WORD STUDY – HOLY

Leviticus 11:44: “For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy.”   I have had the word holy thrown at me by preachers all my lives.   I have been exhorted by preachers to live a holy life, demonstrate a...

WORD STUDY: MELEK KADASH (NEW KING)

Exodus 1:8: “Now there arose a new king over Egypt , which knew not Joseph.” This is the only time that Pharaoh is referred to as a king. From here on he is referred to as Pharaoh.   In Exodus 1:8 it refers to this new king as a  melek (king) kadash (new).   The...

WORD STUDY – SITTING ON A WATCHTOWER

Habakkuk: 5:1, “I will stand upon my watch, and set myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.”   The other day I was in Texas preparing to share with a group of Christians some ideas on using the...

WORD STUDY – EVIL HEART

Jeremiah 18:12: “And they said, There is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices and we will everyone do the imaginations of his own evil heart.”   “If I dud it, I get a vippin,—–  I dud it.”   Red Skelton -Mean Little Kid   That is quite a thing...

Word Study – Rod And Chastise

Proverbs 13:24: “He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.” Proverbs 23:13:  “Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.”  Recently I was attending a class run by a private...