Proverbs 27:20 “Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.” Every day someone dies somewhere and this will continue until present creation is destroyed and replaced. Destruction of the earth and everything on it is perpetual until the appointed time. (Matthew 24:35, Revelation 21:1-4) It is a consequence of the original sin of man. (Romans 8:19-22)…
Continue ReadingJob 1:8-12 “Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” 9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his…
Continue ReadingRomans 5:1-5 – Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character,…
Continue ReadingPhilippians 1:21 “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Is life hard? If we could truly lock into seeing things from God’s perspective and if we could truly, absolutely, beyond all doubt believe God’s Word, and also believe in His love, then would we consider life to be hard? Yes, hard things happen. Love…
Continue ReadingLuke 15:1-7 – Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus. 2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3 Then Jesus told them this parable: 4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the…
Continue ReadingJohn 20:11-18 “Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. 13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and…
Continue ReadingProverbs 14:2 “Whoever fears the Lord walks uprightly, but those who despise Him are devious in their ways.” Luke 6:45 “A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is…
Continue Reading2 Timothy 1:9-10 – He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of His own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, 10 but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has…
Continue ReadingJude 17-23 – But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. 18 They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” 19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. 20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most…
Continue ReadingMatthew 6:25-34 – “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet…
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