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Chapter study
…keeps teaching. So John 15 opens mid conversation, mid journey, in the last hours before the cross. The vine, the love command, and the warning about hatred are not abstract doctrine. They are last words, spoken by a…
Devotional
…mediates a better covenant on better promises. Luke 22:20 Jesus at the last supper: this cup is the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you. Where in your life is obedience still an external effort rather than…
Devotional
…WEB Jesus gives this teaching on the night He is betrayed, after the Last Supper, with the cross hours away. He is preparing disciples for His physical absence by describing a connection that will not depend on His…
Devotional
…gave thanks before the feeding of the five thousand and again at the last supper, in each case before the outcome of the meal or the cross was visible to those with him (Matthew 14:19, Matthew 26:27).
Devotional
…Let my life follow the pattern You gave. Amen. The scene occurs at the Last Supper, immediately before Jesus predicts His betrayal, and John frames it with the statement that Jesus, having loved his own, loved them to…
Devotional
…desire, not merely a duty. Christ inaugurates this very covenant at the Last Supper: this cup is the new covenant in my blood (Luke 22:20), the blood that secures the forgiveness Jeremiah 31:34 promises alongside the…
Chapter study
…of the Lord forever. Trace the setting from the first verse to the last. What kind of place does the psalm end in that it did not start in? A journey used as a structure The psalm does not argue, it walks. Pasture,…
Devotional
…ongoing description of what happens whenever it shares the Lord's Supper. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Paul's account of the same words, given to the church as something to proclaim until the Lord comes. Exodus 12:12-13 The…
52 Week Journey
…they trace a single line from a promise made after the flood to a supper in an upper room. This week reads six of those covenants in sequence, in their own settings, before asking what holds them together. The Bible…
Chapter study
…a son, a mountain, wood carried 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…
Chapter study
…birth of Seth, and between them stands a killing. That frame is why the last line about calling on the name of the LORD reads as recovery rather than as an unrelated note. Israel, a people newly given law about murder,…
Chapter study
…is what the disagreement was about, who was at fault, how long it had lasted, or how the rest of the church was involved. What does Paul actually say to Euodia and Syntyche in Philippians 4:2-3, and what does the…
Chapter study
…them, and whether they would order their life by a direction that lasts rather than by an outcome that looks immediate. Joshua 1:8 The instruction of the LORD is to be meditated on day and night, in almost the wording…
Chapter study
…predestinated, called, justified, glorified. Notice which tense the last one is in. How does verse 29 define the good that verse 28 promises? Romans 8:28 States that all things work together for good to those who love…
Dig Deeper
…all present tense at the end: died, risen, seated, interceding. The last is what Christ is doing while the believer reads the verse. Hebrews 7:25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to…
Bible study
…argument since chapter 3. 'Now' locates it in present time, not at the last judgment only. v.9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Paul's assumed normal…
Biblical concept
…again the next day rather than living off what he gave yesterday. At the last supper the image becomes concrete. Jesus takes bread, breaks it, and says this is my body given for you. The daily provision that sustained…
Biblical concept
…the heart and sin remembered no more. Luke 22:20 Jesus names the cup at the last supper as the new covenant in his blood, poured out for many. Hebrews 8:6 Christ is mediator of a better covenant, established on better…
Biblical concept
…the provided sign, not by merit. Exodus 12:13 Passover and the Lord's Supper are unrelated meals that happen to have occurred around the same time. Luke records Jesus deliberately keeping the Passover meal with his…
Word and phrase
…side by side: whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Daniel 12:2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting…
Topic study
…but the result of a death. Because the Lamb was slain and raised, the last enemy has a date on it. Isaiah 25:8 and Isaiah 65:17-19 the prophetic promises John is drawing on. BDAG, Greek-English Lexicon of the New…
Topic study
…normal even to people who love the Bible? Why do we treat prayer as a last resort instead of a first response? What is actually happening in the unseen when a Christian prays? Why does honest speech to God frighten us…
Biblical concept
…in the Son lifted up, so that whoever believes in him should have everlasting life.
Biblical concept
The prophets use this phrase for a day when God steps into history openly. Amos 5:18 warns Israel not to long for it lightly, because it is darkness and not light for those unprepared. In the New Testament the same…
Biblical concept
…kings and Lord of lords. 2 Samuel 7 promises David a son whose throne lasts forever, and every son who follows dies. The genealogies at the start of Matthew and Luke exist to say that the line survived the exile and…
Biblical concept
…one that emptied. Households and towns cut cisterns out of rock and plastered them to catch the winter rain. Water kept that way grew stale, and a crack in the plaster meant the year's supply drained away without anyone…
Place in Scripture
…is transfigured, prays and is crucified on rising ground, and the last vision of the city comes from a great high mountain (Revelation 21:10). The Psalms turn that into a question about worth: who shall ascend the hill…
Biblical concept
…the anointing in front of people who watched Him grow up. And then the last anointing before the cross comes from a woman with a jar worth a year's wages (John 12:3-7). The King is anointed, but for burial, and Jesus…
Biblical concept
…saying I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he will stand at last on the earth. Even without full knowledge of how it would happen, Job's confidence was that someone would act on his behalf to set things right, even…
Biblical concept
…one man against the obedience of one man, so responsibility is not the last word in Scripture: what Christ did is offered to those who were answerable. 2 Corinthians 5:21 states the exchange, that he who knew no sin was…
Biblical concept
…of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. John 11:25 I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead,…
Biblical concept
…7 one like a son of man comes with the clouds and receives an everlasting kingdom from the Ancient of Days. Jesus uses it for both his suffering and his glory. He says the Son of Man must suffer many things, and he says…
Place in Scripture
…586 BC, rebuilt after the exile, and greatly enlarged under Herod. That last building is the one standing in the gospels, and it was destroyed in AD 70, which is the event Jesus foretells in Matthew 24:2. 2 Kings 25,…
Biblical concept
…same thing in different words. God spoke by the prophets, and in these last days he has spoken by his Son.
