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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Genesis 4:6-7 sin crouching at your door
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 4:6-7 Click to listen 6 Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is good, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is good, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 4:4-5 The faith of Abel
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 4:4-5 Click to listen 4 But Abel brought some of the firstborn of his flock (some of the best ones). The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but he did not look with favor on Cain and his offering. So Cain was very angry, and his face […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 4:3 Cain’s sacrifice
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 4:3 Click to listen 3 Sometime later, Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. This verse begins with an unusual phrase, “At the end of the (or those) days.” Our Hebrew lexicons suggest “Sometime later” for this verse, and there is a similar […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 4:1-2 Sons for Eve
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 4:1-2 Click to listen In a sense, the final 47 chapters of Genesis are easier for us to relate to and understand than the first three, because from here on we see the world as it is now; the home of sinful mankind. Many interpreters have a very different view of […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 3:24 Cherubim and a sword
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 3:24 Click to listen 24 So God drove the man out, and on the east side of the Garden of Eden he placed some cherubim and a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the Tree of Life. After man was driven out, God set a […]
God’s Word for You – Deuteronomy 1 Summary, like a basketball team
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUDEUTERONOMY 1 Summary Click here to listen. 1:35, 38 Not one man of this evil generation will see the good land I swore to give your forefathers, except Caleb… and your assistant, Joshua son of Nun. Deuteronomy’s first chapter begins with the command from God to leave Mount Sinai (usually called Mount […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 3:22-23 expelled
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 3:22-23 Click to listen 22 The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, so that he does not reach out his hand and take from the tree of life as well and eat, and live forever–” 23 the LORD God sent […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 3:21 law and gospel in the garments
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 3:21 Click to listen 21 And the LORD God made garments out of skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them. How much had Adam lost in the fall? His holy relationship with God was at an end. He showed this by lying to God and by blaming God for […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 3:20 Mother Eve
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 3:20 Click to listen 20 The man gave his wife the name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. This verse tells us so much more than that Adam gave his wife her name, and what it means. Adam’s place as head of the family did not end; his […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 3:17-19 Thorns, thistles, and dust
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 3:17-19 Click to listen 17 And to Adam he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground because of you. With painful labor you will eat of it all […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 3:16 The pain of all women
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 3:16 Click to listen 16 To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” God’s judgments on the man and woman need to be identified […]
God’s Word for You – Genesis 3:15b The First Gospel
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUGENESIS 3:15b Click to listen … and between your offspring and her offspring. He will crush your head, and you will crush his heel.” Here is the first proclamation of the Gospel, the protevangel (“first gospel”). Here the Hebrew word zerah “seed, offspring” is a singular form, but an oftentimes plural concept, […]
