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Tweets & Rants 16 March 2013: Matthew 26:17-35; Romans 10; Psalm 63; Deuteronomy 1-5

believes that Jesus is the main character of Daniel 9:24-27…He ended all sacrifice and offering by offering Himself. Mat 26:28 @WeeManWest

finds it unfortunate that sometimes a generation has to pass before the church can move on. Mat 24; Det 2:16 @WeeManWest

Matthew 26:18 God had prepared a “certain” man to take care of the Passover preparations through. We never know who that “certain” man is that God is going to bring into our lives.

Matthew 26:21 I’ve tried to place myself in that room, among His disciples, as He made this statement. I would almost think that initially the room would be silent in a stunned quiet. The hammer has essentially dropped. How would we respond if we were in the room?

Matthew 26:28 Jesus holds the first Lord’s Supper. We continue these today. Jesus’ words are what I’m drawn to in that He says His covenant is with many. This should call to our minds Daniel 9:27 in which the Prince who is to come of Daniel 9:25 makes a strong covenant (strong because it is in the blood of Christ) with manny for one “period” or covenant.

What brought this covenant into place? Daniel 9:24 states that it is about the holy city (Jerusalem) and that the 70 weeks would finish transgression, put an end to sin, atone for iniquity, bring in everlasting righteousness, seal up vision and prophecy and anoint a most holy place. This indeed is exactly what Jesus accomplished when He died on the cross! He is the anointed one in the text who comes and in cut off (He died on the cross).

Next we see that the city of Jerusalem and its sanctuary were to be destroyed, this indeed did factually occur in 70AD. It would take place in a war. It would leave the place desolate.

It says that he, which could refer to either the anointed one or the prince, will put an end to sacrifice and offering. Did not Jesus Christ bring all sacrifice and offering to an end with His own blood shed on the cross? Yes, He did indeed.

So who is the one who made desolate? The priests who would continue to make the offerings of the Law when the offerings had been brought to an end.

Matthew 26:31 Not only would there be one betrayer, but all of Jesus’ disciples would fall away. He would truly be left with nothing as Daniel’s prophecy stated.

Romans 10:4 We are so blessed to have Jesus Christ. He is the end all for those who believe.

Romans 10:9 Properly understanding what Paul is saying here is essential. We believe or have faith in our hearts. That faith will work itself out in our thoughts, words, and actions. Yet our unbelief is shown by our inaction.

A true belief in the resurrection of Christ will move our actions in Christ’s will.

Romans 10:18 The gospel had gone out to all the nations of the known world in Paul’s day. We should live with the goal of such thing happening again in our own.

Psalm 63:3 In an honest moment most of us will confess to loving our lives. We love the people in our lives, the things of our lives. Yet the love of God is so much better than this life. Believing this will truly motivate us in our walk with Christ to praise and worship.

Deuteronomy 1:8 The time has come, the wandering is over, Israel is about to take possession of the land they have been promised by God.

Deuteronomy 2:16 That generation had to pass before Israel could move on. Unfortunately, a lot of our churches are trapped in the same manner.

Deuteronomy 3:21 The vitories over Sihon and Og were intended to serve as a witness to Joshua, that God would give him victories in the same manner after they cross the Jordan into the promised land.

Deuteronomy 3:26 Moses had bugged God enough about going into the land. God would show Moses a final mercy and allow him to see the land from the mountain.

Deuteronomy 4:3 God will not tolerate compromise among His people. We cannot be wishy-washy fence-sitters. We are either with God or we are against Him.

Deuteronomy 4:6 God is exalting Israel for the sake of His name. His purpose in exalting this nation is that His own name would be exalted by all the nations because of them. God’s purpose for Israel was His own exaltation. Israel failed in that purpose and now God is using the church for His own exaltation. May we not suffer a similar fate!

Deuteronomy 4:22 Moses here serves to us as a picture of the Law. The Law can bring you to Christ, but only faith in Christ can bring you into His promises!

Deuteronomy 4:35 God did a special work in Israel that has never, and will never be repeated for the purpose that all would know that He alone is God!

Deuteronomy 5:29 God desires that we would have obedient hearts. We should desire the same for ourselves.

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Tweets & Rants 15 March 2013: Matthew 25:31-26:16; Romans 9:1-33; Psalm 61-62; Numbers 33-36

always reads this passage and is left totally convicted! Mat 25:31-47 @WeeManWest

thinks we should be thankful that Christ satisfied God’s justice rather than decrying how unfair His mercy seems. Psa 62:12 @WeeManWest

Matthew 25:37 I think here we see the righteous, not as those oblivious to their good works, although that may be partially the case, but rather as those so aware of their own wickedness and failure to do good that they are humbled by the mercy of God.

Matthew 25:44 These are they who had kept accounts of the good works they had done. Yet, the sum of their salvation is not in good works but in the mercy of a holy and just God.

Matthew 26:11 Poverty can always be used as an excuse NOT to do something that may be expensive or costly. We must realize that there will always be poor among us in this world until Christ’s age comes.

Matthew 26:16 Judas is lets himself out for hire to betray Jesus. It seems he was offended by Christ in the matter of the anointing at Bethany. I can’t help but wonder if Judas was breathing the word hypocrite under his breath on his way to betray Jesus.

Romans 9:6 Paul is making a very pertinent point for our day. We give unconditional support to a nation simply because they are called Israel. Paul makes the point that simple descent from Abraham isn’t what God is concerned about, nor is it what we should be concerned about.

Romans 9:8 The children of Abraham, the ones we should be concerned with are the ones who are children of promise, through faith.

Romans 9:16 Again, Paul touches on the sovereignty of God. God chose Jacob over Esau before they were ever born. God raised Pharoah up for the purpose of hardening his heart to show God’s power. God is the one who shows mercy, man doesn’t demand anything from God, nor does he inherit a birthright from God.

Romans 9:21 God has full right to take the same lump of clay and make both good and bad pots. Israel, the same lump, has produced a lineage of faith and a lineage of unbelief. God made them this way.

Romans 9:22 What if God chose to endure patiently the wickedness of those who were prepared for destruction in order to glorify Himself in those who were not? He is God and He is sovereign. He will show mercy to whom He will show mercy.

Romans 9:29 Paul knew prophetically what was to come for Israel and Jersualem. He knew desolation was coming. God mercifully left them with a remnant or they would have been utterly destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Romans 9:30 Gentiles were attaining what God had intended for Israel to attain, a righteousness by faith, not by works nor by lineage…but by faith alone.

Psalm 61:2 When we are overwhelmed and drowning the one refuge we may have is that we need led to the Rock that is higher than we are, our God who is above the fray.

Psalm 62:1 Our souls should wait silently for the salvation of God. We should wait for Him alone and trust in Him alone for our salvation.

Psalm 62:6 Though the entire world around us be shaken, we remain unshaken in the fortress that is our God.

Psalm 62:12 One thing we cannot miss in all of God’s mercy is that He is just. That is why Jesus is central and important. God’s justice had to be satisfied.

Numbers 33:53 After 40 years of wandering, God is giving them a place to possess and settle.

Numbers 33:55 The inhabitants that are not driven out in the conquest would remain as barbs and thorns to Israel. The same is true for us. Whatever remnants of our old life we allow to remain will continue to prick and inhibit our life in Christ until they are removed.

Numbers 35:6 The Levite cities were to be cities of refuge where people were to flee who believed a killing they had committed was done in self-defense or by accident.

Numbers 35:30 The death penalty was not taken lightly. The accused had right to trial and had to be convicted on solid evidence from multiple witnesses and even still had the right to flee to a city of refuge.

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Tweets & Rants 9 March 2013: Matthew 24:1-14; Romans 6:15-23; Psalm 56; Numbers 21-22

thinks Balaam is probably best described as a prophet for profit who made a donkey of himself! Num 22:32 #itscheesyIknow @WeeManWest

believes the context of “these things” is the desolation and destruction of Jerusalem that Jesus had just prophesied. Mat 24:1 @WeeManWest

Matthew 24:3 The “things” the disciples are asking Jesus about pertain to the context. Jesus had just prophesied the blood vengeance upon Jersusalem, its desolation, and the destruciton of its temple. They want to know when it is going to happen.

