Daily Bible Teaching

Being real before God Hebrews 5:7 “who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear.” We have looked at the above quoted passage of scripture to discuss the godly fear that our Lord Jesus displayed before God in prayer, nevertheless this same passage reveals something else to us about the prayer ministry of our Lord Jesus. This

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According to His will Luke 22:42 “saying, "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not My will, but Yours, be done.” We have seen that our Lord spent much time in prayer, and we know that God always heard our Lord’s prayers. In the previous section we mentioned that one of the reasons that Jesus’ prayers were always heard, was because Jesus never sinned. The fact that Jesus never sinned however, was not the only reason that the Father

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Having our prayers heard John 11:41-42 “Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. (42) And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” We have seen thus far that as priests we are called to prayer, and we have also seen that we should be praying daily. There is a

Luke 5:16 “So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.” There is no commandment given by the Lord that every Christian should spend one hour per day in prayer, nevertheless scripture does teach us to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises (Hebrews 6:12). So in the light of that truth let us look at some examples given to us in scripture of the prayer ministries of those who have inherited the promises. The first example that we w

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Matthew 6:9-11 “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. (10) Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. (11) Give us this day our daily bread.” We have seen in an earlier section that as part of our priestly ministry that all saints on the earth today are called to pray. So the question then arises as to how often we should pray? Again we saw in an earlier section that the priests under the old covenant were c

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Luke 21:36 “Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” In the passage of scripture quoted above the Lord Jesus admonishes His saints to be watchful and to pray always. Being watchful and being prayerful are synonymous terms in scripture. The Lord Jesus would not admonish us to pray always if prayer was unimportant. In fact in this passage the Lord emphasizes just ho

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The temple has changed Mark 11:17 “Then He taught, saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it a 'den of thieves.'” We have seen that under the new covenant that the priesthood has changed. In the same manner however, under the new covenant the temple of God has also changed. In the above quoted passage of scripture Jesus confirmed to us the purpose for God’s temple being on the earth, i.e. “My h

Hebrews 6:19-20 “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, (20) where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” There are two distinct priesthoods recorded in scripture. The first priesthood are the priests after the order of Aaron, who was the first high priest appointed by God to this priesthood. God ordained this pries

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Proverbs 10:22 “The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.” Another subtler path that will lead believers to committing the sin to death is becoming caught up with the things of the world. The reason I say that this path is subtler, is because God does bless His children, for it is His will for us to be blessed. And so a part of God’s blessing in our lives is that He can and does make us rich (rich means having a full supply). But I want you t

Luke 8:13 “But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.” Another path that will lead believers to committing the sin to death is when they are not taught correctly about the trials and tribulations that form part of the Christian walk. In other words they are taught a watered down version of the gospel. And so when believers are taught incorrectly, i

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2 Timothy 4:1-4 “I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: (2) Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. (3) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; (4) and they will turn th

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James 1:14-15 “But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. (15) Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.” We have seen thus far that it is entirely possible for believers to turn away from following Christ and go back into the world. The question is then asked, how is it possible that Christians can reach the point where they wilfully deny Jesus as their Lord and Saviour? A