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Bible Memory collection
…Christ commanded both, and that both preach the gospel in visible form. Matthew 28:19 The risen Jesus sends his disciples to make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Baptism is named in the commission itself, tied to discipleship…
Bible Memory collection
…resurrection is the first of a harvest, not a one time exception. John 11:25-26 At Lazarus' tomb Jesus says he is the resurrection and the life, and that whoever believes in him will live even though he dies. Romans 6:4 We were buried with him through baptism into death so that, as Christ was…
Bible Memory verse
The risen Jesus sends his disciples to make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Baptism is named in the commission itself, tied to discipleship and to the triune name. It shows baptism is not a private extra. It is how a person…
Bible Memory collection
Before you memorise what Jesus does, memorise who he is. These passages guard the church from a smaller Christ than the Bible gives. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John opens his gospel before Genesis 1 opens. John 14:6 Jesus answers Thomas:…
Chapter study
…shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. The mountain of provision became the mountain of the temple, and the temple's whole calendar of substitutes was fulfilled just outside those…
Chapter study
…has already borne it. There is no defeat, because the Spirit who raised Jesus now lives in you. There is no separation, because the love that saved you is held by the God who cannot be overruled. Hold that question in…
Dig Deeper
…8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. The verdict is attached to a location, not to a performance level. Them…
Devotional
…fresh start. He is describing resurrection, the same power that raised Jesus from the tomb applied to people who were spiritually in it. Colossians 2:13 The same made alive together with Christ language, used when you…
Devotional
…to work there. The same Spirit who hovered at creation descended on Jesus at His baptism in Matthew 3:16, marking the start of a new work of God that Scripture describes as a new creation.
Devotional
…not a disqualification. You are allowed to be a beginner at prayer. Jesus prayed constantly, and He is the teacher. Asking Him to teach you is itself a prayer. Lord, teach me to pray. I do not know how as I should, and…
Devotional
…a request from James and John for the best seats in the kingdom. Jesus corrects their ambition by pointing to His own mission, which runs in the opposite direction from theirs. Ransom language reminds us that His…
Devotional
…opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus. WEB An angel sends Philip to a desert road, and the Spirit tells him to join a specific chariot. He finds a man reading Isaiah aloud and asks a…
Devotional
…door of safety closed for good. 1 Peter 3:20-21 The flood as a type of baptism, eight souls saved through water, an appeal to God for a good conscience. What has God provided as your way of escape, and have you actually…
Chapter study
…and Christian tradition has long associated the Torah with Moses, and Jesus refers to the writings of Moses (John 5:46-47). The events belong to the earliest period of the biblical narrative, before any dating scheme…
Chapter study
John 15 is spoken in motion. Jesus has just finished the Passover meal with His disciples, and John 14 ends with the words 'arise, let us go hence.' Many readers take that sentence as the close of a scene rather than as…
Chapter study
…shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.' The promise is spoken to a church that has just sacrificially given, and it is explicitly tied to that generosity. It is not a general…
Chapter study
…a reader from turning the psalm into mere moral effort. Matthew 7:13-27 Jesus teaches two gates, two roads, two trees and two foundations in one sermon. The two ways structure of Psalm 1:6 is taken up directly in his…
Chapter study
…as a shepherd about his own God, and the New Testament then shows Jesus taking the shepherd role for Himself in John 10:11. Psalm 23 is not a coded prophecy. It is a true description of the Lord's care which Christ…
Verse study
…shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.' The standard of supply is God's own glorious riches, an extravagant measure, and the channel is Christ Jesus specifically. This is a large…
52 Week Journey
…reads the miracle in its own setting before asking what it shows about Jesus. John 20:30-31 John says outright why he chose the signs he recorded: so that readers would believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and…
Dig Deeper
…this love is answered by asking whether Christ will stop interceding. Jesus Himself says of His sheep in John 10:28 that no man is able to pluck them out of His Father's hand, and Philippians 1:6 says He who began the…
Dig Deeper
…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 while he sat in prison. He says need, not comfort, and he says it in a letter where…
Dig Deeper
…supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Need, not wishes, and the measure is His riches in glory. The word but ties the promise back to the gift the Philippians had just sent.…
Dig Deeper
…of this verse comes from quoting the second half without the first. Jesus does not say ask what you will and it shall be done. He says if you remain in me, and if my words remain in you, then ask. The promise is…
Dig Deeper
…The best evidence for verse 28 is the cross itself. Acts 2:23 says Jesus was delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, and killed by wicked hands. The worst act in human history was worked toward…
Dig Deeper
…when someone is perishing, which is exactly the defence Cain attempts. Jesus is asked a version of the same question in Luke 10:29 and answers with a story in which a man crosses a road, spends his own money and…
Biblical concept
Jesus tells Nicodemus that no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. Birth is something done to a person, which is the force of the image: nobody arranges their own birth. John 3:8 compares it to wind.…
Biblical concept
…in Greek both mean exactly that, so every time the New Testament says Jesus Christ it is saying Jesus the anointed King. Genesis 28:18 Jacob pours oil on the stone at Bethel after his dream, the first anointing in…
Word and phrase