Jesus’ coming and Jesus’ return are two separate Scriptural concepts of which one cannot differentiate without understanding the writings of the prophets.

Jesus’ coming is about His vengeance, His judgment, which He had just prophesied was going to come to Jerusalem.

Jesus’ return will occur at the last day of His and the Final Judgment will occur at that point.

The end of the age? What age? This is not pointing to the end of time but rather the end of the age they were in that was dominated by the Law and the Temple in Jersualem. When would that age end? 70 AD!

Matthew 24:14 After giving the disciples a series of signs that have been obeserved in every generation since, He gives them a very specific sign. Gospel proclamation in all nations.

The early church was able to achieve this feet, though on a limited scale, as Paul quotes in Romans.

I do believe that before the end of this age, the age that began with the cross, we will again encounter…and hopefully be a part of…a final great movement of the gospel.

Romans 6:16 This rule applies not only in the realm of sin and righteousness but also in the realm of life. Where is your obedience? If you are obeying God you will be clean and clear from obedience to the many forms of idolatry in our day.

We are a slave to whomever we choose to obey. May we choose obedience to Christ.

Romans 6:22 Our life focus becomes Christ Jesus and living out His righteousness in this dark world. Such is the best fruit imaginable.

Psalm 56:1 We desperately need the grace of God at work in our lives. We are trampled and attacked yet God is graciously working out things in this world for our everlasting benefit in the age to come.

Psalm 56:9 What greater assurance can we have than this, that in all the trials we face, God is for us. Even if the trial takes our very lives we know two things: #1 He will have His day of judgment and vengeance; #2 He is our reward.

Numbers 21:5 They loathed the food of God. How rebellious we are?

Numbers 21:9 God allowed a plague of serpents to come among the people. If they were bitten they died. When they plead for mercy God instructs Moses to put a bronze serpent on a staff and to tell the people to simply look upon the bronze serpent when they are bitten and they will live.

We are all bitten by the serpent and sin is killing us. Yet, we simply look to the cross in which Jesus Christ hung the serpent and we will live!

Numbers 22:22 God was angered because Balaam went. Balaam knew that God was not going to allow him to curse Israel. Balaam went because he thought that surely he could turn a profit out of this venture.

Numbers 22:31 Balaam was blind to God’s interference in his journey. God had to allow a donkey to speak to him to deliver him from his maddening quest for wealth. Balaam could now see the angel of the Lord standing with his sword drawn to strike him down.

Balaam had thought his donkey was making a mockery of him, yet his donkey was merely trying to spare his life. It was Balaam who was making a donkey out of himself.

Numbers 22:32 Balaam was a prophet for profit. He was perverse in his quest for wealth.

Numbers 22:35 Balaam was permitted to go, yet he was only allowed to speak to them what he is told by God. Balaam will break this covenant chasing wealth as we will see.

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Tweets & Rants 3 March 2013: Matthew 22:1-14; Romans 2; Psalm 50; Numbers 5-6

is ashamed at how little time he spends in actually giving thanksgiving to God, we should all spend more time in it! Psa 50:23 @WeeManWest

thinks we often point out and judge the sins of others because we don’t want to look at our own sins and judge them. Num 6:23 @WeeManWest

Matthew 22:7 Jesus chooses another parable to lay out what was soon to come to Jerusalem. Their city would be burned and destroyed. The kingdom would transition to the nations as it goes today.

May we be wary in and of ourselves that our jobs and finances will not be more important than His kingdom.

Matthew 22:11 This man wasn’t clothed in wedding clothes. He wasn’t walking in the righteousness imputed to him by Christ Jesus.

Many will cling to Chritianity for its benefits while simultaneously denying the God of Christ. They don’t know Christ, but believe the Christianity is the right way to go. Do we really know Jesus? More yet, does Jesus really know us?

Romans 2:4 We are so drawn to judgment, especially when it comes to the actions of our enemies. Yet we commit sin just as they do so we really are in no place to judge them as condemned. God’s grace to us is designed to lead us into repentance. Instead, it hardens our hearts because we presume that we deserve grace.

Pharoah’s heart was hardened by grace because he failed to repent, but yet presumed upon the mercy of God.

