BibleStudyTools.com John 8:30-44 (NIV) CONTEXT: Jesus has been talking to a somewhat hostile group of “If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do what Abraham did. 40  As it is, you Abraham did not do such things. 41  You are doing the works of your own father.” “The only Father we have is God himself.” 42  Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43  Why is my language not clear to you?

Deuteronomy 32:45–47 (NIV) CONTEXT: Moses is giving his final words to the Israelites. He has come to the end of his life, and the people are just about to cross into the Promised Land. 45  When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the Dig Deeper Deuteronomy 32:45–47 is Moses’s summary speech near the end of these first five books. not be a cold, rote ritual, because it's living and active proclamation that cuts to our core (Heb 4:

Genesis 45:1–8 (NIV) CONTEXT: Joseph, who had been sold into slavery by his brothers, only to ascend But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence. 4 Then Joseph

4  For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings we're focusing on today was written as a polemic (argument) against the hierarchical structure of the Roman

very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me. 4  Salvation comes from the Lord.’ ” Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 4: gospels— Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles; the fourteen letters of Paul— to the Romans

were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved” (vs. 4– ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Romans 16

with their mouth that 'Jesus is Lord' and believes in his heart that God raised him from the dead (Romans

The kings of the earth rise up against the very God who established them ( Romans 1 ).

many ways, preaching isn't all that different from what the great orators who traveled throughout the Roman

Matthew 25:31-46 (NIV) 31  “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will 40  “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ 41  “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42  For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43  I was a stranger and