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12When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he left Judea and returned to Galilee.13He went first to Nazareth, then left there and moved to Capernaum, beside the Sea of Galilee, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali.14This fulfilled what God said through the prophet Isaiah:15“In the land of Zebulun and of Naphtali,
1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the fdevil.2For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry. 3During that time the devil came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”4But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say,‘People do not …
13Then Jesus went from Galilee to the Jordan River to be baptized by John.14But John tried to talk him out of it. “I am the one who needs to be baptized by you,” he said, “so why are you coming to me?”15But Jesus said, “It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires.” So John agreed to baptize him.16After …
7But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize, he denounced them. “You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned you to flee God’s coming wrath?8Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.9Don’t just say to each other, ‘We’re safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.’ That means nothing, for I tell 
1In those days John the Baptist came to the Judean wilderness and began preaching. His message was,2“Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of cHeaven is near.”3The prophet Isaiah was speaking about John when he said,“He is a voice shouting in the wilderness,
4John’s …
We are going to try something a little different here. I would like you to read this chapter putting yourself in the place of the different characters. You will probably have to read it several times, once for each person maybe. Ask God to show you how you can be like that character in your own life. I know I can be like each of them. I’ll leave my comments
20As he considered this, …
The Ancestors of Jesus the Messiah
1This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of Davida and of Abraham:
2Abraham was the father of Isaac.
Isaac was the father of Jacob.
Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.
3Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (whose mother was Tamar).
Perez was the father of Hezron.
Hezron was the …
Questions: Shouldn’t prayer be useless? Imagine you are a young teenager and your mom is sick in the hospital with cancer and almost about to die. You pray to god that she be healed and make a full recovery, but this is pointless for two reasons that go very well together. 1) God is all-knowing and has a perfect plan for you and he is never-changing (Number 23:19). God, being …
You said you were tired of people telling you to just have faith. I agreed that too often people say that as opposed to studying, thinking and investigating. However, feeling like you need to understand everything is also not a good idea for 1 reasons.
First, the need to understand everything keeps you from progressing. I’ll use this line and points as an example.
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Imagine that …