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Torah: Exodus 1:1-6:1 Haftarah: Isa 27:6-28:13 , 29: 22-23 Road Map Review Dividing Two harlots Two choices: Esau and Jacob Two kingdoms Two roles of Messiah Two oxen: shor and rey-em Two sticks 1 Now the days of David drew near that he should die, and he charged Solomon his son, saying: 2 “I go the…

Isaiah 49 Now, as promised we are slowing down a bit in our study of Isaiah. I mentioned when we first started the book that the book has two themes, chapters 1–39 . Judgment. Chapters 40–66 speak more of salvation and comfort. What I haven’t mentioned yet as I’ve been waiting to get to this part is…

1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be…

49:1-3 - The Servant’s identity called from the womb - identity comes from God (what are the sources we look to for our identity?) - this calling is connected to speaking for God, words that will act as a sword or an arrow, driving God’s words home into the hearts of those that hear Him Jesus’ identity…

Isaiah 49-50

In the early part of this chapter, God has promised a Servant Savior who would be for all people, held up by the hand of God, who would restore God’s people. Beginning in verse 14, God addresses the skepticism of the people. They had been oppressed for so long. Disheartened. Skeptical. Depressed. Disillusioned.…

May we never forget that everyone deserves the wrath of God. How will we respond to the wrath of God coming? We are to respond in receiving God’s free gift, but sadly many will freely choose to refuse it. Revelation 16:1 . 1 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and…

I Have Engraved You on the Palms of My Hands Isaiah 49:8–16 (ESV) 8 Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, 9 saying to the…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 15, Session 1 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Jan. 2023. Summary and Goal In the previous unit, we explored why God would judge the sins of His people.…

Romans 6:14 provides us a summary and explanation of the commands expressed in verses 12 and 13, that sin shall not be master over we who died to sin, for we have been transferred to the reign of grace.

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 15, Session 1 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Jan. 2023. Summary and Goal In the previous unit, we explored why God would judge the sins of His people.…

Introduction Torah Portion This Torah Portion goes from Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 In our previous Torah portion we talked about Moses feeling tired, perhaps even angry How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints? Moses had to establish lines of command through the tribes to organize…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

Summary These two chapters in Ezekiel rehearse parts of Israel’s tragic history in different ways. This episode discusses both chapters, but devotes more attention to several controversial and difficult passages in chapter 20. Ezekiel 19 is a lamentation that uses animal and plant imagery to describe…

Introduction Well good morning once again. It’s good to be with you today. Go ahead and turn in your Bible to the book of Hebrews, chapter 3. We are going to be diving into verses 7-19 this morning. As you do that I want to call your attention to a couple of additional announcements. On June 26 we are…

Summary Revelation 21-22 is John’s climactic vision of the new Jerusalem and new earth. In Part 1 we looked at how Israelites thought about the concept of “temple” and how that concept led John to conflate the expectation of a new temple and see fulfillment of that expectation in a city (the new Jerusalem)…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Jeremiah Major prophet - BC 627 -580 Name means “Yahweh Exalts”. Known as the crying prophet Why do you think his nom de plume is the Crying prophet? Preparing the people for the enviable fall of Jerusalem Descendant of Abiathar - banished by Solomon. Baruch is his scribe Call and Mission of Jeremiah…

Ephesians 3:5-9 Last Wk—Began study of Eph 3 —Where Paul is ready to pray for the Ephesian believers. He is about to begin his prayer in vs 1 “for this reason—that is based on the truths in chapter 2,”but before he takes another opportunity to reemphasize those same truths in vv2-13. Prayer resumes in…

Water is necessary for survival; Jesus reveals himself as the source of living water which will forever nourish his people.

Darkness that can be felt When I was a kid I remember going through one of the caves in the Ozark Mountains (Bridal Cave - Indian Burial Cave - Marvel Cave???. As we descended into the cave some distance from the entrance, we stopped and the guide told us that he was going to turn out of the lights.…

Introduction This is a poem that is central to Philippians and Christian theology We find this poem sitting between two major themes. That which comes before the poem is about the unity of the church and that which comes after the poem is about the holiness of the church Paul seems to put this poem right…