In John 19:18, we are told that our Lord was crucified with two other men---“on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.” In those three men are represented all men as they are described in the word of God. On the left hand is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Genesis 41: 37-39 Standing before the great Pharaoh of Egypt stood a man virtually unknown before this day to the king. Based on the words he spoke and how they unraveled the troubling mysteries of his heart, the great monarch discerned...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Genesis 38: 1-30 Genesis 38, though vulgar to the natural eye, is a beautiful picture of how Christ, our redeemer, came into this world. Judah leaves his fathers house and goes down to a cursed place to take a wife and produce an heir for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Genesis 35: 16-20 Jacob had two wives of the same father for which he served an equal number of years. These two wives represent the church as she is represented in both the old and new testaments. If we view Rachel as the church... [ abbreviated | read entire ]
God found Jacob in Shechem in trouble. God always finds his elect in trouble for “…man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.” (Job 14: 1) He instructed him to go up to Bethel. Bethel means House of God....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
John 18: 4 Those who came with the betrayer came accepting his deal, agreeing with his terms, following him in the darkness, walking in their own light, trusting in their carnal weapons, and feeling confident in their numbers. What stopped...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I remember awhile back that a man accused me of taking aim at him with the message. It may be that someone here feels the same way. So let me say to you what I said to him, “I hope I spoke to you this morning.” It was your face on...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Genesis 34: 1-31 The rape of Israel’s daughter is a clear picture of the danger of treating this world and its religion lightly. In seeking peace I am to never give respect to their lying promise and compromising ways. Jacobs’s...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him: Neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (I Corinthians 2: 14)This bold declaration of the apostle...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
