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Mar 26

Get Biblical Understanding #212 - Spiritual Guidance

This is number 212 in our series of “Get Biblical Understanding.” In this session we’re reading many but certainly not all of the biblical verses that have to do with spiritual guidance.
Mar 19

Get Biblical Understanding #211 - Spiritual Guidance

ACTS 11:12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house:
Mar 12

Get Biblical Understanding #210 - Spiritual Guidance

ACTS 1:24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether of these two thou hast chosen,
Mar 05

Get Biblical Understanding #209 - Spiritual Guidance

GENESIS 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Feb 27

Get Biblical Understanding #208 - Doctrine and Teaching

TITUS 1:9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Feb 20

Get Biblical Understanding #207 - Doctrine and Teaching

2 TIMOTHY 2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
Feb 13

Get Biblical Understanding #206 - Doctrine and Teaching

1 TIMOTHY 2:7-8 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and...
Feb 06

Get Biblical Understanding #205 - Doctrine and Teaching

COLOSSIANS 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Jan 30

Get Biblical Understanding #204 - Doctrine and Teaching

1 CORINTHIANS 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Nov 21

Get Biblical Understanding #203 - Doctrine and Teaching

ACTS 5:42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
Nov 14

Get Biblical Understanding #202 - Doctrine and Teaching

ACTS 4:1-3 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on...
Nov 07

Get Biblical Understanding #201 - Doctrine and Teaching

JOHN 8:20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
Oct 17

Get Biblical Understanding #199 - Courage and Strength

MARK 10:1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judæa by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
Aug 29

Get Biblical Understanding #192 - Life in Christ

1 JOHN 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Aug 22

Get Biblical Understanding #191 - Life in Christ

1 THESSALONIANS 5:9-10 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Aug 15

Get Biblical Understanding #190 - Life in Christ

EPHESIANS 1:12-13 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that...
Aug 08

Get Biblical Understanding #189 - Life in Christ

GALATIANS 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Aug 01

Get Biblical Understanding #188 - Life in Christ

ACTS 20:27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Jul 25

Get Biblical Understanding #187 - Life in Christ

MATTHEW 10:38-39 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Jul 18

Get Biblical Understanding #186 - Self-Control

JAMES 3:9-10 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude [likeness, image] of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.
Jul 11

Get Biblical Understanding #185 - Self-Control

GALATIANS 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Jul 04

Get Biblical Understanding #184 - Self-Control

1 CORINTHIANS 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Jun 27

Get Biblical Understanding #183 - Sorcery

REVELATION 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Jun 20

Get Biblical Understanding #182 - Sorcery

ACTS 8:13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
Jun 13

Get Biblical Understanding #181 - Children

1 JOHN 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
Jun 06

Get Biblical Understanding #180 - Children

2 TIMOTHY 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
May 30

Get Biblical Understanding #179 - Children

EPHESIANS 5:6-7 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
May 23

Get Biblical Understanding #178 - Children

GALATIANS 4:1-3 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in...
May 16

Get Biblical Understanding #177 - Children

1 CORINTHIANS 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
May 09

Get Biblical Understanding #176 - Children

LUKE 17:1-2 Then He said to the disciples, “It is impossible but that offenses [sins] should come, but woe to him through whom they do come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he...
Apr 25

Get Biblical Understanding #174 - Children

MARK 9:21-22 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and...
Apr 18

Get Biblical Understanding #173 - Children

MATTHEW 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
Mar 28

Get Biblical Understanding #170 - Vengeance

ROMANS 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Mar 14

Get Biblical Understanding #169 - Lust

JUDE 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
Mar 07

Get Biblical Understanding #168 - Lust

2 PETER 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Feb 28

Get Biblical Understanding #167 - Lust

JAMES 1:14-16 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Feb 21

Get Biblical Understanding #166 - Lust

1 TIMOTHY 5:1-2 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Feb 14

Get Biblical Understanding #165 - Lust

1 CORINTHIANS 7:1-2 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman [carnal intercourse with a women or cohabitation]. Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let...
Feb 07

