Chapter 18 ⁽¹⁶⁾

Passage Read: Luke 17-18 Meditation Verses: 18:22-25 Jesus asked what seems impossible and unreasonable of this man, to go from being rich to selling everything, leaving everything behind to follow Him. And the man decided he couldn't do it. Why did Jesus require so much…

Passage Read: Ezekiel 16-19 Meditation Verses: 18:19-22 Why would anyone be upset that the son does not bear the consequences of the father's sin? Why would Israel say that the Lord is unjust because he doesn't bring punishment on the son, who did no evil,…

Passage Read: Psalm 15-18 Meditation Verses: 18:1-2 David wrote this psalm after God had delivered him from all his enemies. How many years did he live in fear of his life? How many years did he flee from Saul? In all that time and in…

Passage Read: 2 Chronicles 18-21 Meditation Verses: 18:6-7 Somehow Jehoshaphat was able to recognize that of all these prophets, not one was from the Lord, though they all claimed to speak a message from the Lord. When he asked Ahab for a prophet of God,…

God hates sin. But He also hates unforgiveness with an equal passion—and consequence! There are brothers and sisters who are caught in sin that we need to correct, and we may have to escalate it to the point of cutting off fellowship with them. But…