Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof. Nehemiah calls on God to remember what he has done. He has been serving God. Nehemiah built the wall. He restored worship. Nehemiah helped […]

Nehemiah 10:38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house. God had His people give a tithe of their incomes. That means […]

Nehemiah 10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; Separation is a hard topic […]

Nehemiah 9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies; […]

Nehemiah 9:27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies. God was merciful […]

Nehemiah 9:26  Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. No matter how good God was to His people, they continued in their rebellion. They sinned against grace. In Romans, […]

Nehemiah 9:21  Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. They had rebelled against God. They had done everything possible to anger God. What does God do in response? God is good to His people. For forty years […]

Nehemiah 9:20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. What a kind and merciful God we serve! They had rebelled against Him. They didn’t want to serve Him. He should have and could have destroyed them, but instead, […]

Matthew 1:19  Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.  Joseph was a just man. The verse says “being a just man!” You don’t make yourself a just man. This word just means righteous. He was an honest and […]

Isaiah 28:13 But the word of the Lord was unto them Precept upon precept, precept upon precept; Line upon line, line upon line; Here a little, and there a little; That they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, And snared, and taken. The old saying is “Inch by inch it is a cinch, […]

II Timothy 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. Paul charged Timothy before God that he was […]

I Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. Paul writes Timothy and tells him that he better be cautious. He has to watch out because Satan will attack him. He must be cautious in his […]

I Timothy 4:13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Paul writes Timothy and tells him to put effort and attendance into the reading of God’s Word. God’s people need to know what God has to say. They need to hear divine authority speak. Many would not have had their copy […]

Judges 20:14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. Benjamin had sinned. It wasn’t the entire tribe but rather some individuals. When the leadership of the tribe learned of the sin, they preferred to protect their own rather […]

Ezra 4:2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither. These people showed up telling […]

I Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. Paul writes Timothy to tell him how to act among the congregation. Timothy, you need to know […]

Acts 5:28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us. The apostles and early believers went everywhere telling everyone about Jesus. They filled the city with their doctrine. That means […]

Matthew 7:28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: In modern society, the word doctrine is almost a dirty word. People are all for loving Jesus but not for doctrine. You may have heard someone say something like that. The truth is that doctrine […]

II Corinthians 10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. Sometimes you just might feel like you are not the best looking guy to be in the ministry or the pulpit. You wonder what people think. You are too short, too tall, too […]

I Corinthians 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. The key to the ministry for Paul was that people would believe because of God and not because of him. The last thing we want to see is personality faith. We don’t want people to […]

I Corinthians 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: I think we often mistake God’s preachers as bold men who fear nothing. That […]

I Corinthians 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. I took this picture in Arequipa, Peru while on a tour […]

I 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. The wise of this world cannot accept that what happened on the cross of Calvary is anything more than a historical event. They accept that a man named […]

Isaiah 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, And with hell are we at agreement; When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood have we hid ourselves: God’s people utterly refused to believe the Bible, […]

Isaiah 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; And this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. God offered forgiveness and salvation. He offered them rest. He knew that they were exhausted. He promised them relief and refreshment. They still refused to listen. It […]

Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, So that there is no place clean. The last verse shows that they are making mistakes and getting off track because of drink. We saw them mess up their lives. Now the tables are full of vomit and filthiness. There is not a clean […]