Let us not be found with the same judgmental, unrepentant heart in the day of judgment for God will judge justly.

Romans 2:11 We can be certain that God will not be partial when He judges. Everything will be laid bare before Him and we must all give an account. How woefully we approach the judgment as we live for ourselves with judgmental attitudes and yet we presume that God should be merciful to us when we have shown no mercy and no repentance.

Romans 2:13 The Law is not about hearing, but about doing. Justification comes to those who do the law by faith. Everyone hears the Law of God in one form or another. Yet those who believe will do the Law.

Do we really believe what God says? If so, we should live like it without question.

How do we explain those who haven’t heard the Law and yet keep the Law? They hear the Law in their conscience that is informed by God and they either obey or disobey their conscience.

Romans 2:24 We have set a terrible example of holiness if indeed God’s name is blasphemed among unbelievers because of the way we act as believers. We are so quick to rush to judgment when so often it is we ourselves who should be judged and found guilty!

Romans 2:29 Circumcision is a matter of the heart. Are our hearts circumcised to God to do His will and heart His voice? All the outward adornments and trappings of religion and religiosity are meaningless. What matters is that our heart belongs to God and the works that show up in our lives as a result bring honor and glory to God alone!

Psalm 50:6 The heavens declare the righteousness of God. Look how they shine and light our days and nights and yet we don’t give God the glory they do.

Psalm 50:16 We wonder how God may feel as people who openly reject Him try to call upon His blessings only to give themselves credit for them. Here we get a glimpse. Wicked people call upon God as though He is a talisman or token to get them through difficult and perilous circumstances.

Is that what God has become to us? Is He our token, our talisman, our get out of jail free card? He should be our King from whom we take orders and live our lives in full obedience.

Psalm 50:23 The sacrifice that glorifies God is one of thanksgiving. Do we really have a thankful heart when we approach God? We should be continually thankful for all that He has done in our lives.

Yet, we tend to take God’s blessings for granted and we presume upon His mercy and barely even speak to Him, much less thank Him.

Numbers 5:2 The Scriptures give us a picture of both sides of God. Here we see a picture of God’s holiness and how disastrous sin (leprosy pictures sin) is to the community of God.

Yet, we see Christ touching the leper and thus see the other side of God. So many are quick to judge the word when they have only read it in part. We must commit ourselves to read the whole word of God in order to get the fullest picture of God that we can in this age.

Numbers 5:15 I know, some of you are like, “Seriously, the guy only has to be jealous to do this?!” Yet, one thing this should get across to us is that God cares about our marriages and wants us to remain faithful to one another.

Another point is that the guilty woman, more than likely isn’t going to submit to this but will testify to whom she has committed adultery with so that both will be punished.

Numbers 6:8 The Law of the Nazarite was separationg from fermented drink or from any fruit of the vine. He was also not to shave or cut his hair. He was also not be touch anything dead or he would have to start the vow over again.

The Nazirite was to be holy to God the entire time of his vow.

Numbers 6:23 The priests were charged with blessing the nation of Israel. They were to ask for God to bless and protect them. They were to call His face of blessing, mercy and grace to be upon them. They were to call for God to bring them peace with Himself.

We should call similar blessings upon our families and our churches that we may shine a light for this world to see

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Tweets & Rants 1 March 2013: Matthew 21:23-32; Romans 1:1-17; Psalm 48; Numbers 1-2

is amazed at the power of God to save us and make us righteous, positionally and practically in Christ Jesus. Rom 1:16 @WeeManWest

is focused on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, a fact changing everything by declaring Jesus to truly be God in power. Rom 1:4 @WeeManWest

Matthew 21:27 We try so often to negotiate with God and get Him to come to us on terms that work better for us and lead to less pain for us. If we are going to go to God we have to go on His terms, even if His terms lead to our harm.

Matthew 21:32 God’s terms are very simple and yet we make them complicated. He came to Israel with a Law they promised to keep and failed to do so. God sent His Son to keep the Law and bring everyone into the kingdom by faith. Yet, they still chose to ignore what God was doing.

Jesus showed them that even the dregs of their society, tax collectors and prostitutes, were receptive and yet they, the blessed of thier society were rejecting the message and would be denied.

