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PHall | November 21, 2014
Matthew 26:6-13 – Just because a religious act is good, does not make it right. While in Simon’s house, a woman approached Jesus and anointed Him with an alabaster jar of very expensive fragrant oil. When the disciples saw it, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they ask. “This might have been sold for a […]
PHall | November 15, 2014
A – Support for Work (10:5-15) Judgment Day – More Tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah (5.15) B –Persecutions and Family Because of Relationship to Christ (10:16-25) C – Don’t Fear Men; Fear God: Persecution vs. Eternity (10:26-31) B’ – Relationship to Christ Because of Persecutions and Family – (10:32-39) A’ – Support for Work (10:40-42) […]
PHall | September 3, 2014
Remember Jesus saying to render to Caesar the things that are Cesar’s and to God the things that are God’s? The same word, eicon, is used there as here. People have often wondered what all Jesus encompassed by the second phrase, “the things that are God’s.” Could the Jews have missed what Jesus was really […]
PHall | September 3, 2014
David refused to kill Saul who was guilty because he was the Lord’s Anointed (1 Sam.24:6). The Jews killed Jesus who was innocent because He was the Lord’s Anointed (Mt.26:63-64). While David is famously a type of Christ, David is also a type of what Israel should have been.
PHall | September 2, 2014
The Jews accused Jesus of blasphemy for reportedly saying He would destroy God’s temple; blasphemy since only God had the right to destroy His own temple (Mt.26:61; Mk.14:58). They didn’t understand they were guilty of blasphemy in destroying the body of Jesus, the real temple of God. Both destructions were carried out by Gentiles because […]
PHall | August 21, 2014
If loving God is the greater commandment over loving our neighbor (Mt.22:37-39); and if we cannot love God whom we have not seen if we hate our brothers who we have seen (1 John 4:20), then loving one another is one way that we learn and practice loving God.
PHall | August 5, 2014
Lately I have been fascinated by how many times Paul’s teaching reflects that of Jesus’. Sometimes it is just a peculiar word repeated, a phrase reworked, or an essential doctrinal issue reiterated. For example, in 1 Cor.5:4 in the discipline of a brother, Paul writes, “in the name of our Lord Jesus with my spirit […]
PHall | August 1, 2014
The parable of the laborers in Matthew 20:1-16 is lengthy but simple: Those who worked for only a little while were given the same pay as those who worked all day. From this we learn valuable lessons: 1) It is better to come to Christ late in life, that way you won’t have to work […]
PHall | July 25, 2014
When Jesus cleansed the temple, what was He doing? Obviously, He was removing the inward spiritual filth that contradicted the outward appearance of God’s glory (Jer.7). Hypocrisy is such a sin. But notice Jesus does this after riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. That act fulfilled the prophecy of Israel’s coming king (Zech.9:9); an event […]