By Zac Poonen Deuteronomy means ‘a second law.’ This is because there is a repetition here of many important aspects of the law. We can divide this book in two ways. We can divide it first of all, as three speeches that Moses gave: 1. First speech (Chapters 1 to 4). 2. Second speech (Chapters […]

By Zac Poonen In Luke 2:40,52, we read that Jesus grew in wisdom from His childhood. Even though we expect young people to do foolish things, because they are young, yet Jesus never did anything foolish, when he was young. Let us make Jesus our example and we will be saved from doing many foolish […]

By Zac Poonen The distinguishing feature of God’s house is self-judgment (1 Pet.4:17) – a self-judgment that is the result of living before God’s face. Isaiah, Job and John all saw their own nothingness and sin when they saw God (See Isa.6:5; Job 42:5,6; Rev.1:17). When Adam and Eve violated God’s holiness, they were driven […]

By Zac Poonen Let us look at four characteristics of the Spirit-filled life from the life of the Apostle Paul. 1. Perfect Contentment: The Spirit-filled life is, first of all, a life of perfect contentment. In Philippians 4:11, Paul says, “In whatever state I am, I am content.” And such contentment brings with it fullness […]

By Zac Poonen It is very easy for a believer to be ignorant of his true spiritual condition, if he does not live before God’s face. This is clear from the rebukes that the Lord gave to the leaders of the seven churches in Revelation. To the messenger (elder) of the church in Laodicea, he […]

By Zac Poonen There is a great lesson that we see in church history. Whenever God wants to do something for His people, He always begins with a man. He had to find a suitable man before He could deliver the Israelites. The training of that man took 80 years – and it wasn’t academic […]

By Zac Poonen Joseph: In Matthew 1:19 we read that when Joseph heard about Mary being pregnant, and not knowing that this was a supernatural work of God in her womb, it says that since he was a righteous man, he did not want to disgrace her but wanted to cover what he thought was […]

By Zac Poonen In Mathew 13:1-52, we read seven of the parables that Jesus spoke. They are called parables of the Kingdom of Heaven. The first was the parable of the sower. Notice throughout this chapter that Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of Heaven in its outward expression – the way people of this world […]