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Scripture speaks of peace in two directions. First a war ended between us and God, then a quiet given to us in trouble. John 14:27 Jesus leaves his peace with his disciples, not as the world gives, and tells them not to let their hearts be troubled or afraid. Romans 5:1 Since we have been justified…
Bible Memory verse
Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. The conflict is over. It puts peace on a legal footing first. Feelings follow a settled standing, not the reverse. Colossians 1:20 Ephesians 2:14 Isaiah 53:5 Father, I have peace with you through Christ.…
Bible Memory collection
…Psalms 56:3-4 David admits fear and then answers it: when I am afraid I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, I will not fear. Romans 8:28 God works all things together for good for those who love him and are called according to his purpose. The good is defined in the next verse as…
Chapter study
…printed on posters for athletic victories and business success, and 'my God shall supply all your need' has been read as a blank check. Both phrases mean something more specific and more searching than the slogans…
Chapter study
…he ends with a list of everything that might separate a believer from God. Notice also who is speaking. Paul had watched Stephen die, had been beaten, stoned, imprisoned and abandoned. When he writes that nothing can…
Dig Deeper
…and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. Careful in older English means full of care, anxious. The Greek verb merimnao means to be pulled apart by worry, and Jesus uses it in Matthew 6:25…
Dig Deeper
…sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. The exchange in one sentence. What He took, and what believers are given in Him. A position, not a performance In Christ is Paul's shorthand…
Devotional
…sits right after Romans 5:1-2, where Paul has just described the peace and access believers have through justification by faith. The suffering in view is not punishment; it happens to people already at peace with God,…
Verse study
…panta noun Greek Hyperecho means to surpass or rise above; the peace exceeds ordinary human reasoning (nous) rather than being produced by it. A peace that is not the absence of a problem Verse 6 asks believers to bring…
Chapter study
…uphill, a substitute provided at the last moment, and a name for God that Israel never forgot. It also sits near the centre of the Bible's story of redemption. Genesis 3 promised that a seed would come. Genesis 12…
Chapter study
…many mansions, the coming of the Holy Spirit as another Comforter, and peace not as the world gives. It closes with 'arise, let us go hence,' which most readers understand to mean the group begins walking toward…
Bible study
…and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. Philippi was a Roman colony in…
Dig Deeper
…the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together. Isaac asks about a lamb, and Abraham answers about a…
Verse study
…as 'an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.' The promise that follows is Paul's confident conclusion for a church that has just given generously, likely out of its own limited resources…
Chapter study
…David is not writing abstract theology. He is bearing witness to a God he has known through danger, failure, restoration and worship. Every line has been tested somewhere. So as you study this chapter, do not ask only…
Dig Deeper
…thing. Some of what we ask for is not on that list. Philippians 4:19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Paul writes this to a church that had just sent him money…
Dig Deeper
…8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. Work together, not are good. And the promise is addressed to a specific group, described…
Dig Deeper
…the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby. The same pattern in a different image: painful now, fruit afterward, and…
Dig Deeper
…in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. A prophet praying that God would shepherd Israel with the rod. In the right hands it is an instrument of care, which is why David can call it comforting. Two objects, two…
Verse study
…and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.' Anxiety is not repressed; it is handed over. This matters pastorally. A command to stop feeling anxious, with no outlet given, tends to…
Reading plan
…trained on something that has already proved reliable. Hope Salvation Peace This plan draws from two sets of writers: the prophets Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Malachi, and then the gospel writers Matthew,…
Verse study
…of hardship. 1 Timothy 6:6-8 The companion teaching on contentment, godliness with contentment as great gain, sharing this verse's concern with sufficiency amid material extremes. Romans 8:37 'We are more than…
Reading plan
…John opens not with a birth story but with eternity: the Word was with God and was God, and this Word became flesh and lived among us. He also introduces the light and darkness pattern that runs through the whole…
Verse study
…Verse 5 moves indoors, and the shepherd becomes a host. The same God who finds grass also sets a table, which quietly says that His care is not only rugged and practical. It is hospitable and dignifying. In the ancient…
Devotional
…like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child, so I am at peace within myself. WEB The image is deliberately chosen. A weaned child no longer cries for milk from its mother but can still rest against her,…
Devotional
…you. Your throne will be established forever. WEB David wants to build God a house, a temple. God answers by promising to build David a house, a dynasty, and this house is promised to stand forever, a claim no merely…
Devotional
