Luke 19:7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.” Jesus rattled the crowd when He announced that He was going to dine with a corrupt tax-collector Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus, the tax collector, was intrigued by the compassion of Jesus and he wanted to see...
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01 June 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 4
Daniel 5:5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. King Belshazzar, the Babylonian King, held a great banquet for a thousand nobles. The palace turned into the dance clubs of Las...
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31 May 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 4
Mark 2:8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things? There was a revival meeting going on in Capernaum. Bible scholars believe that the venue was the house of Peter. The place was packed and there...
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30 May 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 3
Exodus 3:2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. God will rattle the ordinary to accomplish the extraordinary. He will rattle our mundane routine to execute a marvelous miracle. The Lord...
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29 May 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 2
John 4:17-18 Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” Jesus and the disciples arrived in the village of Sychar in Samaria...
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28 May 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 1
John 2:15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. Have you noticed, when you start praying fervently for an issue, the problem grows bigger? It feels like all of hell has...
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27 May 2022 – Signs vs Superstitions – Part 7
Proverbs 20:1 “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.” In most cultures both in the west and the east drinking has become a social compulsion. Drinks and drugs have become a must to be socially accepted. Teetotalers are ostracized and are treated as...
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26 May 2022 – Signs vs Superstitions – Part 6
Act 8:9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. Simon of Samaria was a magician who tricked people with his sorcery. They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery (Acts 8:11). Black magic is a...
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25 May 2022 – Signs vs Superstitions – Part 5
Deuteronomy 18:10-14 Don’t try to learn what will happen in the future by talking to a fortuneteller or by going to a magician, a witch, or a sorcerer. Don’t let anyone try to put magic spells on other people. Don’t let any of your people become a medium or a wizard. And no one should...
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24 May 2022 – Signs vs Superstitions – Part 4
Exodus 23:19b “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.” Cooking a young goat in its mother’s milk sounds brutally cruel. The Lord God specifically included this as a forbidden act in the Mosaic law as this was a pagan magical practice. Boiling a kid in its mother’s milk was a common Canaanite...