Bible question
…has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise…
Bible question
…for sin. Jesus explains his own death in advance Matthew 26:28 At the Last Supper Jesus calls his blood the blood of the new testament, shed for many for the remission of sins, interpreting his coming death himself.…
Bible question
…friends slept a few feet away. And the end of the story is a wedding supper, a city and a multitude no man can number. Christianity does not offer the lonely an eternity of dignified solitude. It offers a family that…
Bible question
…for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. Paul had persecuted the church and consented to the killing of believers before his conversion. He describes his own forgiveness as a…
Bible question
…forever.” WEB The claim includes durability. Scripture expects to outlast the empires, arguments and fashions that come and go around it. Scripture is not embarrassed by people who needed to check. The Bereans, who…
Bible question
…fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. WEB Read the earliest summary of the claim, then one account of a…
Bible question
…She had a handful of meal and a little oil, and was preparing a last meal for herself and her son before they died. The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends…
Bible question
…out passivity, and 'add' begins a chain, each quality building on the last rather than standing alone. 2 Peter 1:6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness; The…
Bible question
…at the right hand of God, and Stephen prayed for his killers with his last breath. One of the men present was Saul. Forgiveness prayed in the worst moment is possible when a person is looking at Christ. It is also never…
Bible question
…of the detour, though the consequences of that choice were real and lasting. Romans 8:28 'All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.' The verse does not…
Bible question
…in resisting temptation happens at the first two words, long before the last. Endure, not escape, is the stated aim. The purpose clause in verse 13 is that you may be able to endure it. Scripture expects the pressure to…
Bible question
…for years, now leading the church at Ephesus Second Timothy is Paul's last letter, written as he expected to die soon. Chapter 2 is his final charge to Timothy about handling truth carefully in a church already troubled…
Bible question
…trusts in you. Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock. WEB The mind stayed on God is kept in peace. Isaiah ties trust to attention, which is something a struggling believer can actually…
Bible question
…out early to a lonely place, Mark 1:35. Ten minutes at a fixed time outlasts good intentions. Pray Scripture back to God Use a psalm as your words when you have none. Daniel 9 and Nehemiah 1 both show prayers built out…
Bible question
…Scripture reserves for God. Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last, and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. I have the keys of Death and of Hades. First and last is the…
Bible question
…start, which is the opposite of pressured recruitment. Follow me is the last thing he says to Peter. John 21:19 and 21:22. After the denial, after the restoration, after being told how he would die, the instruction is…
Bible question
…who through fear of death were held in bondage all their lives. The last fear is answered by an empty tomb, not by advice. Say the fear to God in words Psalm 56:3 and Psalm 34:4 both begin with a believer speaking. Name…
Bible question
…She had a handful of meal and a little oil, and expected to eat one last meal and die. Through Elijah's word the jar of meal did not run out and the oil did not fail until rain came, verses 14 to 16. God's care reached…
Bible question
…cost a Christian trade, standing, or life. Revelation 21 to 22 is the last word given to churches who needed to know their suffering was not the end of the story. John's vision draws heavily on Isaiah, Ezekiel and…
Bible question
…foretells that many who sleep in the dust shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame, giving the Old Testament's clearest statement of a final resurrection with two destinies. Jesus teaches plainly about…
Bible question
…John 3:16 Whoever believes in Christ should not perish but have everlasting life, making faith the means by which eternal life is received. Faith proven and perfected through action Hebrews 11:17 Abraham's faith is…
Bible question
…do a single good work. Jesus promised him paradise that same day. The last conversation of his life was the only qualification he had. Grace requires nothing but need brought to Christ. This man is the clearest proof in…
Bible question
…not someone protecting a story from scrutiny. 1 Corinthians 15:8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. Paul includes his own encounter with the risen Christ, the event that…
Bible question
…were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. The psalm goes on to ask God to teach us to number our days. Knowing that God has no beginning is not a piece…
Bible question
…Lord, announced to shepherds. 2 Samuel 7:12-13 The promise of an everlasting throne to David's offspring. Was Jesus a man or was he God? Scripture says both, and never trades one for the other. He is described as tired,…
Bible question
…commanded writing, Exodus 17:14 and 34:27, so that the words would outlast the generation that heard them. Writing was God's own idea. A spoken word can be misremembered; a written covenant can be read back to a nation…
The Sunday Study
Verse-by-verse teaching with historical context, and a prayer to close. Nothing else in the email.