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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:49 Your foundation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:49 49 But the one who listened to my words and did not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river broke against it, it fell immediately, and that house was completely destroyed.” Notice that Jesus doesn’t say “anyone” […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:47-48 Bedrock
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:47-48 Jesus has just asked, “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” In the text below, he illustrates this with a parable about two men building houses: one wise, the other, foolish. 47 Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words […]
God’s Word for You – Obadiah 2
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU OBADIAH 2 2 “Look how small I have made you among the nations! How despised, so despised, you are. When I was a boy, my friends Scott, Pat and Peter and I would go to a big field on the north end of town called the Industrial Park. It’s full of […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:46 Lord, Lord
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:46 The Wise and Foolish Builders (Matthew 7:24-27) 46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? Jesus summarizes everything he has been saying by speaking now to everyone within earshot, including his own disciples. Why would anyone call someone ‘Master’ or ‘Lord’ and […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:45 good out of the good
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:45 45 The good person brings what is good out of the good stored in his heart, and the evil person brings what is evil out of the evil within. To be sure, what his mouth speaks flows from the heart. Some listeners or readers might not really have a […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:44
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:44 44 In fact, each tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not gather figs from thorn bushes, and they do not gather grapes from a bramble bush. Jesus is turning to humor to drive his point home. Many people know varieties of trees just by looking […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:43 Good tree, good fruit
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:43 Listen and Do (Matthew 7:15-27) 43 “Certainly a good tree does not produce bad fruit, and a bad tree does not produce good fruit. In Matthew (7:17-19), this statement and the verses that follow are spoken by Jesus about false prophets. Here, Luke tells us that Jesus has been […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:41-42 The speck in your brother’s eye
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:41-42 41 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? 42 Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck in your eye,’ when you do not see the beam in your own […]
God’s Word for You – Obadiah 1c A call to war
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU OBADIAH 1c We have heard a message from the LORD. Who are “we”? Is the prophet associating himself with all of Israel? More importantly, weren’t we just told that this is what the Lord himself said? If so, does this phrase belong here at all? This “we” isn’t like the divine […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:39-40 Your teacher and your students
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:39-40 39 He also told them a parable: “A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Won’t they both fall into a pit? This is not a typical parable; one objection is that it is too short. However, some of the ‘regular’ parables are almost as short (such […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:37-38 Forgive
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:37-38 Consider the Beam in Your Own Eye (Matthew 7:1-5) 37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Jesus isn’t saying anything about any nation’s legal system. He’s talking about what you, the […]
God’s Word for You – Luke 6:36 Be merciful
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU LUKE 6:36 36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. The two verbs in this sentence preach a whole sermon. Behind both of these verbs is the gospel of God’s grace and mercy. The first one is Jesus’ command to us: “be.” The second one is the motivation for the […]
