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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Colossians 2:15 a public spectacle
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 2:15 15 He disarmed the supernatural authorities and spiritual powers and made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by it. “It” is the cross from verse 14. What Paul is describing here is the event we call the Descent into Hell. This happened on Easter Sunday morning, after […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:14-19 Raise us to life
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:16-19 16 They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; They will perish from your rebuking look. The Psalm seems to veer from one part of the Passion of Jesus to another. He is “cut down,” already crucified and dead, and yet Asaph leaps ahead to […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:13-15 A boar of the forest
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:13-15 13 A boar of the forest tears at it, and whatever moves in the field feeds on it. Here Asaph continues his metaphor of the vine being ravaged. Previously, the walls that protected the vine were broken, and passers-by picked at the fruit. Now wild animals have entered […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:8-12 a vine out of Egypt
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:8-12 8 You brought a vine out of Egypt, you drove out the nations and planted it. The greatest saving act of the Old Testament was the rescue of enslaved Israel from bondage in Egypt. After a magnificent display of divine authority in the Ten Plagues, God convinced the […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:4-7 O God of Armies
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:4-7 4 O LORD God of Armies, how long will your anger burn against the prayers of your people? In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Hebrew title Adonai Sabaoth (not “sabbath”) was translated “Lord Almighty” (pantokrator, παντοκράτωρ). Here and throughout the Psalms, pantokrator is not […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 80:1-3 Hear us O Shepherd
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 80:1-3 PSALM 80 You Have Cut Down the Son of Man and Raised Him Up Again This is the ninth of the twelve Psalms ascribed to Asaph in the Bible (50, 73-83). It is sometimes thought to be a Psalm written shortly before the fall of the Northern Kingdom due […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 2:14 nailing it to the cross
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 2:14 Paul ended verse 13 with the words, “He forgave us all our sins.” Verse 14 is not a new thought, but a continuation of the previous one. 14 he wiped out the record of our debt with its regulations which stood against us, which was hostile to us. This […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:66-71 before the Sanhedrin
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:66-71 66 When it was day, the elders of the people gathered together with the chief priests and scribes. Jesus was led before the Sanhedrin, Luke clearly uses the word “Sanhedrin” here (Συνέδριον), the convocation of the selected seventy (or seventy-one) elders who made judgments on cases in Israel. By […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:63-65 Who was it who hurt you!?
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:63-65 63 Now the men who were guarding Jesus mocked him and beat him. 64 They blindfolded him and demanded, “Prophesy! Who struck you?” 65 And they said many other blasphemous things against him. Luke, the physician, would well have understood the difference between Matthew’s description of Jesus being “hit […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:58-62 the rooster crowed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:58-62 58 A little later someone saw him and said, “You are also one of them.” But Peter said, “Mister, I am not.” 59 About an hour went by and someone else insisted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.” 60 But Peter said, “Mister, I […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:54-57 I do not know him, girl
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:54-57 54 Then they seized him and led him away, taking him into the high priest’s house. Peter followed at a distance. 55 When they got a fire going in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat among them. 56 When a servant-girl noticed him as […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 22:52-53 the authority of darkness
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 22:52-53 52 Then Jesus said to those who had come out against him (chief priests, captains of the temple guard, and elders), “Have you come out against me with swords and clubs, as if I am leading a rebellion? 53 I was with you every day in the temple and […]
