All Your Heart The Rule of Law: Government of the Soul (2) The heart is the heart of the matter in the life of faith. “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart….” Deuteronomy 6:5 Love for God, which is God’s intention in giving us His Law, as ...
Inside-out The Rule of Law: Government of the Soul (1) The benefits of God’s Law are realized inside-out. “And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. Oh that they had ...
The Duty of God’s People The Rule of Law: First Things (7) The rule of God’s Law entails three duties. “Pay attention to all that I have said to you.…” Exodus 23:13 We are beginning to see that submitting to the rule of God’s Law is much to be preferred to submitting to ...
The Outworking of the Law The Rule of Law: First Things (6) This answer may seem simplistic, but it is not mean. “You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.” Leviticus 20:26 What does obedience to the ...
The Motive for Obedience The Rule of Law: First Things (5) The meaning of God’s Law also provides the motive for our obedience. “When your son asks in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’ ...
All Things New May 22, 2011 Lesson: Revelation 21:1–8 Key Verse: Revelation 21:5 aa Introduction Paul is persuaded, and so are all of God’s children, “that neither death, nor life, no angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, …shall be able to separate us from the love of ...
The Throne of Heaven May 8, 2011 Lesson: Revelation 4:1–5 Key Verse: Revelation 4:2 aaa Introduction Our Lord gives His beloved apostle, and us, a vantage point from which is seen the life and victory of God’s people, God’s great congregation of which Christ is King and Head. The vantage point is the ‘throne ...
Of One Mind May 1, 2011 Lesson: Philippians 2:1–11 Key Verse: Philippians 2:5 aaa Introduction As members of Christ’s congregation, we set our eyes upon Him and His Word. In other words, we are of one mind. We may have various differences, but we set our minds and hearts upon our Savior and His ...
The Tree of Life May 29, 2011 Lesson: Revelation 22:1–9 Key Verse: Revelation 22:2 aaa Introduction Matthew Henry introduces this section of Revelation with these words: “The heavenly state which was before described as a city, and called the new Jerusalem, is here described as a paradise, alluding to the earthly paradise which ...
God’s Salvation May 15, 2011 Lesson: Revelation 7:9–17 Key Verse: Revelation 7:10 aa Introduction John’s vision on the Isle of Patmos revealed those who were slain for the Word of God, “and for the testimony which they held” (Rev. 6:9). These saints cried out with a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and ...