The Daily Verse

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100 Bible Verses: everyone should know by heart by: Robert J. Morgan. I wanted to start sharing these every day for anyone that would like to read them, besides the daily verse that is put up each day. I figured this will be another verse, but with some details on that verse. I will be typing the pages out of his book and that is why I gave the title name and authors’ name.

Verse 1. Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Scripture begins with these ten words. This is the bedrock of the Bible, the first, earliest, and most irreducible foundation for the remaining thirty-one thousand verses of God’s Word. Genesis 1:1 encompasses the totality of Truth. Without it there’s nothing but despair. With it there’s everything we need. If this verse is true, everything in the rest of the Bible is plausible and logically consistent. Genesis 1:1 tells us that God is, that He creates, and that He speaks; and this is the basis of all clear thinking and real hope.
Genesis 1:1 gives us roots. We’re not accidental blobs of dying chemicals mysteriously evolving from primordial sludge without purpose or meaning. We have a past rooted in the glory of the God whose image we bear. We’re wonderfully made and placed in an environment fine-tuned for our needs. The book of Genesis gives us the history of creation, sin, the beginning of human society, and the wondrous plan of redemption introduced by God. If you discard Genesis 1:1, you abandon the roots and reality of humanity on earth. By removing this text from conscious thought, we lose all inherent moral law in the universe, all intrinsic bases for self-image, all eternal purpose to life, and any and all hope in the human heart.
Genesis 1:1 gives us routes. If we have a past, we have a future. If we were created in God’s image, we have eternal potential. If we have an intelligent Creator who knows and loves us, He must have a purpose and plan for time and eternity. Without Him we’re dying embers in a dying universe with no ultimate significance. With Him we have roots in a dignified past and routes to a great future.




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[monsterbrad]

I am a firm believer that all things are in GOD.
Put him first and pray about everything.
Some may think this is crazy but just try it and you may be surprised.
thanks ash for this thread.

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Originally Posted by monsterbrad

I am a firm believer that all things are in GOD.
Put him first and pray about everything.
Some may think this is crazy but just try it and you may be surprised.
thanks ash for this thread.

I truly agree with you and yea, just give it a try for a little while and see what happens. one would be amazed.


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[monsterbrad]

ash
by the way how is that Cobra you have?

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Philippians 1:29*

For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,



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Originally Posted by monsterbrad

ash
by the way how is that Cobra you have?

check out in the engine thread area, she needs a little TLC

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Verse 2. John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

There are two great mysteries at the heart of Christianity, the Trinity and the person Jesus Christ: (1) God the three in one; and (2) Jesus the two in one. How could God be one God yet eternally exist in three distinct persons, and how can Jesus be one person yet possess two distinct natures, fully God and fully human?
This verse touches both mysteries. He (Christ, the Word) was God, yet He was with God in the beginning. He was God, yet distinct from God.
The great theme of John’s Gospel is the divinity of Christ, and it reaches its climax in the declaration of Thomas in John 20:28 : “My Lord and my God!” But the first verse, John 1:1 provides the backdrop for the whole book. Note the progression of logic in this verse:
*John 1:1 speaks of our Christ’s preexistence: In the beginning was the Word.
*It also speaks of His coexistence: And the Word was with God.
*And John 1:1 speaks of His divine existence: And the Word was God.
The Trinity and Jesus! Both mysteries are imponderables we can never fathom, which is only to be expected if God is really God and Jesus is truly who He claims to be. It’s been said that a God small enough to be understood isn’t big enough to be worshipped. We need a transcendent God who boggles our minds with His immensity and who brings His infinities to bear on our infirmities. We need a gospel that opens with words like these: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.





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[FordMan]

Great verse. This reinforces my understanding that the affairs of God are not in any way limited by the bounds of human comprehension. Mankinds attempts to pigeonhole Creation into terms he can understand strictly via science will forever be doomed to failure.

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Originally Posted by FordMan

Great verse. This reinforces my understanding that the affairs of God are not in any way limited by the bounds of human comprehension. Mankinds attempts to pigeonhole Creation into terms he can understand strictly via science will forever be doomed to failure.

Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge; the number of His years cannot be counted. Job 36:26



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[monsterbrad]

If you ask a Jehovah witness about the trinity they will tell you God or Jehovah is who we are to talk to through Jesus in prayer only.
This is an interesting topic.

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Originally Posted by monsterbrad

If you ask a Jehovah witness about the trinity they will tell you God or Jehovah is who we are to talk to through Jesus in prayer only.
This is an interesting topic.

