“For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” (1 Thessalonians 2:13) The Bible is…

“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee,…

“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,” (Galatians 4:4) The Christmas story actually starts in the Garden of Eden. After Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and God confronted them, He also told the serpent, “And I will put…

“Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said, Certainly…

“Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God,…

   “Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.” (Exodus 3:6)    Hebrews 11:23 says, “By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents,…

   “And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew…

   “And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.” (Exodus 2:10)    Pharaoh had commanded, “Every [Hebrew] son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.” (Exodus 1:22) Imagine being an Egyptian soldier. You go past the home of a…

    “But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands, Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.” (Acts 24:7-8)    Saul had been a brutal persecutor of Christians until one day…

    “But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands, Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.” (Acts 24:7-8)    Saul had been a brutal persecutor of Christians until one…

    “But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. Now therefore…

“Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.” (Exodus 1:8)    Jacob, his sons, and their families lived in Egypt. Eventually “…Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.” (Exodus 1:6) As years went on, “…the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding…