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- Ecclesiastes 5:17-20 ● Ecc 5:17 . . Besides, all his days he eats in darkness, with much vexation and grief and anger. Wealthy people don't usually eat in the dark. Many have very nice chandeliers over the table. But in their hearts often lurk evil thoughts, bad memories, regrets...

- 160) Gal 6:10 . . So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith. Good can take any number of forms but I think a useful description we could apply here is "beneficial". Jesus did good (Acts 10:30) i.e. he was very...

- Genesis 8:18-19 ● Gen 8:15-17 . . God spoke to Noah, saying: Come out of the ark, together with your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives. Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you : birds, animals, and everything that creeps on earth; and let them swarm on the...

- Ecclesiastes 5:12-16 ● Ecc 5:12 . . A [slaves'] sleep is sweet, whether he has much or little to eat; but the rich man's abundance doesn't let him sleep. When you have nothing, you don't worry too much about losing it. But when you have a lot, then you fear going broke; and along with...

. 159 Gal 6:7a . . Don't be deceived into thinking God is a silly old fool. A silly old fool is a senior citizen that people know they can mistreat and/or take advantage of without fear of complaint, resistance, or reprisal. People in our day and age are easily persuaded that God is harmless...

- Genesis 8:13-14 ● Gen 8:13-14 . . In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the waters began to dry from the earth; and when Noah removed the covering of the ark, he saw that the surface of the ground was drying. And in the second month, on the...

- Ecclesiastes 5:7-11 ● Ecc 5:7 . . For much dreaming leads to futility and to superfluous talk. God's people should be known for keeping their feet on the ground, and their head out of the clouds. Religion is not supposed to be in words. It's supposed to be in shoe leather, in your everyday...

- 156) Gal 6:1b . . each one looking to yourself, lest you too be tempted. The Greek word for "tempted" is somewhat ambiguous. It primarily means to test; but can also mean endeavor, scrutinize, entice, and/or discipline. I think what the restorers are being cautioned against is going about a...

- Genesis 8:10-12 ● Gen 8:10-11 . . He waited another seven days, and again sent out the dove from the ark. The dove came back to him toward evening, and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the waters had decreased on the earth. The word for "plucked-off" is...

- Ecclesiastes 5:1-6 ● Ecc 5:1 . . Be not overeager to go to the House of God: more acceptable is obedience than the offering of fools, for they know nothing [but] to do wrong. Old Testament Judaism is built around a fully functioning Aaronic priesthood whose duty is to collect sacrifices and...

- 154) Gal 5:26 . . Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Webster's defines "conceit" as: excessive self-appreciation of one's own worth or virtue. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with having strong core values and/or believing in yourself, but if you should...

- Genesis 8:5-9 ● Gen 8:5 . .The waters went on diminishing until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible. Gravity assists rain to fall. But to get the Flood's waters off the planet required overcoming gravity enough to get it up...

- Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 ● Ecc 4:13-16 . . Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer has the sense to heed warnings. The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom. I saw that all who lived and walked...

- 150) Gal 5:2-3 . . Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. The koiné Greek word for "man" in the above passage is...

- Genesis 8:1-4 ● Gen 8:1a . . God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark, Does that mean God forgot all about the ark's passengers until He realized why there was a string tied around His finger? (chuckle) No; it reaffirms that they were always on...

- Ecclesiastes 4:7-12 ● Ecc 4:7-8 . . And I have noted this further futility under the sun: the case of the man who is alone, with no companion, who has neither son nor brother; yet he amasses wealth without limit, and his eye is never sated with riches. For whom, now, is he amassing it while...

- 148) Gal 1:8 . . But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. The koiné Greek word for "accursed" in that passage is anathema (an-ath' em-ah) which has to do with banishment and/or disassociation. An...

- 146) 2Cor 10:17-18 . . But, let him who boasts, boast in the Lord. For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends. It's unfortunate that some of Christ's followers have reached the point where the only Bible teachers they will listen to anymore...

- Genesis 7:16b-24 Continuing from post #93 ● Gen 7:16b . . And the Lord shut him in. The Lord not only shut him in, but sealed him in too. The hatch to hull mating surfaces had to be waterproofed with bitumen the same as all the rest of the hull. The Hebrew word for "shut" actually means to...

- Ecclesiastes 4:1-6 ● Ecc 4:1-3 . . I further observed all the oppression that goes on under the sun: the tears of the oppressed, with none to comfort them; and the power of their oppressors-- with none to comfort them. Then I accounted those who died long since more fortunate than those who...