The Bondage of Busy Exodus 5 Israel’s 400 years of bondage and God’s desire to free them is the context of this passage. Pharaoh is a type of the Satan and has God’s children in bondage. When they attempt to leave to serve and worship God, their adversary increases their...

What Have You Written (John 19:22) In the passage that we will use for the thought of the message Pilate wrote “This is Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews”. The Pharisees wanted him to change the writing, but he made this statement in John 19:22 “What I have...

Consider Your Latter End Deut 32:1-43 is the song of Moses.  In the middle of this song, in verse 29, he wrote, “O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end”.  He knew that if Israel would consider their latter end, they would...

The Princes of Israel Ezek 19 is a lamentation for the princes of Israel, v.1.  The two princes about whom Ezekiel writes this lamentation are Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin, kings of Judah.  Both of them were taken captive.  Ezek 19:1-9 likens them to a lioness’s whelps.  And Ezek 19:10-14 likens them...

Solomon gave you some practical instructions in Proverbs to help you choose your words.  We’re going to discuss four negative references and 3 positive references to these in Proverbs.  Hopefully, these will help you choose your words wisely and carefully. Negative References Concerning Your Words Gossipy – Prov 18:8; 26:22. ...

The Lord of the Harvest In Matt 9:37-38 the Lord told us what to do about the plentiful harvest and the shortage of laborers.  He said, “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest”.  In this text we see: His Command...

Living Two Lives After believing on Jesus, you’re tempted to live both your old life in the world and your new life in Christ.  However, just live one life.  You should die to your old life and start living eternal life.  Many Christians try living two lives.  They try living...

The Soul That Sinneth, It Shall Die Ezek 18 is about personal accountability to God.  Ezek 18:4 says, “the soul that sinneth, it shall die”.  In other words, each man in Israel was judged on the merits of his own righteousness or his own wickedness.  He would not die for...

Declaration of Independence Jn 8:36 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Excerpts from the declaration of independence encourage us to declare our independence from our former tyrannical rulers, the devil, the world and the flesh. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands...

Obey God’s Words In Hag 1:12-13 “the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet”.  Therefore, the Lord replied through Haggai, “I am with you, saith the Lord”.  When the people obeyed God’s words, the Lord was with them. ...