Life Lesson
When speaking with Jewish people, please call the Old Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures. It is the Word of God. When we call them the Hebrew Scriptures, it recognizes they wrote, protected, at times died to protect, the Word of God and the way of following God.
Life Lesson
While replacement theology is not true, we have been grafted in and enjoy the blessings of Abraham, with our Jewish brothers, who have accepted Jesus as their Savior.
Bible Study Tip (verse Psalm 2:12)
The songs were written over 1000 years by King David, Moses, Solomon, Asaph and others. They are divided into five books.
Book 1 Psalms 1 through 41
Book 2 Psalms 42 through 72
Book 3 Psalms 73 to 89
Book 4 Psalms 90 to 106
Book 5 Psalms 107 to 150
Ruth 1:16 NKJV
But Ruth said:
"Entreat me not to leave you,
Or to turn back from following after you;
For wherever you go, I will go;
And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people,
And your God, my God.
2 Cor 6:16-18 NKJV
16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
"I will dwell in them
And walk among them.
I will be their God,
And they shall be My people."
17 Therefore
"Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you."
18 'I will be a Father to you,
And you shall be My sons and daughters,
Says the Lord Almighty."
Heb 8:10 NKJV
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Heb 8:12 NKJV
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
Hos 4:6 NKJV
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
Deut 30:15 NKJV
"See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,
Deut 30:19 NKJV
I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;
Heb 13:8 NKJV
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Scripture quotations marked "NKJV(tm)" are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.