I will be happy to talk about this but this thread is for daily verse and I don't want to mix it up with all the different types out there
I'm Christian

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When a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said. (Numbers 30:2)



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Verse 3. John 1:14
The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

When was the last time you spent the night in a tent? It was last night. According to 2 Corinthians 5, we are currently living in the tents of our bodies, eagerly waiting resurrection day when we’ll receive permanent structures (our glorified bodies). Furthermore, we’re told in John 1:14 that when Jesus took on flesh in Bethlehem, He pitched His tent among us. The Greek term for “took up residence” has reference to tenting.
John 1:14 is arguably the Bible’s greatest verse about the incarnation. The Word (God the Son) became flesh (human) and took up residence (pitched His tent) among us. We observed His glory and saw that He was the one and only God the Son, full of grace and truth.
The prologue of John (John 1:1-18) is one of the greatest introductions in the world of literature. The theme is Jesus, and the progression of thought is remarkable. In memorizing John 1:14, take time to study the entire passage, using this outline as a guide.
1. Jesus is the God who made us (1:1-3). He is God, existing from the beginning and through whom all things were made.
2. He is the life who sustains us (v. 4a). In Him was life!
3. He is the light who illumines us (vv. 4b-5). His life is our light. It shines in the darkness, and the darkness can’t overcome it.
4. He is the message who excites us (vv. 6-9). John the Baptist testified about Him, and so can we.
5. He is the Savior who redeems us (vv. 10-13). All who receive Him and who believe in His name are given the right to become children of God.
6. He is the friend who dwells among us (v. 14). He pitched His tent here and tabernacles among us.
7. He is the Lord who surpasses us (v. 15). John the Baptist said of Him, “The One coming after me has surpassed me, because He existed before me.”
8. He is the Son who blesses us (vv. 16-18). No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son has revealed Him, and from the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another (v. 16 NIV)




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[monsterbrad]

this is interesting cause there are many takes on the importance of Jesus.
Jehovah is the creator of all things through Jesus we pray.
believing in the creator and his son are the most important things in anybodys life.
As I get older this is a way of life.
Put all things to God the Father Jehovah!

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James 4:1-3 ()
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.



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Verse 4. John 3:16
For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

Henry Moorhouse, sixteen, was a gambler, gang leader, and thief. But during the revival of 1859, he gave his life to Jesus and was soon preaching the gospel with all his heart. His favorite text was John 3:16. One day in 1867, in Ireland, he met the world evangelist D. L. Moody; and Henry had the nerve to invite himself to preach in Moody’s church in Chicago.
Sometime later Moody returned home from a trip and learned that Moorhouse had shown up, started preaching, and was drawing great crowds. “He has preached two sermons from John 3:16, “Moody’s wife told him, “and I think you will like him, although he preached a little different from what you do.”
“How is that?”
“Well, he tells sinners God loves them.”
Moody wasn’t so sure about that; but that evening he went to hear Moorhouse preach. The young man stood up in the pulpit and said, “If you will turn to the third chapter of John and the sixteenth verse,” said the young man, “you will find my text.” Moody later recalled, “He preached a most extraordinary sermon from that verse…. I never knew up to that time that God loved us so much. This heart of mine began to thaw out, and I could not keep back the tears. It was like news from a far county. I just drank it in.”
Night after night Moorhouse preached from John 3:16, and it had a life-changing effect on D. L. Moody. “I have never forgotten those nights,” Moody said later. “I have preached a different gospel since, and I have had more power with God and man since then.”
Later, when Moorhouse fell ill and was on his deathbed, he looked up and told his friends, “If it were the Lord’s will to raise me again, I should like to preach from the text, ‘God so loved the world.’”



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[Jesus Christ] He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. (1 John 2:2)




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Verse 5. Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Our first four verse (Genesis 1:1; John 1:1, 14, and 3:16) give us the bare bones of biblical truth. The next five provide a comprehensive outline for God’s plan of salvation.
The Bible is a big book- sixty-six divisions and more than thirty-one thousand verses- so the Lord placed a summary of it in the Scriptures, a digest, an abridgement, a prospectus. It’s called the book of Romans, and it’s a synopsis of the message of the entire Bible. Within Romans is a series of verses that give us an outline of God’s entire plan of salvation for the human race. These verses are often called the Roman Road- Romans 3:23; 6:23; 5:8; and 10:9-10, and 13.
I don’t know who first put these verses together and called them the Roman Road, but I know when I first became acquainted with them. I was a boy growing up in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and an evangelist came to hold a revival. I don’t recall his name. He had a stamp and ink pad, and everywhere he went he stamped the Roman Road in the front of people’s Bibles. I remember taking my Bible up to him after one of the services, and he pressed his stamp into the ink pad and then carefully transferred the verses to my Bible. As I recalled, the stamp just said, “The Roman Road,” and it listed the references for these verses. In the years since, I’ve learned many methods of leading someone to Christ, but I find that I keep going back to this old series of verses because they summarize everything we need to tell others about how to receive Christ as Savior.
The first stop on this road is Romans 3:23. We have all sinned and fallen short of the perfect standards and holy expectations of the God of all glory. We are separated from Him by our sins. Before the good news of salvation, we have to know the bad news of sin.





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1 John 4:20 () If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.




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Verse 6. Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

With the possible exception of John 3:16, no other text in Scripture better sums up all sixty-six books and thirty-one thousand verses of the Bible. This is the ultimate Reader’s Digest version of God’s Word. Notice the way the verse is balanced between its two clauses:

The wages of sin is death.
The gift of God is eternal life.

I we pull out the primary words of Romans 6:23 and place them side by side, we can see its logic and contrasting argument:
Wages – Gift
Sin – God
Death – Eternal Life

Wages is a word we see in our newspaper every day. It’s what we get for what we do. The Bible says that we’re all employed by sin, and the result or payback is physical, spiritual, and eternal death. In contrast to that, God wants to give us a gift, which is everlasting life.
It’s a gift that only comes wrapped in one package – Jesus Christ our Lord! Think of a great canyon. We’re on one side in a state of sin and death; God is on the only bridge that spans the chasm. As 1 Timothy 2:5 says in The Living Bible: “God is on one side and all the people on the other side, and Christ Jesus, himself a man, is between them to bring them together.”





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Verse 7. Romans 5:8

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us!

When Charles Evans Hughes, America’s secretary of state in the 1920s, attended an important meeting of the Pan-American Conference, he gave his interpreter an unusual request. He wanted a summarized translation of what was being spoken in Spanish or Portuguese, but he added, “I want you to give me every word after the speaker says but.”
The word but is a conjunction that implies a sudden change of direction in the thought. And when we see this word in the Bible, it’s important to understand every word that follows it, especially if the phrase is but God….!

-But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son.” (Gen. 17:19)
-It was not you who sent me here, but God. (Gen. 45:8)
-I am about to die, but God…. (Gen. 50:24)
-Do not be afraid or discouraged…. The battle is not yours, but God’s. (2 Chron. 20:15)
-But God was watching over the Jewish elders. (Ezra 5:5)
-But our God turned the curse into a blessing. (Neh. 13:2)
-But God will redeem my life from the power of Sheol. (Ps. 49:15)
-My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart, my portion forever. (Ps. 73:26)
-But God was with him. (Acts 7:9).
-But God raised Him from the dead. (Acts 13:30)
-But God gave the growth. (1 Cor 3:6)
-But God, who comforts the humble, comforted us. (2 Cor. 7:6)
-But God, who is abundant in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us, made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. (Eph. 2:4-5)

Romans 5:8 is perhaps the greatest of all the “But God” statements in the Bible: But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ for us!





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John 15:5 says: "I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."





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Hebrews 2:2-4
"For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will."




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Verse 8. Romans 10:9

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

As a boy, I heard my dad talk about a favorite preacher of his, a man named Hyman Appelman. Recently I came across a biography of Dr. Appelman and discovered he was born into a Russian Jewish family in 1902. When he was twelve, his family immigrated to America and settled in Chicago where Appelman grew up to become a hardworking attorney. In 1924, Appelman, suffering from a physical breakdown, traveled west to recover and checked into the downtown YMCA in Kansas City. There he met a newspaper reporter who witnessed to him about Jesus Christ. Later he began reading a Bible he found in his room.

Traveling to Denver, Appelman met other Christians, including a local pastor who told him, “You don’t need a doctor, my boy; you need the Lord Jesus Christ!” The pastor opened a Bible to Romans 10:9 and explained the verse as carefully as he knew how. Appelman, 23, prayed and claimed this text as his own. But when he sent a telegram to tell his family what he’d done, they were horrified. His fiancée broke the engagement, and Appelman was an outcast from his friends. He persevered through difficult days and went on to become one of the greatest evangelists of his era. Hundreds of thousands of people confessed Christ in his meetings, and he often referred to himself as “a little Jew with a big Jesus.”

The phrase “Jesus is Lord” was the New Testament confession of faith. It is the acknowledgment that Jesus Christ is God Himself and that we are making Him the Lord of our lives. This is our declaration when we decide to believe and receive the truth of the risen Christ. If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth that you confess and are saved.





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Matthew 24:42-44 ()



Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.




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