Month: January 2016

1 Peter 2:20 “For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor […]

Numbers 31:8 “They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.” […]

1 Peter 2:19 “For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.” The phrase “for the sake of conscience toward God” catches my attention. God has instilled within […]

Numbers 31:3 “Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD’S vengeance on Midian.” To go to war was part of the culture of the […]

1 Peter 2:16 “Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.” The other day, I heard a radio pastor say that outside of God’s power, sin […]

Njmbers 31:3 “Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD’S vengeance on Midian.” When the Old Testament is compared to the New Testament, God […]

1 Peter 2:13-15 “Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who […]

Luke 12:40 “You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.” If today were our last day, then we would do some things differently. That thought has a […]

2 Timothy 2:4 No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.” I insert this passage because it refers to proper focus. Once […]

Not posted Numbers 31:1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Take full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people.” Moses learns that he is to die soon. God gives […]