HBS & DwJ Podcast

Blessings to all, Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study continues with: GOD ANNOUNCES THE COMING DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH part 2 As the two angels walk on toward the city, Abraham begins a kind of negotiation with the Lord.  His nephew Lot and his family live in Sodom. Abraham seems to be concerned for them. He boldly challenges the Lord: Will you sweep away the righteous w...

Our Scripture Of The Week Is: Psalm 119:1 KJVS  [1] Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. This is both the longest psalm and the longest chapter in the Bible. It may have been written by Ezra after the Temple was rebuilt (Ezra 6:14-15) as a repetitive meditation on the beauty of God’s Word and how it helps us stay pure and grow in faith. Psalm 119 has 22 carefully...

Blessings to all, Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study covers: GOD ANNOUNCES THE COMING DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH part 1 Up to this point, the Lord has not revealed to Abraham what He is going to do with Sodom and Gomorrah. The three men then set out on their journey, walking from Abraham's home near Hebron toward the city of Sodom. Abraham walks with them for a time, until...

Our Scripture Of The Week Is: Hebrews 1:1-2 KJVS  [1] God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,  [2] Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Hebrews begins with a reference to God's communication with mankind. The letter is primarily written to Jewish bel...

Blessings to all, Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study covers: GOD REAFFIRMS HIS PROMISE part 2 Once the meal is over, the Lord fully reveals Himself, in a conversation He conducts with Sarah through Abraham while she remains hidden and listening in the tent. First, the Lord asks where Sarah is and then reveals to her what He had said to Abraham in the previous chapter: by this tim...

Our Scripture Of The Week Is: Romans 12:10 KJVS  [10] Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Paul is giving a list of short commands to those who are in Christ. He is describing what it means to live as a self-sacrificing Christian. In the previous verse, he wrote that our love for each other must be sincere or genuine. Now he writes of love as...

Blessings to all, Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study covers: GOD REAFFIRMS HIS PROMISE part 1 Until you get to the New Testament, you may wonder why the eighteenth and nineteenth chapters of Genesis are included in the Bible. They seem rather detached from the story of Abraham. They deal with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Chapter 18 is a rather lengthy chapter in which G...

Our Scripture Of The Week Is: 1 John 2:3 KJVS  [3] And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. The rule for perfect living is to obey all of God’s commandments. But no one is perfect. That’s why Jesus Christ died for us, to forgive our sins. The key, therefore, is to consistently try to obey God’s commandments, realizing that we will fail in some.  At the point of our fail...

Blessings to all, Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study covers: Ishmael's Inheritance - Because Of Abraham God holds to the promise that He has made. As a sign of keeping this covenant, God had a new requirement for Abraham. He and every male of his household, born or bought, and every male in every generation to come, must be circumcised. This is the ritual removal of the foreskin....

Our Scripture Of The Week Is: Matthew 11:28 KJVS  [28] Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Jesus has made an extraordinary claim and now He makes an extraordinary offer to all who hear Him. He claimed in the previous verse to be the only one who knows God the Father and to be able to reveal the Father to anyone He chooses (Matthew 11:25–27).  Now He make...

Blessings to all, Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study covers: GOD’S COVENANT part 2 In the previous lesson we learned, as a sign of keeping this covenant, God had a new requirement for Abraham. He and every male of his household, born or bought, and every male in every generation to come, must be circumcised. This is the ritual removal of the foreskin.  Those who were not circumci...

Our Scriptures Of The Week Is: Psalm 51:10-12 KJVS  [10] Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  [11] Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.  [12] Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Because we are born as sinners, we naturally want to please ourselves rather than God. David followed that i...

Blessings to all, Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study covers: GOD’S COVENANT part 1 Here was a man who was a father before he had any children. Abraham was Abraham, father of a multitude, by faith at that time. But four thousand years later, where you and I sit, we can say that God sure made this good. The name stuck, if you please, and he is still Abraham, the father of a multitu...

