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My last sermon was an introduction to a new series that I have started on the themes of I Corinthians. In that sermon, I described the city of Corinth, showing that in Paul's day it was an important and very wealthy Roman city. It …
When we were first called into the church and made some basic commitments to God's way of life, most of us were excited. Events in the world seemed to be unfolding rapidly. A whole new perspective on life and the afterlife opened …
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The Poetry of the Bible
In his book, Figures of Speech in the Bible, E. W. Bullinger describes a staggering 217 different figures of speech in God's Word, each used multiple times. A figure of speech is the stylistic use of language in an unordinary or …
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Isaiah 22:20-25
(20) ‘ Then it shall be in that day,
That I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;
(21) I will clothe him with your robe
And strengthen him with your belt;
I will commit your responsibility into his hand.
He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And to the house of Judah.
(22) The key of the house of David
I will lay on his shoulder;
So he shall open, and no one shall shut;
And he shall shut, and no one shall open.
(23) I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place,
And he will become a glorious throne to his father’s house. (24) ‘They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitchers. (25) In that day,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for the LORD has spoken.’”
After God rebukes and demotes Shebna the steward (verses 15-19), He then fills his office with His servant, Eliakim. Eliakim means “whom God will raise up” or “the resurrection of God,” both of which apply to …
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The Impossible Metric
by David C. Grabbe"The days of our lives are seventy years," writes Moses in Psalm 90:10. King David concurs: "Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow" (Psalm 144:4). Unlike God, "who inhabits eternity" (Isaiah 57:15), we mortals have a limited existence. Due to our finite time, we tend to view things through the lens of immediacy. We continually take stock of where we are and how much progress we have made toward this or that goal. We take a short-term view of time—relative to God, at least—and in our zeal for efficiency, we measure where we are against where we have been to get an idea of …
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