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Real Healing Comes From Gospel Proclamation; Believing
We often miss that Jesus literally abandoned this crowd to go preach the Good News in another place. This needs to remind us that real healing comes by hearing the gospel and then believing in the gospel.
Created 5 months ago
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Gospel in Your Eye
There is such a need to have the gospel always before us, in our eye instead of other peoples junk. Other peoples junk is a signal that we have a heart issue and that we've missed the gospel. The gospel…
Created 5 months ago
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Family Feud
Corporate personality goes back a long way. The perpetual enemies of God's people continue to be those "cursed" and there offspring. Thankful, then, for the gospel. Jesus becomes the curse and ends the…
Created 5 months ago
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I'm unsure of what Noah used to build this alter,…
I'm unsure of what Noah used to build this alter, and it's fire. The Earth has been drenched with water (though the branch shows wood, etc., is growing back. Some think, and it is possible, that the…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-05
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Blotted Out
Sinful people were blotted out through the flood, and the sins of people - His people - were blotted out when He was blotted out; cursed. There is a fountain filled with blood - spilt when the curse fell…
Created 5 months ago
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Hidden Righteousness
From a righteousness that exceeds the most religious people (ch.5) to hidden righteousness. Obviously we don't have that "exceeding righteousness" except in Jesus. And, now in ch.6, we see the hidden…
Created 5 months ago
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Nature of Atonement
When coupled with v.10 w are reminded of the humanity of Jesus and He being perfected in His humanness to be the perfect sacrifice. He is therefore perfect sacrifice and perfect substitute. We learn…
Created about 1 year ago
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Clearly More Than Metaphor
Jesus' call to "follow me" is surely more than than the casual discipleship that we enjoy (because it us comfortable and safe). In this verse the command, said to Peter, is to follow - literally - to…
Created about 1 year ago
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Hour
"Hour" is a key word in John's Gospel. So, here and in other places it points to the real purpose of Jesus' coming - the Cross. It is not that Jesus won't do miracles and signs, but these signs don't…
Created over 1 year ago
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That what was spoken
At least three times Matthew says this, I didn't go back and look very hard. Matthew is highlighting the OT and pointing to Jesus as the answer to Scripture. Jesus is the long awaited One.
Created over 1 year ago
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a king threatened by the arriving Kingdom of The King
Coming off of Matthew's proclamation of the arrival of King Jesus in chapter one Herod now seems so tiny.
Created over 1 year ago
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Leaping at the Presence of Jesus
Q. How does the presence of Jesus affect me? Am I aware of His perpetual presence and does it cause me to "leap"?
Created over 1 year ago
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DVD = 14
Hebrew letters D, V, D add up to 14. Matthew is saying, "David, David, David!" Jesus is one like David, the King, but to the third, or "perfect-eth"
Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-02-28
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2010-12-29
