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There’s a lot of people out there today who are seeing all the weird things going on in the world and they are asking the question, “What’s next?” In Moses’ final days in Egypt, after all the plagues, the Egyptians as well as the Israelites had to be asking that same question, “What’s next?” Well, the answer to that question was “the Exodus,” and as we will see today, that very well might be the answer to that question in […]

Ezra’s purpose was to accurately record God’s fulfilling of His promises to the Jews and the events of the return from the Babylonian exile after a seventy-year period and the events that surround the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.  

The title of the message today is “The Grand Puppet Master.” The dictionary defines a puppet master as “the person who pulls all the strings; the one that is controlling what is going on beneath him.” That sounds to me like a good description of God, because He certainly is sovereign over everything that goes on beneath Him. It’s an aspect of God that we will see in play clearly in today’s lesson as he deals out His plagues on […]

In the book of Exodus we are given a vivid type of our Salvation. In that typology, Israel is a type of the church; Egypt is a type of the world; Pharaoh is a type of the devil; and the Exodus is a type of our salvation. As we come to chapter five, God will use the plagues not only to judge the Egyptians, but also to prepare the Israelites for their departure by weaning them off their lives in […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.  

I’m sure you’ve heard the old expression, “What goes up must come down.” But in God’s economy that expression doesn’t necessarily apply, because whenever God comes down things go up and they keep going up. As we come to chapter 3 of Exodus, life couldn’t have been lower for Moses and Israel. Moses was in the wilderness of Midian thinking he was living out his last few years as a lowly shepherd. The Israelites were laboring hard as lowly slaves […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.  

As we head today into our study of Exodus, we will see three people taking a stand for the Lord: Moses, Jochebed, and Miriam. The days in which we live are every bit as dark as those of the Israelites shortly before the Exodus, and the lines are being drawn clearly in the sand between good and evil. That means we are going to be faced with the choice of cowering to evil or taking a stand for Christ. Hopefully, […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.  

In this last chapter of Genesis which we will be looking at today, Joseph’s brothers are going to send messengers to him to beg him not to kill them– because they believe that’s exactly what he intends to do. Why do they believe that? Because they don’t trust him, and the reason they don’t trust him is that they don’t love him. As we examine Joseph’s brother’s folly today, we can learn why trust and love must work together in […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.  

As we come to Genesis 49, the clock is about to strike midnight in Jacob’s life. But before he dies he wants to bless all his sons with a prophecy about their lives and that of their future descendants. Right in the middle of giving his blessings, Jacob pauses and says, “I have waited for your salvation, oh LORD!” We will take a look the significance of that statement in our study today. George

In today’s study in Genesis 48, Jacob is going to pass down the very best of his inheritance to his son Joseph and his grandsons Ephraim and Manasseh. The best part of his inheritance was his relationship with the Lord. Jacob wanted them to know the Lord as he knew the Lord: As his companion in life; as the shepherd of his soul; and as the angel who redeemed him from all evil. Not only was that inheritance passed down […]

Listen to these encouraging studies by Pastor George from the Book of Psalms.

In today’s lesson we are going to see the Egyptian people suffering from a famine so severe that they will be forced to give up their material possessions and wealth, along with their freedom, in order to survive. Their plight closely mirrors the situation in America today as we struggle through this Corona pandemic. But the good news is that just as God protected His own in the famine of Joseph’s day, He can protect us and even prosper us […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.  

In today’s lesson, Jacob has a decision to make: “to move or not to move?” And so he steps out in faith, but before he reaches the point of no return, he plants himself in Beersheba and seeks the Lord for a word of direction. George Truett said that “a long time ago I came to the conclusion that there is no failure in God’s will, and no success outside of God’s will!” That’s why the Bible teaches us that […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.  

In our study today, we’ll be going back to the story of Joseph as it comes to an improbable climax when everything has worked out in such a wonderful way for all the people of the little nation of Israel. Earlier in our study, it certainly didn’t look like things would ever turn out so good. But they did, because God, as always, was behind the scenes working his perfect will, so that in the end Jacob and his sons […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.