Get Biblical Understanding #164 - Lust

ROMANS 7:7-8 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner...
Jan 31

Get Biblical Understanding #163 - Steadfastness

REVELATION 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Jan 24

Get Biblical Understanding #162 - Steadfastness

HEBREWS 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.
Jan 17

Get Biblical Understanding #161 - Steadfastness

2 THESSALONIANS 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Jan 09

Get Biblical Understanding #160 - Steadfastness

EPHESIANS 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
Dec 27

Get Biblical Understanding #159 - Steadfastness

1 CORINTHIANS 16:13-14 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity.
Dec 13

Get Biblical Understanding #157 - Compassion

HEBREWS 4:14-15 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was...
Dec 06

Get Biblical Understanding #156 - Compassion

JOHN 11:31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
Nov 29

Get Biblical Understanding #155 - Compassion

LUKE 1:24-25 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Nov 22

Get Biblical Understanding #154 - Kindness and Gentleness

1 PETER 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Nov 15

Get Biblical Understanding #153 - Kindness and Gentleness

PHILIPPIANS 4:4-5 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation [gentleness] be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Nov 08

Get Biblical Understanding #152 - Eternal Life

JUDE 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Oct 18

Get Biblical Understanding #151 - Eternal Life

1 JOHN 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Oct 11

Get Biblical Understanding #150 - Eternal Life

TITUS 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Oct 04

Get Biblical Understanding #150 - Eternal Life

HEBREWS 7:14-16 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, Who is made, not...
Sep 27

Get Biblical Understanding #148 - Eternal Life

1 CORINTHIANS 15:25-26 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Sep 20

Get Biblical Understanding #147 - Eternal Life

ACTS 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
Sep 12

Get Biblical Understanding #146 - Eternal Life

JOHN 11:23-26 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he...
Aug 09

Get Biblical Understanding #145 - Eternal Life

JOHN 6:26-27 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth...
Jul 26

Get Biblical Understanding #144 - ANXIOUSNESS

MARK 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Jul 19

Get Biblical Understanding #143 - ANXIOUSNESS

1 PETER 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Jun 15

Get Biblical Understanding #141 - ANXIOUSNESS

MARK 6:49-50 But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out: For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
Jun 07

Get Biblical Understanding #140 - HUMILITY

JAMES 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
May 31

Get Biblical Understanding #139 - HUMILITY

EPHESIANS 4:1-2 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
May 24

Get Biblical Understanding #138 - HUMILITY

ROMANS 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
May 17

Get Biblical Understanding #137 - HUMILITY

LUKE 1:49-52 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath showed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of...
May 10

Get Biblical Understanding #136 - TRUTH

REVELATION 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
May 03

Get Biblical Understanding #135 - TRUTH

2 JOHN 1:3-4 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment...
Apr 26

Get Biblical Understanding #134 - TRUTH

1 JOHN 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we...
Apr 05

Get Biblical Understanding #132 - Truth

2 TIMOTHY 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Mar 29

Get Biblical Understanding #131 - TRUTH

2 THESSALONIANS 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Mar 22

Get Biblical Understanding #130 - TRUTH

EPHESIANS 4:20-21 But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
Mar 15

Get Biblical Understanding #129 - Truth

GALATIANS 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Mar 08

Get Biblical Understanding #128 - TRUTH

1 CORINTHIANS 5:7-8 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and...
Mar 01

Get Biblical Understanding #127 - TRUTH

JOHN 18:37-38 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the...
Feb 22

Get Biblical Understanding #126 - TRUTH

JOHN 4:23-24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Feb 15

Get Biblical Understanding #125 - Prophecy

REVELATION 22:6-7 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the...
Feb 08

Get Biblical Understanding #124 - Prophecy

REVELATION 1:19-20 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are...
Feb 01

Get Biblical Understanding #123 - Prophecy

2 PETER 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Jan 25

Get Biblical Understanding #122 - Prophecy

2 TIMOTHY 3:12-13 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Jan 18

Get Biblical Understanding #121 - Prophecy

1 CORINTHIANS 14:39-40 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. Let all things be done decently and in order.
Jan 11

Get Biblical Understanding #120 - Prophecy

1 CORINTHIANS 14:24-25 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship...
Jan 04

Get Biblical Understanding #119 - Prophecy

1 CORINTHIANS 12:8-10 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of...
Dec 14

Get Biblical Understanding #118 - Prophecy

ROMANS 15:12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
Nov 30

Get Biblical Understanding #116 - Prophecy

ACTS 13:40-41 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Nov 23

Get Biblical Understanding #115 - Prophecy

ACTS 2:17-18 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my...
Nov 16

Get Biblical Understanding #114 - Prophecy

JOHN 15:24-25 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law...
Nov 09

Get Biblical Understanding #113 - Prophecy

JOHN 13:37-38 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied...
Nov 02

Get Biblical Understanding #112 - Prophecy

LUKE 22:61-62 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
Oct 26

Get Biblical Understanding #111 - Prophecy

LUKE 21:22-23 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon...
Oct 19

Get Biblical Understanding #110 - Prophecy

LUKE 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Oct 12

Get Biblical Understanding #109 - Prophecy

LUKE 3:4-6 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall...
Oct 05

Get Biblical Understanding #108 - Prophecy

MARK 14:49-50 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled. And they all forsook him, and fled.
Sep 14

Get Biblical Understanding #105 - Prophecy

MATTHEW 24:1-2 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here...
Sep 07

Get Biblical Understanding #104 - Prophecy

MATTHEW 12:16-21 And charged them that they should not make him known: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my...
Aug 31

Get Biblical Understanding #103 - Service

HEBREWS 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Aug 24

Get Biblical Understanding #102 - Service

1 TIMOTHY 4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
Aug 17

Get Biblical Understanding #101 - Service

1 THESSALONIANS 1:9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
Aug 10

Get Biblical Understanding #100 - Service

PHILIPPIANS 2:28-30 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: Because for the work of...
Aug 03

Get Biblical Understanding #99 - Service

GALATIANS 5:13-14 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Jul 27

Get Biblical Understanding #98 - Service

2 CORINTHIANS 3:5-6 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth,...
Jul 22

Get Biblical Understanding #97 - Service

1 CORINTHIANS 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Jul 13

Get Biblical Understanding #96 - Service

ROMANS 15:25-27 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints. For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem. It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they...
Jul 06

Get Biblical Understanding #95 - Service

ROMANS 6:20-23 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to...
Jun 29

Get Biblical Understanding #94 - Service

LUKE 17:10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
Jun 21

Get Biblical Understanding #93 - Fellowship

1 JOHN 1:6-7 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us...
Jun 15

Get Biblical Understanding #92 - Fellowship

HEBREWS 10:34-35 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great...
Jun 08

Get Biblical Understanding #91 - Fellowship

2 TIMOTHY 1:2-4 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my...
May 20

Get Biblical Understanding #90 - Fellowship

PHILIPPIANS 1:3-5 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
May 18

Get Biblical Understanding #89 - Fellowship

2 CORINTHIANS 8:1-2 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit [make known to you] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the...
May 13

Get Biblical Understanding #88 - Fellowship

1 CORINTHIANS 12:25-26 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice...
May 13

Get Biblical Understanding #87 - Fellowship

ROMANS 15:5-7 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore receive ye one...
May 04

Get Biblical Understanding #85 - Discernment

HEBREWS 3:12-13 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Apr 29

Get Biblical Understanding #84 - Discernment

1 TIMOTHY 6:20-21 O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith.
Apr 27

Get Biblical Understanding #83 - Discernment

1 THESSALONIANS 5:4-6 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night; nor of the darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do...
Apr 22

Get Biblical Understanding #82 - Discernment

EPHESIANS 5:14-17 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye...
Apr 20

Get Biblical Understanding #81 - Discernment

1 CORINTHIANS 11:28-30 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many...
Apr 15

Get Biblical Understanding #80 - Discernment

ROMANS 12:2 And be not to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Apr 13

Get Biblical Understanding #79 - Discernment

LUKE 17:3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
Apr 08

Get Biblical Understanding #78 - Discernment

MATTHEW 24:4-5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Apr 01

Get Biblical Understanding #76 - Comfort

1 THESSALONIANS 2:11-12 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Mar 30

Get Biblical Understanding #75 - Comfort

PHILIPPIANS 4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful [full of care], but ye lacked opportunity.
Mar 25

Get Biblical Understanding #74 - Comfort

ACTS 20:32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Mar 23

Get Biblical Understanding #73 - Comfort

LUKE 12:29-32 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the...
Mar 18

Get Biblical Understanding #72 - Correction

JAMES 3:17-18 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated [willing to yield], full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in...
Mar 16

