Revering the Word

Judges 16 Samson’s sexual in and God’s mercy. ★ Support this podcast ★

God appears to have allowed Samson to get into a poor marriage with a Philistines to better place him in a position to defeat the Philistines. God does not want us to use this as a recipe to make poor decisions but what it does teach us is that God, despite perhaps a poor marriage or bad past decisions still desires us to honor and serve Him. The only perfect One was Jesus. All throughout history...

Romans 8:28 (LSB) says, “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.” This does not mean that all things that happen in life are good. It just means that God can make good from anything. This does not even mean that all our choices whether good or bad are of God’s will. It does mean that if we love Him and are called...

Spiritual and historical insight regarding voting from a Biblical perspective. ★ Support this podcast ★

It could be easy to gloss over the fact that the Israelites were under Philistine rule for 40 years. Forty years ago Ronald Reagan was president and in forty years many listening to this podcast will be home in heaven. Sometimes due to sin and evil in the world God will allow long seasons of challenges. He is still God, He has still performed marvelous works throughout history and He is still wort...

Why this jealousy and problems between Gilead and Ephraim? Where does this deep rooted jealousy potentially stem from? Why all this killing and evil if God is sovereign? ★ Support this podcast ★

In this season of history and really in all Biblical history God’s people lived in sin and sin has consequences. Much of our grief is as a result of sin. May we now through Jesus and the power of his Spirit live more holy lives and a result experience blessing rather than cursing. ★ Support this podcast ★

One of the largest problems in the world is the thought that mankind is good and is deserving of God’s blessing. What the whole Bible teaches is that mankind is corrupt and evil and that while we were still sinners under a curse God in his great love placed our curse on Jesus and thereby gave us mercy, forgiveness and right standing with Him. If we know the bad news the good news can be comprehend...

In the end wickedness will receive justice and God’s people will be rewarded. It is important to trust in that because at times in life wickedness will seem to be winning. In those season we need to trust God and his ways. There will many times be rewards in this life as we await the reward of heaven and the rewards in heaven. ★ Support this podcast ★

The record of Gideon’s leadership is mostly good but there is some bad. We have a similar situation, always, in choosing human leaders to lead our government. I desire we could elect Jesus, and we are to choose to follow Him, but governmentally we must choose between imperfect people. ★ Support this podcast ★

What a glorious Psalm. He is our rock and our refuge! Oh the blessedness of building our life on the rock that is higher. He hears your cry and He gives an eternal inheritance to all who fear him. ★ Support this podcast ★

This is a beautiful chapter of scripture. The reason Israel’s walk is like a yo yo and they fall away is because their faith is not remaining strong. Ultimately when we engage in sin and disobedience it comes from a lack of faith. When we see God for who He is and cultivate that faith we will be more steadfast and say no to sin. What God did in this chapter was to help build both Israel and Gideon...

It is important to see and know that all through history mankind has failed to follow God steadfastly. We many times turned our backs on God and worshipped the false God’s he warned us not to worship. Many times we wonder why bad things happen. Sin causes destruction. What is good for us to realize that we are not deserving of the cross but that God in His great love and mercy gave Jesus to us, de...

A woman leads welll again. In this instance Deborah writes and sings a song of praise to God. This is a short podcast. Please be encouraged to take the time to personally express grattitude and praise to God for his goodness to you. ★ Support this podcast ★

Praise the Lord for faithful, courageous women of faith who use their gifts for the glory of God. We are to test the prophets and Deborah passed the test, Does this mean that a women is to be a lead pastor or elder? ★ Support this podcast ★

When one examines Israel's history, it is easy to see their failure to consistently live for and honor God. Despite this, God keeps allowing them to return. This displays his merciful, loving kindness. What is even more remarkable is that to a world of people who rejected Him, He sent his son to save. This shows the great mercy and loving kindness of God. We are blessed that God did not give up on...

Since Israel was not going to drive out the land, God resigned to leave the people and false God’s of the land as a test. Israel largely failed. Today, we too live in a wicked world but now we have received the grace of forgiveness and of power in the Holy Spirit. With this grace and power we now are to live in a wicked world and shine bright and lead people out of darkness to the light. ★ Support...

This is important background not only to Judges but also to the history and story of man’s unfaithfulness. Understanding man’s failure should help us to be so grateful for Jesus and that through Him we have become God’s family with incredible promises in the ages and heavenly places to come. The book of Judges helps us to see how sinful mankind is andhow desparetely the world needs Jesus. ★ Suppor...

At times in this life things will not always be or turn out to be what we would like. We do get sick and die. It is best to have our trust in what has happened and what will happen in out future versus focusing on what is momentarily happening. Our momentary afflictions will ultimately be overcmoe in eternal victory. ★ Support this podcast ★

The Corinthian church struggled with conflict and in the closing chapter of this letter Paul sets a high standard. Conflict is hard and challenging but it is made exponentially worse when people do not honor God’s instruction. When in conflict seek to keep your emotions in check and any conflict you can simply overlook it is best to do so. It is to a man’s glory to overlook an offense. (Proverbs 1...

I believe in miracles and healing but it is a false belief that in this life everyone will be healed if they have faith. Faith is indeed important. Yet, it is not a mathematical equation in scripture that prayer for healing + faith for healing= healing. Praise God for when He does heal but sometimes our suffering produces even greater strength in Christ, in us. Toward the end of the letter Paul sh...

You are doing the right thing taking in the whole counsel of God’s Word. Be careful who you learn from and remember you are following Jesus, His Word and His Spirit. Don’t follow man first but Jesus first. With that said praise God for good men who seek to teach honorably and rightly but one still must compare what any man teaches to the Word. That is why it is critrical to study and study the who...

The Apostle Paul was criticized by false teachers who opposed Him and whom wanted to discredit Paul so people would follow them. In some cases this negatively influenced people. Ultimately Paul trusted in God and knew the criticisms were not truth. When persecuted or criticized take it to the Lord. Where God wants you to change, change. Where God commends you then be confident in Him and who you a...

The problem with false teaching is that some aspects of it have truth, which then can be used improperly. It is true that God knows about our generosity and can reward believers for their faithfulness. Sometimes this is overemphasized and used as a manipulation tactic to prompt people to be generous with a (their) specific ministry. I think it is relevant to teach the whole counsel of God’s Word i...

In this chapter the Apostle Paul turns to the topic of giving and generosity. it is good to reflect on how we invest our time and money and if that reveals to God a priority on His Kingdom. ★ Support this podcast ★