OUR ALL IN ALL—ADONAI— MY LORD The LORD said to Moses, “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. —31:1-5 And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. For how shall it be known…

BE AWARE OF WRONG MOTIVES IN COMMUNICATION Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances. Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is…

SEEK THOSE DESIRING TO OBEY “What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind and went. And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” —Matthew 21:28-31             Better is delayed obedience, than a promise to obey and then not to.  How many people today say they will do something, but then they do not follow through and do…

TEMPLES/HOUSES OF PRAYER He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.” —Matthew 21:13             Secularism had crept into the temple.  It was to be a place of prayer, but it had lost that focus.  Think of it.  The temple of God was where He wanted to meet His people and they turned that meeting place into materialistic gain.  How sad…             Today the temple does not exist, but we who believe are temples where God’s Holy Spirit resides.  Is our temple “a house of prayer?”  May it be so and not a temple that…

JESUS DESIRES SERVANT LEADERSHIP But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” —Matthew 20:25-28             The difference between leadership in this world and the leadership under Jesus is this— worldly leadership exercises authoritatively over the people whereas the greatest leadership…

JESUS KNOWINGLY CAME TO DIE IN OUR PLACE, RISE FROM THE DEAD TO GIVE LIFE TO ALL WHO CALL ON HIM! And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.” —Matthew 20:17-19             Jesus communicated on numerous occasions what would happen to Him.  He was very specific…

MEANT TO SERVE TOGETHER Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. —Exodus 18:17-18             We are not meant to serve alone, to serve in isolation.  No, we are meant to serve together and encourage others to serve with us.  Moses was not only going to wear himself out, but he was going to wear out the people as well.  Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, said what he was doing was not good (Exodus 18:17) and gave Moses advice.  He said, “The…

 GOD’S WORD IS THE FINAL AUTHORITY ON ANY ISSUE! He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” —Matthew 19:4-6 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh. And from the rib that the LORD God had…

JESUS THE FINAL AND ONLY PASSOVER LAMB! The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish,…

THOSE WHO HARDEN THEIR HEARTS AGAINST THE LORD WILL SUFFER JUDGMENT For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go. —Exodus 9:15-17 Then whoever feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses, but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the…