Continuing our look at Jesus’ ancestry, we’re on verse 36 : “the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,” (Luke 3:36) Out of the 8 people in the ark, the remnant comes through Noah’s son Shem (which means Name, Fame, Conscious Knowledge of […]
As we continue looking at the ancestry of Jesus, here’s another familiar name: Noah. “the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,” (Luke 3:36) Even people who don’t love Jesus or have a Jewish background know the name of Noah. He’s just as […]
There is one notable exception in yesterday’s list: Enoch. His name appears 13 times in Scripture, including the New Testament. “By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as […]
Do you ever feel like a nobody in God’s plan for this earth? Like nothing you do really matters or is seen by God? When Jesus was born to an uncelebrated Jewish virgin and a Jewish carpenter who adopted Jesus as his own, it was a bunch of nobodies in the world’s view. Three people […]
Continuing our look at the remnant visible in Jesus’ lineage, we can see that remnant not only as Adam’s true image in Seth, but Seth’s remnant of faith heralded with the birth of Enosh. Genesis 4:26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the […]
If you look at Jesus’ genealogies recorded in Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:21-38, you’ll notice Matthew looks forward through the lens of Judaism beginning with Abraham. Luke’s record looks backward through the family of man, all the way to Creation. Both display a remnant which is the theme for our 2022 Advent Devotionals. Let’s look […]
Can you imagine life if Christians were to look different after they commit their lives to following Christ? We could spot believers a mile away and focus our evangelism on those who still looked fallen…lost…or hopeless. But that’s not how it works. The Spirit is invisible, but His actions are visible. As Jesus says in […]
Seriously? During Advent? Yes. With Kanye West and Kyrie Irving in the news recently over accusations of antisemitism, God laid it on my heart to address Jesus’ lineage and patterns of a remnant I see in the Old Testament, with the threads of a remnant winding all the way to Revelation. I see a time […]
No amount of good works we do can provide us with a new nature. This was a hard lesson for me. There was pride involved in doing all the good I could to distract from the sinner Scripture says that I am. I didn’t feel like a big sinner. I wasn’t an axe murderer, terrorist, […]
Jesus was no whipping boy or scapegoat. There’s far more going on here than punishment which happened when He took away our sin (which was both the offense and the point source of all our guilt and shame). Here’s the key: we don’t just start with a clean slate, as good news as that is. […]
