Word Study: Fair Trade For Profit

WORD STUDY – FAIR TRADE FOR PROFIT Philippians 1:21: “For to me to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.” I have heard this verse all my life but I never really studied it out in its context nor examined it in the Greek and Aramaic. When I did I discovered the...

Word Study: DIsquietness Of My Heart

WORD STUDY – DISQUIETNESS OF MY HEART Psalms 38:8 “I am feeble and sore broken, I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.” Psalms 103:2: “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:” Sometimes it is really hard to bless the Lord. The old...

Word Study: Heard The Open Tent

WORD STUDY – HEARD THE OPEN TENT Genesis 18:10: “And Sarah heard it in the tent door which was behind him.” I was reading in one of the ancient rabbinical works this morning which is a Jewish commentary of this passage. It was noted that there was no preposition “in”...

Word Study: The Dead Bury The Dead

WORD STUDY – THE DEAD BURY THE DEAD Matthew 8:22 “But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.” “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.” Rudyard Kipling The above quote by Rudyard Kipling is from his poem The...

Word Study: Sins as Scarlet

WORD STUDY – SINS AS SCARLET Isaiah 1:18: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith- the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” This is one of those popular verses you hear all...