Just-a-Minute Bible Boosters

"Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord!" "Notice how the Psalmist couples breath with praise? The same way how we don't stop breathing we ought not to stop praising! Similarly, when we stop breathing we die physically. And when we stop praising we die spiritually."

"Take a leaf from Isaiah's book. Try first to get a vision of the Lord, before trying to get a vision from the Lord."

"The prodigal progeny paid a pretty penny. He could have saved some, supped some, sowed some, shared some and spent some. But no! He'd have none of it! And therefore wasted it in riotous living."

"The prophet Ezekiel declared, 'The Lord brought me out in the Spirit...!' That's the way to go in and out every day, ‘in the Spirit.’ Too many Christians enter relationships expecting one thing but exit them receiving another.

They go in looking for better and come out looking bitter! But, Ezekiel exited the previous chapter of his life 'In the Sprit,' and beloved that's how I want to go in and out every day. In the Spirit of the Lord!"

"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters." "Please note that 'lying down' or becoming submissive, precedes the Lord's leading. The Lord Jesus Christ cannot properly lead us until He has first laid us!"

"Your sin will either stand between you and Jesus Christ, or Jesus Christ will stand between you and your sin. In the first instance you're condemned. In the latter instance you're forgiven."

“To the saints of God, who dearly love their Lord: Whenever we see a financial need in the house of our Lord, we tend to take the easy route, and we often ask the Lord to meet the need. But apparently the Lord told Moses to ask the people to meet the need.

Reality is that we won’t care about that necessity until we’ve invested something into meeting it. Also, understand that anytime something costs you nothing, typically you have no respect for it!

These people wanted to see the Shekinah glory of God in their services. They were willing to give up their gold, silver, bowls, bronze, earrings, nose rings, and linen – even their fine linen. They gave up everything that cost them something. Why? Because God wanted them to know that relationships have a cost! This whole tabernacle experience foreshadowed the fact that relationship would cost Jesus and us everything.”

“This Exodus Tabernacle has been getting our rapt attention. It was not only steeped in rich history, but it simmered with typology. It accompanied the Israelites from the time of the Exodus after crossing the Red Sea, all the way until they got into the Promised Land. Looking more closely at it and immediately upon going through the door to it, the first article that we stumble upon is the brazen altar.

The brazen altar in the Old Testament tells us what the cross is in the New Testament. It was the place where the judgement of God for sin would be executed upon an innocent animal.

Fire in the Scriptures generally denotes judgement, and so the burning of an innocent lamb meant that that lamb died for sins it did not commit – and that you and I did not have to die for the sins that we do commit. Ultimately, Jesus is that innocent Lamb.”

“If God took so much time and went into such detail about something as insignificant as a tent, what about the details of something as important as your life? Exodus 25:8–9 says, “Let them make me a sanctuary … after the pattern of the tent, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.”

The first instrument in the tent was the brazen altar. There we found an innocent lamb dying through a biblical right called substitution. This meant that the animal died as us!

While the priests watched the animal burning, each one knew that it should’ve been them. God was saying that the first thing I want you to see when you come through the door is the price that was paid for you to be in here. When we come through the Door (Jesus), we need to see the Lamb (Jesus) slain – the ultimate price for our sin!

The first thing that God wanted you to see when you got saved and you came through Jesus, the Door, is the price that He paid for you to be in this relationship with Him.”

“The moment the Levitical priests approached the brazen altar, God gave them a visual aid that screamed, “Your sacrifice wasn’t as great as this animal’s obedience!”

It’s true that the Tabernacle priests didn’t just walk in there for free. They’d given costly linen, gold, and silver, and they had taken out their earrings from their ears.

God was saying, “Even though you gave all that up as a sacrifice for the construction of the tabernacle - that still was not the greatest sacrifice because this innocent lamb actually laid down his life!”

You see, salvation is not free. Sometimes we say it’s free, but that’s not true. Salvation is not free. It cost Jesus everything He had. His sacrificial death was an act of obedience to the Father, and our innocent Lamb laid down His whole life. Similarly, Christianity is not free. This Christian walk will cost us some things. You can’t get into it for free!”

“In Revelation 21:3, John the Revelator saw the Tabernacle of God as being with men.

Continuing our Tabernacle tour again, after the brazen altar, the next stop was the laver. Before the priests could perform any service in the holy place, they had to wash off whatever dust and dirt they’d brought in through the “door” of the Tent. Whatever dirtied or sullied their ministry was left at the laver. The laver was a place of washing and cleansing.

First Corinthians 6:9–11 says, “Know ye not … those who practice unrighteousness shall not inherit the kingdom of God? … Such were some of you: but ye are washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of God.”

The laver in the Old Testament is God’s Word in the New Testament. We need to wash ourselves with it and bathe each other by it, if we want to Tabernacle with God through it.”

“Lovers of photography will deeply appreciate this.

Digital photography can be classified in pixels. A pixel is a small area of light on a display-screen, one of many from which an image is composed. Using the smallest digital-image, a total pixel count could be close to three hundred thousand. That’s almost three hundred thousand dots forming one picture – that’s almost the size of my island’s population!

When we zoom in however, that picture pixelates. We see the little dots that make up the image, but we no longer see the whole image until we zoom out again. God has the amazing ability to do precisely that. He zooms in, seeing us individually and intimately, whilst at the same time zooming out and beholding my entire nation of Barbados. We only have the capacity to see ourselves and a few other little dots around us who’re just like us, but God sees all three hundred thousand of us in a single frame – intimately and accurately! “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro” (2 Chron. 16:9). He is in control!”

“Who is Jesus Christ to you? This question seemed to have been weighing pretty heavily on the Lord’s heart while His disciples were with Him (Luke 9:18). He asked, “Who do men say that I am?” In Mark 8:29 he says it differently, perhaps a bit more personally: “Peter, who do you say that I am?”

It is impossible for any one person to possess a comprehensive understanding of Jesus Christ. He Himself is extensive and inexhaustible. In Jesus dwells the “fullness of the Godhead bodily” (Col. 2:9).