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  • Daily Devotional: Genesis 48:1-22

    Daily Devotional: Genesis 48:1-22

    Jacob is still considering his immanent death. He blesses Ephraim over Manasseh even though Manasseh is Joseph’s firstborn. The forsaken firstborn motif is present in Genesis, starting with Cain and Abel, and will present throughout the entire Old Testament. This motif typifies the incarnation of Christ. Adam, the firstborn man and federal head of creation…

  • Cain and Abel

    Cain and Abel

    Humankind has sinned. They have received a gracious punishment and generous promise. Though they chose death, they will live. Though they were defeated, they will have victory. The seed of the woman will bruise the head of the serpent and his seed. Humankind now lives outside the Garden of Eden. The man is cultivating the…

  • Worldview War

    Worldview War

    It is Fig Monday, and Jesus is being tested. He started teaching and healing people in the temple. A group of Pharisees tried to question His authority. After they failed, they sent their students with the Herodians to entrap Jesus—to prove He was no real teacher. Instead, they departed marveling because of Jesus’s teaching. The…

  • The Prophetic Vision of the Resurrection

    The Prophetic Vision of the Resurrection

    In John 20, we read one account of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave. Peter walked into the tomb and saw only the linen shroud. He called John to see that Christ’s body was missing. John saw and believed. In 20:9, the narrative provides us an interesting detail. They, Peter and John, did…

  • It’s All About the Temple

    It’s All About the Temple

    Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and her colt. He rides up to the temple and enters. The crowds called Him the son of David, the rightful heir to David’s throne. David is known for reforming the nation of Israel concerning her religious practices (cf. 1 Chronicles 15ff). Jesus, who fulfilled David’s typological reign,…

  • Tobit- Moral Living in an Immoral or Amoral Society

    Tobit- Moral Living in an Immoral or Amoral Society

    Chapter 1 v. 10-22 Tobit continues to describe his own piety. According to the author’s quotation, here, Tobit kept the Jewish dietary laws and even buried his countrymen who were slain under Sennacherib. Here, we must remind ourselves that Tobit’s character is doing something that is dishonoring to God and something that Jesus exposed as…

  • Compassion for the Unlovely

    Compassion for the Unlovely

    We have taken the last four months to remind ourselves of our local church’s foundation. My goal as the new pastor here is not to come in and change everything but to build on the foundation that has already been laid by Christ and through the faithful work of the previous pastor. That is why…

  • The Position of Christ- from David to the Exile

    The Position of Christ- from David to the Exile

    In our study of Matthew’s genealogy, so far, we have discovered that Matthew had a very particular purpose and wrote in an order, including specific information to accomplish that purpose. His gospel is not necessarily chronological, nor is it intended to include every detail of Christ’s life and ministry. In the previous session, we discovered…

  • The Work of Christ- from Abraham to David

    The Work of Christ- from Abraham to David

    In the previous session, we discovered that Matthew clarifies Jesus as the Messiah. This meant that Jesus was the completion of all creation. All of history and everything happening now and everything that will be done in the future forever finds its consummation in the bodily life of Jesus Christ (particularly as fulfilled in the…

  • Christ and Old Testament Law

    Christ and Old Testament Law

    “If I am good enough, a good God would not condemn me.” I hear this type of statement quite often as I interact with people who have not believed specifically in Christ, and there are a couple problems with the statement. First of all, how are we to know what it means to be good?…