Episcopal Watch
God's Sovereignty Over
Man in Salvation
CALL
Matthew 9:13 - "But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Mark 2:17- "When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Caught Up and Away
Acts 8:39 reads, "And when they were come out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing."
As one knows this story, it is about how Philip obeyed the command from the Holy Spirit to go down from Jerusalem to Gaza to find the Ethiopian eunuch in the chariot who was reading the Word of God.
Worlds of the World
Old Testament
Ref. 8398 (35x) tebel - the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extens. the globe; by impl. its inhabitants; spec. a partic. land, as Babylon, Pal. : ---habitable part, world
Ref. 2465 (2x) cheled - from an unused root appart. mean. to glide swiftly; life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence the world (as transient): --age, short time, world.
Word Study . . .
Laugh, Laughed, Laugheth, Laughing, Laughter
Does God Laugh?
Preachers have been heard saying with a grin that God has a sense of humor. Is that true? Does the Sovereign God of the Bible think that man is funny or does He want to play jokes on men? What does the Bible say about that?
The word “laugh” that is found in scripture concerning God has nothing to do with a result of something being funny as humans use the word. In the context of each scripture it can only mean that God is having a scornful or mocking view/laugh at what man is doing or has done.