Romans 1:4 Jesus is declared to be the Son of God in power by His resurrection from the dead. Jesus resurrection is historical fact. The declaration His resurrection makes is why so many try to disprove His resurrection. They don’t want to recognize Him as God.

Romans 1:14 We are under obligation to preach the gospel. Whether we preach to a Greek or a barbarian, a wise or foolish person, we are under obligation to preach the gospel wherever we may happen to be.

Romans 1:16 Salvation is the power of God. He has the power to save any person who will come to Him by faith. He will not only powerful impute on us the righteousness of Christ but He will also work in us to produce His righteousness in our lives. What a powerful God we serve.

Romans 1:17 God’s righteosness is revealed from faith to faith. We live by faith and that is our righteousness. Faith allows us to understand that all we see was crafted by one we cannot see.

Psalm 48:10 Our goal should be that the praise of God’s name due His righteousness would reach the ends of the earth. We must be committed and vigilant to that task till He returns.

Psalm 48:13 We shouldn’t focus only on our own getting the message out, but also on preparing the next generation to carry the gospel with them.

Numbers 1:3 God orders a census as part of a mustering campaign for the upcoming military conflicts in Canaan. God is mustering up His army.

Numbers 1:46 God musters an army of more than half a million people. One can’t help but wonder the size of the Hebrew community at this time. I would say at least double if not triple that number was probably the total size of the community including women and children. Probably around 2 million.

Numbers 1:50 The Levites were not to go to war, but were charged instead with the care and protection of the tabernacle.

Numbers 2:3 On the east side of the camp one is to have Judah, Issachar and Zebulun. Leah’s kids, Judah the 4th born and Issachar the 9th, Zebulun the 10th.

Numbers 2:10 On the south of the camp is to be Reuben, Simeon, and Gad. Leah’s firstborn Reuben and second born Simeon with Zilpah’s first born Gad.

Numbers 2:17 The Levites and the tabernacle were to be in the midst of the camps, just as Christ is in our midst by faith. Leah’s 3rd born.

Numbers 2:18 On the west side shall be Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin. Rachel’s kids, Joseph, her first born, the 11th had Ephraim and Manasseh. Rachel’s lastborn Benjamin. The fist and the last.

Numbers 2:25 On the north side of the camp were to be Dan, Asher, and Naphtali. Bilhah’s first born Dan and second born Naphtali who were 5 and 6, with Zilpah’s second born and 8th Asher.

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Tweets & Rants 22 January 2013: Matthew 8:1-13; Acts 11:1-18; Psalm 18:25-50; Genesis 41

can’t add to the fact that Jesus touched the leper…who are we unwilling to touch with the power of the Gospel? Mat 8:3 @WeeManWest

needs to recognize how unworthy he is to be in God’s presence so that he will be more thankful for God’s presence. Mat 8:8 @WeeManWest

believes we must recognize that God works in and through us so we will stop taking credit for what He is doing. Gen 41:16 @WeeManWest

Matthew 8:3 Jesus touched the leper. That statement stands alone. Who are the undesirables in our world that we are unwilling to touch?

Matthew 8:8 We’ve got to become like this centurion and recognize how unworthy we are to be in the presence of Christ.

Matthew 8:11-12 Jesus is saying that the kingdom will be filled with Gentiles while so many sons of Israel will be expelled from it. We should heed this lesson and guard ourselves against our sinful behaviors that will destroy us.

Acts 11:17 Peter didn’t want to stand in God’s way. He recognized that God was at work and joined God in the work that he was doing.

Acts 11:18 They recognized that this kingdom of Jesus Christ was for the Gentile peoples as well as the Jews. Christ isn’t to be hoarded, but to be shared. He isn’t to be saved but spent.

Psalm 18:27 Our way should be the way of the humble for God saves the humble but instead we too often tend to our own prideful ways.

Psalm 18:32 God gives us strength because all the power we have comes through righteousness. He makes us righteousness and His righteousness is our strength for the daily battles we face.

Psalm 18:34-42 We see that God is a mighty warrior! We have lost sight of the mighty warrior that our God is in our modern context. We focus on our loving God but fail to recognize that love motivates the warrior to fight for those He loves. This prophesies the victory of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 18:43-45 This is a picture of Christ Jesus, our conquering warrior King, seated on His throne ruling over all peoples. All will bow before Him.
Psalm 18:49 God works in this world for the purpose of worship. He wants us to worship Him.

Genesis 41:1 Pharoah dreams a dream. God has now decided it is time to exalt Joseph.

Genesis 41:9-13 The cupbearer recalls Joseph’s ability to interpret dreams to Pharoah. We see here the lesson that we should always act as God gives us the opportunity for we never know where those opportunities will lead. Joseph’s unsought help of the prisoner cupbearer is leading him now to the throne of Pharoah.

Genesis 41:14 Joseph continues to serve as a type of the Christ. He ascends from the pit clean-shaven and in new clothes just as Christ ascended from the pit in His glorified, resurrected, body. Joseph goes before Pharoah just as Christ went before our Father.

Genesis 41:16 Joseph recognized that the ability to interpret dreams was not his own, but rather it was God working in His life. We so must recognize when and how God works in our lives so that we stop taking credit for what God is doing.

Genesis 41:40 Joseph continues this type of Christ in that now he reigns over the entire kingdom of Egypt and is only submissive to Pharoah. Jesus rules over the kingdom of God and is submissive only to our Father.

Genesis 41:45 Joseph’s name is changed to Zaphenath-paneah which means treasury of rest and he was given Asenath which means belonging to the goddess Nieth who was the daughter of Potiphera “he whom the Rah gave” as his wife.

Genesis 41:46 Joseph was 30 when he began serving Pharoah. Most commentators believe Jesus was 30 when he was baptized and began His ministry.

Genesis 41:51 Joseph’s firstborn son is Manasseh meaning “causing to forget” and said, “For God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”

Genesis 41:52 Joseph’s second son is Ephraim meaning “double ash heap, I will be doubly fruitful” and said, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 41:56-57 When Joseph opened the storehouses of provision, the grain was not for Egypt alone, but for the entire world. So also, when Christ opened the storehouses of heavenly provision for our sin it was not for Israel (spiritually called Egypt) alone but for the whole world.

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Tweets & Rants 19 January 2013: Matthew 6:25-34; Acts 9:20-43; Psalm 16; Genesis 35-36

is certain that worrying adds nothing 2 our lives but more stress and anxiety, it will not get us any closer 2 our goals. Mat 6:27 @WeeManWest

thinks that those closest to Christ are not worried about whether they get to eat today. Christ is their food. Mat 6:32-33 @WeeManWest

Matthew 6:25 We are all so anxious about our lives. We worry daily about what we will have to eat or what clothes we will wear. Often our lives become about the constant striving over keep ourselves taken care of instead of about the great things of God. Our life is so much more than food and clothing.

Matthew 6:27 Worrying adds nothing to your life but stress, anxiety, and doubt. No holy virtue is added to your life by worrying about how things are going to work out. I can worry and stress over what has to be done today but in all of my stress and worry I am unable to stretch the day by even one hour.

Matthew 6:26 & Matthew 6:28-30 God provides food and clothing to things we observe in nature and He will do the same for us.

Matthew 6:31-33 Jesus lays out the difference between living under His kingdom law and the law of this world. Worldly people spend their time and effort chasing food and clothing. God knows that we need food and clothing and He will provide those things for us. Our focus is to be on the kingdom of Jesus and on His righteousness. It is to our shame that we Christians stay so focused on this material world and neglect our King’s kingdom and His righteousness. Those who are closest to God are among the least concerned about this material world. They aren’t concerned about food and clothing. If they eat goood, if they don’t good.

Matthew 6:34 One lesson we can all learn is that each day has enough anxiety and struggle by itself. We need to focus on living today for Christ in obedience to the law of His kingdom.

Acts 9:20-22 Transformation is the mark of the Gospel. The Christian person is the transformed person. Have you been transformed by the Gospel.

Acts 9:26-31 Paul just needed to get his foot in the door, literally, at the church of Jerusalem. Barnabas took a chance and trusted in what God was doing in his life.

Acts 9:32-43 Peter simply follows the work of Christ. His work leads to healing and to a place in Joppa. Peter has not idea what God’s next step is for him. He is simply obediently following wherever God is working. We should be doing the same, yet we are caught up in this material world and kept from His mission.

Psalm 16:2 Do we really believe that we have no good apart from God, or do we live as though we have the ability to make our own good in our lives?

Psalm 16:5-11 Is God all that we have or do we consider the materials that we have as equally important? David had laid it all upon God and we should follow in the same path. Psalm 16:10 is quoted in regards to Jesus’ resurrection from the dead so certainly David’s sentiments are the same as those of our Savior and should be also found in us who claim to follow Christ.

Genesis 35:1-8 Jacob ends the paganism and polytheism of his clan. They pledge to worship the one true God at Bethel, future Bethlehem, where the one true God would enter this world as a baby. Jacob is now officially Israel, and the inheritor of the promises of God.

Genesis 35:18 Rachel names her last born, as she dies, Ben-oni meaning “son of my sorrow” but Jacob names him Benjamin meaning “son of the right hand”.

Genesis 35:19 Rachel dies en route to Bethel. So a son was born at Bethel to Israel. Picture of Jesus Christ’s own birth that would come.

Genesis 35:22 Reuben sleeps with Bilhah and Israel heard of it. This would damage Reuben’s standing. Reuben would be denied the firstborn birthright and the authority that comes with it as days passed.

Genesis 36 Here we see the lineage of Esau, the rejected line. Several of these name will rise up again in Scripture. Usually in opposition to what God is doing with Israel.

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Tweets & Rants 17 January 2013: Matthew 6:1-15; Acts 8:26-40; Psalm 14; Genesis 28-30

must do his good works for the attention and reward of God alone and not for the attention and praise of man. Mat 6:1 @WeeManWest

believes that our prayer life is about God and not about us, our prayer life should exalt God not our needs. Mat 6:9 @WeeManWest

believes that prayer is the bridge over the gulf that begins to bring God’s likeness back into this world through us. Mat 6:10 @WeeManWest

thinks the key to unleashing the power of the Gospel in our lives is found in recognizing these verses describe us. Psa 14:1-4 @WeeManWest

Matthew 6:1 What is our motivation? Jesus says that according to the law of His kingdom, our motivation should be the reward from our Father in heaven, not the praise and attention of people on this earth.

Matthew 6:3-4 Our charity should be secret charity that is unheard of and unknown of by any but us, the recipient and God.

Matthew 6:5-6 Our prayer life is not for show. Our prayer life should be lived far stronger in our secret private life with God than should it be displayed for others to see us in it.

Matthew 6:7-9 We shouldn’t try to piece together wordy, theological prayers when we talk to God. Our prayer life should be an extension of our thought life. We should talk to God in regular language. We don’t have to dress up our verbiage to be acceptable to God.

Matthew 6:9 Prayer should focus on Who God is (Our Father) and Where God is (in heaven) and should be centered around lifting up His holy name. Our prayer life is not about us but it is about God.

Matthew 6:10 Prayer is the bridge over the gulf that begins to bring God’s way of life to earth. We seek God’s kingdom come into our world through us. We seek to do God’s will and that His will would be done in this world. We are placing ourselves as the agent of doing God’s will and living a kingdom life when we pray. We engage in the transfer of heavenly living coming down to earth.

Matthew 6:11 Finally, we focus on ourselves. All we can really say about ourselves is a discussion of our needs. We ask God for daily bread. When is the last time we stopped to recognize our real, daily need for God’s physical provision in our life? We should daily be at His feet requesting His provision. We should also see in this the provision of Christ as our daily bread. We feast from Him daily.

Matthew 6:12 Our greatest need is the sin problem. We need forgiveness. Yet, this isn’t a daily cleansing for the sake of eternity but for the sake of our daily walk. Once we are Christ’s we are His. Yet, we still sin and daily we should come to His feet and ask His forgiveness.

However, this doesn’t end with our being forgiven. No, indeed it ends with our ability to forgive others. We see ourselves freed from our sins as we find, through the Holy Spirit, the ability to forgive those who have wronged us. The principle of mercy is at the heart of Christ’s kingdom. If we receive it, we must give it.

