Main Text: Isaiah 9:6-7John 14:15-16PARAKLETOS - COUNSELOR - HELPER, ADVOCATE, Summoned, called to one'sside, esp. called to one's aid.One who pleads another's cause before a judge, a pleader, counsel...  Read More

Main Text: Isaiah 9:6Isaiah 7:10-14Ahaz was king of Judah. The Arameans were plotting with Israel to overthrow him and put their own king in place.Isaiah comes to meet with Ahaz. Ahaz is upset that he...  Read More

Main Text: 2 Thess. 2:1-4Galatians 1:8-10“I’m not concerned as to whether God is on my side, what concerns me, is am I on God’s side. For God isalways right.” - Abraham Lincoln“My people perish for la...  Read More

Background -- David kills Goliath- Jonathan and David became friends - The people celebrate David’s victory - Saul hates David- Saul tries to kill David- David takes Michal as a wife- David continues ...  Read More

What does your daily life consist of?Is your life made up of so many little, unimportant things or is your life centered around the big important things with all the little stuff falling in behind it?...  Read More

Acts 1:1-8Jesus had been taken up and now was showing Himself to several hundred witnesses including His disciples.v. 5 – they were saved and they had been water baptized. Now, Jesus is telling them a...  Read More

To set out food was a gesture of hospitalityGen. 18:1-8 Ex. 2:18-20To do so in front of someone (especially an enemy) would publicly establish the relationship that exists between host (in this case G...  Read More

Nehemiah 12:39 The Prison Gate was located to the right of the Sheep Gate and to the left of the Inspection Gate.It was where the two processions stood still and gave thanks before entering the temple...  Read More

The Horse Gate was the main gate of coming and going for Jerusalem’s fighting forces.It was strategically situated near the king’s palace, allowing the army to rapidly receive orders in times of emerg...  Read More

As with the Dung Gate these gates remind us of our need for spiritual purity and the need for Holy Spirit to have complete and total control.“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the...  Read More

Dung GateThe Dung Gate was located at the southernmost point of the city, near the pool of Siloam.It was the main exit to the valley of Hinnom, where the city disposed of its garbage, the landfill if ...  Read More

The fourth gate in the wall surrounding Jerusalem is the “Valley Gate which led to the Valley of Hinnom; A valley is a low place, often rough and dangerous. Because of the water in the ground the val...  Read More

Nehemiah 3:3.5Noblemen of TekoaThe Fish Gate named such because the fishermen of Galilee would bring their fish in through this gate to be sold.It was in the northern wall next to the tower of Hananee...  Read More

ENTER HIS GATESThe Sheep Gate reminds us that Jesus is the Lamb of God.Neh 3:1 “Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and built the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and hu...  Read More