Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 11-12 Devotional Thought: God gave the dietary code to the children of Israel to remind them that they belonged to Him and were to be distinctly different from the rest of the world. I do believe that God has the health of His children in mind, but that certainly could…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 8-10; Hebrews 9 Devotional Thought: The writer of Hebrews is making a comparison of the old and new covenants. He is helping the Jewish Christian to distinguish in his mind the difference and significance of both covenants. God did not want the Jewish Christian to conclude that the old covenant…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 6-7, Hebrews 8 Devotional Thought: Here in Hebrews 8, the writer makes clear that the main point of his letter has been the new covenant. The priests of the old covenant never sat down, but rather offered sacrifice after sacrifice because those sacrifices were never able to solve man’s sin…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Proverbs 30-31; Hebrews 5 Devotional Thought: Chapters 5-9 of this great book of the Bible deal with Jesus as the great high priest. The high priests of that day were simple mediators, day by day, to usher men into the presence of God. Man could not come directly into God’s presence.…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Proverbs 27-29; Hebrews 4 Devotional Thought: Hebrews 4 continues the thought from the previous chapters regarding not putting off the necessary decision for salvation. However, in this chapter we find the reason why. The word “rest” in this chapter has the meaning of stopping your work. It carries the idea of…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Proverbs 25-26; Hebrews 3 Devotional Thought: Over and over again in the Bible we find evidence of unbelief leading to destruction. We know that the ultimate unbelief is to reject the gift of salvation and spend an eternity in the lake of fire. However, God is always grieved over unbelief. Unbelief…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Proverbs 22-24; Hebrews 2 Devotional Thought: It is such a shame to think of the numbers of people who will be in hell who never really opposed the truth of the gospel or the reality of Christ. They simply never embraced the gospel personally. In their minds, they may have recognized…