…of mind that produces a change of direction. John the Baptist and Jesus both open their preaching with the same call: repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repentance is not mere regret. 2 Corinthians 7:10…
Biblical concept
…gospels Son of God is not a title of honour handed round freely. When Jesus uses it of himself his hearers understand a claim to equality with God, which is why John 5:18 records the reaction it caused. The Father…
Place in Scripture
…voice cries, in the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD. Matthew 4:1 Jesus is led up by the Spirit into the wilderness. Read Matthew 4 next to Deuteronomy 8 and the pattern is deliberate. Israel was in the wilderness…
Topic study
…Peter calls it a living hope, and he grounds it in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The empty tomb is not an illustration of hope. It is the evidence on which hope stands. Revelation: the final hope…
Topic study
…a covenant conversation, its posture is not performance. In Matthew 6:6 Jesus tells his disciples to go into their room and shut the door. The Father is not impressed by the volume, the vocabulary or the audience. He is…
Biblical concept
After feeding a crowd, Jesus says he is the bread of life, and that whoever comes to him will not hunger. The claim is deliberately connected to the manna: their fathers ate and died, and this bread is different. Bread…
Biblical concept
…law written on the heart and sins remembered no more. Luke 22:20 has Jesus name the cup as the new covenant in his blood. Genesis 6:18 God tells Noah, before the flood begins, that he will establish his covenant with…
Biblical concept
…in the night for the same day, now understood as the day of the Lord Jesus, emphasising that it will arrive without advance warning and catch the complacent unprepared. What stays constant from Amos to Revelation is the…
Biblical concept
…heart is deceitful above all things, moving the problem inward. Gospels Jesus warns repeatedly that many will be deceived, and ties safety to holding to his word. Letters Paul and John treat deception as a present…
Biblical concept
…the Spirit and you will not fulfil the desire of the flesh. Luke 22:15 Jesus says he desired earnestly to eat this Passover, so the word itself is not negative. All strong desire is sinful. Luke 22:15 uses the same word…
Bible question
…known, which is why a Christian answer to who God is always ends up at Jesus. Scripture answers this question through people who met God rather than through people who theorised about him. Moses, asking to see God's…
Bible question
…he would not believe without touching the wounds. He had walked with Jesus for years and still could not accept the news secondhand. Jesus came back a week later specifically for him and offered his hands and side. He…
Bible question
…title has a history. Read where it comes from, then hear it spoken over Jesus, then hear how his hearers took it. Psalms 2:7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your…
Bible question
Romans 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. WEB This is the passage where Paul answers the question directly,…
Bible question
…thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. WEB Jesus says they come in sheep's clothing and are known by their fruit. Appearance is expected to be convincing, which is why fruit is the test. 1…
Bible question
…"Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household." WEB The question in the title of this study is not ours. It was asked, in these exact…
Bible question
…knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. WEB Jesus said more about the Holy Spirit on the night before his death than anywhere else. Start there rather than with experience. John 14:16-17 I…
Bible question
…is an invitation to check. Luke 24:36-43 As they 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…
Bible question
…prayer, and Scripture gives you the words for it. The Canaanite mother Jesus seemed to ignore Matthew 15:22-28 She asked Jesus to heal her daughter and he answered her nothing at all. Then the disciples asked him to…
Bible question
…The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all…
Bible question
…shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven. WEB Peter offers a generous limit and Jesus dismantles the…
Bible question
…cost him his position, 39:20. Peter in Gethsemane Matthew 26:40-41 Jesus told him to watch and pray so that he would not enter into temptation. He slept, and within hours he denied Christ three times. Jesus had already…
Bible question
…my God!” WEB Read three passages before any argument. One is a claim Jesus made, one is what his hearers understood by it, one is what a disciple said to his face. John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell…
Bible question
…brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.” Immediately they left their nets, and followed him. WEB The initiative…
Bible question
…sign of God's absence, and it still deserves to be told to him plainly. Jesus, left by everyone Matthew 26:56 His friends fell asleep while he prayed, then all of them forsook him and fled. On the cross he cried out the…
Bible question
…is no gap and no waiting room, only a change of address. Luke 23:43 Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” WEB Today you will be with me in paradise. Jesus tells a dying man…
Bible question
…anything made that has been made. WEB John does not begin the life of Jesus at Bethlehem. He begins before creation, and he says three things in one sentence: the Word already was, the Word was with God, the Word was…
Bible question
…that which was lost.” WEB Three sentences of stated purpose, two from Jesus and one from Paul. Read them before any explanation, and notice that each one names the people he came for. Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came…
Bible question
…justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of…
Bible question
…to snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one. WEB Jesus makes this claim in the temple at the Feast of Dedication, to a crowd that had just demanded he tell them plainly whether he was the Christ.…
Bible question
…fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic…
Bible question
…supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. WEB Every need, not every want. The measure is his riches in glory, and the sentence is written to a church that had just given away money it…
The Sunday Study
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