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But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ —Matthew 25:2 Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me. —Psalm 31:35              These are eternally frightening words to hear from Jesus—”Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.”  He says it again in Matthew 7:21-23— “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and…

Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. —Matthew 24:30-31 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. —Matthew 24:44              Oh yes, Jesus will come!  Why hasn’t He come yet?  “The Lord is not slow…

Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. —Matthew 24:12 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.  “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— Matthew 24:14-15              Know that the end is near when there is an increase in wickedness and the love of most will grow cold.  Another indicator is that the “gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then…

My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.  Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.  Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. —Proverbs 7:1-3              God’s Word impacts people when they read it!  Is it any wonder that people have a fit when others want to post the Ten Commandments.  It is because we have kingdoms in conflict— the kingdom of darkness which the devil heads up and people need to “come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his…

Moses’ father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their disputes to him. Teach them his decrees and instructions, and show them the way they are to live and how they are to behave. But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Have…

Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.  He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.  “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’  “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business.  The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.  The king…

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” —Exodus 13:17 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!” —Exodus 14:12 And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant. —Exodus 14:31 Who among the gods is like you, Lord? …

Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. —Exodus 12:7 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. —Exodus 12:13 “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and…

But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said. —Exodus 8:15 “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.  Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” —Matthew 19:23-24 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. —Psalm 24:1 Who is he, this King of glory?  The Lord Almighty— he is the King of glory. —Psalm 24:10…

Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.  Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. —Exodus 7:13-14 Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said. Instead, he turned and went into his palace, and did not take even this to heart. —Exodus 7:22-23 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.  —Proverbs 5:22              Pharaoh was ensnared by his evil deeds.  The cords of his sin held him fast.  His heart was hard.  He would not listen to the…