WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU ARE WALKING DOWN THE STREET AT NIGHT AND SEE A BUNCH OF YOUNG KIDS COMING IN YOUR DIRECTION? IT IS A SHAME BUT WE TEND TO WANT TO CROSS THE STREET. WHY IS THIS? IS IT BECAUSE WE IMMEDIATELY THINK THEY ARE UP TO NO GOOD? THIS IS...
Mk. 1:31, "And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them."
How did Peter's mother-in-law minister unto Jesus and His disciples? Did she sit them down and preach to them? Certainly not. Yet sometimes people think the only way we can minister to another is to admonish them with the...
Mark 1:23, "And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out;...."
Many people don't associate demon possessed people with places of worship. Yet most of the demons that Jesus cast out were encountered in the church. Why would demon possessed people be in church?
I FOUND AN ARTICLE A FEW YEARS AGO ON WHICH DAY WAS THE SABBATH DAY. I DON'T KNOW THE AUTHOR BUT IT IS VERY GOOD AND I AM GONG TO TYPE IT BELOW. I DID THIS A FEW YEARS AGO AND SOME OF YOU MIGHT HAVE READ IT. I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS SO GOOD I DECIDED TO POST IT...
Mark 1:16, "Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers."
Jesus never chose an apostle from among the religious system. Every one of his twelve disciples were men that He chose from the secular world. It wasn't because God didn't have faith in those who were religious. It's just that...
THE FIRST TIME JESUS MINISTERED IN JERUSALEM WAS AT THE TEMPLE RIGHT AFTER HE HAD DRIVEN OUT THE ONES WHO WERE SELLING THE SHEEP, OXEN AND DOVES FOR THE OFFERINGS. HE HAD MADE A WHIP AND DROVE THEM OUT AND TURNED OVER THEIR MONEY TABLES. HE SAID THEY WERE NOT GOING TO MAKE HIS FATHER'S HOUSE A HOUSE OF MERCHANDISE.
Luke 4:24, "And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country."
A modern day equivalent of this verse is "familiarity breeds contempt." Those who know the most about us also know more of our faults than anyone else. As a general rule, our weaknesses will blind most people to our strengths.
Luke 4:19, "To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
This scripture had been written prophetically by the prophet Isaiah about 650 years prior to this time. It was read in Jewish synagogues thousands of times. But the one this verse was speaking of had never spoken it before. With this pronouncement, Jesus began the year of Jubilee.
SOME TIME BACK I TALKED ABOUT TALKING TO YOUR "MOUNTAINS". TODAY I WANT TO JUST TALK ABOUT "TALKING". A LOT IS SAID IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THE TONGUE. LOOK WHAT JAMES TELLS US IN JAMES 3:2 WHERE HE SAYS "For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. WE TEND TO SAY THINGS WITHOUT THINKING AND THIS IS VERY...
