Scripture: (Lev 8:33 NKJV) "And you shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle of meeting for seven days, until the days of your consecration are ended. For seven days he shall consecrate you.Observation: At the beginning of Leviticus 8 we read that it was time to dedicate Aaron and his sons to the priesthood, so Moses told them
Scripture: His mouth is full of sweetness. And he is wholly desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend. Song of Songs 5:16 (NASB)Observation: “Why is he better than others? I’m glad you asked!” The Shulamite’s friends asked what was so special about Solomon that she would want so badly to find him (5:9). She responded with lavish
Scripture: Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14, NKJV)Observation: forgetting those things … behind—Looking back is sure to
Scripture: When He came to the place, He said to them, "Pray that you may not enter into temptation. . . 46 Then He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation." Luke 22:40, 46 (NKJV)Observation: Jesus twice (vv. 40, 46) represents prayer as the disciples’ primary protection against temptation. Yet they slept.Temptations
Scripture: For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10, NKJV) God planned for us to do good things and to live as he has always wanted us to live. That's why he sent Christ to make us what we are. Ephesians 2:10 (CEV) Observation: unto good
Scripture: That you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 15:6 (NKJV)Observation: These verses offer a vision of the end-time community of Jesus and the significance of glorifying God; see Rev. 14:7. [Andrews Study Bible Notes. 2010 (J. L. Dybdahl, Ed.). Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press.]With one accord
Scripture: Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. John 15:4 (NKJV)Observation: The only way to continue “clean” (pruned) and to bear fruit is to maintain vital spiritual connexion with Christ (the vine). Of itself. As source (from itself)
Scripture: (Exo 38:21 NKJV) This is the inventory of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, which was counted according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.Observation: I find it interesting that Moses wrote in such detail the making of the furnishings of the sanctuary and
Scripture: For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. . . 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. . . 24 O wretched man
Scripture: "You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes." . . . 9You looked for much, but indeed it came to little;