Get Biblical Understanding #71 - Correction

2 Timothy 2:24-26 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Mar 12

Get Biblical Understanding #70 - Correction

1 TIMOTHY 1:19-20 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away [rejected] concerning faith have made shipwreck: Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Mar 09

Get Biblical Understanding #69 - Correction

2 CORINTHIANS 13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Mar 04

Get Biblical Understanding #68 - Correction

LUKE 17:3-4 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt...
Feb 25

Get Biblical Understanding #66 - Forgiveness

LUKE 17:3-4 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt...
Feb 24

Get Biblical Understanding #65 - Selflessness

1 JOHN 3:17-18 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and...
Feb 18

Get Biblical Understanding # 64 - Selflessness

1 PETER 2:16-17 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Feb 16

Get Biblical Understanding # 63 - Selflessness

2 THESSALONIANS 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet [fitting], because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity [love] of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
Feb 11

Get Biblical Understanding # 62 - Selflessness

1 THESSALONIANS 2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls [lives], because ye were dear unto us.
Feb 09

Get Biblical Understanding # 61 - Selflessness

EPHESIANS 3:13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
Feb 04

Get Biblical Understanding # 60

GALATIANS 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Feb 02

Get Biblical Understanding # 59 - Selflessness

2 CORINTHIANS 1:8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
Jan 28

Get Biblical Understanding # 58 - Selflessness

1 CORINTHIANS 10:32-33 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Jan 26

Get Biblical Understanding # 57 - Selflessness

ROMANS 14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Jan 21

Get Biblical Understanding # 56 - Selflessness

ACTS 20:19 Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations [trials], which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Jan 19

Get Biblical Understanding # 55 - Selflessness

MATTHEW 23:11-12 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Jan 14

Get Biblical Understanding # 54 - Faith

1 JOHN 5:11-13 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the...
Jan 12

Get Biblical Understanding # 53 - Faith

JAMES 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Jan 07

Get Biblical Understanding # 52 - Faith

HEBREWS 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jan 05

Get Biblical Understanding # 51 - Faith

HEBREWS 10:38-39 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Dec 31

Get Biblical Understanding # 50 - Faith

2 TIMOTHY 3:14-17 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation...
Dec 29

Get Biblical Understanding # 49 - Faith

1 TIMOTHY 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Dec 24

Get Biblical Understanding # 48 - Faith

1 THESSALONIANS 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Dec 22

Get Biblical Understanding # 47 - Faith

PHILIPPIANS 1:29-30 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Dec 17

Get Biblical Understanding # 46 - Faith

GALATIANS 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness [kindness], goodness, faith [faithfulness], meekness [gentleness], temperance [self-control]: against such there is no law.
Dec 15

Get Biblical Understanding # 45 - Faith

2 CORINTHIANS 4:17-18 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which...
Dec 10

Get Biblical Understanding # 44 - Faith

Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the...
Dec 08

Get Biblical Understanding # 43 - Faith

ROMANS 10:1-4 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about...
Dec 03

Get Biblical Understanding # 42 - Faith

ROMANS 3:24-28 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through...
Dec 01

Get Biblical Understanding # 41 - Faith

ACTS 11:22-24 Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch. 23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them...
Nov 25

Get Biblical Understanding # 40 - Faith

ACTS 3:16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Nov 24

Get Biblical Understanding # 39 - Faith

JOHN 7:37-39 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (...
Nov 19

Get Biblical Understanding # 38 - Faith

JOHN 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Nov 17

Get Biblical Understanding # 37 - Faith

LUKE 8:24-25 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm. And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being...
Nov 10

Get Biblical Understanding # 35 - Faith

MATTHEW 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Nov 05

Get Biblical Understanding # 34 - Blessing

1 PETER 3:8-9 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye...
Nov 03

Get Biblical Understanding # 33 - Blessing

LUKE 24:50-51 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Oct 29

Get Biblical Understanding # 32 - Blessing

PSALM 115:18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.
Oct 27

Get Biblical Understanding # 31 - Repentance

REVELATION 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Oct 22

Get Biblical Understanding # 30 - Repentance

ACTS 11:21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Oct 20

Get Biblical Understanding # 29 - Prayer

1 JOHN 3:21-22 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
Oct 15

Get Biblical Understanding # 28 - PRAYER

HEBREWS 13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
Oct 13

Get Biblical Understanding # 27 - PRAYER

COLOSSIANS 4:2-4 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: That I may make it manifest, as...
Oct 08

