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05/05/2021 – Day 353 – Esther 1-5// “The Jews’ Deliverance From Extermination”

There have been a handful of Esther movies of over the years. We saw what could have been the last one titled: “One Night WIth the King”. I …

05/04/2021 – Day 352 – Deuteronomy 29 -31// 30:6: “And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul, that you may live.”

29:19, 20 footnote: “The ungodly don’t know that God sees the imaginations of the heart. This is the primary reason why God sent the flood In Noah’s day …

05/03/2021 – Day 351 – Acts 25 – 26 // See 26:23 – Let’s take a homework assignment to review “what the prophets and Moses foretold of The Messiah to come, that He would suffer and be the first to rise, proclaiming light to the Jewish people and the Gentiles.”

I do have alot of thoughts on Paul before Agrippa. But I wanted to suggest we all delve first and foremost into the John Gill commentary below, being diligent …

05/02/2021 – Day 350 – 2 John – all //”Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.” John Wesley

Good morning! My Halley’s Bible Handbook notes:

“The other Apostles had all passed on, years before. John alone was left, the Primate of all Christendom, the last surviving Companion …

05/01/2021 – Day 349 – Revelation 7 – 10 // “Teach this post-Christian culture about God and about command repentance. That’s the only message we have, without it, no one would be saved.” John MacArthur

Revelation 7:4 – The 144,000 are from the tribes of Israel. The restraint of the angels was for a season, until the number of saved reached a number known …

4/30/2021 – Day 348 – Song of Solomon – In this book: “There are shallows in which a lamb may wade and there are depths in which an elephant may swim.” (sometimes even in the same passage)

Referencing my title, Matthew Henry comments that: “It requires some pains to find out the meaning of the Holy Spirit in the several parts of the book.”

I will make …

04/29/2021 – Day 347 – Psalm 143 – 145 // “I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.” Charles Spurgeon

The Apostle Paul is an excellent example of this quote from Spurgeon: In Romans, “oh why do I do what I know is wrong, woe is me” (paraphrased) …

04/28/2021 – Day 346- Nehemiah 10 – 13 // Nehemiah did that have the problem I expect of everyone speaking well of him…

Luke 6:26, spoken by Jesus: “Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets. Nehemiah was stern, …

04/27/2021 – Day 345 – Deuteronomy 26 – 28 / 1 of ? // Take note amongst other signs- national debt is a sign of a sinful nation…

I am going to share with you my footnote on Deuteronomy 28:15 of our reading. But note in the first sentence: “As of 2010, America was over $13 …

4/26/2021 – Day 344 – Acts 23 – 24 / Sandhedrin’s trumped up charges against Paul, Plot to kill him, and before the Roman Governor.

Except for perhaps going back at the end to capture some pithy comments from Matthew Henry on the sordid affair of sedition charges being leveled at Paul by the Jews …