May 13, 2018

Precious Woman

The Wife of a Man

• The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib, which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”—Genesis 2:22-23
• An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.—Proverbs 12:4
• For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.—1 Corinthians 11:7
• There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.—1 Cor. 15:41

The Type of the Church

• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her . . . —Ephesians 5:25, 32
• This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.—Ephesians 5:32

 

May 6, 2018

 

The Wondrous Man

 

• Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. —Genesis 2:7

 

• “The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life. —Job 33:4

 

• The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’S anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we had said, “Under his shadow We shall live among the nations.” — Lam. 4:20

 

• “Thus, says the Lord GOD to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. —Ezekiel 37:5

Constitutes Incomprehensible Mystery

• Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. —Genesis 2:7

Possess Interminable Capability

• Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. —Genesis 2:7

 

• “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.—John 14:1-3

 

• And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.—Romans 8:17

 

April 29, 2018

 

The Highest Call

Acts 1:11

 

A Call to Duty

• “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky?—verse 11 What these men were doing seems at first sight to be —

A Call to Obey

• “This same Jesus.”—verse 11

A Call to be Ready

• This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”—verse 11
• so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.—Hebrews 9:28
• BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen—Revelation 1:7

April 15, 2018

 

The Notable Charge

 The Simple Instruction

• but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said,“you heard of from Me—verse 4b

The Sacred Intention

• For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”—verse 5
• John answered and said to them all, “As for me, I baptize you with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the thong of His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.—Luke 3:16

The Significant Location

• Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem—verse 4a
• ‘Therefore thus says the LORD, “I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,” declares the LORD of hosts, “and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.—Zech 1:16
• “Thus says the LORD, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’—Zech 1:16
• But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.—Obadiah 1:17
• And it shall come to pass, thatwhosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and . . .  whom the LORD shall call.—Joel 2:32
• But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels—Hebrews 12:22
• And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty andfour thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.—Revelation 14:1
• And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.—Revelation 14:1
• “I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication, and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced. . .”—Zechariah 12:10