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Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
As God’s people leave the Red Sea and journey into the wilderness, they become thirsty and they cannot find water. They travel on, beginning to be hungry, and realize they also lack food. Still further, they face another lack of water. The way the Israelites respond to these hardships is telling. God’s people have just seen the ten plagues that God brought against Egypt. With their own eyes they have watched the Red Sea give way to their crossing, and then drown the Egyptian army behind them. But only three days later, they lose faith in the God who provided them deliverance from slavery (Exodus 15:22).
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Victory has occurred! The Israelites have been rescued and their enemies have been drowned at the bottom of the Red Sea. God has finally and fully destroyed the Egyptians. No more bondage, no more oppression, no more slavery in Egypt. What is the response of Moses and the Israelites to the mighty power of God and his deliverance? A song. This song, often entitled “The Song of the Sea” is the first recorded hymn of the Hebrew nation.
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Jude has explained in various ways the apostasy (abandoning the faith) of antinomianism. Antinomianism is the wrong belief that, because of Christ’s work on the cross, Christians are no longer required to obey the commands of Scripture. The belief holds that because we are “not under law but under grace” (Romans 6:14), we do not have to live in accordance with it. Paul’s response is succinct: “What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!” (Romans 6:15) and “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” (Romans 6:1-2)
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
En garde is French for “on (your) guard.” In fencing, the phrase is shouted by the referee at the start of each match. This exclamation tells the fencers to assume a position ready for action, to prepare to contend against their opponents. Jude gives a similar exclamation at the opening of Jude 11: “Woe!” The word is an interjection. Jude is sounding the alarm, telling the church to be en garde against those who act falsely, to be in a position of readiness to recognize them, and to contend against them.
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
In the opening verses of this book, we learn that Jude has to change course regarding the intent of his letter, in order to address a significant issue in the church. “Certain people have crept in unnoticed” (Jude 4). They pervert God’s grace and deny Jesus as Lord. These people are such a threat to the Body of Christ that Jude spends most of the letter painting a picture of who they are so that we may be able to spot them and also avoid becoming them ourselves.
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Jude is addressing a situation in which a wheat-and-chaff separation is needed, as false teachers have infiltrated the church he is addressing. In the letter’s introduction, he draws a clear line between those who follow Christ and those who mean to harm the church. He aims to enlist the faithful in contending for the faith by teaching them to recognize and root out those who are false.
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
The crossing of the Red Sea is one of the most dramatic miracles in all of the Bible. This mighty act and its association with the people of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt makes it a foundational part of God’s history with Israel. It is referred to directly no less than fifteen times (Deuteronomy 11:4; Joshua 2:10; 4:23; 24:6-7; Nehemiah 9:9-11; Psalm 66:6; 77:16-20; 78:13, 53; 106:9-11, 21-23; 136:13-15; Isaiah 51:10; 63:11-13; Acts 7:36; 1 Corinthians 10:1-2, 13; Hebrews 11:29), with many more allusions (Psalm 18:13-15; 74:13; Isaiah 23:11; 43:16; Nahum 1:4; Zechariah 10:11). The Red Sea crossing is something that the people of Israel referred to again and again, because it reminded them of God’s great power and care for them. For us who live in anticipation of Jesus’ return, it is also a picture of Him delivering us from the power of sin and Satan.
Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
The exodus is a monumental event in human history. For 430 years, God’s people resided in Egypt (Exodus 12:41). Now they are free. But God knows the fickleness and forgetfulness of mankind, and this is why He builds the Feast of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread into the annual calendar of His people. He calls them to remember His great work of deliverance.
Monday Jun 13, 2022
Monday Jun 13, 2022
The day of the Passover has arrived just as God has promised (see Exodus 4:23). Pharaoh has not heeded God’s commands, therefore the firstborn males in all of Egypt will be killed. Israel will be saved from God’s wrath with this sign: the blood of a lamb smeared on their doorposts. Everything that God had told Israel to prepare for now comes to pass in the events that unfold.