Psalm 50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High. WEB The psalm's context is God rebuking Israel for offering ritual sacrifices while ignoring the weightier matters of covenant…
Biblical concept
…Romans 8:33 asks who shall bring a charge, and answers that it is God who justifies, which is courtroom language. Romans 3:24 says believers are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ…
Topic study
…is confident expectation resting on the character and the promises of God. Most people use the word hope to admit that they do not know. I hope tomorrow is easier. I hope the results are clear. I hope he changes. The…
Christian Living
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. WEB john 14 Jesus speaks these words hours before the cross,…
Biblical concept
…prophets were anointed with oil to mark them as set apart for God's work. John 1:41 translates the word for the reader: we have found the Messiah, which is to say, the Christ. Christ is therefore a title before it is…
Biblical concept
…the reason in one sentence: the life of the flesh is in the blood, and God has given it on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life (Leviticus 17:11). Sacrifice is…
Biblical concept
…who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. Colossians 2:14 Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.…
Biblical concept
…speaks in Acts 13:2. Acts 5:3 and 5:4 call lying to the Spirit lying to God. Jesus promises another Helper who will be with the disciples forever, who will teach them and remind them of what he said. Genesis 1:2 The…
Biblical concept
…vine takes up that history and answers it. Psalm 80:8 Asaph pictures God bringing a vine out of Egypt and planting it, driving out the nations to make room for it. The image of Israel as a vine God planted and tended…
Biblical concept
…of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant planting (Isaiah 5:7). God planted, protected and waited, and what came up was worthless fruit. Because the picture is about fruit, it is always about what a life…
Bible question
1 Timothy 6:6-8 But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. WEB Read the…
Bible question
…been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast. WEB Grace should be heard from God before it is defined by anyone. Ephesians 2:4-9 But God, being rich…
Bible question
…for our sins according to the Scriptures, WEB The gospel is a message God delivered, so read his wording before ours. 1 Corinthians 15:1-5 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which…
Bible question
…heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. WEB Three passages together give the promise, its measure and…
Bible question
…of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? WEB God has already spoken about his will. Read that first, because most of what we want to know is answered there. Micah 6:8 He has shown you,…
Bible question
…with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. WEB Let God's own words set the terms before the study begins. Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.…
Bible question
…by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, WEB Scripture does not begin with a definition of God assembled by people. It begins…
Bible question
…the glory which will be revealed toward us. WEB This question deserves God's words before ours. Read these passages slowly, because the explanation that follows only tries to open what they already say. Romans 8:18-23…
Bible question
…said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why…
Bible question
…his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue; WEB God speaks about growth before we offer any method for it. 2…
Bible question
…be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you. WEB God speaks about forgiveness before we explain it, and his words set a standard no explanation can lower.…
Bible question
…Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. WEB God warned about this plainly and repeatedly. Read the warnings before the explanation. 2 Peter 2:1-3 But false prophets also arose among the people,…
Bible question
…10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be…
Bible question
…to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under…
Bible question
…and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. WEB Nothing and everything are…
Bible question
…and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. WEB Read God's words on anxiety before you read anyone's explanation of them, including ours. Philippians 4:6-7 In nothing be anxious, but in…
Bible question
…you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. WEB Read the command with the reason…
Bible question
…who it competes with, and where treasure is safe. 1 Timothy 6:6-10 But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. But having food and…
Bible question
…least interesting and least free work imaginable. Genesis 2:15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. WEB Work is given before Genesis 3. It belongs to the good creation,…
Bible question
…heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be…
Bible question
…and to be at home with the Lord. WEB On a question no one can research, God's word must speak first. 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent…
Bible question
…conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.” WEB Peter says lying to the Holy Spirit and lying to God are the same act. You cannot lie to a force, and Scripture here treats the Spirit as…
Bible question
…He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. WEB God explained the cross before it happened and after it happened. Read his words before ours.…
Bible question
…to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. For I delight in God’s law after the inward man, but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the…
The Sunday Study
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