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 […]

Isaiah 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, They are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment. The men of God […]

Nehemiah 9:5    Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. This chapter is about God’s people worshipping God. The Levites are leading […]

Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. God was super patient with them. Many years He put up with their disobedience. He sent preachers […]

Nehemiah 9:13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: As God’s people worshipped they praised God for giving them the truth. They recognized that God had given them His Word. His word was right and good. They […]

Nehemiah 9:33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: Admitting wrong is very difficult for most of us. Acknowledging that God is right and I am wrong calls for real humility. They had suffered the consequences of their sin. Getting angry […]

Nehemiah 9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments In this verse, God’s people recognize that their parents did wrong. Often we want to excuse the sins of our parents. We want to accept what they did, and that becomes our excuse for doing the […]

Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God. They read the Bible, the book of the law. This was the law of God. […]

Nehemiah 9:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. This generation, like all generations, hates this word separation. Having to choose friends, who you walk with isn’t politically correct. The strangers in this passage of Scripture are foreigners. The problem […]

Nehemiah 9:19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.  They had made an idol, a […]

Nehemiah 13:27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?  There is a lot of Bible about who you should marry. God’s people are not to marry those that do not love Him. There can be differences in many areas of your […]

Nehemiah 10:30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:  God did not want His people marrying people from foreign lands. Those people worshiped false gods. They worshiped idols. If His people married people that worshipped false gods, then their hearts would […]

Nehemiah 9:17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. […]

Nehemiah 9:6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.  God’s people are to stand up and bless […]

Nehemiah 8:12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.  When the people heard the Scriptures read they were sad at first. They didn’t understand that God had given them the […]

Nehemiah 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. In Nehemiah 8:7 we see a list of names. There are thirteen specific names and then the Levites. They, as a group, “caused the people to understand the law: and […]

Nehemiah 8:6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground. Ezra led in worship. He blessed the Lord. That means Ezra praised and thanked God. He recognized God […]

Nehemiah 8:5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:  Ezra opened the book. The people saw him open the book. They knew that they were about to hear the very Word of God. […]

Nehemiah 8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.  […]

Nehemiah 8:3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.  As they brought out the Book of God, the […]

Nehemiah 8:1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.  This is one of my favorite chapters ever. The people gathered […]

Matthew 1:25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. The story of the virgin birth of Jesus is real. I believe it with all of my heart. God loved us so much that He gave us His only begotten Son. Mary is not the […]

Isaiah 36:6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.  God’s people seek help from God’s enemies. God’s people should have been seeking Him. They […]

Isaiah 33:2 O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: Be thou their arm every morning, Our salvation also in the time of trouble. God’s people called on Him to be gracious. They wanted to express to God their trust in Him. They were waiting on Him. He was their strength. He […]

Isaiah 30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, When ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. God softly and gently speaks to us. He guides us and directs us but not with a loud, boisterous voice. The […]

Isaiah 30:18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, And therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: For the Lord is a God of judgment: Blessed are all they that wait for him. God wants to show mercy to His people. He waits on […]