAMES TO DESCRIBE JESUS? ADD THEM UP PLEASE. THANK YOU.

THE PARABLES OF JESUS

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Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders

The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders, (also known as the House on the Rock), is one of the well known parables of Jesus. It appears in two of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament. The differences between Matthew 7:24–27 and Luke 6:46–49 are minor.

Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall. Matthew 7:24–27

By "rain" here, and "floods," and "winds," He is expressing metaphorically the calamities and afflictions that befall men; such as false accusations, plots, bereavements, deaths, loss of friends, vexations from strangers, all the ills in our life that any one could mention. "But to none of these," says He, "does such a soul give way; and the cause is, it is founded on the rock." He calls the steadfastness of His doctrine a rock; because in truth His commands are stronger than any rock, setting one above all the waves of human affairs. For he who keeps these things strictly, will not have the advantage of men only when they are vexing him, but even of the very devils plotting against him. And that it is not vain boasting so to speak, Job is our witness, who received all the assaults of the devil, and stood unmovable; and the apostles too are our witnesses, for that when the waves of the whole world were beating against them, when both nations and princes, both their own people and strangers, both the evil spirits, and the devil, and every engine was set in motion, they stood firmer than a rock, and dispersed it all.

The wise were those who build their lives on Christ, not on any worldly form so many are doing. So many seem to build their supposedly Christian life on anything but the real Truth of Christ. The power of reason is so strong in many that they become as god's to themselves. They decide what the rules are based upon their own way of believing. It is a form. a shell of godliness, but is shallow and without power. They do not have the approval of God upon their heart. They know nothing of the assurances the true believer experiences when they follow the Lord. These have been deceived by the great deceiver of mankind, the Devil. To these, the Bible has been largely ignored. Or they have not divided the Scriptures so it all fits together without contradictions. Their supposedly educated reasoning is so wonderful, that in fact they make their own laws, and worship themselves. These have not built their house upon the eternal rock of Christ, but upon the sand of their own ideas. Or they have picked out some of the Bible truth, according to their own liking, and left some other vital facts of the Bible out. This is building on sand. Their house will not hold up in the time of testing, of the trials of life

Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders

THE PARABLES OF JESUS

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Parable of the barren fig tree

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree is a parable of Jesus which appears in only one of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament. According to Luke 13:6-9 the parable is about a fig tree which does not produce fruit.

The parable is as follows:

He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down. Luke 13:6–9

In this parable, the owner is generally regarded as representing God, who had a fig tree planted in his vineyard (the earth) and came seeking fruit (faith and righteous works, which would be represented in part by repentance and baptism) and the gardener (vinedresser) Jesus. Fig trees were often planted in vineyards.

The favorable position in which the fig tree was placed

The fig tree

In a vineyard, not on some neglected waste ground
Advantages of care, skills, etc.

The church

Called out of the world into the church
Knowledge of the gospel
Promises of the New Covenant
Grace and influence of the Holy Spirit

The expectations of the proprietor

The proprietor

Seeking fruit
Increase under cultivation

God's expectations of the Jews

More wise
More holy
More obedient

God's expectations of the church

Hearts yield the fruits of holy graces
Lips yield the fruit of thanksgiving and praise
Fruits of obedience in life

What the Gardener Expected

Fruits of usefulness in service of God

The proprietor's disappointment

Had sought fruit year after year, to no avail
A tree not yielding fruit for three years is considered barren

It might be strong and green, but it was barren

This applied to the Jewish nation
This may apply to the church

The proprietor's decision
"Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?"

Not a hasty decision

Three years of care, labor, and patience
God was patient with the Jewish nation
God is patient with the church

Not an unreasonable decision

It took up nutrients from the soil but produced nothing in return

So it was with the Jewish nation
So it is with some of the churches

The vineyard keeper's request
"Leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down."

A suspended sentence
Help given

Fertilization
Care

Willingness to obey the proprietor
-- Intercession

Application of the parable

Let the subject lead to serious self-examination

In the vineyard of the Lord, am I a fruitful tree or a barren one?

Let the legalists be awakened to a deep concern for his soul's salvation
Let everyone remember the eventual end of life, glorify God and obtain eternal blessedness

Parable of the barren fig tree

THE PARABLES OF JESUS

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Parable of the Net

The Parable of Drawing in the Net appears in only one of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament. According to Gospel of Matthew 13:47–52 it refers to the final judgment.

"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind, which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away. So will it be in the end of the world.
The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?"
They answered him, "Yes, Lord."
He said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things." Matthew 13:47–52

Here, the imagery is drawn from the separation of edible from inedible fish caught by a net, probably a seine net. The passage says that "the angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous" in a similar way.

More explanation can be derived from the above scripture...

The net is the gospel of Christ

Many will be attracted
Not all will enter into the kingdom of heaven

The gospel is adapted to the circumstances of all sinners

Embraces the whole world
Addressed to everyone
Speaks to man as man
Mark 16:15-18

Adapted to save sinners

Power of God
Salvation for all who believe and obey

Must be active

The net had to be let down into the lake
The gospel must be preached

Apostles specifically called to this task (Mark 15:16-18)
All Christians called to this task (Matthew 4:19, Mark 1:17)

Preaching the gospel is hard work

Fisherman's life has never been easy
The same is true of those who will be fishers of men

Wholly given to the task
Sacrifice comfort
Follow Christ in own life
The whole counsel of God

Gospel cannot be preached in vain

God's word shall not return to him void

Not everyone brought into the visible service of God are converted

The net catches every kind, the bad with the good
Not all members of a church are saved

Judas, Ananias, Sapphira, etc.
Many who enjoy having a form of religion
Many who are inconsistent, who may do well for a season, then fall off

Day of judgment

When the net is full and brought to shore
When the gospel dispensation is consummated
The end of the worldAngels will be the agents of separation, according to the parable of the weeds
Scrutiny will be exact

All the good will be gathered out, every sincere believer recognized
Every hypocrite and unconverted person will be detected

Fate of the ungodly will be terrible

Cast into the fiery furnace
Weeping and gnashing of teeth

Salvation of righteous will be certain.

Parable of Drawing in the Net