Matthew 6:13 Having sought forgiveness we now seek to be protected from temptation. The last thing we need in our weak flesh is to be lead into temptation. We should daily ask that God lead us not into temptation and that He would deliver us from evil. We live in an evil world. A world so evil that those of us who seek to do right are considered its enemies.

We need not only delivered from the evil others may perpetrate but also to be aware of the evil that we ourselves may perpetrate under the right set of temptations and circumstances. Prayer should make us aware of our weakness and need and of the power of God to be mighty in both.

Matthew 6:14-15 Jesus is not teaching that our salvation is conditional. I believe He is discussing our daily cleansing and our need to be free from the entanglements of sin in our lives. The more merciful we are to others the more daily mercy we will receive from God. However, mercy is not a license for licentiousness.

Matthew 6:1-15 Christ’s law of His kingdom focuses squarely on our motivations. What is going on in our hearts. He wants to make our hearts right with Him but that process requires us to begin being honest with ourselves about what is going on inside our own hearts.

Acts 8:26 Sometimes God will call us to the desert place. Often this call will occur when we are in the midst of plenty. Philip was part of God’s work in a Samaritan revival. Yet from this revival God sends Philip to the desert place. How willing are we to obey God and go from the place of plenty to the desert place?

Acts 8:38 Philip baptizes the Ethiopian Eunuch who just so happens to be Head of Treasury for the queen of Ethiopia at the time. Philip’s faithfulness in going to the deser place is now sending the Gospel to Ethiopia.

Psalm 14:1 It is difficult to reject the concept of God. One has to have faith that everything that exists, by chance or luck, just happened to come from nothing and in just happening to come from nothing, came in such a systematic way that we can exist on this planet. Before I knew Christ I found that hard to believe, even more so now that I know Christ!

Psalm 14:1-4 Unless we see ourselves described in these verses we are not really ready to see the Gospel transform our lives. We may say there is a God, yet our heart denies the reality by our motivations and goals. If we believe in God we will live as though God exists.

Genesis 28:9 I have been too often just like Esau. I just don’t get it. He just doesn’t get it.

Genesis 28:19 Jacob’s place for his ladder dream is the place that eventually Christ would enter this world.

Genesis 28:20-22 Jacob vows that IF God does all this stuff for him that THEN he will serve God. Sorry Jacob, God doesn’t work that way. Jacob will learn this lesson the hard way.

Genesis 29:25 Jacob, the deceiver, is now the deceived. He doesn’t seem to like it very much. Often we find that our worst qualities are turned against us by another of the same qualities. I believe God does this to expose us to those qualities within ourselves to which we would otherwise be blind.

Genesis 29:31-35 God allows Leah to give birth to children because Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah. Honestly, I believe this was turnabout. God was, through Laban’s deception, giving Jacob the more righteous wife in Leah. God had done the same, through Rebekah’s deception, in giving Isaac’s blessing to the more righteous son.

Reuben means “behold a son”  and Leah said, “Because, the LORD has looked upon my affliction”; Simeon means “heard” and Leah said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am hated”; Levi means “joined to” and Leah said “Now this time my husband will be attached to me”; Judah means “praised” and Leah said “This time I will praise the LORD.”

Genesis 30:1-8 Rachel uses Sarah’s scheme to have a child and gives her maid Bilhah to Jacob. She gives birth to two sons.

Dan means “a judge” and Rachel said “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice”; Naphtali means “wrestling” and Rachel said “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed”.

Genesis 30:9-13 Leah follows Rachel in giving her maid Zilpah to Jacob and she gives birth to two sons.

Gad means “troop” and Leah said “Good fortune has come”; Asher means “happy” and Leah said “Happy am I! for women have called me happy.”

Genesis 30:14-21 Leah “buys” Jacob from Rachel for some mandrakes. She gives birth to two more sons.

Issachar means “there is recompense” and Leah says “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband”; Zebulun means “exalted” and Leah says “God has endowed me with a good endowment”. Also don’t miss that a daughter named Dinah meaning “judgment” is born. She will come back into the picture.

Genesis 30:22-24 Rachel is finally able to give birth and gives birth to Joseph meaning “Jehovah has added” and says “God has taken away my reproach…May the LORD add to me another son”

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