Genesis 30:13 reads, “And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.” Literally in the Hebrew this verse says, “And Leah said, In my happiness, the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.” Some translators will translate blessed as happy, but it is the …
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Works or Not Works – by Joseph Cortes
Open your Bibles to Matthew 16:27. “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.” So, what is the basis of these rewards? “he shall reward every man according to his works.” Matthew is the first book in …
Grace and Abundant Life – by Joseph Cortes
Genesis 1:20-23 reads, “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl …
We Are Made Perfect In God’s Eyes – by Joseph Cortes
Get the Table of The Lord elements ready and open your Bible to Hebrews 10. Hebrews 10:14, “For by one offering [Christ] he hath perfected…” [perfected is okay for a translation here but it is also meant to include completed] “…for ever them that are sanctified [holy].” How do you become sanctified? It is a setting apart. How do you become sanctified or set apart? …
Is It Worth It? – by Joseph Cortes
Tonight, we start on a journey regarding eternal rewards. This journey will take months as we dig into God’s Word concerning the many references on rewards. It’s important to study it and to make it part of your life because it has eternal ramifications and we need to know what God’s Word says about it. …
Are You Motivated? – by Joseph Cortes
Open your Bibles to I John 4:19. Last week we opened this series with “Is It Worth It?” and I gave examples of an athlete, a junior executive and a student, working hard, determined to reach their goals. In the athlete example, I used the Olympic games and how an athlete strives to win the …
He No Longer Counts Sin Against Us – by Joseph Cortes
Psalm 32:1 reads, “Blessed…” [A better translation of this word in context would be oh the bliss.] “Oh the bliss is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered [concealed].” Now, I’ve preached through the Table of The Lord series and the Change of Mind series that our sins are not just covered any longer, that is Old Testament. In the New Testament, our sins …
God Will Give You Enough – by Joseph Cortes
Malachi 3:8 reads, “Will a man robe God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed (A better translation is ye are rendered powerless) “Ye are rendered powerless: for ye have robbed me, this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there …
They Shall Be Fattened
They Shall Be Fattened – by Joseph Cortes Matthew 5:6 reads, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” Blessed is makarios in the Greek, but unfortunately some dictionaries have translated it as happiness or happy. Happy is a temporary physical state that we experience when reacting to something that pleases us, but …
Weapons of Righteousness unto God
Weapons of Righteousness unto God – by Joseph Cortes Romans 6:13 reads, “Neither yield ye your members as instruments [weapons or arms is the word used in the Greek] of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as weapons [not instruments] of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion …