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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:27-28 Love your enemies
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:27-28 Love Your Enemies (Matthew 5:38-48) 27 “But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. 28 Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who mistreat you. This is a hard saying from Jesus. For everyone who fully grasps the […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:26 Gandhi and other false prophets
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:26 26 Woe to you when all people speak well of you, because that is how their fathers constantly treated the false prophets. This fourth woe is the reverse of the earlier promise: “The fact is, their fathers constantly did the same things to the prophets” (6:23b). In fact, all […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:25b Woe to those who laugh
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:25b Woe to you who laugh now, because you will be mourning and weeping. Jesus again uses the word “now.” By this, he means that this “woe” is about those who laugh and are delighted with the pleasures of this world, “now,” as opposed to those of the next. Jesus […]
God’s Word for You – Obadiah 1a The vision of Obadiah
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU INTRODUCTION TO OBADIAH Obadiah is more like the major prophets than many of the minor prophets. His book “flows in the mainstream of Israelite prophetic tradition,” which means that for us, a quick study of Obadiah can be a quick review of the main themes of many of the Old Testament […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:25a Woe to the well-fed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:25a 25 Woe to you who are well fed now, because you will be hungry. Here once again Jesus’ word “now” helps us to remember that he’s talking about the difference between woeful sins of this lifetime and their woeful result in eternity. Those who find all their pleasure in […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:24 Woe to the rich
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:24 24 But woe to you who are rich, because you are receiving your comfort now. “But woe to you,” Jesus begins. There will be three ‘woes’ in a row here, but Jesus will speak six more to the Pharisees in chapter 11. The word “woe” in Greek (οὐαί) is […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:22-23 Your cross
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:22-23 22 Blessed are you whenever people hate you, and whenever they exclude and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man. To hate is a sin against the Fifth Commandment, and so is excluding someone for a wicked reason, and insulting them—although that’s […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:21 You are blessed
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:21 21 Blessed are you who hunger now, because you will be satisfied. In the Sermon on the Mount, this beatitude is entirely spiritual “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness” (Matthew 5:6). Some (Lenski, etc.) think that Luke has simply quoted and shortened these words, and that […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:20 Blessed are the poor
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:20 We are returning to Jesus preaching a sermon: 20 He lifted up his eyes to his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, because yours is the kingdom of God. It will be good for us to remember that Jesus spoke this “to his disciples.” That will […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 1:17 God is omnipresent
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 1:17 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Some questions baffle philosophers. Some of the most difficult questions are: What is the purpose of life? What happens after we die? Who made the universe? Why is there evil? All of these are answered in […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 1:16 Angels
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 1:16 16 For all things were created by him, things in heaven and on earth, seen and unseen, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities — all things were created through him and for him. “All things were created by him” is as clear as it can be put: […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 1:15 The image of God
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 1:15 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. There is a scene in the original Star Wars (1977) where the hero Luke is at home, watching a sunset. Since it’s a science fiction movie, the sunset has two suns, but the special effect […]
