maybe I? I AI'd the history behind Matt 11:20-24 of what was the significance of the statement Jesus made highlighting these cities and that was the landing point, mainly I think of luke warmness, but indifference highlighted a stronger correction to excusing the miracles Jesus does in our life to bring about repentance.
How many times the number 40 shows up, it's a period of testing, trial or probation Isaac is forty when he marries Rebekah
Esau is forty when he marries his wives
40 days of rain
40 days before noah opens the window
I turned 40 when my world collapsed around me and my dreams
Moses 40 years in Midian, Israel 40 years in the wilderness, Moses forty days on the Mountain, Joshua was 40 when he was commissioned, Joshua's spies return after 40 days ... and more.
In Matthew 3, Matthew records Jesus living in Capernaum. Peter and his mother-in-law lived there. Jesus preached, performed healings, and miracles there and in the area. But in chapter 11, He says they didn’t repent. Unbelief even though all of God’s wonders and truth was revealed. I don’t understand why they rejected God Himself.
One thing to understand is that fundamentally people do not reject the Lord for lack of evidence. Consider Psalm 19 and Romans 1. It is for hardness of heart. "And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil." John 3.19
Genesis 22, known as "the binding of Isaac" - verse 8 “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” אֱלֹהִ֞ים יִרְאֶה־לּ֥וֹ הַשֶּׂ֛ה The Hebrew is ambiguous - it can mean "God will provide for Himself the lamb", but it can also mean "God will provide Himself - (as) the Lamb." I believe the Holy Spirit is conveying both!
And it is here on Mount Moriah where the temple will be built, whose sacrifices will point forward to the "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of world."
Gods, Word is filling and also fulfilling! Turn at my rebuke;
Surely I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you.....Please Heavenly father let us heed your correction! I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your terror comes,
27 When your terror comes like a storm,
And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.
Psalm 3 during those troubled times I need to always remember, You, O Lord, are a shield for me,
My glory and the One who lifts up my head.
I cried to the Lord with my voice,
And He heard me from His holy hill
Day 11 · Genesis 27–28 · Matthew 11 · Psalm 8
maybe I? I AI'd the history behind Matt 11:20-24 of what was the significance of the statement Jesus made highlighting these cities and that was the landing point, mainly I think of luke warmness, but indifference highlighted a stronger correction to excusing the miracles Jesus does in our life to bring about repentance.
Day 11 · Genesis 27–28 · Matthew 11 · Psalm 8
In my studies this phrase weighed heavily on my heart,
"Indifference toward Christ is the most dangerous spiritual condition"
24 But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.”
Are you quoting Luther? He said something very much like that.
Day 10 · Genesis 25–26 · Matthew 10 · Psalm 7
How many times the number 40 shows up, it's a period of testing, trial or probation Isaac is forty when he marries Rebekah
Esau is forty when he marries his wives
40 days of rain
40 days before noah opens the window
I turned 40 when my world collapsed around me and my dreams
Moses 40 years in Midian, Israel 40 years in the wilderness, Moses forty days on the Mountain, Joshua was 40 when he was commissioned, Joshua's spies return after 40 days ... and more.
Day 11 · Genesis 27–28 · Matthew 11 · Psalm 8
In Matthew 3, Matthew records Jesus living in Capernaum. Peter and his mother-in-law lived there. Jesus preached, performed healings, and miracles there and in the area. But in chapter 11, He says they didn’t repent. Unbelief even though all of God’s wonders and truth was revealed. I don’t understand why they rejected God Himself.
One thing to understand is that fundamentally people do not reject the Lord for lack of evidence. Consider Psalm 19 and Romans 1. It is for hardness of heart. "And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil." John 3.19
Day 8 · Genesis 21–23 · Matthew 8 · Proverbs 1:20–33
Genesis 22, known as "the binding of Isaac" - verse 8 “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” אֱלֹהִ֞ים יִרְאֶה־לּ֥וֹ הַשֶּׂ֛ה The Hebrew is ambiguous - it can mean "God will provide for Himself the lamb", but it can also mean "God will provide Himself - (as) the Lamb." I believe the Holy Spirit is conveying both!
And it is here on Mount Moriah where the temple will be built, whose sacrifices will point forward to the "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of world."
@andrew Yes, I say amen to your insight
Day 8 · Genesis 21–23 · Matthew 8 · Proverbs 1:20–33
Gods, Word is filling and also fulfilling! Turn at my rebuke;
Surely I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you.....Please Heavenly father let us heed your correction! I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your terror comes,
27 When your terror comes like a storm,
And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.
Day 7 · Genesis 18–20 · Matthew 7 · Proverbs 1:8–19
After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” Were never to old:)
@jurgen the outer man is perishing, but the inner man is being renewed day by day...
Day 7 · Genesis 18–20 · Matthew 7 · Proverbs 1:8–19
We walk in victory not just live in comfort. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Day 6 · Genesis 15–17 · Matthew 6 · Proverbs 1:1–7
lords prayer 6:14-15 revelation: God forgive me the way I forgive others...debtors an obligation to pay back
Day 3 · Genesis 6–8 · Matthew 3 · Psalm 3
Psalm 3 during those troubled times I need to always remember, You, O Lord, are a shield for me,
My glory and the One who lifts up my head.
I cried to the Lord with my voice,
And He heard me from His holy hill