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…1 Corinthians 15:20 Christ has been raised as the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. His 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…
Bible Memory verse
God has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It names Christian hope as living, because the one it rests on is alive. Hope that depends on circumstances dies with them. Titus 1:2 1 Corinthians 15:19 Romans 5:5 Praise you, Father of mercies.…
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…
Devotional
…how suffering is actually endured. No one carries a decade at once. Jesus taught His disciples to ask for daily bread and said, take therefore no thought for the morrow (Matthew 6:34). Mercy arrives in the size of the…
Devotional
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, WEB Peter does not…
Devotional
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, WEB Peter writes to…
Devotional
…The hope Peter has in view is described in 1:3, a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The readiness Peter asks for is readiness to point to that resurrection.
Devotional
…Peter 3:20-21 links the ark's water to baptism, which now saves through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The one door of the ark points to the one door of salvation, Christ himself (John 10:9).
52 Week Journey
…more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, WEB A Living Hope Through Resurrection Peter grounds hope for suffering believers in a historical event. 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,…
52 Week Journey
The resurrection is not a decoration on the Christian message. Paul says plainly that if Christ has not been raised, preaching is empty, faith is empty, and believers are still in their sins. Everything the gospel…
Devotional
John 11:35 Jesus wept. WEB Jesus knew He was about to raise Lazarus. He had already said as much a few verses earlier. And He wept anyway, standing at the tomb of a friend, watching Mary and the others cry. This settles…
Chapter study
…reaches for this chapter whenever it speaks about faith, offering, and resurrection. Israelites who already possessed the land God had promised Abraham, and who were being taught by Moses why they existed at all. They…
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
…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…
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…
Dig Deeper
…The Bible's own description of David's work with his father's flock. Jesus takes this exact title and applies it to Himself, then adds the one thing David could not have written. In John 10:11 He says, I am the good…
Verse study
…you. 1 Peter 5:8-9 An adversary prowling, to be withstood in faith. Jesus faced the door and did not open it. Tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin, he ruled where Cain did not (Hebrews 4:15), and Romans 6…
Reading plan
…Watch for the signs he selects and the way each one interprets who Jesus claims to be. Faith Identity in Christ Eternal Life The Gospel never names its author, but early Christian testimony consistently points to John,…
Devotional
…today rather than requesting a confirming sign. Matthew 12:39 records Jesus saying an evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah, pointing all sign-seeking toward the…
Devotional
…not depart from it. Passing away in verse 1 uses the same Greek verb Jesus uses in Matthew 24:35 about heaven and earth passing away while his words do not. The old order is not annihilated into nothing so much as it…
Devotional
…I in him, bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 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…
Devotional
…real suffering: hunted, struck down, carrying about the dying of Jesus in his body, verses 8-10. He is not speaking abstractly about hardship; he has just described his own. Calling it light affliction is not denial. It…
Devotional
…blind spot they see in you, and receive it without defending yourself. Jesus states the same pattern directly in Luke 14:11: whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. His own…
Devotional
…is not describing self-improvement or a 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…
Topic study
…being a theme and becomes a person. The Epistles: hope anchored in the resurrection 1 Peter 1:3 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…
Biblical concept
Resurrection in Scripture is bodily. The tomb is empty, the wounds are shown, and food is eaten. It is not survival of the soul and it is not a symbol of renewal. 1 Corinthians 15 makes it the load-bearing wall of the…
Word and phrase
…this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. It is knowing God, not merely surviving forever. Because it is a relationship, Scripture speaks of eternal life as…
Biblical concept
…justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. The ground is his work, and the means is faith. Deuteronomy 25:1 Judges are instructed to justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,…
Biblical concept
…Spirit of the Lord anoints the speaker to bring good news, a passage Jesus reads aloud and applies to himself. Luke 4:18 Jesus stands in the synagogue at Nazareth and announces that Isaiah's anointing has been fulfilled…
Biblical concept
…people's names on him. That is the picture Hebrews assumes when it says Jesus always lives to make intercession for us (Hebrews 7:25). Not that He argues with a reluctant Father, but that He is permanently there, in the…
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…
Biblical concept
…John's own letter answers this directly, making the confession that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh into a test of whether a teacher speaks from God at all. That the earliest church had to fight this battle shows how…
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
…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
John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.” WEB Jesus explains this himself, so read his words before ours. John 3:3-8 Jesus answered him, “Most…
Bible question
…the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep. WEB The resurrection is announced by Scripture before it is explained by anyone. 1 Corinthians 15:17-22 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain;…
Bible question
…pain, he is measuring it against something heavier. John 11:33-35 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, “Where have you laid…
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
…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
…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
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
…consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. Also, do not present your members to sin as…
Bible question
…in 2 Timothy 2:17-18, Hymenaeus and Philetus, who had taught that the resurrection was already past, and had thereby overthrown the faith of some. This was not abstract theological error. It was a specific misuse of…
Bible question
…all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. WEB Paul does not tell an anxious church to relax. He gives them somewhere to put the anxiety, and he promises a peace that guards the heart…
Bible question
…don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows. WEB Jesus does not remove fear. He relocates it. One fear is named as proper, and in the same breath he says the hairs of your head are numbered. Scripture…
Bible question
…will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. WEB Jesus promises to prepare a place and to come again to receive us to himself. The hope is fixed on being with him. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 So also…
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
…standing and no expectation of being welcomed by a Jewish teacher. Jesus marvelled at his faith, said he had not found such faith in Israel, and healed the servant at a distance with a word. Faith is measured by its…
Bible question
…was. He was religious, sincere and stuck. God sent Philip to explain Jesus from that very passage, and the man believed and was baptised on the road. The gospel is not a new subject added to the Bible. It is the…
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
…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
…Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law. WEB An apostle writes about doing what…
Bible question
…one. John the Baptist in prison Matthew 11:2-6 The man who announced Jesus sent from a cell to ask whether he was the one after all. Nothing had gone as John expected, and the silence around his imprisonment was…
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