The Battle belongs to the Lord
It’s not about US, it’s All about HIM!
The Battle belongs to the Lord
Tag: How did we get here
What does God require of Man? (See notes below Image)
3–5 This was the Lord’s appeal. With tenderness and emotion, the divine Plaintiff recalled His many gracious acts toward them, almost to the point of assuming the tone of a defendant. Noting their trek from bondage in Egypt to their own homeland, God had provided leadership (v. 4), reversed the attempts of Balaam to curse the people (v. 5a; cf. Nu 22–24), and miraculously parted the Jordan River (v. 5b) so they could cross over from Shittim, located E of the Jordan, to Gilgal on the W side near Jericho. God had faithfully kept all His promises to them. † 6:6, 7 Micah, as though speaking on behalf of the people, asked rhetorically how, in light of God’s faithfulness toward them, they could continue their hypocrisy by being outwardly religious but inwardly sinful. † 6:8 Micah’s terse response ( v. 8) indicated they should have known the answer to the rhetorical question. Spiritual blindness had led them to offer everything except the one thing He wanted—a spiritual commitment of the heart from which right behavior would ensue (cf. Dt 10:12–19; Mt 22:37–39). This theme is often represented in the OT (cf. 1Sa 15:22; Is 1:11–20; Jer 7:21–23; Hos 6:6; Am 5:15).
The Lord is my Shepherd…….Baseball and the Bible
The Book of Nahum: An animated story from “The Bible Project”
In this book, Nahum portrays the downfall of Nineveh and Assyria as an image of how God will confront and bring down all violent human empires.
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open” Jesus’s words from is a verse from the Bible that appears in Luke 8:17.
Teach us to Pray, Oh Lord!
Whatever comes our way this day, the Lord walks with us. Through good and bad, he leads us through the fire, and through heights of blessing. It is by Faith, that we must take each step, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute. May HE receive praise, in every step, as we walk by His Spirit! Amen.
Sunday morning before Worship Team practice as I walk through the building, praying for the service, the message, the people and for God to work in our lives.
The wise man builds his House upon the Rock (See notes Below)
from John MacArthur study Bible
3:4 Paul … Apollos. Factionalism was the divisive product of carnality. Cf. 1:11–13. †
3:5–7 What then is Apollos … Paul? A humble, but accurate assessment of the roles that ministers play. the Lord gave … God who causes the growth. It is the Lord alone who can give the faith to the spiritually ignorant and dead. Salvation is God’s work of grace to whom He chooses to give it (see notes on Ro 9:15–19; Eph 2:8, 9).
3:8 are one. All the human instruments God uses to produce salvation life are equally considered and rewarded for their willingness to be used by God. But all the glory goes to Him, who alone saves. Because of that, the silly favoritism of v. 4; 1:12 is condemned. See notes on Mt 20:1–16.
3:9 we. Paul, Apollos, Peter, and all ministers are equal workers in the field, but the spiritual life from that field is entirely by God’s grace and power. God’s building. Paul shifts the imagery from agricultural to construction (vv. 10–17). †
3:10 master builder … foundation. The Gr. word is the root for architect, but contained the idea of builder as well as designer. Paul’s specialty was designing and building spiritual foundations (cf. Ro 15:20). He was used by God to establish the groundwork for churches in Asia Minor, Macedonia, and Greece. Others (e.g., Timothy, Apollos) built the churches up from his foundations. That God used him in that way was all of grace (cf. v. 7; 15:20; Ro 15:18; Eph 3:7, 8; Col 1:29). each man. This primarily refers to evangelists and pastor-teachers.
3:11 no … foundation other than. Paul did not design the foundation, he only laid it down by preaching Christ. Cf. 1Pe 2:6–8.
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