Category: OBBS Matthew

Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 12:43-45 Emptiness I Dangerous

Thomas Less, March 21, 2011

⁴³“When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none.⁴⁴Then it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from.’ So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order.⁴⁵Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 12:38-42 Looking For A Sign

Thomas Less, March 18, 2011

³⁸One day some teachers of religious law and Pharisees came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, we want you to show us a miraculous ^dsign to prove your authority.”

³⁹But Jesus replied, “Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign; but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah.⁴⁰For as Jonah was in the belly of the great

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 12:33-37 We Are Known By Our Fruit

Thomas Less, March 17, 2011

³³“A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad.³⁴You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.³⁵A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and

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Online Biblel Study: Matthew 12:31-32 Giving God's Glory To Satan

Thomas Less, March 16, 2011

³¹“So I tell you, every sin and blasphemy can be forgiven—except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which will never be forgiven.³²Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come.

This is a very difficult verse when it is taken by itself like this.

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 12:30 for Jesus or against Jesus

Thomas Less, March 12, 2011

³⁰“Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me.

What a scary quote! If I am not actively working with Jesus, I am working against Him. How often haven’t I passed up the chance to do a good deed? How many times have I not given to the poor as much as I should have? How often have I

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 12:22-29 Satan's kingdom divided

Thomas Less, March 8, 2011

²²Then a demon-possessed man, who was blind and couldn’t speak, was brought to Jesus. He healed the man so that he could both speak and see.²³The crowd was amazed and asked, “Could it be that Jesus is the Son of David, the Messiah?”

²⁴But when the Pharisees heard about the miracle, they said, “No wonder he can cast out ^ademons. He gets his power from

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 12:15-21 The weak He will not break

Thomas Less, March 7, 2011

¹⁵But Jesus knew what they were planning. So he left that area, and many people followed him. He healed all the sick among them,¹⁶but he warned them not to reveal who he was.¹⁷This fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah concerning him:

¹⁸“Look at my Servant, whom I have chosen.

He is my Beloved, who pleases me.

I will put my ^kSpirit upon him,

and

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 12:9-14 Jesus hated for doing good

Thomas Less, March 6, 2011

⁹Then Jesus went over to their synagogue,¹⁰where he noticed a man with a deformed hand. The Pharisees asked Jesus, “Does the law permit a person to work by healing on the Sabbath?” (They were hoping he would say yes, so they could bring charges against him.)

¹¹And he answered, “If you had a sheep that fell into a well on the Sabbath, wouldn’t you work to

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Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 12:1-8 God desires mercy, not sacrifice.

Thomas Less, March 5, 2011

¹At about that time Jesus was walking through some grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, so they began breaking off some heads of grain and eating them.²But some Pharisees saw them do it and protested, “Look, your disciples are breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath.”

³Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you read in the Scriptures what David did when he and …

Beginner's Online Bible Study: Matthew 11:28-30 My Burden Is Light

Thomas Less, March 4, 2011

²⁸Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.²⁹Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.³⁰For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”

Sometimes Jesus needs to let

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