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There is certain background in Daniel chapter nine that is essential to understand the events that will unfold in the following chapters of Revelation. The angel Gabriel gave Daniel a prophecy involving seventy weeks. Sixty-nine of these weeks are history but they constitute the most astonishing passage…

Leviticus 25:1 - 27:34 REVIEW TORAH GPS We continue to use the Torah as our guide to do our portions So far we have come from Genesis to now Leviticus, and God has been at work We have talked about Vayikra in the last few weeks So far we can summarize the book of Leviticus/ Vayikra like this: Cumulative…

Torah Portion: Leviticus 6:8-8:36 Haftarah: Ezekiel 36:16-38 Road Map Review Map of the 40 year journey 21 This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise. 's Picture of Negative/ Distorted Thinking Desires Summary of Torah Portion Torah Portion: Leviticus 6:8-8:36 8 Then the Lord…

23 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26 for in Christ…

This Torah Portion: Gen 28:10-32:3 Hosea 12:13-14:9 John 1:41-51 Introduction In the previous Torah portions we talked about God calling Abraham out of his country and family We also heard how God also uses his daughters - a couple of weeks ago: Sarah - Abraham’s wife Last week we also examined the role…

Leviticus 1-27 God’s Holiness means he cannot look upon sin; out of love he seeks a way for it to be forgiven which is achieved through the substitution of sacrifice. The ultimate Sacrifice being Christ Scene 1/ Prior Preparation Prevents Pretty Poor Performance. Running in the Olympic finals is something…

Introduction: Have you ever driven in a poor part of town and seen all of those title loan and financing places everywhere. They are really nothing more than legalized loan sharks. They pop up in the poor parts of town because that is where people are the most desperate. This is not a judgment on them…

18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 10 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase…

Introduction B’har [ bhar] = translated as on the mountain Fifth word in the Parashah (Torah Portion) and 32nd. weekly Torah portion in the annual cycle of the readings The Parashah tells us the laws of the Sabbatical year: Shmita- and limits the debt service ration REST and FREEDOM Only the FREE can…

2021 has been a hard year, and it is weighing on everyone. So how do we finish the year strong, and continue to run our race well?

Introduction Context 19:1-8 Paragraph #1 9-10 Paragraph #2 11-12 Paragraph #3 13-14 Paragraph #4 15-16 Paragraph #5 17-18 Application

Introduction And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. ‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. ‘Do not turn to idols,…

Today we are looking at a bit of an extended passage of scripture from an often-ignored book of the Bible that talks about a rather strange ritual that was part of the Old Testament law of the Israelites. It has to do with the observance of a holy period of time called the year of jubilee. We find this…

We’ve been moving through CASKET EMPTY, and I don’t want us to lose sight of why we’re doing that. The whole idea of Casket Empty is to recognize God’s redemptive story throughout the Old Testament. Many have wondered did God create the world and then just leave it to run itself, and what we see throughout…

Joke I heard about this airplane that was about to crash. There were four passengers, but only three parachutes. The first passenger said "I'm a leading heart surgeon. My patients need me. He grabbed the first parachute and jumped. The second passenger said "I'm a rocket scientist. One of the smartest…

The Gospel of Jesus Over the last several weeks we’ve looked at what’s been going on in Jesus’ life. We went over his baptism by John and his temptation in the desert. This morning we are going to look at and examine his first sermon in Luke’s Gospel. Jesus has just verified that he is indeed the victorious…

God Rest on the Seventh Day Is seven a meaningful design feature of page 1 of the Bible? The seven days just leap off the page to almost any reader. You don't have to know anything to know that there's seven days and that seems to very be very meaningful. Something that won't strike most readers who…

Intro We continue on in our text to chapter 5 of Nehemiah. There have been a number of amazing things accomplished already thus far. God has cleared the way for the project to even begin. The king not only allowed Nehemiah to go to Jerusalem, but sent him with a royal escort, with letters of protection,…

24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. the law was a likeness and a foreshadow of the coming of Christ the old testament believers where justified by their faith or living belief in the prophesied coming savior. obedience to the letter…

As we look at last weeks description of Ruth, again we see the love story for her mother in law. Being in a foreign land and losing her husband, and two sons had left Naomi without any way of caring for herself and certainly not her two daughters in law. The difficult decision was made to go back home,…

Genesis 21:1-34 Genesis 22:1-24 Shanah Tovah u’Metuka! (May you have a good and sweet new year) REVIEW We have been studying from Devarim, and are making a stop to celebrate the Feasts of the Lord elle-ha deverim = these are the words Picture of Journey Reason why the journeys -opportunities to learn…

The Gospel of Jesus When I was thinking about switching gears for Easter and doing a short sermon series, I immediately had an idea to do a Birth Story, a story that highlighted Jesus’ life, and then obviously the resurrection story. But I didn’t know which stories I wanted to cover. Like if you were…

Intro; Last week we started looking at “Steps To Victory” in Joshua 6 . We talked about fearing the Lord [ awe and tremble ] and then about things that seem foolish and our faith [ walking around a city as a battle plan and the faith it takes to carry it out ]. That’s where I want to pick back up tonight,…

EXODUS 6:1–8 Remember last week we ended in Chapter 5 with Moses feeling discouraged and not understanding why things got harder for the people of Isreal and not better. And that the people of Isreal blamed Moses for the trouble he brought upon them. Now in Chapter 6-7 we see God’s promised sovereign…

The Year Of The Lord’s Favor What is your favorite? We all have favorite things. My favorite season is fall. My favorite hobby is fly fishing. My favorite food is lasagna. What do all those have in common? They’re all AWESOME! But also, none of them are near to me. I’m estranged from each of them. Cool…