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Daily Bible Study

March 16, 2019 Bible Study — God’s Instructions May Be Hard, But He Will Give Us the Strength To Complete Them

I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Joshua 15-17.

The passage goes over the land given to the tribes of Judah, Ephraim, and Manasseh (the portion of Manasseh which did not settle east of the Jordan River).  It makes note of the fact that Judah was unable to drive the Jebusites out of Jerusalem.  Then goes into detail about the failure of the descendants of Joseph to defeat the Canaanites in the lowlands of their territory.  The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh asked for more land because of this.  Joshua gave them some additional land, but told them that they would overcome the Canaanites in the lowlands.  As I read this, Joshua’s comment seems to be both a command and an assurance.  There is a lesson here for us.  When God gives us directions which seem too hard for us, He will give us the strength to complete them.

Daily Bible Study

December 20, 2018 Bible Study — Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow

I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Hebrews 12-13.

The writer tells us that God will discipline us because He loves us. As we go through life, some of the suffering we experience will be in order for us to learn to follow God’s will more closely. There will come times in our lives when we are less faithful than we should be, at those times we will experience God’s discipline in order to learn the value of being more faithful. At those times, and at all others, we must be careful to listen to what God says to us. And, in order to decide whether the voice we are listening to is that of God, we must keep in mind that Jesus does not change. He is the same today as He was yesterday and as He will be tomorrow. So, when someone comes along with a new, novel teaching which contradicts what the Church has taught since its beginning, you know that they are not speaking words which God gave them. This does not mean that all of the teachings of the Church today are God’s word. The easy way to determine if what sounds like a new teaching is God’s word, or some man’s, is to read your Bible and try to imagine Paul, or one of the other writers, including that thought in what they wrote. If you cannot imagine that, then the teaching is not the word of God.