Mark’s Memos

“when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,” (Hebrews 1:3). Jesus purged our sins and then sat down at the right hand of God in heaven. How did Jesus purge our sins? Through His death on the cross He shed His blood to...

“and upholding all things by the word of His power, …” (Heb. 1:3a) Jesus was involved in the creation (Heb. 1:2b; John 1:3). Jesus upholds all things by the word of His power. In other words, Jesus keeps the world functioning! Who else but God could create the world...

"… His Son, … who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, …” (Heb. 1:2-3). Jesus is the brightness of God’s glory. Jesus is the express image of God’s person. Jesus is God (John 1:1)! If you want to know God, get to know Jesus (see John...

“God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, …” (Heb. 1:1-2) God primarily spoke to His people in the Old Testament through prophets. In the New Testament God now...

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the … day of the LORD. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, …" (Malachi 4:5-6) God wants to release the prophetic spirit of Elijah...

“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Josh. 1:8) God has...

“For you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?” (1Cor. 3:3) “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles...

“For you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?” (1Cor. 3:3) In 1Corinthians 3:1-2 Paul tells the Corinthians that he couldn’t give them solid food spiritually because they were...

“And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;” (1Cor. 3:1-2) Paul spoke to the...

“And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb … as an inheritance. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb … to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. … Then the land had rest from war.” (Josh. 14:13-15) Even though Joshua “gave”...