Tag: The Great Physician
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Outside the Gate
Hebrews 13:12-13 “So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.” What separates Christians from the rest of the world? What makes them so different? Why have they been rejected and persecuted by so many, even…
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Some Bad News and Some Good News
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” I’m sure you’ve heard of the stories that begin, “I’ve got some good news and some bad news.” Usually…
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The Sinners
1 Timothy 1:15-16 “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him…
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Are you needy?
Isaiah 40:29 “He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.” God is a helper to the needy. That’s the message of His Word over and over again. God’s message is a message of hope to the prisoner, the downtrodden, the blind, the lame, and the weak. He’s…
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Seeker Sensitive?
Romans 3:11 “. . . no one understands; no one seeks for God.” Do you see yourself as a seeker, i.e., a seeker after God? You’re not a Christian, mind you, but you’re seeking. You really want to find God, if there is a God, that is. Well according to this verse, which is from…
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What do you see?
Acts 7:55-56 “But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said, ‘Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.’” In the above account of the martyrdom of Stephen we understand that Stephen saw…
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Have you seen the glory?
Isaiah 6:3 “The whole earth is full of his glory.” What is glory? One definition I’ve heard that has helped me to understand the term is that “glory” is “a manifestation of the greatness of God.” The Seraphim that Isaiah saw and spoke of in Isaiah 6 said that the whole earth is full of…
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Hope for the sick
John 19:1-3 “Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ and struck him with their hands.” Do you believe what the Bible says about man…
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Unclean! Unclean!
Leviticus 13:12-13 “ And if the leprous disease breaks out in the skin, so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see, then the priest shall look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he shall pronounce…
To Encourage You 