“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you” (Isaiah 26:3 ESV). Isaiah gave this promise to Judah during a time of great political instability, with Assyria threatening their borders and Babylon looming on the horizon. The people were tempted to put their confidence in armies, kings,
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FINISH FAITHFULLY
“But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.” (2 Chronicles 26:16 ESV). Uzziah started out a great and godly king, but he didn’t finish well. Once humbly dependent
WE HAVE BEEN SENT
“…I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.” (Acts 26:17b–18 ESV). Paul gave his testimony before the Roman governor
ARE YOU TRYING TO FOLLOW JESUS AT A DISTANCE?
“And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest” (Matthew 26:58 ESV). On the night when Jesus was arrested, Peter tried to blend in as one of the crowd, following Jesus at a distance. This, after following so close must’ve been unbearable for Peter. Yet, it only
THE SAVIOR SINGS!
“And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives” (Matthew 26:30 ESV). The night when Jesus was betrayed, He shared the Passover meal with His disciples in Jerusalem. This was the last supper before His crucifixion. At the end of the meal, He joined His disciples in singing a
GOSPEL-CENTERED TESTIMONY
“I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles” (Acts 26:22-23 ESV). Paul’s testimony
HE COULD’VE CALLED TEN THOUSAND ANGELS
“Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matthew 26:53 ESV). When Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot and was being arrested, the gospel of Matthew reported that one of those with Jesus drew his sword and cut off a
GO BACK TO WHERE YOU FIRST BELIEVED
“But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee” (Matthew 26:32 ESV). Jesus said this to His disciples to encourage them. For He had already warned them that they would all stumble and scatter that very night. Yet He wanted them to look past His coming betrayal, crucifixion and death, and
THE TABERNACLE WAS A COPY OF THE REAL ONE
“Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain” (Exodus 26:30 ESV). The exacting detail of the plans for the tabernacle and its furnishings found in Exodus are both amazing and overwhelming to read. For God had instructed Moses to erect the tabernacle according to
PAUL’S DEFENSE WAS THE GOSPEL!
‘Agrippa interrupted him. “Do you think you can persuade me to become a Christian so quickly?” Paul replied, “Whether quickly or not, I pray to God that both you and everyone here in this audience might become the same as I am, except for these chains.”’ (Acts 26:28-29 NLT). After Paul gave his defense before