Our Scripture Of The Week Is: Hebrews 10:14 KJVS  [14] For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Sacrifices under the old covenant had to be repeated over and over. This, according to the writer of Hebrews, is a deliberate aspect of the old covenant, as ordained by God (Hebrews 9:6–10).  These animal sacrifices could temporarily cover human sin, but could not remove...

GOD Gives Abraham A New Name A great many people feel that the seventeenth chapter is the most outstanding chapter of the Book of Genesis. Here God makes a covenant with Abram and confirms His promise to him about a son. He lets Abram know that Ishmael is not the one He promised to him. In one sense this chapter is the key to the Book of Genesis, and it may be a key to the entire Bible.  God’s cov...

Our Scripture Of The Week Is: Proverbs 15:29 KJVS  [29] The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. The apostle Paul underscores the fact that righteousness and lawlessness are incompatible. So are light and darkness, Christ and the Devil, a believer's portion and that of an unbeliever, the temple of God and idols (2 Corinthians 6:14–16).  The Lord is holy, holy, h...

Hagar Flees - The Plight Of Hagar part-2 The angel of the Lord, perhaps Yahweh Himself, finds Hagar resting at a spring along a road leading back to her homeland of Egypt. He gives to Hagar a command and a promise. First, the angel of the Lord tells Hagar to return and submit to Sarai.  Then He reveals that she will bare a son, Ishmael, and that his offspring will become so numerous as to be uncou...

Our Scripture Of The Week Is: Psalm 25:4 KJVS  [4] Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; teach me thy paths. Life is a journey, not a single step. This is something David's words recognize with clarity. In this psalm he uses the word "way" four times and "path" twice. Wisely, David does not lean on his own wisdom for direction in life. Rather, he asks the Lord for guidance. His prayer honors the counsel give...

Hagar Flees - The Plight Of Hagar part-1 The moral implications that you and I read into this are not quite here in the historical record. Abram and Sarai were brought up in Ur of the Chaldees where this was a common practice, and the moral angle is not the thing that for them was so wrong. The terrible thing was that they just did not believe God. The wrong that they committed by Abram taking Sar...

Our Scripture Of The Week Is: Hebrews 11:1 KJVS  [1] Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This often-quoted verse gives a direct definition of faith, meant to be read in the context of the rest of this letter. At the end of chapter 10, the writer of Hebrews finished describing why the new covenant in Jesus Christ was superior to the old covenant of anima...

Blessings to all, Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study covers: Sarai’s Suggestion - Unbelief Actions After Abram rose to the heights in chapter 15, you would say that he certainly is treading on high places—but he is not perfect. In chapter 16 we see the lapse of this man’s faith relative to Sarai and Hagar, the Egyptian maid. We have here the unbelief of both Sarai and Abram, and...

Our Scripture Of The Week Is: 2 Peter 3:8 KJVS  [8] But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. In verse 5, Peter indicated that these false teachers deliberately omit the truth about God in order to make their false case that Christ will not return, that there will be no judgment day. Now Peter urges his read...

GOD’S Covenant With Abraham – Prepare A Sacrifice part-2 Genesis 15 consists entirely of a long encounter between the Lord and Abram. When the ”word of the Lord” comes to Abram in a vision to bring reassurance of God’s support for him, Abram takes the opportunity to press God with questions. Abram asks both about his childlessness and how he can know he will one day possess the land of Canaan.  Go...

Our Scriptures Of The Week Is: Romans 8:35, 38-39 KJVS   [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? [38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,  [39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall...

Blessings to all, Welcome again, I am Jerry, this portion of our study covers: GOD’S Covenant With Abraham – Prepare A Sacrifice part-1 Even though Abram has faith, he respectfully asks one more question of the Lord, in response to God's repeated promise to give him the land of Canaan: "How am I to know?" God doesn't reject Abram's request for reassurance.  Instead He instructs Abram to gather fiv...