Get Biblical Understanding # 26 - PRAYER

ROMANS 8:26-27 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth...
Oct 06

Get Biblical Understanding # 25 - PRAYER

MATTHEW 26:41-44 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it,...
Oct 01

# 24 - GRACE

1 PETER 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Sep 29

# 23 - GRACE

1 PETER 4:17-18 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the...
Sep 23

Get Biblical Understanding # 22 - THE GOSPEL

1 JOHN 4:9-10 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the...
Sep 18

Get Biblical Understanding # 21

2 TIMOTHY 1:10-11 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher...
Sep 17

# 20 - THE GOSPEL

PHILIPPIANS 1:27 Only let your conversation [conduct] be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the...
Sep 15

# 19 - THE GOSPEL

GALATIANS 1:3-4 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father.
Sep 03

# 18 - THE GOSPEL

ROMANS 5:1-2 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Sep 01

# 17 - THE GOSPEL

In this session we’re reading many but certainly not all of the biblical verses that have to do with the Gospel. The Apostle Paul writes that he is “not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that...
Aug 20

#16 - THE HEART (continuing)

COLOSSIANS 2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
Aug 18

# 15 - THE HEART (continuing)

EPHESIANS 6:5-7 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of...
Aug 13

# 14 - THE HEART (continuing)

ROMANS 10:8-11 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath...
Aug 11

# 13 - THE HEART

1 SAMUEL 13:13-14 But now [Saul] thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
Aug 06

# 12 - LOVE: THE CENTERPIECE OF CHRISTIANITY (conclusion)

Mark 12:29-30 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy...
Aug 03

# 11 - LOVE: THE CENTERPIECE OF CHRISTIANITY (continued)

1 JOHN 4:20-21 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his...
Jul 30

# 10 - LOVE: THE CENTERPIECE OF CHRISTIANITY (continued)

2 PETER 1:5-8 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance [self-control]; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to...
Jul 27

# 9 - LOVE: THE CENTERPIECE OF CHRISTIANITY (continued)

PHILEMON 1:5-7 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. For we...
Jul 23

# 8 - LOVE: THE CENTERPIECE OF CHRISTIANITY (continued)

This is number 8 in our first series of “Get Biblical Understanding” In this session we’re continuing our review of many of the verses that have to do with love. There is no other biblical topic more important than this one. Therefore it is...
Jul 21

# 7 - LOVE: THE CENTERPIECE OF CHRISTIANITY (continued)

This is number 7 in our first series of “Get Biblical Understanding” In this session we’re continuing our review of many of the verses that have to do with love. There is no other biblical topic more important than this one. Therefore it is...
Jul 14

# 6 - LOVE: THE CENTERPIECE OF CHRISTIANITY (continued)

This is number 6 in our first series of “Get Biblical Understanding” In this session we’re continuing our review of many of the verses that have to do with love. There is no other biblical topic more important than this one. Therefore it is...
Jul 14

Get Biblical Understanding # 5 - LOVE: THE CENTERPIECE OF CHRISTIANITY (...

This is number 5 in our first series of “Get Biblical Understanding.” We’re continuing our review of many of the verses that have to do with love. There is no other biblical topic more important than this one. Therefore it is imperative that we “get...
Jul 09

Get Biblical Understanding # 4 - LOVE: THE CENTERPIECE OF CHRISTIANITY (...

Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 14:15 But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
Jul 07

Get Biblical Understanding # 3 - LOVE: THE CENTERPIECE OF CHRISTIANITY

It should come as no surprise then that loving God is set forth as the “first and great commandment” (Matthew 22:38). Hopefully these sessions addressing love will help us all put the emphasis on God’s love first in our lives as the Scripture...
Jul 02

Get Biblical Understanding # 2 - GOD LOVING US

Ephesians 5:1-2 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Jul 01

Get Biblical Understanding #1 - LOVING GOD/GOD LOVING US

In this first series of “Get Biblical Understanding” we’re reviewing many of the verses that have to do with love. There is no other biblical topic more important than this one. Therefore it is imperative that we “get understanding” of this...
Jun 30

Get Biblical Understanding - INTRODUCTION

“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.” Proverbs 4:7 As a writer who addresses biblical topics I’m constantly searching the Scriptures to find verses that help me understand what God’s Word...